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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 58 45
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +31
Contract jobs citing Power BI 97 65 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.97% 3.54% 4.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.20% 17.29% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 45 66
10th Percentile £321 £400 £363
25th Percentile £394 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £687
90th Percentile £749 £732 £775
Central London median daily rate £523 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -2.29% -6.96% +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 344 376 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.62% 20.46% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 245 341
10th Percentile £341 £406 £413
25th Percentile £413 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £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 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -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

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 22 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

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 7 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.09%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.09%) Confluence
3 3 (3.09%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (19.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
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%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 31 (31.96%) Azure
3 14 (14.43%) AWS
4 13 (13.40%) Power Automate
5 11 (11.34%) GCP
6 8 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (8.25%) PowerApps
7 7 (7.22%) Snowflake
8 6 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.15%) Serverless
10 4 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.12%) dbt
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.09%) GitHub
11 3 (3.09%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) HTTP
1 1 (1.03%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.02%) Tableau
2 13 (13.40%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.25%) Looker
4 6 (6.19%) Metadata
5 5 (5.15%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.09%) Mixpanel
7 3 (3.09%) Power Query
7 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.06%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.06%) OLAP
8 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.06%) Text Mining
9 1 (1.03%) Kdb+
9 1 (1.03%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Git
2 5 (5.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.03%) ERwin
3 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 47 (48.45%) Finance
2 35 (36.08%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.37%) Banking
5 9 (9.28%) Front Office
6 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.15%) Back Office
8 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Automotive
10 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Retail
11 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.03%) Legal
11 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (27.84%) Analyst
2 14 (14.43%) Data Engineer
2 14 (14.43%) Developer
3 13 (13.40%) Senior
4 12 (12.37%) Data Analyst
5 11 (11.34%) Data Scientist
6 10 (10.31%) Consultant
7 8 (8.25%) Business Analyst
7 8 (8.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Architect
8 6 (6.19%) Lead
9 5 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.12%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.12%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Senior Data Scientist
11 3 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 3 (3.09%) Data Business Analyst
11 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Programme Manager
11 3 (3.09%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) scikit-learn
2 6 (6.19%) NumPy
2 6 (6.19%) Pandas
2 6 (6.19%) PySpark
3 4 (4.12%) Matplotlib
3 4 (4.12%) Seaborn
4 3 (3.09%) JSON
4 3 (3.09%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.09%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.06%) CSS
5 2 (2.06%) HTML
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.06%) XML
5 2 (2.06%) YAML
6 1 (1.03%) .NET
6 1 (1.03%) Altair
6 1 (1.03%) GeoJSON
6 1 (1.03%) Middleware
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.03%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.09%) Equities
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%) Derivative
5 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (95.88%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (50.52%) Analytics
3 41 (42.27%) Visualisation
4 34 (35.05%) Data Modelling
5 27 (27.84%) Data Visualisation
6 22 (22.68%) Data Engineering
7 21 (21.65%) Data Science
8 20 (20.62%) Agile
8 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (19.59%) AI
9 19 (19.59%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (18.56%) Data Governance
10 18 (18.56%) ETL
11 17 (17.53%) Actionable Insight
11 17 (17.53%) Machine Learning
12 15 (15.46%) Data Analysis
12 15 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (14.43%) Decision-Making
13 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (13.40%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 47 (48.45%) SQL
2 36 (37.11%) Python
3 8 (8.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (6.19%) R
5 4 (4.12%) Scala
6 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.06%) C#
7 2 (2.06%) Korn
7 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.03%) Bicep
8 1 (1.03%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) Java
8 1 (1.03%) LookML
8 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) PMP
4 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.06%) CFA
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.03%) IIBA
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.03%) MBA
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.03%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.56%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.22%) QA
3 6 (6.19%) PMO
4 4 (4.12%) GDPR
5 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.06%) Basel III
7 1 (1.03%) GAAP
7 1 (1.03%) GRC
7 1 (1.03%) IFRS
7 1 (1.03%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Terraform
2 1 (1.03%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 29 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.43%) Databricks
3 7 (7.22%) Google
4 5 (5.15%) Oracle
4 5 (5.15%) SAP
5 3 (3.09%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.09%) Cognos
5 3 (3.09%) Foundry
5 3 (3.09%) IBM
5 3 (3.09%) Palantir
5 3 (3.09%) Planview
5 3 (3.09%) Sage
6 2 (2.06%) Informatica
6 2 (2.06%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (2.06%) Qualtrics
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.03%) Murex
7 1 (1.03%) Yardi