Power BI Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Power BI
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Power BI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power BI over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 50 73
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +14
Contract jobs citing Power BI 83 82 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.89% 3.81% 2.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.34% 17.05% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 55 64
10th Percentile £386 £365 £366
25th Percentile £463 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £680 £681 £651
90th Percentile £838 £765 £753
Central London median daily rate £555 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.31 - -
25th Percentile £21.03 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £25.83 - £52.50
75th Percentile £30.38 - £53.75
90th Percentile £32.96 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 - £52.50

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 389 481 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.91% 22.35% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 328 462
10th Percentile £404 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -3.13% +4.35%
75th Percentile £690 £711 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £20.13 - £42.50
25th Percentile £25.56 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -34.31% -42.32% +52.89%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in the City of London

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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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in the City of London

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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 31 May 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 9 (10.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.02%) Apache
2 5 (6.02%) Confluence
3 4 (4.82%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 26 (31.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.20%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 31 (37.35%) Azure
3 11 (13.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.84%) SaaS
5 8 (9.64%) Snowflake
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (7.23%) AWS
7 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.23%) GCP
7 6 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.61%) GitHub
11 2 (2.41%) Boomi
11 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
12 1 (1.20%) Azure Storage
12 1 (1.20%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) SSH
2 1 (1.20%) DHCP
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (27.71%) Tableau
2 17 (20.48%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (15.66%) SQL Server
4 8 (9.64%) Data Lake
5 7 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (8.43%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (8.43%) Data Mining
5 7 (8.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (7.23%) BigQuery
6 6 (7.23%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (7.23%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (6.02%) Apache Hive
7 5 (6.02%) Delta Lake
7 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.82%) Hadoop
8 4 (4.82%) Power Query
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (3.61%) Looker
9 3 (3.61%) Parquet
10 2 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) JIRA
2 5 (6.02%) Git
3 4 (4.82%) RStudio
4 2 (2.41%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.20%) ERwin
5 1 (1.20%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (1.20%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.20%) Postman
5 1 (1.20%) Selenium
5 1 (1.20%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (48.19%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.92%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (27.71%) Finance
4 14 (16.87%) Banking
5 10 (12.05%) Investment Banking
6 8 (9.64%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.23%) Police
7 6 (7.23%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.82%) Retail
9 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.61%) Marketing
10 2 (2.41%) Back Office
10 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.41%) Law
10 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.20%) Advertising
11 1 (1.20%) Electronics
11 1 (1.20%) Military
11 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) Analyst
2 16 (19.28%) Developer
3 15 (18.07%) Data Analyst
4 12 (14.46%) Data Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) Senior
5 10 (12.05%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.64%) Consultant
7 7 (8.43%) Analyst Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (7.23%) Risk Consultant
8 6 (7.23%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (6.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (6.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (6.02%) Lead
10 4 (4.82%) Data Scientist
11 3 (3.61%) Data Manager
11 3 (3.61%) Developer Analyst
11 3 (3.61%) Information Manager
11 3 (3.61%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) PySpark
2 5 (6.02%) Pandas
3 4 (4.82%) JSON
3 4 (4.82%) pydantic
3 4 (4.82%) scikit-learn
3 4 (4.82%) TensorFlow
3 4 (4.82%) YAML
4 2 (2.41%) .NET
4 2 (2.41%) ADO
4 2 (2.41%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.20%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.20%) Kafka
5 1 (1.20%) Middleware
5 1 (1.20%) MIDP
5 1 (1.20%) pytest
5 1 (1.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Market Risk
2 6 (7.23%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.82%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.20%) BYOD
6 1 (1.20%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.20%) Derivative
6 1 (1.20%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.20%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.20%) PKI
6 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Windows
3 1 (1.20%) Android
3 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (83.13%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (40.96%) Agile
3 32 (38.55%) Analytics
4 31 (37.35%) Visualisation
5 26 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (26.51%) Decision-Making
7 21 (25.30%) Data Modelling
8 16 (19.28%) Data Visualisation
9 15 (18.07%) Scrum
10 14 (16.87%) Actionable Insight
10 14 (16.87%) Data Analysis
11 13 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (14.46%) Data Governance
13 11 (13.25%) Data Engineering
13 11 (13.25%) DevOps
14 10 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (12.05%) ETL
14 10 (12.05%) SDLC
15 9 (10.84%) Data Science
15 9 (10.84%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 59 (71.08%) SQL
2 25 (30.12%) Python
3 5 (6.02%) Bash
3 5 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (6.02%) Scala
4 4 (4.82%) R
5 3 (3.61%) Java
6 2 (2.41%) C#
6 2 (2.41%) Groovy
6 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) Degree
3 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.41%) PMP
6 1 (1.20%) ACCA
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) CBAP
6 1 (1.20%) CFA
6 1 (1.20%) CIMA
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.64%) GDPR
3 7 (8.43%) Basel II
4 4 (4.82%) QA
5 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.41%) PMO
7 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.20%) MiFID
7 1 (1.20%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.20%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Terraform
2 2 (2.41%) SCCM
3 1 (1.20%) Grafana
3 1 (1.20%) Istio
3 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.20%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.20%) SCOrch
3 1 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.25%) Databricks
3 6 (7.23%) Google
3 6 (7.23%) SAP
3 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) Advent
5 1 (1.20%) Apple
5 1 (1.20%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.20%) Citrix
5 1 (1.20%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.20%) Informatica
5 1 (1.20%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.20%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.20%) Progress
5 1 (1.20%) Remedy
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.20%) SimCorp