Power BI Developer Contracts

Microsoft Power BI Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 541 580
Rank change year-on-year +83 +39 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Developer 129 165 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.30% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 128 206
10th Percentile £316 £361 £331
25th Percentile £371 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £554 £525
90th Percentile £632 £625 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £450 £409
% change year-on-year -7.78% +10.09% +5.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - +41.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Power BI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Power BI Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI Developer.

Daily rate trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
England +89 108 £475 - 59
UK excluding London +79 69 £415 -7.78% 40
Work from Home +90 51 £450 - 10
London +49 51 £525 +5.00% 20
North of England +26 19 £400 -11.11%
North West +29 14 £400 -5.88%
South East +24 12 £460 -10.24% 20
South West +16 12 £500 +17.65% 3
Midlands +25 9 £350 -22.22% 14
West Midlands +21 8 £363 -19.44% 14
Wales - 8 £550 -
Scotland +32 6 £444 -6.58%
Yorkshire +21 4 £400 -21.95%
East of England +16 4 £300 - 4
North East +11 1 - -

Power BI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Power BI Developer 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 job ads featuring Power BI Developer in the job title.

1 129 (100.00%) Power BI
1 129 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 128 (99.22%) Business Intelligence
3 73 (56.59%) SQL
4 49 (37.98%) Visualisation
5 46 (35.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 42 (32.56%) Finance
7 37 (28.68%) Azure
8 36 (27.91%) Data Visualisation
9 29 (22.48%) Data Modelling
10 28 (21.71%) Microsoft
11 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
12 24 (18.60%) ETL
12 24 (18.60%) SQL Server
13 23 (17.83%) Analytics
13 23 (17.83%) Power Automate
14 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
15 21 (16.28%) Power Query
16 20 (15.50%) Data Analysis
17 19 (14.73%) Databricks
18 18 (13.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 18 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 15 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
19 15 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
20 14 (10.85%) Microsoft Excel
20 14 (10.85%) Azure Data Factory
21 13 (10.08%) PowerApps
21 13 (10.08%) T-SQL
21 13 (10.08%) Agile

Power BI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (10.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 37 (28.68%) Azure
3 23 (17.83%) Power Automate
4 14 (10.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (10.08%) PowerApps
6 7 (5.43%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (3.88%) AWS
9 4 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.33%) Serverless
11 2 (1.55%) Apigee
11 2 (1.55%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.55%) GCP
12 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.78%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.78%) Slack
12 1 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (100.00%) Power BI
2 24 (18.60%) SQL Server
3 21 (16.28%) Power Query
4 18 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 18 (13.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (7.75%) Metadata
7 5 (3.88%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (2.33%) Tableau
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.55%) Big Data
10 2 (1.55%) MySQL
10 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.78%) Biml
11 1 (0.78%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (0.78%) JIRA
General
1 42 (32.56%) Finance
2 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.75%) Banking
5 5 (3.88%) Retail
6 4 (3.10%) Local Government
6 4 (3.10%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Billing
8 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.33%) .NET
2 2 (1.55%) HTML
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.33%) Tandem
2 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.78%) CMDB
3 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.78%) FMCG
3 1 (0.78%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.78%) NHS
3 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (99.22%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (37.98%) Visualisation
3 36 (27.91%) Data Visualisation
4 29 (22.48%) Data Modelling
5 24 (18.60%) ETL
6 23 (17.83%) Analytics
7 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (15.50%) Data Analysis
9 15 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (10.08%) Agile
11 12 (9.30%) Dashboard Development
12 7 (5.43%) Decision-Making
13 6 (4.65%) Actionable Insight
13 6 (4.65%) Data Governance
13 6 (4.65%) Data Transformation
13 6 (4.65%) Mentoring
14 5 (3.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (3.88%) Data Analytics
14 5 (3.88%) Data Integration
14 5 (3.88%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 73 (56.59%) SQL
2 46 (35.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 13 (10.08%) T-SQL
4 12 (9.30%) Python
5 6 (4.65%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.55%) C#
7 2 (1.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (3.88%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.78%) Degree
2 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.55%) PMO
2 2 (1.55%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
Vendors
1 28 (21.71%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.73%) Databricks
3 4 (3.10%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Civica
5 1 (0.78%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) SAP
5 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow