Hybrid/Remote Power BI Engineer Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Power BI Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Power BI Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 314 365
Rank change year-on-year -2 +51 +179
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Engineer 4 6 12
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% 0.051% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.055% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £319 £468 £437
25th Percentile £347 £503 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £456
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +26.03% -13.10%
75th Percentile £497 £606 £477
90th Percentile £514 £618 £508
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -13.64%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,548 10,943 16,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.12% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 6,938 11,001
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 199 358
10th Percentile £15.26 £18.30 £17.49
25th Percentile £20.66 £23.50 £27.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.28 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.94% -29.99% -3.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%

Power BI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Power BI Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Power BI Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Power BI Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Power BI Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Power BI Engineer job vacancies

Power BI Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Power BI Engineer over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Power BI Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Power BI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Power BI Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Power BI Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) DataOps
3 2 (50.00%) dbt
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (25.00%) Data Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling

Power BI Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) dbt
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) DataOps
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft