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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 53 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +28
Contract jobs citing Power BI 103 66 96
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.12% 3.67% 4.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.77% 17.93% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 46 65
10th Percentile £320 £406 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +7.23%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £688
90th Percentile £749 £696 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +8.49%

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 358 368 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.80% 20.47% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 240 331
10th Percentile £339 £412 £413
25th Percentile £413 £473 £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 £758 £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 4 March 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 8 (7.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.88%) Confluence
3 3 (2.91%) Apache
3 3 (2.91%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (17.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.97%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 35 (33.98%) Azure
3 16 (15.53%) AWS
4 15 (14.56%) Power Automate
5 11 (10.68%) GCP
6 10 (9.71%) PowerApps
7 9 (8.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (8.74%) Snowflake
8 8 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.83%) Serverless
10 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.85%) dbt
10 5 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.88%) GitHub
12 3 (2.91%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.91%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.91%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) HTTP
1 1 (0.97%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (33.01%) Tableau
2 14 (13.59%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.80%) Looker
3 7 (6.80%) Metadata
4 6 (5.83%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.91%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.91%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.91%) Mixpanel
5 3 (2.91%) OLAP
5 3 (2.91%) Power Query
5 3 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.94%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) Git
2 6 (5.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.97%) ERwin
3 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 49 (47.57%) Finance
2 34 (33.01%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.62%) Banking
5 9 (8.74%) Front Office
6 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.85%) Back Office
7 5 (4.85%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Automotive
9 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Retail
10 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.97%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.97%) Legal
10 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (27.18%) Analyst
2 17 (16.50%) Developer
3 16 (15.53%) Data Engineer
4 14 (13.59%) Senior
5 12 (11.65%) Data Analyst
6 10 (9.71%) Data Scientist
7 9 (8.74%) Business Analyst
7 9 (8.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (8.74%) Consultant
8 8 (7.77%) Architect
9 6 (5.83%) Lead
10 5 (4.85%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.85%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.88%) Senior Data Scientist
12 3 (2.91%) Data Business Analyst
12 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Consultant
12 3 (2.91%) Programme Manager
12 3 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.74%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.80%) PySpark
3 6 (5.83%) NumPy
3 6 (5.83%) Pandas
4 4 (3.88%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.88%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.91%) .NET
5 3 (2.91%) JSON
5 3 (2.91%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.91%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.94%) CSS
6 2 (1.94%) HTML
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.94%) REST
6 2 (1.94%) XML
6 2 (1.94%) YAML
7 1 (0.97%) Altair
7 1 (0.97%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.97%) Node.js
7 1 (0.97%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.91%) Equities
4 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.94%) Clustering
5 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.94%) Derivative
5 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (93.20%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (47.57%) Analytics
3 40 (38.83%) Visualisation
4 32 (31.07%) Data Modelling
5 26 (25.24%) Data Visualisation
6 24 (23.30%) Data Engineering
7 21 (20.39%) Agile
7 21 (20.39%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (20.39%) ETL
7 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (19.42%) Data Science
9 19 (18.45%) AI
10 18 (17.48%) Actionable Insight
10 18 (17.48%) Data Governance
11 17 (16.50%) Machine Learning
12 15 (14.56%) Data Analysis
12 15 (14.56%) Decision-Making
12 15 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (12.62%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.54%) SQL
2 38 (36.89%) Python
3 8 (7.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.83%) R
5 4 (3.88%) Scala
6 2 (1.94%) C#
6 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.94%) Korn
6 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.97%) Bicep
7 1 (0.97%) C++
7 1 (0.97%) Java
7 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (8.74%) Degree
1 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.88%) PMP
2 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.94%) CFA
4 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.97%) IIBA
5 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.97%) MBA
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.97%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.45%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.77%) QA
3 5 (4.85%) PMO
4 4 (3.88%) GDPR
5 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.94%) Basel III
7 1 (0.97%) GAAP
7 1 (0.97%) GRC
7 1 (0.97%) IFRS
7 1 (0.97%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.97%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Terraform
2 1 (0.97%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (31.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.59%) Databricks
3 6 (5.83%) Google
4 5 (4.85%) SAP
5 4 (3.88%) Amplitude
6 3 (2.91%) Cognos
6 3 (2.91%) Foundry
6 3 (2.91%) IBM
6 3 (2.91%) Informatica
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle
6 3 (2.91%) Palantir
6 3 (2.91%) Sage
7 2 (1.94%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.94%) Planview
7 2 (1.94%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.97%) Adobe
8 1 (0.97%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.97%) Workday