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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 41 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Power BI 114 97 77
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.75% 5.15% 3.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.72% 22.40% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 62 50
10th Percentile £368 £382 £362
25th Percentile £450 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +4.11%
75th Percentile £634 £695 £673
90th Percentile £757 £838 £739
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.60 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.34 -
90th Percentile - £35.74 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 -
% change year-on-year -38.16% - -

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 397 433 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.54% 22.98% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 288 325
10th Percentile £353 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -3.00% -1.32%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £725
90th Percentile £768 £779 £809
Central London median daily rate £575 £573 £575
% change year-on-year +0.44% -0.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £32.66 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% - -
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -7.46% - -

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -
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 10 (8.77%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.63%) Confluence
4 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.75%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.63%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.75%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.88%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 55 (48.25%) Azure
3 18 (15.79%) Snowflake
4 15 (13.16%) AWS
4 15 (13.16%) Power Automate
5 13 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (9.65%) PowerApps
7 10 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.89%) dbt
9 8 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (7.02%) GCP
9 8 (7.02%) GitHub
9 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (6.14%) Prefect
11 6 (5.26%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (5.26%) SaaS
11 6 (5.26%) Serverless
12 5 (4.39%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) DNS
1 3 (2.63%) Firewall
1 3 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.18%) Data Warehouse
1 23 (20.18%) Tableau
2 10 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (8.77%) Looker
2 10 (8.77%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.89%) Data Lake
4 8 (7.02%) BigQuery
5 7 (6.14%) Metadata
5 7 (6.14%) Semantic Layer
5 7 (6.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (4.39%) Star Schema
7 4 (3.51%) Mixpanel
7 4 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.63%) Power Query
8 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.75%) OLAP
9 2 (1.75%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) JIRA
2 5 (4.39%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (45.61%) Finance
2 24 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.42%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.28%) Banking
5 7 (6.14%) Legal
6 5 (4.39%) Retail
7 4 (3.51%) Back Office
7 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.63%) Front Office
8 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Marketing
9 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Law
9 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (28.07%) Analyst
2 19 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 19 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 17 (14.91%) Architect
4 11 (9.65%) Developer
5 10 (8.77%) Data Architect
6 8 (7.02%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) Senior
7 7 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Lead
9 5 (4.39%) Consultant
10 4 (3.51%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Power BI Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.75%) Performance Analyst
12 2 (1.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.53%) PySpark
2 9 (7.89%) .NET
3 7 (6.14%) Kafka
4 4 (3.51%) REST
5 3 (2.63%) JSON
5 3 (2.63%) RESTful
6 2 (1.75%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.75%) React
6 2 (1.75%) Redux
7 1 (0.88%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.88%) CSS
7 1 (0.88%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.88%) HTML
7 1 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.88%) Middleware
7 1 (0.88%) OAuth
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.88%) XML
7 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.39%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.51%) Clustering
4 4 (3.51%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (3.51%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.63%) CMDB
5 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.75%) Derivative
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) Equities
6 2 (1.75%) FMCG
6 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.75%) PMI
6 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (89.47%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (45.61%) Analytics
3 44 (38.60%) Data Modelling
4 28 (24.56%) Data Engineering
5 26 (22.81%) ETL
6 25 (21.93%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (21.05%) Data Governance
8 23 (20.18%) DevOps
9 22 (19.30%) Agile
9 22 (19.30%) AI
9 22 (19.30%) CI/CD
10 21 (18.42%) Decision-Making
10 21 (18.42%) Migration
11 20 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (13.16%) Visualisation
14 13 (11.40%) Data Architecture
15 12 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
15 12 (10.53%) Use Case
15 12 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.74%) SQL
2 33 (28.95%) Python
3 15 (13.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.26%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.51%) C#
5 4 (3.51%) R
6 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.75%) Java
7 2 (1.75%) Scala
7 2 (1.75%) VBA
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.40%) DBS Check
3 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.14%) Degree
5 3 (2.63%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.75%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.14%) QA
3 6 (5.26%) GDPR
3 6 (5.26%) PMO
4 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.75%) P3O
6 1 (0.88%) COBIT
6 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) 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%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.88%) SCOM
3 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.30%) Databricks
3 7 (6.14%) Informatica
4 6 (5.26%) SAP
4 6 (5.26%) Workday
5 5 (4.39%) Amplitude
5 5 (4.39%) Oracle
6 3 (2.63%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.63%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.63%) Google
6 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.63%) Splunk
7 2 (1.75%) Adobe
7 2 (1.75%) Foundry
7 2 (1.75%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.75%) Palantir
7 2 (1.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) BMC
8 1 (0.88%) Commvault