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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 33 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing Power BI 119 112 64
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.14% 6.18% 3.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.82% 26.86% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 70 44
10th Percentile £374 £361 £364
25th Percentile £441 £429 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -3.27% +5.99%
75th Percentile £641 £677 £675
90th Percentile £775 £838 £746
Central London median daily rate £531 £557 £575
% change year-on-year -4.68% -3.07% +14.89%
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 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year -42.65% - -

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 399 417 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.22% 23.00% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 273 325
10th Percentile £361 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £449 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £659 £688 £719
90th Percentile £763 £800 £804
Central London median daily rate £565 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -1.74% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 13 (10.92%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.40%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.20%) Confluence
4 2 (1.68%) Apache
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (19.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.52%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.68%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.84%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.84%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 59 (49.58%) Azure
3 18 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (15.13%) Snowflake
4 17 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (13.45%) Power Automate
6 15 (12.61%) AWS
6 15 (12.61%) PowerApps
7 13 (10.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (7.56%) dbt
8 9 (7.56%) GitHub
8 9 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (6.72%) SaaS
9 8 (6.72%) Serverless
10 7 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.88%) Prefect
11 6 (5.04%) GCP
12 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) DNS
1 3 (2.52%) Firewall
1 3 (2.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.69%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (18.49%) Tableau
3 14 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 12 (10.08%) Data Lake
5 11 (9.24%) Metadata
6 10 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (7.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (7.56%) Star Schema
8 8 (6.72%) Semantic Layer
8 8 (6.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (5.88%) BigQuery
9 7 (5.88%) Looker
10 6 (5.04%) Power Query
11 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
11 5 (4.20%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (2.52%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.52%) Spark SQL
13 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.40%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) Git
3 2 (1.68%) GitLab
3 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.84%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.84%) MLflow
4 1 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (42.86%) Finance
2 26 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.61%) Banking
5 8 (6.72%) Legal
5 8 (6.72%) Retail
6 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.36%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.36%) Marketing
7 4 (3.36%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.52%) Back Office
8 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Front Office
9 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Law
9 2 (1.68%) Military
9 2 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (28.57%) Analyst
2 19 (15.97%) Data Analyst
3 18 (15.13%) Architect
4 17 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) Developer
6 10 (8.40%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.40%) Senior
7 8 (6.72%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.88%) Consultant
9 6 (5.04%) Power Platform Developer
9 6 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Power BI Analyst
10 4 (3.36%) Power Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (2.52%) Business Intelligence Architect
11 3 (2.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (2.52%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.61%) PySpark
2 9 (7.56%) .NET
3 8 (6.72%) Kafka
4 5 (4.20%) Terraform
5 4 (3.36%) REST
6 3 (2.52%) RESTful
7 2 (1.68%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.68%) JSON
7 2 (1.68%) React
7 2 (1.68%) Redux
8 1 (0.84%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.84%) CSS
8 1 (0.84%) HTML
8 1 (0.84%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.84%) LangChain
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.84%) OAuth
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.84%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.92%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.04%) Clustering
4 5 (4.20%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.36%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.36%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.52%) CMDB
6 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.52%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.52%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.68%) Derivative
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.68%) FMCG
7 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.68%) PMI
8 1 (0.84%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.84%) VMS
3 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (89.08%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (47.06%) Analytics
3 45 (37.82%) Data Modelling
4 30 (25.21%) Data Governance
4 30 (25.21%) DevOps
5 27 (22.69%) CI/CD
5 27 (22.69%) ETL
6 25 (21.01%) Agile
6 25 (21.01%) Data Engineering
7 24 (20.17%) AI
7 24 (20.17%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (20.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 23 (19.33%) Migration
8 23 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (17.65%) Decision-Making
10 14 (11.76%) Data Architecture
10 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (10.92%) Visualisation
12 12 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (10.08%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (48.74%) SQL
2 31 (26.05%) Python
3 20 (16.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.20%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.36%) C#
7 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.68%) Java
8 2 (1.68%) R
8 2 (1.68%) VBA
8 2 (1.68%) XMLA
9 1 (0.84%) Bicep
9 1 (0.84%) Korn
9 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.76%) DBS Check
2 14 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.52%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (25.21%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.40%) QA
3 6 (5.04%) GDPR
4 5 (4.20%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.20%) PMO
5 2 (1.68%) P3O
6 1 (0.84%) COBIT
6 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.84%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (6.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.84%) Docker
3 1 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Grafana
1 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
1 3 (2.52%) SCCM
1 3 (2.52%) SCOM
2 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (37.82%) Microsoft
2 25 (21.01%) Databricks
3 7 (5.88%) Informatica
4 6 (5.04%) SAP
4 6 (5.04%) Workday
5 5 (4.20%) Oracle
5 5 (4.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.36%) VMware
7 3 (2.52%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.52%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.52%) BMC
7 3 (2.52%) Commvault
7 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.52%) Google
7 3 (2.52%) Remedy
7 3 (2.52%) Splunk
8 2 (1.68%) Adobe
8 2 (1.68%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.68%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.84%) Salesforce