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Join ShakersA Power BI Developer is the business intelligence developer specialised in the Microsoft platform: they design the star-schema data model, write the DAX the business answers its questions with and publish reports with automatic refresh and row-level security. Against the generic BI Developer, the craft does not change: the stack does, from the Microsoft ERP to Azure and Fabric as horizon. The trade runs on Power Query and DAX, with SQL for the model and advanced Excel as the reality of every source.
You decide the shape of the model (star or snowflake), what each DAX measure computes and which source enters through Power Query or stays out. You also decide who sees each row: role security is designed, not inherited from the usual spreadsheet.
Free to join, no hidden fees
Tell us who you are, what you can do, the projects you want to work on and what your availability and rate are.
We certify your experience and your use of AI so companies understand and trust what you bring.
We connect you with well-paid projects that fit your expertise and your preferences.
Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.
Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.
Shakers is hiring infrastructure: the project arrives with the business sources and whoever owns the figure, not with a list of visuals.
You deliver the star schema, documented DAX measures and the report published with refresh, including the metric you discarded and why.
You set the refresh cadence, what happens when the ERP renames a column and who answers the day the close does not add up.
Having modelled real sources with star schema and DAX and being able to tell which report failed, and what you did when the figure did not add up.
Choosing the model by the questions of the business, not by the chart. Sometimes the honest answer is a well-made table, and saying so.
You build the reporting; interpretation is the analyst's and sources the data engineer's. If the project needs a pipeline, you say so at kickoff.
Any other questions? Write to us and we will reply.
The DAX measure nobody documented, the model that grew without a star and the refresh that fails at seven in the morning. Less portfolio dashboards, more reporting leadership actually opens.
1,706 active tech job postings in the UK ask for Power BI, according to Shakers market analysis (n=56,780, October 2026): the reporting standard in Microsoft shops.
Excel and SQL first, model after: the Microsoft certification orders the path, but what gets measured is delivery. Every owned report leaves ratings that open bigger projects.
Not an analyst interpreting and not a data engineer preparing sources. If your strength is explaining the figure, your role is analyst; if building the pipeline, data engineer.
Four roles of the collective cross your path on a reporting project, from the one preparing sources to the one interpreting the published figure.
The general reporting craft: if the house is not Microsoft, Tableau, Qlik or Looker come through this door.
Interprets the report once published: reads the figure, explains the why and proposes the next question to the data.
Prepares the sources and their cadence before the model exists: without reliable data, the dashboard lies.
The APIs and databases where the data lives: when the source still has to be built, you start here.
The boundaries between these roles are agreed on each project: the title does not set them.
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Pass the Shakers certification and choose which reporting projects you work on.