Power BI Developer Salary — Insights and Trends you Need to Know
Power BI has emerged as one of the hottest trends in business intelligence in the last couple of years. This data visualization tool has been gaining popularity in companies big and small, alike. Hence, it’s pretty obvious that the average Power BI Developer Salary is skyrocketing.
If you take a look at google trends, it seems like this is a wonderful time to get certified in Power BI and build a career in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. Following are the topics covered in the article below:
- Rise of Power BI’s popularity
- Power BI Developer Salary
- A Career in Power BI
- Companies hiring Power BI Developers
- Why Power BI Professionals are paid so much
- Conclusion
Rise of Power BI’s Popularity
If we look at the Google trends graph below, then we will see that Microsoft Power BI became very popular over the past five years. Such has been the interest of people to know about Power BI, what it is and how a career can be made out of it.
Below-mentioned are the main achievements of Power BI.
- Power BI established itself as one of the far more cheaper alternatives compared to other BI tools such as Tableau, Domo and Sisense
- Once the KPIs are determined, Power BI is an unbelievably simple tool to use
- Power BI seamlessly integrates with Office 365 and other Microsoft tools.
So, obviously the companies hiring in Power BI are all great paymasters.
Power BI Developer Salary
According to Payscale.com, the average annual salary of an entry-level Power BI developer in India is Rs. 293,544, going as high as Rs. 445,000. The earning potential of experienced Power BI developers is incredibly high. It can go as much as Rs. 882,000 on average and the highest being Rs 2,000,000.
In the USA, the demands of Power BI developers are rising with the average annual salary of an entry-level being $70,050 going up to $88,000 a year and experienced ones earning as high as $134,000 with an average of $114,298.
A Career in Power BI
Having in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in Power BI will help you immensely with implementing larger scale projects if you get into using Tabular models, provided you use Tabular models.
Having a career in Power BI is exciting and fast-paced. Power BI’s interactive community is growing at a considerable pace providing a host of options to learn and socialise with Power BI user groups. Below mentioned is a list of all the potential job roles that are open for professionals skilled in Power BI. There is no dearth of opportunities for professionals skilled in Power BI.
- BI Architect
- Business Analyst
- Data Analyst
- BI Developer
Companies hiring Power BI Developers
If you take a quick look at the current job openings, you’ll realize how in-demand are skills related to the Software.
The pay-masters include SAP, Azure, Mphasis, Capgemini, Accenture, Danfoss, Larsen & Toubro, Wipro, Nissan, Sony, and Infosys.
Hence, if you aspire to work for the big names in the industry, a career in Power BI is the way towards it.
Why Power BI professionals are paid so much
Professionals who are skilled in Power BI have a plethora of job roles and opportunities. Today, having a great data analysis strategy is of extreme importance for businesses. This has lead to a rise in the demand for business intelligence professionals. Such demanding work in an important field of analytics definitely implies that the individuals skilled in Power BI are paid very well with respect to their job roles.
Let us assess the importance of these professionals based on their job roles and responsibilities.
- Business Intelligence Architect
BI Architects manage databases, data warehouses, and different storage infrastructure. They also develop data structures, which in turn helps in organizing platforms and utilize data more efficiently and effectively. Managing and analyzing a company’s data results in the BI Architect coming up with tactics that help them come up with better, more productive decisions and support more successful outcomes.
- Business Analysts
Business Analysts are partly technical, partly business-based professionals. They need to possess an understanding of business requirements and the data skills so that they are competent enough to model and analyze data respectively. A Business Analyst always strives to develop and propose new business intelligence solutions, and report-writing so that organizations get more out of their data.
- Data Analysts
Data Analysts produce reports, design data, and analysis and then translating it into understandable data with a vision, one that can be used to create actions for the business.
- BI Developer
Like any other kind of software developer, BI Developers design and develop tools and solutions for apps and services. Their main job is to translate business needs into specifications, improve and extend business intelligence platforms doing which will lend them a helping hand in meeting the needs of their users in a much better way.
It is quite understandable that Analysts skilled in Power BI have an enormous range of skill set with the rapid demand for forming perfect data analysis strategies resulting in huge demand for Power BI professionals. The future holds firm with these individuals on the job and thus they get paid quite handsomely.
Conclusion
This is just the beginning of Microsoft Power BI’s growth that the world has been witnessing for the last couple of years. Its power-packed but its simplified features will bring new significant changes in the world of Business Analytics. And no wonder it’s on top of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant as of February, ‘19.
With this, we come to an end of this Power BI Developer Salary. If you wish to check out more articles on the market’s most trending technologies like Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Ethical Hacking, then you can refer to Edureka’s official site.
Do look out for other articles in this series which will explain the various other aspects of Power BI.
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Originally published at www.edureka.co on September 9, 2019.
