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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +29
Contract jobs citing Power BI 114 86 86
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.71% 4.98% 3.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.86% 21.61% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 56 57
10th Percentile £375 £394 £360
25th Percentile £425 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% -1.78% +2.74%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £838 £760
Central London median daily rate £525 £564 £538
% change year-on-year -6.86% +4.87% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.31 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.03 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.83 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £30.38 -
90th Percentile - £32.96 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year -32.92% - -

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 395 398 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.31% 23.06% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 265 347
10th Percentile £350 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £712
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £21.94 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.09 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% +0.15% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £72.81 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £89.13 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%

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 22 June 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

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the City of London region over the 6 months to 22 June 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 £650 - 1
Power BI
Central London

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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 11 (9.65%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.51%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.75%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.51%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 55 (48.25%) Azure
3 18 (15.79%) Snowflake
4 15 (13.16%) AWS
5 13 (11.40%) Power Automate
6 12 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (8.77%) dbt
7 10 (8.77%) GCP
7 10 (8.77%) GitHub
8 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (7.02%) PowerApps
10 7 (6.14%) Prefect
10 7 (6.14%) Serverless
11 6 (5.26%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (4.39%) Dagster
12 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) DNS
1 3 (2.63%) Firewall
1 3 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.81%) Tableau
2 22 (19.30%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.65%) Looker
4 10 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 8 (7.02%) BigQuery
7 6 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.26%) Metadata
7 6 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.39%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (3.51%) Mixpanel
9 4 (3.51%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.63%) Power Query
10 3 (2.63%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.75%) GIS
11 2 (1.75%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Git
2 6 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.88%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.88%) ERwin
General
1 53 (46.49%) Finance
2 20 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.28%) Banking
5 5 (4.39%) Legal
6 4 (3.51%) Back Office
6 4 (3.51%) Retail
6 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.63%) Front Office
7 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.75%) Automotive
8 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.88%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (22.81%) Analyst
2 21 (18.42%) Data Engineer
3 16 (14.04%) Architect
4 14 (12.28%) Data Analyst
5 13 (11.40%) Developer
6 9 (7.89%) Data Architect
6 9 (7.89%) Senior
7 7 (6.14%) Lead
7 7 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.39%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Consultant
8 5 (4.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.51%) Power Platform Developer
10 3 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.63%) Power BI Analyst
10 3 (2.63%) Power BI Developer
10 3 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.40%) PySpark
2 8 (7.02%) .NET
3 7 (6.14%) Kafka
4 4 (3.51%) REST
5 3 (2.63%) JSON
5 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.75%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.75%) CSS
6 2 (1.75%) HTML
6 2 (1.75%) React
6 2 (1.75%) Redux
6 2 (1.75%) RESTful
6 2 (1.75%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.88%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.88%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.88%) Middleware
7 1 (0.88%) NumPy
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.88%) XML
7 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.51%) Clustering
3 4 (3.51%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.63%) CMDB
4 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.75%) Derivative
5 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.75%) Equities
5 2 (1.75%) PMI
5 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (88.60%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (49.12%) Analytics
3 42 (36.84%) Data Modelling
4 31 (27.19%) Data Engineering
5 27 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (21.93%) ETL
7 24 (21.05%) AI
7 24 (21.05%) DevOps
8 21 (18.42%) Agile
8 21 (18.42%) CI/CD
8 21 (18.42%) Data Governance
8 21 (18.42%) Decision-Making
8 21 (18.42%) Visualisation
9 20 (17.54%) Migration
10 14 (12.28%) Dashboard Development
10 14 (12.28%) Data Science
10 14 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (12.28%) Use Case
11 13 (11.40%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.74%) SQL
2 38 (33.33%) Python
3 14 (12.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.39%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.51%) R
6 3 (2.63%) C#
7 2 (1.75%) Java
7 2 (1.75%) Scala
7 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) DBS Check
1 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (2.63%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMP
6 1 (0.88%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (25.44%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.02%) GDPR
3 5 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.39%) PMO
3 5 (4.39%) QA
4 2 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.88%) Basel III
5 1 (0.88%) COBIT
5 1 (0.88%) GAAP
5 1 (0.88%) IFRS
5 1 (0.88%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.88%) P3O
5 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.26%) Terraform
2 3 (2.63%) Grafana
2 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.63%) SCCM
3 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.18%) Databricks
3 7 (6.14%) Oracle
4 6 (5.26%) Informatica
4 6 (5.26%) Workday
5 5 (4.39%) Amplitude
5 5 (4.39%) Google
6 4 (3.51%) Foundry
6 4 (3.51%) Palantir
6 4 (3.51%) SAP
7 3 (2.63%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.63%) Qualtrics
7 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.63%) Splunk
8 2 (1.75%) Adobe
8 2 (1.75%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.75%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.88%) Cognos
9 1 (0.88%) IBM