Power BI Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Power BI
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Power BI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power BI over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 47 75
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 73 87 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.16% 3.99% 3.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.77% 18.05% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 58 75
10th Percentile £350 £366 £335
25th Percentile £463 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +6.98% -1.83%
75th Percentile £650 £697 £675
90th Percentile £755 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.63 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £34.65 - £52.50
75th Percentile £34.68 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 - £52.50

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 389 482 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.15% 22.09% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 323 481
10th Percentile £405 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £730
90th Percentile £763 £798 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the City of London

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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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (13.70%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.22%) Apache
3 4 (5.48%) Confluence
3 4 (5.48%) Jupyter
3 4 (5.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (26.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.37%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 30 (41.10%) Azure
3 10 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (6.85%) AWS
6 5 (6.85%) GCP
6 5 (6.85%) Power Automate
6 5 (6.85%) PowerApps
6 5 (6.85%) SaaS
6 5 (6.85%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.48%) GitHub
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.37%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) SSH
2 1 (1.37%) DHCP
2 1 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.77%) Tableau
2 16 (21.92%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (16.44%) SQL Server
4 7 (9.59%) BusinessObjects
5 6 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (8.22%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (8.22%) Data Lake
5 6 (8.22%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (8.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (6.85%) Apache Hive
6 5 (6.85%) BigQuery
6 5 (6.85%) Delta Lake
7 4 (5.48%) Data Mining
7 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.11%) Big Data
8 3 (4.11%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.11%) Looker
8 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.11%) Power Query
9 2 (2.74%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) JIRA
2 6 (8.22%) Git
3 4 (5.48%) RStudio
4 2 (2.74%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.37%) ERwin
5 1 (1.37%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.37%) Postman
5 1 (1.37%) Selenium
5 1 (1.37%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.55%) Finance
4 10 (13.70%) Banking
5 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.59%) Investment Banking
7 6 (8.22%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.85%) Police
8 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.11%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.74%) Back Office
10 2 (2.74%) Law
10 2 (2.74%) Local Government
10 2 (2.74%) Marketing
10 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.74%) Retail
11 1 (1.37%) Advertising
11 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Analyst
2 20 (27.40%) Developer
3 12 (16.44%) Data Analyst
3 12 (16.44%) Data Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Power BI Developer
4 7 (9.59%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Senior
5 6 (8.22%) Analyst Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Lead
7 4 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) Data Scientist
7 4 (5.48%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Business Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Data Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Information Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Risk Consultant
8 3 (4.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) PySpark
2 5 (6.85%) JSON
2 5 (6.85%) YAML
3 4 (5.48%) Pandas
3 4 (5.48%) pydantic
4 3 (4.11%) scikit-learn
4 3 (4.11%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.74%) .NET
5 2 (2.74%) Kafka
6 1 (1.37%) ADO
6 1 (1.37%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.37%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.37%) FHIR
6 1 (1.37%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.37%) MIDP
6 1 (1.37%) Plotly
6 1 (1.37%) pytest
6 1 (1.37%) REST
6 1 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (5.48%) Market Risk
2 4 (5.48%) Reference Data
3 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.37%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.37%) Derivative
5 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.37%) NHS
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Android
3 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (78.08%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (41.10%) Visualisation
3 24 (32.88%) Agile
3 24 (32.88%) Analytics
4 19 (26.03%) Data Modelling
5 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (21.92%) Data Visualisation
6 16 (21.92%) Decision-Making
7 13 (17.81%) Data Analysis
7 13 (17.81%) Data Governance
8 12 (16.44%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (15.07%) ETL
9 11 (15.07%) Scrum
10 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (13.70%) Data Engineering
10 10 (13.70%) DevOps
10 10 (13.70%) User Experience
11 9 (12.33%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (12.33%) Requirements Gathering
12 8 (10.96%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 50 (68.49%) SQL
2 24 (32.88%) Python
3 5 (6.85%) Scala
4 4 (5.48%) Bash
5 3 (4.11%) R
6 2 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.74%) Groovy
6 2 (2.74%) Java
6 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.37%) Bicep
7 1 (1.37%) C#
7 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.70%) Degree
3 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.74%) PMP
6 1 (1.37%) CBAP
6 1 (1.37%) CFA
6 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.33%) GDPR
3 5 (6.85%) QA
4 4 (5.48%) Basel II
5 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.74%) PMO
7 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.37%) MiFID
7 1 (1.37%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.37%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Terraform
2 2 (2.74%) SCCM
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.37%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.37%) SCOrch
3 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.70%) Databricks
3 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.85%) Google
4 5 (6.85%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.37%) Advent
6 1 (1.37%) Apple
6 1 (1.37%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.37%) Citrix
6 1 (1.37%) Informatica
6 1 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Progress
6 1 (1.37%) Remedy
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.37%) Sparx