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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 52 49
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +22
Contract jobs citing Power BI 104 71 91
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.68% 3.64% 3.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.23% 17.66% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 48 59
10th Percentile £315 £409 £346
25th Percentile £381 £462 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £644 £670 £706
90th Percentile £749 £718 £775
Central London median daily rate £521 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.48% +4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £38.00

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 344 402 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.80% 20.59% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 260 347
10th Percentile £338 £405 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +1.91%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £702
90th Percentile £750 £801 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +1.32% -49.42%
75th Percentile £35.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -49.42%

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 5 January 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 11 (10.58%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.81%) Confluence
3 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.88%) Apache
5 2 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 27 (25.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.92%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 36 (34.62%) Azure
3 21 (20.19%) Power Automate
4 18 (17.31%) PowerApps
5 11 (10.58%) AWS
6 10 (9.62%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (7.69%) GCP
9 7 (6.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (5.77%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.88%) dbt
12 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.88%) ShareGate
13 2 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) HTTP
1 1 (0.96%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.92%) Tableau
2 11 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (8.65%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.77%) Power Query
5 4 (3.85%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.85%) Looker
5 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.88%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.88%) Metadata
6 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.92%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.92%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.96%) OLAP
8 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) JIRA
2 4 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 48 (46.15%) Finance
2 30 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (27.88%) Social Skills
4 14 (13.46%) Banking
5 11 (10.58%) Front Office
6 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.77%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.81%) Back Office
9 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.88%) Legal
10 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.92%) Automotive
11 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.92%) Marketing
11 2 (1.92%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.96%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.96%) Law
12 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (25.96%) Analyst
2 14 (13.46%) Developer
3 12 (11.54%) Senior
4 11 (10.58%) Data Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Consultant
5 10 (9.62%) Data Analyst
6 9 (8.65%) Architect
6 9 (8.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (8.65%) Lead
7 8 (7.69%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.69%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.81%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 4 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Programme Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (2.88%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (2.88%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) scikit-learn
2 5 (4.81%) NumPy
2 5 (4.81%) Pandas
3 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (3.85%) PySpark
4 3 (2.88%) .NET
4 3 (2.88%) Matplotlib
4 3 (2.88%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.92%) CSS
5 2 (1.92%) HTML
5 2 (1.92%) JSON
5 2 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.92%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.92%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.96%) Altair
6 1 (0.96%) Node.js
6 1 (0.96%) Playwright
6 1 (0.96%) REST
6 1 (0.96%) XML
6 1 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.81%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.85%) Derivative
2 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.88%) Equities
3 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.92%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.92%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.96%) Clustering
5 1 (0.96%) FMCG
5 1 (0.96%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.96%) NHS
5 1 (0.96%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (95.19%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (40.38%) Analytics
3 37 (35.58%) Visualisation
4 29 (27.88%) Data Modelling
5 25 (24.04%) Agile
6 23 (22.12%) Actionable Insight
6 23 (22.12%) Data Visualisation
7 22 (21.15%) Data Governance
8 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (18.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (17.31%) ETL
10 17 (16.35%) Decision-Making
10 17 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (15.38%) AI
12 15 (14.42%) Data Analysis
13 14 (13.46%) Data Engineering
13 14 (13.46%) Data Science
14 13 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (12.50%) Machine Learning
15 12 (11.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (44.23%) SQL
2 33 (31.73%) Python
3 10 (9.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.85%) R
5 4 (3.85%) Scala
6 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.88%) Korn
7 2 (1.92%) Java
7 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.92%) VBA
8 1 (0.96%) C#
8 1 (0.96%) C++
8 1 (0.96%) LookML
Qualifications
1 10 (9.62%) Degree
1 10 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) PMP
5 2 (1.92%) CFA
5 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.96%) CISA
6 1 (0.96%) CISSP
6 1 (0.96%) CRISC
6 1 (0.96%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.96%) IIBA
6 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.96%) MBA
6 1 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.65%) GDPR
3 7 (6.73%) PMO
4 6 (5.77%) QA
5 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.92%) Basel III
7 1 (0.96%) GAAP
7 1 (0.96%) GRC
7 1 (0.96%) IFRS
7 1 (0.96%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.96%) NIST
7 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.54%) Databricks
3 6 (5.77%) Oracle
4 5 (4.81%) Google
4 5 (4.81%) SAP
5 4 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.88%) Planview
7 2 (1.92%) Adobe
7 2 (1.92%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.92%) Cognos
7 2 (1.92%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.92%) IBM
7 2 (1.92%) Informatica
7 2 (1.92%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.92%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.92%) Sage
7 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.96%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.96%) Marketo
8 1 (0.96%) Rapid7