Power BI Developer Contracts

Microsoft Power BI Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Developer daily rate in the UK is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 528 613
Rank change year-on-year +71 +85 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Developer 128 170 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.32% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 134 191
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £368 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £568 £538
90th Percentile £620 £625 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - +62.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Power BI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Power BI Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Power BI Developer in the UK

Power BI Developer
Top 15 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +52 105 £473 -0.53% 28
UK excluding London +44 73 £425 -5.56% 12
London +36 46 £525 +5.00% 15
Work from Home +75 45 £425 -5.56% 8
North of England +14 18 £400 -5.88% 2
South East +23 15 £450 -21.57% 2
North West +13 14 £400 -3.03% 1
South West +8 14 £575 +35.29% 3
Wales - 8 £550 -
Midlands +15 7 £350 -22.22% 3
Scotland +43 6 £444 -6.58% 1
West Midlands +16 6 £363 -19.44% 2
East of England +8 5 £300 -33.33% 1
Yorkshire +14 4 £475 -7.32% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Power BI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Power BI Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Power BI Developer in the job title.

1 128 (100.00%) Power BI
1 128 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 126 (98.44%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (58.59%) SQL
4 55 (42.97%) Visualisation
5 47 (36.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 40 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
7 39 (30.47%) Azure
8 35 (27.34%) Finance
9 30 (23.44%) Data Modelling
10 29 (22.66%) Social Skills
11 28 (21.88%) Microsoft
12 26 (20.31%) SQL Server
12 26 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (18.75%) Power Query
13 24 (18.75%) ETL
14 22 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
15 21 (16.41%) Power Automate
15 21 (16.41%) Analytics
16 20 (15.63%) Data Analysis
17 19 (14.84%) Databricks
18 16 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
18 16 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 15 (11.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 14 (10.94%) T-SQL
21 13 (10.16%) Python
21 13 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
21 13 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
21 13 (10.16%) PowerApps

Power BI Developer Skill Set
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 11 (8.59%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (30.47%) Azure
3 21 (16.41%) Power Automate
4 16 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (10.16%) PowerApps
6 8 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (3.91%) AWS
9 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.56%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.78%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.78%) Fivetran
12 1 (0.78%) GitHub
12 1 (0.78%) Serverless
12 1 (0.78%) Slack
12 1 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (100.00%) Power BI
2 26 (20.31%) SQL Server
3 24 (18.75%) Power Query
4 16 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (11.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (7.81%) Metadata
8 7 (5.47%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (3.91%) Tableau
10 4 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.34%) MySQL
12 2 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.56%) Big Data
12 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.78%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Git
1 1 (0.78%) JIRA
General
1 35 (27.34%) Finance
2 29 (22.66%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.81%) Banking
5 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.91%) Retail
6 4 (3.13%) Local Government
7 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Automotive
8 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.34%) .NET
1 3 (2.34%) HTML
2 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.34%) Tandem
2 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.78%) CMDB
3 1 (0.78%) FMCG
3 1 (0.78%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.78%) NHS
3 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (98.44%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (42.97%) Visualisation
3 40 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
4 30 (23.44%) Data Modelling
5 26 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (18.75%) ETL
7 21 (16.41%) Analytics
8 20 (15.63%) Data Analysis
9 16 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (9.38%) Agile
11 11 (8.59%) Dashboard Development
12 10 (7.81%) Decision-Making
13 9 (7.03%) Data Transformation
14 7 (5.47%) Actionable Insight
14 7 (5.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 6 (4.69%) Data Engineering
15 6 (4.69%) Data Governance
15 6 (4.69%) DevOps
15 6 (4.69%) Mentoring
16 5 (3.91%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 75 (58.59%) SQL
2 47 (36.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 14 (10.94%) T-SQL
4 13 (10.16%) Python
5 6 (4.69%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.34%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.56%) C#
7 2 (1.56%) VBA
8 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.34%) Degree
3 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.56%) PMO
2 2 (1.56%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
Vendors
1 28 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.84%) Databricks
3 4 (3.13%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.78%) Civica
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) SAP