Power BI Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Power BI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 70 76
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Power BI 550 797 1,422
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.71% 3.22% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.15% 16.96% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 602 1,071
10th Percentile £319 £325 £356
25th Percentile £400 £409 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £588
90th Percentile £664 £699 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 19
10th Percentile - £20.93 £18.92
25th Percentile £20.77 £24.74 £20.63
Median hourly rate £23.22 £40.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year -41.96% +48.26% -22.91%
75th Percentile £35.50 £55.13 £37.00
90th Percentile £56.30 £56.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £24.43 £50.29 £22.75
% change year-on-year -51.42% +121.03% +5.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,872 4,700 9,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.37% 19.01% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,116 3,436 6,918
10th Percentile £358 £384 £371
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 80 92
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.16 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £43.75 £23.38
Median hourly rate £40.25 £66.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% +38.95% +41.79%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Power BI trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Power BI over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Power BI over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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 43 (7.82%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.45%) Confluence
3 11 (2.00%) SAS
4 3 (0.55%) Apache
4 3 (0.55%) MTS
5 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.36%) IIS
5 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 70 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.00%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 23 (4.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (4.00%) Dynamics AX
3 11 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.55%) Aligne
6 3 (0.55%) Endur
6 3 (0.55%) EuroRunner
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.18%) Relativity
8 1 (0.18%) Shopify
8 1 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 550 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 166 (30.18%) Azure
3 101 (18.36%) PowerApps
4 93 (16.91%) Power Automate
5 62 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (11.09%) Dynamics 365
7 47 (8.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (4.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (3.64%) AWS
11 18 (3.27%) GCP
12 16 (2.91%) Snowflake
13 15 (2.73%) GitHub
14 14 (2.55%) Google Analytics
15 12 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (2.18%) Serverless
16 8 (1.45%) Azure Functions
17 7 (1.27%) Veeva
18 6 (1.09%) Google Sheets
18 6 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.09%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (0.73%) 3GPP
2 4 (0.73%) 4G
2 4 (0.73%) 5G
2 4 (0.73%) 5G NR
2 4 (0.73%) DNS
2 4 (0.73%) LTE
2 4 (0.73%) MegaStream
2 4 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.55%) SNMP
4 2 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.36%) DHCP
4 2 (0.36%) HTTP
4 2 (0.36%) XCAP
5 1 (0.18%) Firewall
5 1 (0.18%) FTP
5 1 (0.18%) Intranet
5 1 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (12.91%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 61 (11.09%) Tableau
4 53 (9.64%) Data Lake
5 26 (4.73%) Power Query
5 26 (4.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (3.27%) BigQuery
9 13 (2.36%) Looker
10 12 (2.18%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (2.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (1.82%) GIS
11 10 (1.82%) Metadata
12 9 (1.64%) Big Data
12 9 (1.64%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.45%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 7 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (6.73%) JIRA
2 8 (1.45%) Git
3 7 (1.27%) Postman
4 4 (0.73%) GitLab
4 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.36%) ERwin
6 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Gatling
7 1 (0.18%) JMeter
7 1 (0.18%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.18%) NUnit
7 1 (0.18%) RStudio
7 1 (0.18%) Selenium
7 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 184 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 155 (28.18%) Finance
3 132 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.64%) Retail
6 28 (5.09%) Marketing
7 23 (4.18%) General Ledger
8 21 (3.82%) Banking
9 20 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.36%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.00%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.82%) Back Office
14 10 (1.82%) Legal
15 8 (1.45%) Billing
15 8 (1.45%) Retail Banking
16 6 (1.09%) Publishing
17 5 (0.91%) Advertising
17 5 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 161 (29.27%) Analyst
2 104 (18.91%) Developer
3 74 (13.45%) Data Analyst
4 60 (10.91%) Consultant
5 58 (10.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 49 (8.91%) Power BI Developer
7 46 (8.36%) Data Engineer
8 42 (7.64%) Senior
9 41 (7.45%) Business Analyst
10 39 (7.09%) Architect
11 34 (6.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 28 (5.09%) Power BI Analyst
13 24 (4.36%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 21 (3.82%) Data Architect
14 21 (3.82%) Power Platform Developer
15 20 (3.64%) Lead
16 19 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (3.45%) Data Scientist
17 15 (2.73%) Microsoft Consultant
18 14 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.27%) JSON
2 16 (2.91%) .NET
3 8 (1.45%) CSS
3 8 (1.45%) HTML
3 8 (1.45%) HTML5 Canvas
3 8 (1.45%) PySpark
4 6 (1.09%) Node.js
4 6 (1.09%) XML
5 5 (0.91%) jQuery
5 5 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.91%) Web Services
6 4 (0.73%) DOM
6 4 (0.73%) RESTful
6 4 (0.73%) SOAP
6 4 (0.73%) SPFx
6 4 (0.73%) Swagger
7 3 (0.55%) Kafka
7 3 (0.55%) Pandas
7 3 (0.55%) React
8 2 (0.36%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.45%) Management Information System
2 24 (4.36%) Data Structures
3 15 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.00%) NHS
4 11 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.64%) Low-Code
6 5 (0.91%) CMDB
6 5 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (0.73%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.55%) Educational Technology
8 3 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.55%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.36%) Clustering
9 2 (0.36%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.36%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.27%) Windows
2 5 (0.91%) Linux
3 3 (0.55%) Unix
3 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (86.55%) Business Intelligence
2 121 (22.00%) Visualisation
3 109 (19.82%) Analytics
4 108 (19.64%) Data Modelling
5 105 (19.09%) Agile
6 94 (17.09%) Data Analysis
7 88 (16.00%) DevOps
8 84 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (14.18%) Data Visualisation
10 77 (14.00%) ETL
11 45 (8.18%) Data Science
11 45 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 44 (8.00%) Migration
13 38 (6.91%) Data Management
14 37 (6.73%) Actionable Insight
15 36 (6.55%) Decision-Making
16 35 (6.36%) CRM
17 32 (5.82%) Dashboard Development
18 30 (5.45%) Project Management
18 30 (5.45%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 203 (36.91%) SQL
2 90 (16.36%) Python
3 50 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (6.18%) C#
5 23 (4.18%) JavaScript
6 21 (3.82%) R
7 16 (2.91%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.18%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.45%) Scala
10 7 (1.27%) VB
11 6 (1.09%) Java
11 6 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.55%) VBA
13 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.36%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.18%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 54 (9.82%) Degree
2 41 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.91%) CISM
7 5 (0.91%) CISSP
8 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.73%) HNC
8 4 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.36%) ACCA
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.36%) CIMA
10 2 (0.36%) PMP
11 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.91%) QA
3 10 (1.82%) PMO
4 7 (1.27%) CDISC
4 7 (1.27%) SLA
5 6 (1.09%) GxP
6 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.55%) GDPR
7 3 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
System Software
1 5 (0.91%) Docker
2 4 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) HDFS
4 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.09%) Kubernetes
1 6 (1.09%) Terraform
2 4 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.55%) SCCM
4 2 (0.36%) Kibana
4 2 (0.36%) SCOM
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.18%) logstash
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 193 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.36%) Databricks
3 24 (4.36%) Google
4 18 (3.27%) Oracle
5 13 (2.36%) Remedy
5 13 (2.36%) SAP
6 10 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.27%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.27%) Informatica
8 7 (1.27%) Qualys
9 6 (1.09%) Adobe
10 5 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.91%) Monetate
10 5 (0.91%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.73%) Ensighten
11 4 (0.73%) Nexthink
11 4 (0.73%) Omniture
11 4 (0.73%) Snow
11 4 (0.73%) Tealium