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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 49 44
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +33
Contract jobs citing Power BI 97 71 97
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.13% 3.84% 4.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.22% 19.03% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 49 67
10th Percentile £319 £400 £358
25th Percentile £385 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +7.48%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £686
90th Percentile £749 £713 £775
Central London median daily rate £510 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -11.30% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £38.00

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 332 373 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.57% 20.19% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 240 351
10th Percentile £324 £405 £413
25th Percentile £406 £474 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £672 £688 £698
90th Percentile £749 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £36.75 £40.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -10.98% -48.57%
75th Percentile £35.50 £40.25 £47.19
90th Percentile - - £49.03
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.51% -48.57%

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 4 February 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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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 9 (9.28%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.15%) Confluence
3 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.09%) Apache
4 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.06%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 34 (35.05%) Azure
3 17 (17.53%) Power Automate
4 14 (14.43%) AWS
5 12 (12.37%) PowerApps
6 10 (10.31%) GCP
7 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (8.25%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.12%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (4.12%) dbt
10 4 (4.12%) Serverless
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.09%) IBM Watson
11 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) HTTP
1 1 (1.03%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.96%) Tableau
2 10 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.15%) Looker
3 5 (5.15%) Metadata
4 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.12%) Power Query
5 3 (3.09%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
5 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.06%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.06%) OLAP
6 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.06%) Text Mining
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.03%) Kdb+
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.03%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.03%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (8.25%) JIRA
2 5 (5.15%) Git
3 2 (2.06%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.03%) ERwin
4 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 45 (46.39%) Finance
2 31 (31.96%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.43%) Banking
5 11 (11.34%) Front Office
6 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.19%) Investment Banking
8 5 (5.15%) Back Office
9 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.06%) Automotive
11 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.06%) Legal
11 2 (2.06%) Retail
11 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
12 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.03%) Law
12 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Analyst
2 14 (14.43%) Developer
3 12 (12.37%) Senior
4 11 (11.34%) Consultant
4 11 (11.34%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.31%) Data Scientist
6 9 (9.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (9.28%) Data Analyst
7 7 (7.22%) Architect
7 7 (7.22%) Lead
8 6 (6.19%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.15%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.12%) Programme Manager
11 3 (3.09%) Banking Analyst
11 3 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 3 (3.09%) Data Architect
11 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Project Manager
11 3 (3.09%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) scikit-learn
2 6 (6.19%) NumPy
2 6 (6.19%) Pandas
3 5 (5.15%) PySpark
4 4 (4.12%) Matplotlib
4 4 (4.12%) Seaborn
5 3 (3.09%) .NET
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (3.09%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.09%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.06%) CSS
6 2 (2.06%) HTML
6 2 (2.06%) JSON
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.03%) ADO
7 1 (1.03%) Node.js
7 1 (1.03%) Playwright
7 1 (1.03%) REST
7 1 (1.03%) XML
7 1 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.12%) Derivative
4 3 (3.09%) Equities
4 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.06%) Clustering
5 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.06%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.06%) Swaptions
6 1 (1.03%) FMCG
6 1 (1.03%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.03%) NHS
6 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (94.85%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (42.27%) Analytics
3 37 (38.14%) Visualisation
4 28 (28.87%) Data Modelling
5 25 (25.77%) Agile
6 24 (24.74%) Data Visualisation
7 21 (21.65%) Actionable Insight
7 21 (21.65%) AI
8 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (18.56%) Data Engineering
9 18 (18.56%) Data Governance
10 17 (17.53%) Data Analysis
11 16 (16.49%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (16.49%) Data Science
11 16 (16.49%) Decision-Making
11 16 (16.49%) ETL
12 15 (15.46%) Machine Learning
12 15 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (15.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (11.34%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.30%) SQL
2 32 (32.99%) Python
3 8 (8.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.12%) Scala
5 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.09%) R
6 2 (2.06%) Korn
6 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.06%) VBA
7 1 (1.03%) C#
7 1 (1.03%) C++
7 1 (1.03%) Java
7 1 (1.03%) LookML
7 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (11.34%) Degree
2 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) PMP
5 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.06%) CFA
6 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.03%) IIBA
7 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.49%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.22%) PMO
2 7 (7.22%) QA
3 5 (5.15%) GDPR
4 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.06%) Basel III
6 1 (1.03%) GAAP
6 1 (1.03%) GRC
6 1 (1.03%) IFRS
6 1 (1.03%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.09%) Terraform
2 1 (1.03%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.40%) Databricks
3 7 (7.22%) Google
4 6 (6.19%) Oracle
5 5 (5.15%) SAP
6 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.09%) Cognos
7 3 (3.09%) IBM
7 3 (3.09%) Planview
7 3 (3.09%) Sage
8 2 (2.06%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.06%) Foundry
8 2 (2.06%) Informatica
8 2 (2.06%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (2.06%) Palantir
8 2 (2.06%) Qualtrics
8 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.03%) UiPath
9 1 (1.03%) Workday