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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Power BI 114 76 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.89% 4.53% 3.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.38% 20.16% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 48 53
10th Percentile £330 £411 £364
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -4.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £623 £657 £675
90th Percentile £770 £838 £770
Central London median daily rate £531 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.41% -4.35% +9.52%
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 388 377 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.66% 22.48% 22.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 243 328
10th Percentile £331 £406 £404
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -7.37% -1.04%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £711
90th Percentile £749 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -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

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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 23 May 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 23 May 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 11 (9.65%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (2.63%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.51%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 50 (43.86%) Azure
3 17 (14.91%) Snowflake
4 14 (12.28%) AWS
5 13 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (10.53%) Power Automate
7 10 (8.77%) dbt
7 10 (8.77%) GCP
8 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (7.02%) GitHub
10 7 (6.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (6.14%) Prefect
11 6 (5.26%) PowerApps
12 5 (4.39%) Dagster
12 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (3.51%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (3.51%) SaaS
13 4 (3.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DNS
1 1 (0.88%) Firewall
1 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.07%) Tableau
2 20 (17.54%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (10.53%) Looker
4 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
5 8 (7.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (6.14%) BigQuery
6 7 (6.14%) Metadata
7 6 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (3.51%) Mixpanel
8 4 (3.51%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.63%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.75%) OLAP
10 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.75%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.75%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Git
2 7 (6.14%) JIRA
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.88%) ERwin
4 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 56 (49.12%) Finance
2 23 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.04%) Banking
4 15 (13.16%) Social Skills
5 7 (6.14%) Back Office
5 7 (6.14%) Front Office
6 5 (4.39%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.39%) Legal
7 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Retail
9 2 (1.75%) Automotive
9 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (25.44%) Analyst
2 22 (19.30%) Data Engineer
3 16 (14.04%) Developer
4 14 (12.28%) Data Analyst
5 12 (10.53%) Architect
6 9 (7.89%) Senior
7 7 (6.14%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Data Scientist
8 6 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Lead
10 4 (3.51%) Consultant
10 4 (3.51%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (2.63%) Power BI Analyst
11 3 (2.63%) Programme Manager
11 3 (2.63%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.65%) PySpark
2 7 (6.14%) .NET
2 7 (6.14%) Kafka
3 4 (3.51%) REST
3 4 (3.51%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.63%) JSON
4 3 (2.63%) NumPy
4 3 (2.63%) Pandas
5 2 (1.75%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.75%) CSS
5 2 (1.75%) HTML
5 2 (1.75%) Matplotlib
5 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.75%) React
5 2 (1.75%) Redux
5 2 (1.75%) RESTful
5 2 (1.75%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.75%) YAML
6 1 (0.88%) Playwright
6 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.51%) Equities
3 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.63%) Clustering
4 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.63%) Derivative
4 3 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.63%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.75%) CMDB
5 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.75%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.75%) PMI
5 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (90.35%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (50.00%) Analytics
3 40 (35.09%) Data Modelling
4 31 (27.19%) Data Engineering
5 26 (22.81%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (21.93%) ETL
7 24 (21.05%) Visualisation
8 21 (18.42%) AI
8 21 (18.42%) Data Governance
9 20 (17.54%) DevOps
9 20 (17.54%) Migration
10 19 (16.67%) Agile
11 18 (15.79%) Decision-Making
12 17 (14.91%) Data Science
13 16 (14.04%) CI/CD
13 16 (14.04%) Data Analysis
14 15 (13.16%) Data Visualisation
15 14 (12.28%) Dashboard Development
15 14 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.74%) SQL
2 40 (35.09%) Python
3 11 (9.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.51%) R
5 4 (3.51%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.63%) C#
6 3 (2.63%) Scala
7 2 (1.75%) Java
7 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.89%) DBS Check
3 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.26%) Degree
5 3 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.75%) PMP
6 2 (1.75%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.88%) CFA
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) MBA
7 1 (0.88%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.02%) GDPR
3 7 (6.14%) QA
4 6 (5.26%) PMO
5 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.75%) Basel III
7 1 (0.88%) COBIT
7 1 (0.88%) GAAP
7 1 (0.88%) IFRS
7 1 (0.88%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.88%) P3O
7 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Terraform
2 2 (1.75%) SCCM
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.54%) Databricks
3 6 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) Oracle
3 6 (5.26%) Workday
4 5 (4.39%) Amplitude
4 5 (4.39%) Informatica
5 3 (2.63%) Foundry
5 3 (2.63%) Palantir
5 3 (2.63%) Qualtrics
5 3 (2.63%) SAP
6 2 (1.75%) Cognos
6 2 (1.75%) IBM
6 2 (1.75%) Sage
6 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe
7 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.88%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace