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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 66 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing Power BI 1,395 1,854 2,623
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.28% 3.24% 2.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.14% 18.14% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,318 1,879
10th Percentile £308 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 45 37
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.77 £26.08 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.43 £40.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.68% +76.09% +8.24%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.75 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.86 £49.57 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.89% +120.31% +18.42%

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 7,287 10,222 17,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 17.85% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,225 7,278 12,532
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 175 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.30 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.38 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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 +10 1,207 £475 -5.00% 1,020
London +11 632 £523 -0.48% 432
UK excluding London +9 615 £450 - 648
Work from Home +20 553 £475 -2.56% 498
North of England +5 157 £450 -2.70% 151
South East +1 130 £450 -2.17% 188
Midlands +19 124 £425 -11.46% 129
North West -4 105 £450 -2.70% 94
South West +5 96 £469 +4.17% 81
West Midlands +16 94 £425 -12.14% 90
Scotland +32 73 £465 -2.11% 31
Yorkshire +17 45 £450 - 45
East of England -30 34 £410 +2.50% 56
East Midlands +16 29 £400 +23.08% 39
Wales +21 11 £500 +74.67% 15
North East +9 7 £663 +15.22% 12
Northern Ireland -5 2 £338 -25.00% 5

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
1 119 (8.53%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.66%) Confluence
3 23 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.43%) SAS
5 19 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (1.29%) 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
1 200 (14.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.29%) InVision
7 4 (0.29%) Sketch
8 3 (0.22%) SPSS
9 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.14%) Revit
9 2 (0.14%) Trello
10 1 (0.072%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 46 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.94%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.86%) Endur
5 12 (0.86%) EuroRunner
6 11 (0.79%) Aligne
7 9 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.50%) Aladdin
8 7 (0.50%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.36%) Maximo
9 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.22%) Primavera
11 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.14%) Shopify
12 2 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 1,395 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 492 (35.27%) Azure
3 218 (15.63%) PowerApps
4 216 (15.48%) Power Automate
5 130 (9.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 117 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
6 117 (8.39%) Dynamics 365
7 101 (7.24%) AWS
8 94 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
9 66 (4.73%) Snowflake
10 64 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 43 (3.08%) GCP
12 40 (2.87%) Entra ID
13 38 (2.72%) Serverless
14 36 (2.58%) GitHub
15 31 (2.22%) Azure Functions
16 25 (1.79%) Google Analytics
17 23 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
17 23 (1.65%) Collibra
18 19 (1.36%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.79%) Firewall
2 8 (0.57%) 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
4 4 (0.29%) SNMP
5 3 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.22%) DHCP
5 3 (0.22%) Intranet
5 3 (0.22%) Skype
6 2 (0.14%) HTTP
6 2 (0.14%) Internet
6 2 (0.14%) VPN
6 2 (0.14%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (15.27%) Data Warehouse
2 205 (14.70%) Tableau
3 195 (13.98%) SQL Server
4 132 (9.46%) Data Lake
5 108 (7.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 77 (5.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 59 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (3.58%) Power Query
9 49 (3.51%) Big Data
9 49 (3.51%) Relational Database
10 44 (3.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 41 (2.94%) Metadata
12 39 (2.80%) BusinessObjects
13 36 (2.58%) NoSQL
14 30 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
15 27 (1.94%) MySQL
16 26 (1.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 25 (1.79%) QlikView
18 24 (1.72%) BigQuery
19 23 (1.65%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 99 (7.10%) JIRA
2 19 (1.36%) ERwin
3 17 (1.22%) Visual Studio
4 15 (1.08%) Git
4 15 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 14 (1.00%) ER Studio
6 13 (0.93%) GitLab
7 8 (0.57%) Postman
8 6 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.43%) PyCharm
9 5 (0.36%) Hudson
9 5 (0.36%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.29%) RStudio
10 4 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.14%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.072%) Gradle
12 1 (0.072%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.072%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.072%) SpecFlow
General
1 402 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 377 (27.03%) Finance
3 342 (24.52%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 78 (5.59%) Retail
6 74 (5.30%) Banking
7 69 (4.95%) Marketing
8 49 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 35 (2.51%) Legal
11 32 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
12 28 (2.01%) General Ledger
12 28 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.51%) Local Government
14 18 (1.29%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.29%) Front Office
15 17 (1.22%) Billing
16 15 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 403 (28.89%) Analyst
2 264 (18.92%) Developer
3 196 (14.05%) Data Analyst
4 153 (10.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 131 (9.39%) Power BI Developer
6 124 (8.89%) Data Engineer
7 119 (8.53%) Architect
8 106 (7.60%) Consultant
9 104 (7.46%) Senior
10 87 (6.24%) Business Analyst
11 69 (4.95%) Data Architect
12 68 (4.87%) Lead
13 62 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 56 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
15 49 (3.51%) Power BI Analyst
16 47 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
17 42 (3.01%) Power Platform Developer
18 33 (2.37%) Data Scientist
18 33 (2.37%) Project Manager
19 30 (2.15%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.51%) .NET
1 35 (2.51%) PySpark
2 31 (2.22%) JSON
3 30 (2.15%) XML
4 28 (2.01%) HTML
5 25 (1.79%) CSS
6 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 14 (1.00%) Web Services
7 13 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
7 13 (0.93%) REST
8 11 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (0.72%) .NET Framework
9 10 (0.72%) SOAP
10 9 (0.65%) Node.js
11 8 (0.57%) ADO
11 8 (0.57%) SAML
12 7 (0.50%) RESTful
13 6 (0.43%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.43%) jQuery
13 6 (0.43%) React
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.66%) Management Information System
2 51 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 49 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 26 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 19 (1.36%) NHS
5 19 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (1.29%) Market Risk
7 16 (1.15%) Reference Data
8 14 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
10 12 (0.86%) Life Science
11 11 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (0.79%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.65%) CMDB
13 9 (0.65%) Hedge funds
13 9 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (0.57%) Solar Panel
14 8 (0.57%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.29%) Windows
2 20 (1.43%) Linux
3 18 (1.29%) Unix
4 12 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.65%) VMS
6 8 (0.57%) 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 1,181 (84.66%) Business Intelligence
2 324 (23.23%) Analytics
3 314 (22.51%) Visualisation
4 285 (20.43%) Data Modelling
5 270 (19.35%) Agile
6 230 (16.49%) Data Analysis
6 230 (16.49%) ETL
7 214 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
8 200 (14.34%) Data Visualisation
9 187 (13.41%) DevOps
10 131 (9.39%) Migration
11 116 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 112 (8.03%) Decision-Making
13 108 (7.74%) Data Governance
14 103 (7.38%) Data Analytics
15 98 (7.03%) Data Management
16 95 (6.81%) Project Management
17 89 (6.38%) Data Science
18 85 (6.09%) Dashboard Development
19 83 (5.95%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 572 (41.00%) SQL
2 250 (17.92%) Python
3 108 (7.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 72 (5.16%) PowerShell
5 67 (4.80%) T-SQL
6 60 (4.30%) C#
7 52 (3.73%) JavaScript
8 38 (2.72%) R
9 30 (2.15%) Java
10 22 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.43%) Scala
12 17 (1.22%) VBA
13 12 (0.86%) VB
14 10 (0.72%) MATLAB
15 8 (0.57%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.50%) XPath
16 7 (0.50%) XQuery
17 6 (0.43%) Groovy
18 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
19 3 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 127 (9.10%) Degree
2 112 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 85 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.65%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.57%) Postgraduate
11 7 (0.50%) CISM
11 7 (0.50%) CISSP
12 6 (0.43%) CIMA
12 6 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.43%) PMP
13 4 (0.29%) HNC
14 3 (0.22%) ACCA
14 3 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 70 (5.02%) QA
3 32 (2.29%) PMO
4 25 (1.79%) GDPR
5 24 (1.72%) SLA
6 21 (1.51%) GxP
7 12 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.50%) CDISC
10 6 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.36%) GAMP
12 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.14%) GRC
15 1 (0.072%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.072%) GAAP
15 1 (0.072%) IFRS
15 1 (0.072%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 31 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.57%) 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 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.86%) Terraform
4 7 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.43%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.36%) SysTrack
7 3 (0.22%) Kibana
7 3 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.14%) SCOM
9 1 (0.072%) Ansible
9 1 (0.072%) CASB
9 1 (0.072%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.072%) Grafana
9 1 (0.072%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.072%) logstash
9 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.072%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.072%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.072%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.072%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 448 (32.11%) Microsoft
2 126 (9.03%) Databricks
3 100 (7.17%) Oracle
4 71 (5.09%) SAP
5 48 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 46 (3.30%) Google
6 46 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 36 (2.58%) Alteryx
8 28 (2.01%) Informatica
9 20 (1.43%) Adobe
9 20 (1.43%) Remedy
9 20 (1.43%) Sparx
10 14 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.86%) CA
12 11 (0.79%) Talend
13 10 (0.72%) Splunk
14 9 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
14 9 (0.65%) Qualys
15 8 (0.57%) Dataiku
16 7 (0.50%) Nexthink