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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing Power BI 528 808 1,366
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.59% 3.37% 3.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.37% 17.92% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 622 1,042
10th Percentile £319 £325 £356
25th Percentile £400 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 16
10th Percentile £20.75 £25.68 £18.81
25th Percentile £20.77 £36.96 £20.69
Median hourly rate £22.86 £51.25 £25.24
Median % change year-on-year -55.40% +103.05% -2.92%
75th Percentile £35.50 £56.50 £34.69
90th Percentile £58.90 £58.45 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £45.04 £23.25
% change year-on-year -48.45% +93.70% +8.14%

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 2,874 4,510 9,433
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.53% 18.83% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,123 3,305 6,887
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 86
10th Percentile £18.00 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £21.88 £45.31 £21.19
Median hourly rate £37.75 £65.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +35.05% +56.45%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.52% +62.78%

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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 7 June 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

Power BI
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 7 June 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 44 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.65%) Confluence
3 12 (2.27%) Apache
4 11 (2.08%) SAS
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.38%) MTS
6 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 63 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.27%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 23 (4.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (4.17%) Dynamics AX
3 11 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.76%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Aligne
6 2 (0.38%) Endur
6 2 (0.38%) EuroRunner
6 2 (0.38%) Shopify
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.19%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.19%) Relativity
7 1 (0.19%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 528 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 159 (30.11%) Azure
3 97 (18.37%) PowerApps
4 95 (17.99%) Power Automate
5 67 (12.69%) Dynamics 365
6 58 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (7.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 39 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (5.49%) AWS
9 24 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (4.36%) Snowflake
11 19 (3.60%) dbt
12 18 (3.41%) GitHub
13 17 (3.22%) GCP
14 16 (3.03%) Google Analytics
15 9 (1.70%) OneDrive
16 8 (1.52%) Serverless
17 7 (1.33%) Azure Functions
17 7 (1.33%) Veeva
18 6 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (0.76%) 3GPP
2 4 (0.76%) 4G
2 4 (0.76%) 5G
2 4 (0.76%) 5G NR
2 4 (0.76%) DNS
2 4 (0.76%) LTE
2 4 (0.76%) MegaStream
2 4 (0.76%) SNMP
3 3 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.38%) HTTP
4 2 (0.38%) XCAP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
5 1 (0.19%) Intranet
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.45%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (13.26%) Tableau
3 65 (12.31%) SQL Server
4 57 (10.80%) Data Lake
5 28 (5.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 25 (4.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (4.55%) Power Query
8 20 (3.79%) Big Data
9 19 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (3.22%) BigQuery
11 13 (2.46%) Looker
12 12 (2.27%) GIS
12 12 (2.27%) Relational Database
13 11 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.70%) Qlik Sense
15 8 (1.52%) Apache Arrow
15 8 (1.52%) Dremio
15 8 (1.52%) Metadata
15 8 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (5.87%) JIRA
2 8 (1.52%) Git
3 7 (1.33%) Postman
4 4 (0.76%) GitLab
4 4 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.38%) ERwin
6 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) JMeter
7 1 (0.19%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.19%) NUnit
7 1 (0.19%) Selenium
7 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 168 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 148 (28.03%) Finance
3 121 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.14%) Retail
6 25 (4.73%) Banking
6 25 (4.73%) General Ledger
7 24 (4.55%) Marketing
8 18 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.27%) Front Office
10 11 (2.08%) Legal
11 10 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.70%) Back Office
13 8 (1.52%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.14%) Publishing
15 6 (1.14%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 151 (28.60%) Analyst
2 102 (19.32%) Developer
3 69 (13.07%) Data Analyst
4 62 (11.74%) Consultant
5 57 (10.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 45 (8.52%) Power BI Developer
7 43 (8.14%) Data Engineer
8 40 (7.58%) Business Analyst
8 40 (7.58%) Senior
9 36 (6.82%) Architect
10 31 (5.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 25 (4.73%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 23 (4.36%) Power Platform Developer
13 21 (3.98%) Power BI Analyst
14 18 (3.41%) Data Architect
14 18 (3.41%) Lead
15 15 (2.84%) Data Scientist
15 15 (2.84%) Financial Analyst
15 15 (2.84%) Microsoft Consultant
15 15 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.22%) .NET
2 15 (2.84%) JSON
3 13 (2.46%) CSS
3 13 (2.46%) HTML
4 11 (2.08%) HTML5 Canvas
5 6 (1.14%) RESTful
5 6 (1.14%) XML
6 5 (0.95%) jQuery
6 5 (0.95%) Node.js
6 5 (0.95%) PySpark
6 5 (0.95%) Web Services
7 4 (0.76%) DOM
7 4 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.76%) React
7 4 (0.76%) SOAP
7 4 (0.76%) SPFx
7 4 (0.76%) Swagger
8 3 (0.57%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.57%) Pandas
9 2 (0.38%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.49%) Management Information System
2 23 (4.36%) Data Structures
2 23 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.08%) NHS
5 10 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (1.70%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.52%) Derivative
7 8 (1.52%) Equities
7 8 (1.52%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.52%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.95%) CMDB
9 5 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (0.95%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.57%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.57%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.38%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.33%) Windows
2 5 (0.95%) Linux
3 4 (0.76%) Unix
4 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
5 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (86.17%) Business Intelligence
2 107 (20.27%) Agile
2 107 (20.27%) Data Modelling
3 102 (19.32%) Visualisation
4 101 (19.13%) Analytics
5 84 (15.91%) DevOps
6 81 (15.34%) Data Analysis
7 78 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (14.02%) ETL
9 72 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
10 43 (8.14%) Migration
11 41 (7.77%) Actionable Insight
12 39 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (6.82%) Data Science
14 33 (6.25%) Decision-Making
15 32 (6.06%) CRM
16 31 (5.87%) Data Management
16 31 (5.87%) Service Management
17 30 (5.68%) Dashboard Development
17 30 (5.68%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 201 (38.07%) SQL
2 77 (14.58%) Python
3 43 (8.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (6.44%) C#
5 29 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.46%) R
7 13 (2.46%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.70%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.33%) VB
10 5 (0.95%) Java
10 5 (0.95%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.76%) VBA
12 3 (0.57%) Scala
12 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.19%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (11.17%) Degree
2 37 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 29 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.95%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.95%) PMP
8 4 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.76%) HNC
9 3 (0.57%) ACCA
9 3 (0.57%) CIMA
9 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.19%) CFA
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) MBA
10 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.73%) QA
3 9 (1.70%) PMO
4 7 (1.33%) CDISC
4 7 (1.33%) SLA
5 5 (0.95%) GxP
6 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.57%) GDPR
7 3 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.57%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) HDFS
3 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (1.33%) Terraform
2 4 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (0.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.38%) Kibana
3 2 (0.38%) SCCM
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.19%) logstash
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.19%) SCOM
4 1 (0.19%) SCOrch
4 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 195 (36.93%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.82%) Databricks
3 25 (4.73%) Google
4 17 (3.22%) Oracle
4 17 (3.22%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.46%) Remedy
7 11 (2.08%) SAP
8 8 (1.52%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.33%) Adobe
9 7 (1.33%) Informatica
10 5 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.95%) Monetate
10 5 (0.95%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.76%) Ensighten
11 4 (0.76%) IFS
11 4 (0.76%) Nexthink
11 4 (0.76%) Omniture
11 4 (0.76%) Snow
11 4 (0.76%) Tealium