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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 62 67
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing Power BI 105 70 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.96% 3.34% 3.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.38% 15.52% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 47 61
10th Percentile £359 £366 £325
25th Percentile £415 £469 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% +16.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £645
90th Percentile £838 £750 £695
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £19.60 - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00
75th Percentile £35.34 - -
90th Percentile £35.74 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00

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 398 451 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.58% 21.50% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 322 405
10th Percentile £402 £407 £400
25th Percentile £438 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £710
90th Percentile £800 £825 £789
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -13.38% -9.09% -22.12%

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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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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 18 September 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 12 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.76%) Confluence
3 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.90%) Apache
4 2 (1.90%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 38 (36.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (10.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.95%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (37.14%) Azure
3 19 (18.10%) Power Automate
4 15 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 13 (12.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (9.52%) SaaS
7 10 (9.52%) Snowflake
8 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
9 7 (6.67%) GCP
10 6 (5.71%) AWS
11 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (3.81%) ShareGate
13 3 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.86%) GitHub
13 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) SSH
2 1 (0.95%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.10%) Tableau
2 14 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 10 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.62%) Data Mining
4 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.76%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.76%) Power Query
7 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.86%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (2.86%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.86%) Parquet
8 3 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.90%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.90%) Looker
9 2 (1.90%) Metadata
10 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) JIRA
2 4 (3.81%) Git
3 2 (1.90%) RStudio
3 2 (1.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.95%) Postman
4 1 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.95%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 41 (39.05%) Finance
3 26 (24.76%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (15.24%) Banking
5 13 (12.38%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.71%) Police
9 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.81%) Front Office
10 4 (3.81%) Marketing
11 3 (2.86%) Back Office
11 3 (2.86%) Law
11 3 (2.86%) Retail
12 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.90%) Legal
12 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.95%) Advertising
13 1 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 26 (24.76%) Analyst
2 15 (14.29%) Senior
3 14 (13.33%) Consultant
3 14 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 14 (13.33%) Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Lead
5 11 (10.48%) Data Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Business Analyst
6 9 (8.57%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (7.62%) Architect
7 8 (7.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (6.67%) Risk Consultant
9 5 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (4.76%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.81%) Analyst Developer
10 4 (3.81%) Power BI Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) Product Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
1 5 (4.76%) PySpark
2 4 (3.81%) JSON
2 4 (3.81%) Pandas
2 4 (3.81%) scikit-learn
2 4 (3.81%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.86%) .NET
3 3 (2.86%) ADO
4 2 (1.90%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.90%) pydantic
4 2 (1.90%) YAML
5 1 (0.95%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.95%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.95%) Middleware
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.95%) REST
5 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Market Risk
2 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.81%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.86%) Derivative
4 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.90%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.90%) Swaptions
6 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (89.52%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (40.00%) Analytics
3 38 (36.19%) Agile
4 30 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 29 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (25.71%) Decision-Making
7 23 (21.90%) Data Modelling
8 19 (18.10%) Actionable Insight
8 19 (18.10%) Data Governance
9 18 (17.14%) Data Analysis
10 17 (16.19%) Data Visualisation
11 16 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (13.33%) DevOps
13 13 (12.38%) Scrum
14 12 (11.43%) Migration
14 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
15 11 (10.48%) CRM
15 11 (10.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 59 (56.19%) SQL
2 33 (31.43%) Python
3 11 (10.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (8.57%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.76%) R
6 4 (3.81%) Java
6 4 (3.81%) Scala
7 3 (2.86%) Bash
7 3 (2.86%) VBA
8 2 (1.90%) Korn
9 1 (0.95%) Bicep
9 1 (0.95%) C#
9 1 (0.95%) Groovy
9 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.95%) LookML
9 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.62%) Degree
2 8 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.90%) ACCA
5 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CFA
6 1 (0.95%) CIMA
6 1 (0.95%) CISA
6 1 (0.95%) CISSP
6 1 (0.95%) CRISC
6 1 (0.95%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.95%) PMP
6 1 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) GDPR
2 10 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 8 (7.62%) Basel II
4 5 (4.76%) PMO
5 3 (2.86%) QA
6 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.90%) NIST
7 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Terraform
2 1 (0.95%) Grafana
2 1 (0.95%) Istio
2 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.95%) Opsgenie
2 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.95%) SCCM
2 1 (0.95%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (36.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Databricks
3 5 (4.76%) Google
3 5 (4.76%) Oracle
3 5 (4.76%) SAP
4 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.86%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.90%) Adobe
6 2 (1.90%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.90%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.90%) Progress
6 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.95%) Marketo
7 1 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.95%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.95%) Planview
7 1 (0.95%) Qualys
7 1 (0.95%) Tagetik