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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 93 81 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.45% 3.87% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.55% 18.49% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 55 56
10th Percentile £340 £400 £363
25th Percentile £405 £469 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +6.42% +2.83%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £756 £745 £744
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.05 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00
75th Percentile £31.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.15 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 364 438 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.32% 20.92% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 307 365
10th Percentile £381 £413 £400
25th Percentile £434 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.35%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

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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 November 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in the City of 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 12 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.45%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) Apache
3 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 30 (32.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (11.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.08%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 34 (36.56%) Azure
3 20 (21.51%) Power Automate
4 17 (18.28%) PowerApps
5 9 (9.68%) AWS
5 9 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (9.68%) Snowflake
6 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.60%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (8.60%) GCP
7 7 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.53%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.45%) SaaS
9 4 (4.30%) dbt
9 4 (4.30%) ShareGate
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) Tableau
2 13 (13.98%) Data Lake
3 7 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.38%) Power Query
4 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.30%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.30%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.23%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.23%) Looker
6 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.15%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.15%) Metadata
7 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.08%) OLAP
8 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (10.75%) JIRA
2 3 (3.23%) Git
3 2 (2.15%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.08%) Postman
4 1 (1.08%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (45.16%) Finance
2 33 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 26 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.90%) Banking
5 8 (8.60%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.53%) Front Office
7 5 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.23%) Back Office
9 3 (3.23%) Marketing
9 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.23%) Retail
10 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.15%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.15%) Legal
10 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Analyst
2 15 (16.13%) Senior
3 13 (13.98%) Lead
4 12 (12.90%) Consultant
4 12 (12.90%) Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Architect
6 9 (9.68%) Business Analyst
6 9 (9.68%) Data Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Data Analyst
7 7 (7.53%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.30%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.30%) Risk Consultant
11 3 (3.23%) Data Business Analyst
11 3 (3.23%) Product Analyst
11 3 (3.23%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (3.23%) Senior Developer
12 2 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
12 2 (2.15%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (4.30%) .NET
3 2 (2.15%) ADO
3 2 (2.15%) JSON
3 2 (2.15%) PySpark
4 1 (1.08%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.08%) Altair
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.08%) Middleware
4 1 (1.08%) Node.js
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.08%) Pandas
4 1 (1.08%) REST
4 1 (1.08%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.08%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.30%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.23%) Derivative
3 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.15%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (2.15%) Swaptions
5 1 (1.08%) BYOD
5 1 (1.08%) Equities
5 1 (1.08%) IoT
5 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.08%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (94.62%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (37.63%) Analytics
3 31 (33.33%) Agile
4 26 (27.96%) Data Modelling
5 25 (26.88%) Visualisation
6 24 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (21.51%) Decision-Making
8 16 (17.20%) Data Governance
8 16 (17.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
9 15 (16.13%) Data Analysis
10 14 (15.05%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (15.05%) Migration
11 13 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (12.90%) ETL
13 11 (11.83%) DevOps
14 10 (10.75%) AI
14 10 (10.75%) Data Engineering
15 9 (9.68%) CRM
15 9 (9.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 45 (48.39%) SQL
2 26 (27.96%) Python
3 10 (10.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (8.60%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.30%) Java
6 3 (3.23%) Korn
6 3 (3.23%) VBA
7 2 (2.15%) C#
7 2 (2.15%) R
7 2 (2.15%) Scala
8 1 (1.08%) Bash
8 1 (1.08%) Bicep
8 1 (1.08%) Groovy
8 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.08%) LookML
8 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (11.83%) Degree
2 8 (8.60%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.15%) ACCA
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.15%) CFA
7 1 (1.08%) CIMA
7 1 (1.08%) CISA
7 1 (1.08%) CISSP
7 1 (1.08%) CRISC
7 1 (1.08%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.08%) IIBA
7 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.08%) PMP
7 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.38%) GDPR
2 5 (5.38%) PMO
3 4 (4.30%) Basel II
4 3 (3.23%) QA
5 2 (2.15%) NIST
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) GRC
6 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.08%) Grafana
2 1 (1.08%) Istio
2 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Opsgenie
2 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.08%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 36 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.83%) Databricks
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle
4 4 (4.30%) Google
4 4 (4.30%) SAP
5 3 (3.23%) Dataiku
5 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.15%) Adobe
6 2 (2.15%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (2.15%) DocuSign
6 2 (2.15%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (2.15%) Planview
7 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.08%) Marketo
7 1 (1.08%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.08%) Progress
7 1 (1.08%) Qualys
7 1 (1.08%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow