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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 52 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 +33
Contract jobs citing Power BI 108 71 96
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.30% 3.95% 4.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.67% 18.78% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 48 65
10th Percentile £320 £409 £363
25th Percentile £403 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +11.89%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £700
90th Percentile £749 £694 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +9.52%

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 364 378 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.88% 21.01% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 249 334
10th Percentile £338 £405 £405
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £748 £750 £818
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -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 11 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

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 11 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 3 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 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 14 (12.96%) Power Automate
5 13 (12.04%) GCP
5 13 (12.04%) Snowflake
6 10 (9.26%) PowerApps
7 9 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (8.33%) dbt
8 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.56%) Serverless
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.63%) Prefect
11 4 (3.70%) Dagster
11 4 (3.70%) GitHub
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) HTTP
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 7 (6.48%) 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 10 (9.26%) 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 13 (12.04%) Data Analyst
6 11 (10.19%) Data Scientist
7 10 (9.26%) Business Analyst
8 9 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 9 (8.33%) Consultant
9 8 (7.41%) Architect
10 6 (5.56%) Lead
11 5 (4.63%) Data Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
13 3 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
13 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Consultant
13 3 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
13 3 (2.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 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%) JSON
5 3 (2.78%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.78%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.85%) CSS
6 2 (1.85%) HTML
6 2 (1.85%) Kafka
6 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.85%) REST
6 2 (1.85%) XML
6 2 (1.85%) YAML
7 1 (0.93%) Altair
7 1 (0.93%) GeoJSON
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%) 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%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (93.52%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (49.07%) Analytics
3 40 (37.04%) Visualisation
4 36 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 28 (25.93%) Data Engineering
6 26 (24.07%) Data Visualisation
7 25 (23.15%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (23.15%) ETL
8 21 (19.44%) Agile
8 21 (19.44%) Data Science
8 21 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (18.52%) AI
10 19 (17.59%) Data Governance
11 18 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (16.67%) Decision-Making
12 17 (15.74%) Data Analysis
12 17 (15.74%) Machine Learning
13 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.93%) SQL
2 43 (39.81%) 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%) Korn
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%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (8.33%) Degree
1 9 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.70%) PMP
2 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.85%) CFA
4 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) IIBA
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) MBA
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) RIBA
5 1 (0.93%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.30%) 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
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