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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 52 43
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 +29
Contract jobs citing Power BI 108 72 95
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.18% 4.06% 4.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.43% 18.80% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 47 66
10th Percentile £320 £408 £369
25th Percentile £413 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +13.95%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £709
90th Percentile £749 £689 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +12.15%
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 367 383 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.61% 21.58% 21.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 250 334
10th Percentile £338 £403 £405
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -0.43% -3.75%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £703
90th Percentile £749 £750 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £34.63 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.71% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £34.68 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £48.50
% change year-on-year +81.31% -34.31% -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 19 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

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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 19 March 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 8 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.63%) Confluence
4 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.78%) Apache
5 3 (2.78%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (15.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.78%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 37 (34.26%) Azure
3 18 (16.67%) AWS
4 13 (12.04%) GCP
4 13 (12.04%) Power Automate
4 13 (12.04%) Snowflake
5 9 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (8.33%) dbt
5 9 (8.33%) PowerApps
6 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.56%) Serverless
8 5 (4.63%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.63%) Prefect
9 4 (3.70%) Dagster
9 4 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.70%) GitHub
10 3 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (2.78%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (37.04%) Tableau
2 18 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (9.26%) Looker
4 8 (7.41%) Metadata
5 6 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 6 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.78%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.78%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.78%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.78%) OLAP
7 3 (2.78%) Power Query
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.85%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.85%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Git
2 6 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.93%) ERwin
3 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 54 (50.00%) Finance
2 34 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (20.37%) Social Skills
4 15 (13.89%) Banking
5 9 (8.33%) Front Office
6 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.56%) Back Office
7 6 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.70%) Legal
9 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.85%) Automotive
10 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Retail
11 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (27.78%) Analyst
2 18 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 17 (15.74%) Developer
4 14 (12.96%) Senior
5 12 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 11 (10.19%) Data Scientist
7 9 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 9 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Consultant
8 8 (7.41%) Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Lead
10 5 (4.63%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
12 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Consultant
12 3 (2.78%) Risk Analyst
12 3 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (2.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 3 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.48%) PySpark
3 6 (5.56%) NumPy
3 6 (5.56%) Pandas
4 4 (3.70%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.70%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.78%) .NET
5 3 (2.78%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.78%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.85%) CSS
6 2 (1.85%) HTML
6 2 (1.85%) JSON
6 2 (1.85%) Kafka
6 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.85%) XML
6 2 (1.85%) YAML
7 1 (0.93%) Altair
7 1 (0.93%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.70%) Equities
3 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.78%) Clustering
4 3 (2.78%) Derivative
4 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.85%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.85%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
1 1 (0.93%) Windows
1 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (93.52%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (48.15%) Analytics
3 39 (36.11%) Visualisation
4 36 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 28 (25.93%) Data Engineering
6 25 (23.15%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (23.15%) Data Visualisation
6 25 (23.15%) ETL
7 21 (19.44%) Agile
7 21 (19.44%) AI
7 21 (19.44%) Data Science
7 21 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (18.52%) Data Governance
9 18 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
9 18 (16.67%) Data Analysis
9 18 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 17 (15.74%) Machine Learning
11 15 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.93%) SQL
2 42 (38.89%) Python
3 8 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.56%) R
5 5 (4.63%) Scala
6 2 (1.85%) C#
6 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.85%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) C++
7 1 (0.93%) Java
7 1 (0.93%) Korn
7 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.33%) Degree
3 4 (3.70%) PMP
3 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.85%) CFA
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) IIBA
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) MBA
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.93%) RIBA
6 1 (0.93%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.41%) QA
3 7 (6.48%) GDPR
4 4 (3.70%) PMO
5 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.85%) Basel III
7 1 (0.93%) GAAP
7 1 (0.93%) GRC
7 1 (0.93%) IFRS
7 1 (0.93%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.93%) SCCM
2 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.74%) Databricks
3 7 (6.48%) Google
4 4 (3.70%) Amplitude
4 4 (3.70%) Informatica
4 4 (3.70%) SAP
4 4 (3.70%) Workday
5 3 (2.78%) Cognos
5 3 (2.78%) Foundry
5 3 (2.78%) IBM
5 3 (2.78%) Oracle
5 3 (2.78%) Palantir
5 3 (2.78%) Sage
6 2 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.85%) Planview
6 2 (1.85%) Qualtrics
6 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) Adobe
7 1 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.93%) Salesforce