Power BI Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Power BI
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing Power BI 114 101 71
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.09% 5.77% 3.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.36% 25.83% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 67 47
10th Percentile £360 £346 £366
25th Percentile £425 £407 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -3.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £644 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £838 £743
Central London median daily rate £525 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.43% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.05 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.38 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.15 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year -23.53% - -

All Database & BI Skills
City of London

Power BI falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 402 391 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.94% 22.36% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 263 322
10th Percentile £359 £400 £401
25th Percentile £461 £434 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £725
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £594
% change year-on-year - -3.24% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.13 £36.75
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.25 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.56% +25.32% -12.50%
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £48.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -46.56% +20.63% -9.09%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Power BI job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Power BI

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Power BI

Power BI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.77%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.26%) Confluence
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (20.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.75%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.75%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.88%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.88%) OneSumX
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 58 (50.88%) Azure
3 20 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (12.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (12.28%) Power Automate
6 13 (11.40%) PowerApps
7 11 (9.65%) AWS
7 11 (9.65%) Snowflake
8 8 (7.02%) GitHub
8 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (7.02%) SaaS
9 7 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (6.14%) Serverless
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Databricks
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Stack
10 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) DNS
1 3 (2.63%) Firewall
1 3 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.30%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (12.28%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.40%) Data Lake
4 11 (9.65%) Metadata
4 11 (9.65%) Tableau
5 10 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (8.77%) Semantic Layer
6 9 (7.89%) Star Schema
7 7 (6.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (5.26%) Power Query
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.51%) Data Hub
10 4 (3.51%) Looker
11 3 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.63%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.63%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.63%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.65%) JIRA
2 4 (3.51%) Git
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.88%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.88%) MLflow
4 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (40.35%) Finance
2 27 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 25 (21.93%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.28%) Banking
5 8 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.02%) Retail
6 5 (4.39%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.39%) Legal
7 4 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Marketing
8 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.63%) Law
9 2 (1.75%) Back Office
9 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Front Office
9 2 (1.75%) Military
9 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (28.07%) Analyst
2 19 (16.67%) Architect
3 18 (15.79%) Data Analyst
4 14 (12.28%) Data Engineer
5 12 (10.53%) Developer
6 10 (8.77%) Consultant
6 10 (8.77%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.77%) Senior
7 7 (6.14%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Power Platform Developer
8 5 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 4 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 3 (2.63%) Performance Analyst
10 3 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.63%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.16%) PySpark
2 7 (6.14%) .NET
3 5 (4.39%) Kafka
3 5 (4.39%) Terraform
4 3 (2.63%) REST
4 3 (2.63%) RESTful
5 2 (1.75%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.75%) JSON
5 2 (1.75%) React
5 2 (1.75%) Redux
6 1 (0.88%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.88%) CSS
6 1 (0.88%) HTML
6 1 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.88%) LangChain
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.88%) OAuth
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.88%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.14%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.51%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.51%) Clustering
5 3 (2.63%) CMDB
5 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.63%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) FMCG
6 2 (1.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.88%) Derivative
7 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Windows
2 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.88%) VMS
3 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (90.35%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (45.61%) Analytics
3 45 (39.47%) Data Modelling
4 31 (27.19%) DevOps
5 29 (25.44%) Data Governance
5 29 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (22.81%) Agile
6 26 (22.81%) CI/CD
7 25 (21.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (19.30%) AI
8 22 (19.30%) Migration
9 21 (18.42%) Data Engineering
10 20 (17.54%) Decision-Making
11 19 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (16.67%) ETL
12 15 (13.16%) Data Architecture
12 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.40%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (11.40%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (11.40%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (47.37%) SQL
2 27 (23.68%) Python
3 23 (20.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (7.02%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.39%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.51%) C#
7 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.75%) Java
8 2 (1.75%) R
8 2 (1.75%) XMLA
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) Korn
9 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.28%) DBS Check
4 9 (7.89%) Degree
5 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
7 1 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (23.68%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.77%) QA
3 5 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.51%) PMO
5 3 (2.63%) GDPR
6 2 (1.75%) P3O
7 1 (0.88%) COBIT
7 1 (0.88%) GRC
7 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Grafana
1 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
1 3 (2.63%) SCCM
1 3 (2.63%) SCOM
2 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (37.72%) Microsoft
2 24 (21.05%) Databricks
3 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.39%) SAP
5 4 (3.51%) Informatica
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle
5 4 (3.51%) VMware
6 3 (2.63%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.63%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.63%) BMC
6 3 (2.63%) Commvault
6 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.63%) Remedy
6 3 (2.63%) Splunk
6 3 (2.63%) Workday
7 2 (1.75%) Adobe
7 2 (1.75%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.75%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.88%) Calypso
8 1 (0.88%) Murex