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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 54 49
Rank change year-on-year +18 -5 +19
Contract jobs citing Power BI 111 68 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.03% 3.90% 4.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.61% 17.75% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 41 61
10th Percentile £350 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +10.85%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £688
90th Percentile £749 £690 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -3.67% -5.22% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate - £31.86 -

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 388 383 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.58% 21.95% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 243 330
10th Percentile £343 £404 £400
25th Percentile £425 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £789
Central London median daily rate £525 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -8.30% -0.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £33.51 £41.16 -
25th Percentile £37.23 £50.97 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £67.33 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% +38.81% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £83.67 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 £93.47 -
Central London median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -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

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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 13 April 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 13 April 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 11 (9.91%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.60%) Confluence
4 3 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.70%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.80%) Apache
Applications
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.60%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (35.14%) Azure
3 17 (15.32%) AWS
4 16 (14.41%) Snowflake
5 13 (11.71%) GCP
5 13 (11.71%) Power Automate
6 12 (10.81%) dbt
7 9 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (8.11%) PowerApps
8 8 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (7.21%) Prefect
9 6 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (5.41%) Dagster
10 5 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.50%) GitHub
11 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (3.60%) Serverless
12 3 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (34.23%) Tableau
2 22 (19.82%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.91%) Looker
4 8 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (7.21%) Metadata
5 7 (6.31%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.60%) Power Query
8 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (3.60%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.70%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.70%) Mixpanel
9 3 (2.70%) OLAP
9 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.80%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.80%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Git
2 5 (4.50%) JIRA
3 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.90%) ERwin
3 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 55 (49.55%) Finance
2 32 (28.83%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
4 16 (14.41%) Banking
5 8 (7.21%) Front Office
5 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.41%) Back Office
6 6 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.41%) Legal
7 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Automotive
9 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.90%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (27.03%) Analyst
2 19 (17.12%) Data Engineer
3 16 (14.41%) Developer
4 13 (11.71%) Senior
5 12 (10.81%) Data Analyst
6 11 (9.91%) Data Scientist
7 10 (9.01%) Architect
8 9 (8.11%) Business Analyst
8 9 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (6.31%) Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Lead
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (3.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Consultant
12 3 (2.70%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.11%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.31%) PySpark
3 6 (5.41%) NumPy
3 6 (5.41%) Pandas
4 4 (3.60%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.60%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.70%) .NET
5 3 (2.70%) Kafka
5 3 (2.70%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.70%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.80%) CSS
6 2 (1.80%) HTML
6 2 (1.80%) JSON
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.80%) REST
6 2 (1.80%) XML
6 2 (1.80%) YAML
7 1 (0.90%) Altair
7 1 (0.90%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.60%) Clustering
3 4 (3.60%) Equities
3 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.70%) Derivative
4 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.80%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.80%) PMI
5 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Unix
1 1 (0.90%) Windows
1 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (90.99%) Business Intelligence
2 54 (48.65%) Analytics
3 39 (35.14%) Data Modelling
4 37 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 31 (27.93%) Data Engineering
6 28 (25.23%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (25.23%) ETL
7 23 (20.72%) AI
7 23 (20.72%) Data Visualisation
8 21 (18.92%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (18.92%) Agile
8 21 (18.92%) Data Governance
8 21 (18.92%) Data Science
8 21 (18.92%) Decision-Making
9 18 (16.22%) Data Analysis
9 18 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (15.32%) Machine Learning
11 14 (12.61%) Use Case
12 13 (11.71%) Data Extraction
12 13 (11.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 56 (50.45%) SQL
2 43 (38.74%) Python
3 10 (9.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.41%) R
5 5 (4.50%) Scala
6 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.90%) Bicep
7 1 (0.90%) C#
7 1 (0.90%) C++
7 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.11%) Degree
3 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.70%) PMP
5 2 (1.80%) CFA
5 2 (1.80%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) IIBA
6 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) MBA
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.90%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (26.13%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.11%) GDPR
2 9 (8.11%) QA
3 6 (5.41%) PMO
4 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.80%) Basel III
6 1 (0.90%) GAAP
6 1 (0.90%) IFRS
6 1 (0.90%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.90%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.70%) Terraform
2 1 (0.90%) SCCM
2 1 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (28.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.22%) Databricks
3 7 (6.31%) Google
4 6 (5.41%) Informatica
4 6 (5.41%) Workday
5 4 (3.60%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.60%) Oracle
5 4 (3.60%) SAP
6 3 (2.70%) Cognos
6 3 (2.70%) Foundry
6 3 (2.70%) IBM
6 3 (2.70%) Palantir
6 3 (2.70%) Qualtrics
6 3 (2.70%) Sage
7 2 (1.80%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.80%) Planview
7 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) Adobe
8 1 (0.90%) Murex
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce