Power BI Contracts

Microsoft Power BI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Power BI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power BI over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 71 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,391 1,916 2,700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.19% 3.21% 3.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.05% 17.80% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 1,363 1,933
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 51 37
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.55 £32.30 £17.53
Median hourly rate £23.82 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.69% +144.44% +7.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £54.88 £65.75 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.86 £61.25 £22.40
% change year-on-year -62.68% +173.44% +17.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Power BI is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,303 10,763 17,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 18.03% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,193 7,663 12,744
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.78% +9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 183 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +59.00%
75th Percentile £58.55 £70.88 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in the UK

Power BI
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +7 1,185 £488 -2.50% 910
London +9 622 £525 - 372
UK excluding London +5 602 £450 -2.70% 565
Work from Home +23 579 £475 -5.00% 474
North of England -3 151 £451 -3.73% 161
South East +4 130 £450 - 122
Midlands +20 115 £425 -10.99% 129
North West 0 103 £450 -2.70% 89
South West -4 92 £450 -5.26% 58
West Midlands +15 85 £425 -11.46% 79
Scotland +36 79 £450 -5.26% 35
Yorkshire +1 40 £469 +1.35% 47
East of England -31 35 £410 -8.89% 47
East Midlands +23 29 £400 +23.08% 49
Wales +14 11 £500 +39.37% 13
North East +15 8 £663 +29.27% 25
Northern Ireland 0 1 £338 -20.59% 8

Power BI
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
1 118 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.38%) Confluence
3 22 (1.58%) SAS
4 21 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.08%) Apache
7 12 (0.86%) MTS
8 4 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 2 (0.14%) Jadu
9 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.072%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.072%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 196 (14.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (2.23%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.29%) InVision
7 4 (0.29%) Sketch
8 3 (0.22%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.22%) SPSS
9 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.14%) Revit
10 1 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (2.30%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (1.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.86%) Endur
5 12 (0.86%) EuroRunner
6 11 (0.79%) Aligne
7 9 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.36%) Aladdin
9 5 (0.36%) Maximo
9 5 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.22%) Primavera
12 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.14%) Workfront
13 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,391 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 491 (35.30%) Azure
3 218 (15.67%) Power Automate
4 211 (15.17%) PowerApps
5 124 (8.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 116 (8.34%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (8.12%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
9 97 (6.97%) AWS
10 70 (5.03%) Snowflake
11 63 (4.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 42 (3.02%) Serverless
13 41 (2.95%) Entra ID
13 41 (2.95%) GCP
14 35 (2.52%) Azure Functions
15 34 (2.44%) GitHub
16 25 (1.80%) Google Analytics
17 23 (1.65%) OCI
18 22 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
19 18 (1.29%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.79%) Firewall
2 7 (0.50%) DNS
3 6 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 4 (0.29%) 3GPP
4 4 (0.29%) 4G
4 4 (0.29%) 5G
4 4 (0.29%) 5G NR
4 4 (0.29%) LTE
4 4 (0.29%) MegaStream
4 4 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.22%) DHCP
5 3 (0.22%) Skype
5 3 (0.22%) SNMP
6 2 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.14%) HTTP
6 2 (0.14%) VPN
6 2 (0.14%) XCAP
7 1 (0.072%) Intranet
7 1 (0.072%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (15.60%) Data Warehouse
2 204 (14.67%) Tableau
3 178 (12.80%) SQL Server
4 134 (9.63%) Data Lake
5 105 (7.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 74 (5.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 57 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (3.81%) Power Query
9 46 (3.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 44 (3.16%) Relational Database
11 43 (3.09%) Big Data
12 39 (2.80%) Metadata
13 37 (2.66%) BusinessObjects
14 36 (2.59%) NoSQL
15 32 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (2.01%) QlikView
17 24 (1.73%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 22 (1.58%) BigQuery
18 22 (1.58%) Looker
19 20 (1.44%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 89 (6.40%) JIRA
2 22 (1.58%) ERwin
3 17 (1.22%) ER Studio
3 17 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 14 (1.01%) Git
5 13 (0.93%) GitLab
6 11 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.58%) Postman
8 6 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.43%) PyCharm
9 5 (0.36%) Hudson
9 5 (0.36%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.22%) RStudio
11 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.14%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.072%) Gatling
12 1 (0.072%) GoCD
12 1 (0.072%) Gradle
12 1 (0.072%) NeoLoad
General
1 390 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 371 (26.67%) Finance
3 335 (24.08%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.68%) Retail
6 71 (5.10%) Marketing
7 67 (4.82%) Banking
8 52 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (3.24%) Manufacturing
10 35 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 31 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.16%) Legal
14 28 (2.01%) General Ledger
15 25 (1.80%) Local Government
16 20 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.29%) Billing
18 17 (1.22%) Financial Institution
19 14 (1.01%) Front Office
19 14 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 394 (28.32%) Analyst
2 253 (18.19%) Developer
3 195 (14.02%) Data Analyst
4 144 (10.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 123 (8.84%) Architect
6 122 (8.77%) Data Engineer
7 121 (8.70%) Power BI Developer
8 111 (7.98%) Consultant
9 105 (7.55%) Senior
10 81 (5.82%) Business Analyst
11 74 (5.32%) Data Architect
12 70 (5.03%) Lead
13 66 (4.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 56 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
15 54 (3.88%) Power BI Analyst
16 52 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
17 37 (2.66%) Project Manager
18 34 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
18 34 (2.44%) Data Scientist
19 33 (2.37%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.73%) PySpark
2 33 (2.37%) JSON
3 30 (2.16%) .NET
4 27 (1.94%) XML
5 24 (1.73%) HTML
6 22 (1.58%) CSS
7 15 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
8 13 (0.93%) REST
9 12 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
9 12 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
10 10 (0.72%) Web Services
11 9 (0.65%) Node.js
12 8 (0.58%) SAML
12 8 (0.58%) SOAP
13 7 (0.50%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.50%) Kafka
13 7 (0.50%) RESTful
14 6 (0.43%) jQuery
14 6 (0.43%) React
15 5 (0.36%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 62 (4.46%) Management Information System
2 47 (3.38%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 22 (1.58%) Onboarding
5 20 (1.44%) Market Risk
6 19 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (1.22%) NHS
8 16 (1.15%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (0.93%) Life Science
10 13 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
11 11 (0.79%) Low-Code
12 9 (0.65%) CMDB
12 9 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.58%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.58%) Solar Panel
14 7 (0.50%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.08%) Windows
2 19 (1.37%) Linux
3 16 (1.15%) Unix
4 11 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.65%) VMS
6 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,173 (84.33%) Business Intelligence
2 336 (24.16%) Analytics
3 311 (22.36%) Visualisation
4 297 (21.35%) Data Modelling
5 263 (18.91%) Agile
6 236 (16.97%) ETL
7 223 (16.03%) Data Analysis
8 202 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
9 201 (14.45%) Data Visualisation
10 178 (12.80%) DevOps
11 134 (9.63%) Migration
12 115 (8.27%) Data Governance
13 113 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
14 111 (7.98%) Decision-Making
15 110 (7.91%) Data Management
16 109 (7.84%) Data Analytics
17 93 (6.69%) Project Management
18 86 (6.18%) Data Science
19 82 (5.90%) Dashboard Development
20 80 (5.75%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 556 (39.97%) SQL
2 241 (17.33%) Python
3 110 (7.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 68 (4.89%) PowerShell
5 64 (4.60%) T-SQL
6 52 (3.74%) C#
7 46 (3.31%) JavaScript
8 45 (3.24%) R
9 28 (2.01%) Java
10 21 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.51%) Scala
11 15 (1.08%) VBA
12 12 (0.86%) VB
13 10 (0.72%) MATLAB
13 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.50%) XPath
14 7 (0.50%) XQuery
15 6 (0.43%) Groovy
16 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 121 (8.70%) Degree
2 119 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 92 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 29 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.58%) Postgraduate
10 6 (0.43%) CIMA
10 6 (0.43%) CISM
10 6 (0.43%) CISSP
10 6 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.22%) ACCA
11 3 (0.22%) CFA
11 3 (0.22%) HNC
11 3 (0.22%) MBA
11 3 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 68 (4.89%) QA
3 33 (2.37%) PMO
4 23 (1.65%) GDPR
4 23 (1.65%) SLA
5 19 (1.37%) GxP
6 12 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
8 7 (0.50%) CDISC
9 6 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.36%) GAMP
11 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.072%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.072%) GAAP
13 1 (0.072%) GRC
13 1 (0.072%) IFRS
13 1 (0.072%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 30 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.58%) Docker
4 5 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.072%) HDFS
7 1 (0.072%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.58%) Terraform
4 7 (0.50%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.36%) SysTrack
6 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.22%) Kibana
6 3 (0.22%) SCCM
7 2 (0.14%) SCOM
8 1 (0.072%) Ansible
8 1 (0.072%) CASB
8 1 (0.072%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.072%) Grafana
8 1 (0.072%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.072%) logstash
8 1 (0.072%) Matomo
8 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.072%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.072%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.072%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 441 (31.70%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.71%) Databricks
3 100 (7.19%) Oracle
4 77 (5.54%) SAP
5 43 (3.09%) Google
5 43 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.37%) Alteryx
7 33 (2.37%) Informatica
8 23 (1.65%) Sparx
9 19 (1.37%) Adobe
10 18 (1.29%) Remedy
11 14 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.86%) CA
13 11 (0.79%) Talend
14 10 (0.72%) MicroStrategy
14 10 (0.72%) Splunk
15 8 (0.58%) Dataiku
15 8 (0.58%) Qualys
16 7 (0.50%) Ab Initio