Power BI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 49 71
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 355 575 822
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.62% 3.79% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.01% 19.85% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 387 621
10th Percentile £281 £325 £338
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £557 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £668 £694
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 8
10th Percentile £22.08 - £21.29
25th Percentile £28.49 £20.77 £25.92
Median hourly rate £32.05 £22.86 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.22% -39.85% +50.55%
75th Percentile £32.71 £28.56 £46.75
90th Percentile £33.89 £35.50 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £23.82 £50.29
% change year-on-year +22.03% -52.63% +121.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,087 2,896 4,858
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.28% 19.11% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 2,131 3,542
10th Percentile £363 £355 £385
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -
75th Percentile £685 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 83
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.20
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £41.75
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -38.46% +39.28%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £59.30
% change year-on-year -17.98% -32.54% +36.70%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

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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.

Power BI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Power BI over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Power BI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Power BI hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Power BI over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Power BI hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 47 (13.24%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.66%) Confluence
3 7 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.69%) SAS
5 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.85%) CMS
7 2 (0.56%) Apache
7 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 64 (18.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (5.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.28%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.28%) Revit
7 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.56%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.56%) Maximo
3 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.28%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 355 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 142 (40.00%) Azure
3 51 (14.37%) AWS
4 44 (12.39%) PowerApps
5 43 (12.11%) Power Automate
6 38 (10.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (9.01%) Snowflake
9 27 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (6.76%) Azure Machine Learning
12 23 (6.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 20 (5.63%) GCP
14 14 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (3.66%) dbt
16 11 (3.10%) Entra ID
17 10 (2.82%) GitHub
18 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
19 8 (2.25%) SaaS
20 7 (1.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.13%) DNS
1 4 (1.13%) HTTP
1 4 (1.13%) Internet
2 3 (0.85%) Firewall
2 3 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (0.85%) VPN
3 2 (0.56%) FTP
3 2 (0.56%) Network Security
3 2 (0.56%) SMTP
3 2 (0.56%) SSL
3 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.28%) DHCP
4 1 (0.28%) SSH
4 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.18%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (16.06%) Tableau
3 35 (9.86%) Data Lake
4 26 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 22 (6.20%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (5.35%) Neo4j
7 17 (4.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (3.94%) Power Query
9 13 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (3.38%) Looker
10 12 (3.38%) Metadata
11 10 (2.82%) Big Data
12 9 (2.54%) Data Mining
12 9 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.25%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (1.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (11.55%) JIRA
2 17 (4.79%) Git
3 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.13%) ERwin
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.28%) Flyway
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.28%) MLflow
7 1 (0.28%) RStudio
7 1 (0.28%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.28%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 105 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 77 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (20.00%) Finance
4 45 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (6.20%) Banking
7 20 (5.63%) Marketing
8 19 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.97%) Local Government
11 6 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.41%) Retail
12 5 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.85%) Legal
14 3 (0.85%) Military
15 2 (0.56%) French Language
15 2 (0.56%) German Language
Job Titles
1 107 (30.14%) Analyst
2 58 (16.34%) Data Analyst
3 56 (15.77%) Developer
4 50 (14.08%) Data Engineer
5 42 (11.83%) Senior
6 25 (7.04%) Architect
7 21 (5.92%) Lead
8 17 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (4.51%) Data Architect
9 16 (4.51%) Power Platform Developer
10 14 (3.94%) Business Analyst
10 14 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
10 14 (3.94%) Report Analyst
11 13 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 13 (3.66%) Consultant
12 12 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 10 (2.82%) Azure Data Engineer
13 10 (2.82%) Data Scientist
14 9 (2.54%) Data Business Analyst
14 9 (2.54%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.20%) Plotly
1 22 (6.20%) React
2 21 (5.92%) REST
3 17 (4.79%) SOAP
4 10 (2.82%) PySpark
5 8 (2.25%) JSON
5 8 (2.25%) Web Services
6 7 (1.97%) .NET
7 4 (1.13%) LDAP
8 3 (0.85%) Pandas
8 3 (0.85%) Regular Expression
8 3 (0.85%) YAML
9 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.56%) Kafka
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.56%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.07%) Onboarding
2 11 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.54%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.13%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.13%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (1.13%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.13%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.13%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.85%) IoT
9 3 (0.85%) Life Science
9 3 (0.85%) Pricing Data
9 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.56%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.56%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.10%) Windows
2 7 (1.97%) Linux
3 3 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (79.44%) Business Intelligence
2 106 (29.86%) Visualisation
3 101 (28.45%) Analytics
4 90 (25.35%) Data Modelling
5 85 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (20.85%) Data Visualisation
7 70 (19.72%) Data Analysis
8 64 (18.03%) Agile
9 57 (16.06%) ETL
10 48 (13.52%) Data Integration
11 45 (12.68%) Data Governance
12 44 (12.39%) DevOps
13 42 (11.83%) Decision-Making
14 41 (11.55%) Migration
15 35 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
16 34 (9.58%) Data Engineering
16 34 (9.58%) Machine Learning
16 34 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (7.61%) Data Science
18 26 (7.32%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 183 (51.55%) SQL
2 73 (20.56%) Python
3 32 (9.01%) JavaScript
4 20 (5.63%) C#
5 18 (5.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.38%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.82%) R
9 5 (1.41%) Bicep
9 5 (1.41%) Java
10 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.85%) Scala
10 3 (0.85%) VBA
11 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.28%) Bash
12 1 (0.28%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.28%) Go
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 66 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.70%) Degree
4 7 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.85%) CISM
6 3 (0.85%) CISSP
6 3 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.28%) CITP
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.28%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.79%) GDPR
3 12 (3.38%) QA
4 7 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.41%) PMO
6 4 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.85%) Basel II
8 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.56%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) LOINC
9 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.28%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (2.82%) Terraform
2 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.13%) SCCM
3 4 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.85%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.56%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.28%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 94 (26.48%) Microsoft
2 51 (14.37%) Databricks
3 21 (5.92%) Google
4 19 (5.35%) Oracle
5 14 (3.94%) SAP
5 14 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.69%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.41%) Adobe
8 5 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.13%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.85%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.85%) Qualys
10 3 (0.85%) Sparx
11 2 (0.56%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (0.56%) TikTok
11 2 (0.56%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.56%) VMware