Power BI Specialist Contracts

Microsoft Power BI Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Power BI Specialist daily rate in the UK is £351, 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 573 669 841
Rank change year-on-year +96 +172 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Specialist 11 28 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.050% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.053% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 4
10th Percentile £232 £348 -
25th Percentile £308 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £394 £524 £625
90th Percentile £441 £575 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £315 £488 £700
% change year-on-year -35.38% -30.36% +67.16%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Specialist in the UK

Power BI Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power BI Specialist in the UK

Power BI Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Specialist in the UK

Power BI Specialist
Top 8 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 Specialist 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 +70 10 £315 -32.80% 1
UK excluding London +23 5 £315 -35.38%
Work from Home +100 3 £388 -17.33%
North of England +19 3 - -
London +77 2 £163 -68.90% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 2 £315 -
North West +15 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Power BI Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Power BI
1 11 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) ERP
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 2 (18.18%) WhatsApp
6 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (9.09%) Local Government
6 1 (9.09%) ETL
6 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 1 (9.09%) Back Office
6 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Azure
6 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics

Power BI Specialist 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) WhatsApp
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Local Government
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) ERP
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) ETL
4 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft