Power BI Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Power BI
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Power BI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power BI over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 39 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing Power BI 75 84 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.05% 4.10% 4.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.63% 28.19% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 63 68
10th Percentile £320 £239 £308
25th Percentile £388 £350 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £538
90th Percentile £649 £650 £575
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £15.63 - £24.06
25th Percentile £16.15 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £17.59 £33.93 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -48.17% +37.79% -
75th Percentile £18.45 - £25.41
90th Percentile £18.62 - £25.69
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £38.75
% change year-on-year +25.22% -40.09% +72.61%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

Power BI falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 262 298 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.63% 14.54% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 222 235
10th Percentile £289 £300 £313
25th Percentile £410 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +7.14%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £604
90th Percentile £638 £723 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £16.67 £34.59 £24.13
25th Percentile £18.74 £35.57 £24.31
Median hourly rate £29.33 £37.22 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +47.39% -
75th Percentile £33.88 £38.86 £30.48
90th Percentile £34.54 £39.84 £33.24
England median hourly rate £33.50 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -16.26% -31.73% +37.86%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the West Midlands

Power BI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the West Midlands

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the West Midlands

Power BI
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire +4 27 £500 +11.11% 36
Birmingham -4 23 £550 +29.41% 224
Coventry +6 8 £575 -4.17% 108
Shropshire +4 4 £303 - 176
Solihull +13 3 £525 - 6
Wolverhampton - 2 £348 - 87
Herefordshire - 2 £400 - 6
Staffordshire -6 1 - - 124
Power BI
England

Power BI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.67%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.33%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) SAP PM
2 2 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 15 (20.00%) Azure
3 12 (16.00%) PowerApps
4 8 (10.67%) Power Automate
5 7 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (5.33%) AWS
8 4 (5.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.33%) GitHub
8 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.00%) Collibra
9 3 (4.00%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (4.00%) Serverless
9 3 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.67%) Tableau
5 4 (5.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.00%) GIS
6 3 (4.00%) Metadata
6 3 (4.00%) Power Query
6 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.67%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (2.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.33%) Big Data
8 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.33%) QlikView
8 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.67%) Finance
4 6 (8.00%) Law
4 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.00%) Local Government
6 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Games
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Analyst
2 13 (17.33%) Lead
3 12 (16.00%) Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Architect
5 8 (10.67%) Power BI Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Data Architect
7 6 (8.00%) Project Manager
8 5 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Senior
8 5 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 3 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
10 3 (4.00%) Consultant
10 3 (4.00%) Lead Data Analyst
10 3 (4.00%) Lead Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) Kafka
1 4 (5.33%) LDAP
2 2 (2.67%) .NET
2 2 (2.67%) React
3 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.33%) CSS
3 1 (1.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.33%) HTML
3 1 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.67%) IoT
2 5 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.67%) SCADA
3 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.67%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.33%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Linux
1 3 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (89.33%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (29.33%) Data Modelling
3 17 (22.67%) Decision-Making
4 16 (21.33%) Analytics
4 16 (21.33%) Migration
4 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 14 (18.67%) Data Analysis
6 14 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (16.00%) Agile
7 12 (16.00%) Data Governance
8 11 (14.67%) Data Management
9 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.00%) Project Management
9 9 (12.00%) RBAC
10 8 (10.67%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (9.33%) Data Analytics
11 7 (9.33%) DevOps
11 7 (9.33%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.00%) SQL
2 13 (17.33%) Python
3 8 (10.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (5.33%) Bicep
4 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (4.00%) R
6 2 (2.67%) C#
6 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.33%) VB
7 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.33%) CITP
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.33%) PMO
3 6 (8.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.33%) P3O
5 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (5.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.00%) SAP
3 7 (9.33%) Databricks
4 6 (8.00%) Oracle
5 4 (5.33%) CyberArk
5 4 (5.33%) Informatica
5 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.67%) Cognos
6 2 (2.67%) OpenText
7 1 (1.33%) Google
7 1 (1.33%) QAD