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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 66 79
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Power BI 531 808 1,363
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.63% 3.33% 3.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.73% 17.67% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 622 1,038
10th Percentile £319 £325 £356
25th Percentile £400 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £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 - £25.68 £18.81
25th Percentile £20.77 £36.96 £20.69
Median hourly rate £23.22 £51.25 £25.24
Median % change year-on-year -54.70% +103.05% -2.92%
75th Percentile £35.50 £56.50 £34.69
90th Percentile £58.90 £58.45 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £24.43 £49.57 £23.25
% change year-on-year -50.72% +113.20% +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 2,835 4,574 9,403
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.36% 18.87% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 3,352 6,868
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 79 87
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.33 £19.30
25th Percentile £22.52 £42.63 £21.50
Median hourly rate £37.75 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.92% +31.31% +65.00%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.97%

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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 2 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 2 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 43 (8.10%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.64%) Confluence
3 11 (2.07%) SAS
4 9 (1.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.38%) MTS
5 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 63 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.75%) 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 22 (4.14%) Dynamics AX
1 22 (4.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.38%) Aligne
5 2 (0.38%) Endur
5 2 (0.38%) EuroRunner
5 2 (0.38%) Shopify
6 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.19%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) Relativity
6 1 (0.19%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 531 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 159 (29.94%) Azure
3 100 (18.83%) PowerApps
4 95 (17.89%) Power Automate
5 66 (12.43%) Dynamics 365
6 56 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (5.08%) AWS
10 25 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (4.14%) Snowflake
12 18 (3.39%) GitHub
13 16 (3.01%) dbt
13 16 (3.01%) GCP
14 15 (2.82%) Google Analytics
15 8 (1.51%) OneDrive
15 8 (1.51%) Serverless
16 7 (1.32%) Azure Functions
16 7 (1.32%) Veeva
17 6 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.13%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (0.75%) 3GPP
2 4 (0.75%) 4G
2 4 (0.75%) 5G
2 4 (0.75%) 5G NR
2 4 (0.75%) DNS
2 4 (0.75%) LTE
2 4 (0.75%) MegaStream
2 4 (0.75%) SNMP
3 3 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.56%) 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 (13.37%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (12.43%) SQL Server
2 66 (12.43%) Tableau
3 56 (10.55%) Data Lake
4 27 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 26 (4.90%) Power Query
6 23 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (3.20%) Big Data
9 16 (3.01%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.26%) Looker
11 11 (2.07%) GIS
11 11 (2.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (1.88%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.51%) Metadata
14 8 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (1.32%) NoSQL
15 7 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (6.03%) JIRA
2 8 (1.51%) Git
3 7 (1.32%) Postman
4 4 (0.75%) GitLab
4 4 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.56%) 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%) RStudio
7 1 (0.19%) Selenium
7 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 170 (32.02%) Social Skills
2 152 (28.63%) Finance
3 121 (22.79%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.10%) Retail
6 25 (4.71%) General Ledger
7 23 (4.33%) Banking
7 23 (4.33%) Marketing
8 20 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.88%) Front Office
11 10 (1.88%) Legal
12 9 (1.69%) Back Office
13 8 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.32%) Billing
15 6 (1.13%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.13%) Publishing
15 6 (1.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (28.81%) Analyst
2 106 (19.96%) Developer
3 70 (13.18%) Data Analyst
4 61 (11.49%) Consultant
5 59 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 48 (9.04%) Power BI Developer
7 43 (8.10%) Data Engineer
8 42 (7.91%) Senior
9 40 (7.53%) Business Analyst
10 39 (7.34%) Architect
11 33 (6.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 25 (4.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 24 (4.52%) Power BI Analyst
13 24 (4.52%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (3.58%) Data Architect
15 18 (3.39%) Lead
16 17 (3.20%) Financial Analyst
17 16 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
18 15 (2.82%) Microsoft Consultant
19 14 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.20%) .NET
2 16 (3.01%) JSON
3 11 (2.07%) CSS
3 11 (2.07%) HTML
3 11 (2.07%) HTML5 Canvas
4 6 (1.13%) Node.js
4 6 (1.13%) RESTful
4 6 (1.13%) XML
5 5 (0.94%) jQuery
5 5 (0.94%) PySpark
5 5 (0.94%) React
5 5 (0.94%) Web Services
6 4 (0.75%) DOM
6 4 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.75%) SOAP
6 4 (0.75%) SPFx
6 4 (0.75%) Swagger
7 3 (0.56%) Pandas
8 2 (0.38%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.38%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.46%) Management Information System
2 23 (4.33%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.07%) NHS
4 11 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 8 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.13%) Derivative
7 6 (1.13%) Equities
7 6 (1.13%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.13%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.94%) CMDB
8 5 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.56%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.56%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.38%) Clustering
11 2 (0.38%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.32%) Windows
2 5 (0.94%) Linux
3 4 (0.75%) 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
1 457 (86.06%) Business Intelligence
2 105 (19.77%) Agile
2 105 (19.77%) Data Modelling
3 104 (19.59%) Visualisation
4 101 (19.02%) Analytics
5 82 (15.44%) Data Analysis
5 82 (15.44%) DevOps
6 78 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (13.94%) Data Visualisation
8 73 (13.75%) ETL
9 43 (8.10%) Migration
10 40 (7.53%) Actionable Insight
10 40 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (6.59%) Data Management
11 35 (6.59%) Data Science
11 35 (6.59%) Decision-Making
12 34 (6.40%) CRM
13 30 (5.65%) Dashboard Development
13 30 (5.65%) Requirements Gathering
14 29 (5.46%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 197 (37.10%) SQL
2 78 (14.69%) Python
3 45 (8.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (6.40%) C#
5 27 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.64%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.64%) R
7 12 (2.26%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.51%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.32%) VB
10 6 (1.13%) Java
11 5 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.75%) VBA
13 3 (0.56%) Scala
13 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.19%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (10.92%) Degree
2 37 (6.97%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.75%) HNC
6 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.56%) ACCA
7 3 (0.56%) CIMA
7 3 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.56%) PMP
8 1 (0.19%) CFA
8 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.19%) MBA
8 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.08%) QA
3 10 (1.88%) PMO
4 7 (1.32%) CDISC
4 7 (1.32%) SLA
5 5 (0.94%) GxP
6 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.56%) GDPR
7 3 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) GAAP
System Software
1 4 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.56%) 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 (1.32%) Terraform
2 4 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (0.75%) 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 (36.72%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.16%) Databricks
3 23 (4.33%) Google
4 17 (3.20%) Oracle
5 15 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.64%) SAP
7 13 (2.45%) Remedy
8 12 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.51%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.32%) Informatica
11 6 (1.13%) Adobe
12 5 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.94%) Monetate
12 5 (0.94%) Optimizely
13 4 (0.75%) Ensighten
13 4 (0.75%) IFS
13 4 (0.75%) Nexthink
13 4 (0.75%) Omniture
13 4 (0.75%) Snow
13 4 (0.75%) Tealium