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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 54 45
Rank change year-on-year +17 -9 +34
Contract jobs citing Power BI 101 67 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.20% 3.69% 4.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.02% 18.01% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 46 67
10th Percentile £320 £400 £363
25th Percentile £388 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -6.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £686
90th Percentile £749 £727 £775
Central London median daily rate £523 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -4.08% -5.22% +9.52%

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 348 372 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.91% 20.47% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 239 337
10th Percentile £338 £405 £413
25th Percentile £409 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £34.83 - -
25th Percentile £38.33 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.88 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.18% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.67 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.30 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.88 £40.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +14.71% -17.53% -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

Power BI
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 18 February 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 8 (7.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.97%) Apache
3 3 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.97%) Confluence
3 3 (2.97%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (21.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 34 (33.66%) Azure
3 15 (14.85%) AWS
4 14 (13.86%) Power Automate
5 11 (10.89%) GCP
6 9 (8.91%) PowerApps
7 8 (7.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (6.93%) Snowflake
9 6 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.95%) Serverless
11 4 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.96%) dbt
12 3 (2.97%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.97%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (2.97%) IBM Watson
12 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) HTTP
1 1 (0.99%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (33.66%) Tableau
2 13 (12.87%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.92%) Looker
4 6 (5.94%) Metadata
5 5 (4.95%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.97%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.97%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.97%) Power Query
8 2 (1.98%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.98%) OLAP
8 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.98%) Text Mining
9 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Git
2 5 (4.95%) JIRA
3 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.99%) ERwin
3 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 50 (49.50%) Finance
2 35 (34.65%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.87%) Banking
5 10 (9.90%) Front Office
6 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.95%) Back Office
7 5 (4.95%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Automotive
9 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Legal
9 2 (1.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.99%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (27.72%) Analyst
2 14 (13.86%) Data Engineer
2 14 (13.86%) Developer
3 13 (12.87%) Senior
4 12 (11.88%) Data Analyst
5 11 (10.89%) Data Scientist
6 10 (9.90%) Consultant
7 9 (8.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (7.92%) Business Analyst
9 7 (6.93%) Architect
10 6 (5.94%) Lead
11 5 (4.95%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (3.96%) Data Architect
12 4 (3.96%) Senior Data Scientist
13 3 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Specialist
13 3 (2.97%) Data Business Analyst
13 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Consultant
13 3 (2.97%) Programme Manager
13 3 (2.97%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.94%) NumPy
2 6 (5.94%) Pandas
2 6 (5.94%) PySpark
3 4 (3.96%) Matplotlib
3 4 (3.96%) Seaborn
4 3 (2.97%) JSON
4 3 (2.97%) PyTorch
4 3 (2.97%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.98%) CSS
5 2 (1.98%) HTML
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.98%) XML
5 2 (1.98%) YAML
6 1 (0.99%) Altair
6 1 (0.99%) GeoJSON
6 1 (0.99%) Middleware
6 1 (0.99%) Playwright
6 1 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (4.95%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.97%) Derivative
4 3 (2.97%) Equities
4 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.98%) Clustering
5 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.99%) FMCG
6 1 (0.99%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (0.99%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.99%) Swaptions
6 1 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (96.04%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (48.51%) Analytics
3 41 (40.59%) Visualisation
4 34 (33.66%) Data Modelling
5 27 (26.73%) Data Visualisation
6 22 (21.78%) Data Engineering
7 21 (20.79%) Agile
7 21 (20.79%) AI
7 21 (20.79%) Data Science
7 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (18.81%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (17.82%) Actionable Insight
9 18 (17.82%) Data Governance
9 18 (17.82%) ETL
10 17 (16.83%) Machine Learning
11 16 (15.84%) Data Analysis
11 16 (15.84%) Decision-Making
11 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (12.87%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (47.52%) SQL
2 37 (36.63%) Python
3 8 (7.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.94%) R
5 4 (3.96%) Scala
6 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.98%) C#
7 2 (1.98%) Korn
7 2 (1.98%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.99%) Bicep
8 1 (0.99%) C++
8 1 (0.99%) Java
8 1 (0.99%) LookML
8 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) Degree
2 9 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) PMP
3 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.98%) CFA
5 2 (1.98%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.99%) IIBA
6 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.99%) MBA
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.99%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.81%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.93%) QA
3 6 (5.94%) PMO
4 4 (3.96%) GDPR
5 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.98%) Basel III
7 1 (0.99%) GAAP
7 1 (0.99%) GRC
7 1 (0.99%) IFRS
7 1 (0.99%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.96%) Terraform
2 1 (0.99%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 30 (29.70%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.86%) Databricks
3 7 (6.93%) Google
4 6 (5.94%) Oracle
5 5 (4.95%) SAP
6 3 (2.97%) Amplitude
6 3 (2.97%) Cognos
6 3 (2.97%) Foundry
6 3 (2.97%) IBM
6 3 (2.97%) Palantir
6 3 (2.97%) Planview
6 3 (2.97%) Sage
6 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.98%) Informatica
7 2 (1.98%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.98%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.99%) Murex
8 1 (0.99%) Yardi