Power BI Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Power BI Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Power BI Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 332 468
Rank change year-on-year +32 +136 +142
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Engineer 4 13 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.085% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.091% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - - £447
25th Percentile £425 £456 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -1.84% -13.64%
75th Percentile £475 £605 £595
90th Percentile - £650 £730
UK median daily rate £438 £531 £475
% change year-on-year -17.65% +11.84% -16.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Power BI Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Power BI Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Power BI Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Power BI Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Power BI Engineer.

Power BI Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Power BI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Power BI Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Power BI Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (25.00%) PySpark
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Mart

Power BI Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft