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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 36 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +7
Contract jobs citing Power BI 115 100 71
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.14% 5.72% 3.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.47% 25.58% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 67 47
10th Percentile £350 £346 £366
25th Percentile £425 £407 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -3.48% +14.89%
75th Percentile £644 £674 £672
90th Percentile £775 £838 £717
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 404 391 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.04% 22.38% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 264 319
10th Percentile £354 £400 £405
25th Percentile £456 £434 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £725
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
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

Power BI
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 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the City of London

Power BI
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 11 (9.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.22%) Confluence
3 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.87%) IIS
5 1 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.74%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.74%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.87%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.87%) OneSumX
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 58 (50.43%) Azure
3 20 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (16.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (12.17%) Power Automate
6 13 (11.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (11.30%) PowerApps
7 11 (9.57%) AWS
7 11 (9.57%) Snowflake
8 9 (7.83%) GitHub
9 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (6.96%) SaaS
10 7 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (6.09%) Serverless
11 5 (4.35%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (4.35%) Azure Stack
11 5 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) DNS
1 3 (2.61%) Firewall
1 3 (2.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.13%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (12.17%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.30%) Data Lake
4 11 (9.57%) Metadata
4 11 (9.57%) Tableau
5 10 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (7.83%) Semantic Layer
6 9 (7.83%) Star Schema
7 6 (5.22%) Power Query
7 6 (5.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.48%) Data Hub
9 4 (3.48%) Looker
9 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.61%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.61%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.61%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) JIRA
2 4 (3.48%) Git
3 2 (1.74%) GitLab
3 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.87%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.87%) MLflow
4 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (40.00%) Finance
2 28 (24.35%) Social Skills
3 26 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.17%) Banking
5 9 (7.83%) Retail
6 8 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.35%) Legal
8 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Marketing
9 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.61%) Law
10 2 (1.74%) Back Office
10 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Front Office
10 2 (1.74%) Military
10 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.87%) Advertising
11 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (28.70%) Analyst
2 19 (16.52%) Architect
3 18 (15.65%) Data Analyst
4 14 (12.17%) Data Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) Developer
6 10 (8.70%) Consultant
6 10 (8.70%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.70%) Senior
7 7 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
8 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 4 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.48%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (3.48%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.61%) Performance Analyst
10 3 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) PySpark
2 7 (6.09%) .NET
3 5 (4.35%) Kafka
3 5 (4.35%) Terraform
4 4 (3.48%) REST
5 3 (2.61%) RESTful
6 2 (1.74%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.74%) JSON
6 2 (1.74%) React
6 2 (1.74%) Redux
7 1 (0.87%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.87%) CSS
7 1 (0.87%) HTML
7 1 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.87%) LangChain
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.87%) OAuth
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.87%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.09%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.48%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.48%) Clustering
5 3 (2.61%) CMDB
5 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.61%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) FMCG
6 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.87%) Derivative
7 1 (0.87%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.87%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.87%) VMS
3 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (90.43%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (45.22%) Analytics
3 45 (39.13%) Data Modelling
4 31 (26.96%) DevOps
5 30 (26.09%) Data Governance
6 29 (25.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (22.61%) Agile
7 26 (22.61%) CI/CD
7 26 (22.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (19.13%) AI
8 22 (19.13%) Migration
9 21 (18.26%) Decision-Making
10 20 (17.39%) Data Engineering
11 19 (16.52%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (15.65%) ETL
13 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (12.17%) Data Architecture
15 13 (11.30%) Performance Optimisation
15 13 (11.30%) Visualisation
16 12 (10.43%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (46.96%) SQL
2 28 (24.35%) Python
3 23 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.96%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.48%) C#
7 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.74%) Java
8 2 (1.74%) R
8 2 (1.74%) XMLA
9 1 (0.87%) Bicep
9 1 (0.87%) Korn
9 1 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.17%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.96%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) PMP
7 1 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.87%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (23.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.70%) QA
3 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.48%) GDPR
4 4 (3.48%) PMO
5 2 (1.74%) P3O
6 1 (0.87%) COBIT
6 1 (0.87%) GRC
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.09%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Grafana
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
1 3 (2.61%) SCCM
1 3 (2.61%) SCOM
2 1 (0.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (38.26%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.87%) Databricks
3 7 (6.09%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.35%) SAP
5 4 (3.48%) Oracle
5 4 (3.48%) VMware
6 3 (2.61%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.61%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.61%) BMC
6 3 (2.61%) Commvault
6 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.61%) Informatica
6 3 (2.61%) Remedy
6 3 (2.61%) Splunk
6 3 (2.61%) Workday
7 2 (1.74%) Adobe
7 2 (1.74%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.74%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.87%) Braze
8 1 (0.87%) Murex