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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 49 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Power BI 116 72 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.10% 4.07% 4.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.44% 18.37% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 44 61
10th Percentile £333 £408 £363
25th Percentile £418 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% +5.50%
75th Percentile £609 £640 £688
90th Percentile £749 £715 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 £34.63 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £34.68 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £31.86 -
% change year-on-year -38.79% - -

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 394 392 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.33% 22.16% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 250 328
10th Percentile £338 £406 £405
25th Percentile £414 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £701
90th Percentile £748 £752 £791
Central London median daily rate £525 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -5.35% -3.54% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £41.16 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £50.97 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £67.33 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.37% +38.81% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £83.67 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £93.47 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -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

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 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the City of London

Power BI
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
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 27 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

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 10 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.59%) Confluence
3 3 (2.59%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.86%) Apache
5 1 (0.86%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (18.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.72%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 43 (37.07%) Azure
3 16 (13.79%) Snowflake
4 15 (12.93%) AWS
4 15 (12.93%) Power Automate
5 12 (10.34%) GCP
6 10 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (8.62%) dbt
7 9 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (7.76%) PowerApps
8 8 (6.90%) Prefect
9 7 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.17%) Dagster
10 6 (5.17%) GitHub
11 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (3.45%) Serverless
13 3 (2.59%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) DNS
1 1 (0.86%) Firewall
1 1 (0.86%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (32.76%) Tableau
2 22 (18.97%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.48%) Looker
4 8 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.90%) Metadata
5 7 (6.03%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.17%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (5.17%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.45%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.45%) Power Query
7 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.45%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.59%) Mixpanel
9 2 (1.72%) OLAP
9 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.72%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Git
1 6 (5.17%) JIRA
2 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.86%) ERwin
3 1 (0.86%) Selenium
General
1 58 (50.00%) Finance
2 30 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.10%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.93%) Banking
5 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Back Office
6 7 (6.03%) Front Office
7 6 (5.17%) Legal
8 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.72%) Automotive
11 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.86%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.86%) International Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (26.72%) Analyst
2 19 (16.38%) Data Engineer
3 17 (14.66%) Developer
4 14 (12.07%) Data Analyst
5 11 (9.48%) Data Scientist
5 11 (9.48%) Senior
6 9 (7.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.90%) Architect
7 8 (6.90%) Business Analyst
8 7 (6.03%) Consultant
9 5 (4.31%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (3.45%) Lead
10 4 (3.45%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.45%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.59%) Data Architect
11 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Consultant
11 3 (2.59%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.17%) NumPy
2 6 (5.17%) Pandas
2 6 (5.17%) PySpark
3 4 (3.45%) JSON
3 4 (3.45%) Matplotlib
3 4 (3.45%) Seaborn
4 3 (2.59%) .NET
4 3 (2.59%) Kafka
4 3 (2.59%) PyTorch
4 3 (2.59%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.72%) CSS
5 2 (1.72%) HTML
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.72%) REST
5 2 (1.72%) XML
5 2 (1.72%) YAML
6 1 (0.86%) GeoJSON
6 1 (0.86%) Middleware
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.03%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.45%) Clustering
3 4 (3.45%) Equities
3 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.59%) Derivative
5 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.72%) PMI
5 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) Unix
2 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (90.52%) Business Intelligence
2 58 (50.00%) Analytics
3 35 (30.17%) Data Modelling
3 35 (30.17%) Visualisation
4 30 (25.86%) Data Engineering
5 27 (23.28%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (22.41%) ETL
7 25 (21.55%) AI
8 23 (19.83%) Data Governance
8 23 (19.83%) Data Science
9 22 (18.97%) Agile
10 21 (18.10%) Decision-Making
11 20 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
12 17 (14.66%) Data Analysis
12 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (12.93%) Machine Learning
14 14 (12.07%) Validation
15 13 (11.21%) Data Extraction
15 13 (11.21%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 54 (46.55%) SQL
2 42 (36.21%) Python
3 10 (8.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.17%) R
5 5 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.45%) Scala
7 2 (1.72%) Java
7 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.86%) Bicep
8 1 (0.86%) C#
8 1 (0.86%) C++
8 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.76%) Degree
3 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.59%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.59%) PMP
5 2 (1.72%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.72%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.86%) CFA
6 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.86%) IIBA
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) MBA
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.86%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.76%) GDPR
3 8 (6.90%) QA
4 7 (6.03%) PMO
5 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.72%) Basel III
7 1 (0.86%) GAAP
7 1 (0.86%) IFRS
7 1 (0.86%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.86%) P3O
7 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.86%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.86%) Docker
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (0.86%) Grafana
2 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.86%) SCCM
2 1 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.66%) Databricks
3 7 (6.03%) Google
3 7 (6.03%) Oracle
4 6 (5.17%) Informatica
4 6 (5.17%) Workday
5 4 (3.45%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.45%) SAP
6 3 (2.59%) Cognos
6 3 (2.59%) Foundry
6 3 (2.59%) IBM
6 3 (2.59%) Palantir
6 3 (2.59%) Qualtrics
6 3 (2.59%) Sage
7 2 (1.72%) Planview
7 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.86%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.86%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace