Power BI Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Power BI
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 37 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 +29 -5
Contract jobs citing Power BI 121 113 70
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.85% 5.69% 3.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.27% 26.28% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 69 48
10th Percentile £375 £360 £366
25th Percentile £441 £418 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -3.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £767 £838 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.60 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.34 -
90th Percentile - £35.74 -
London median hourly rate £28.40 £34.65 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -37.00% +35.80%

All Database & BI Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 428 430 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.15% 21.64% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 288 365
10th Percentile £370 £379 £403
25th Percentile £463 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.26% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £676 £710
90th Percentile £754 £800 £788
London median daily rate £529 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.18% +5.00% -13.04%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Power BI job vacancy trend in Central London

Power BI
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Power BI

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Central London over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Central London

Power BI
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Power BI

Power BI
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
City of London -6 114 £538 -2.71% 85
Southwark - 3 £575 -
West End of London - 3 £475 - 5
City of Westminster -9 1 £538 - 9
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £375 - 2
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London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 15 (12.40%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.13%) Confluence
4 2 (1.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (19.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.65%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.83%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 62 (51.24%) Azure
3 21 (17.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (13.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (13.22%) Power Automate
5 16 (13.22%) Snowflake
6 15 (12.40%) PowerApps
7 13 (10.74%) AWS
8 9 (7.44%) dbt
9 8 (6.61%) GitHub
10 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (5.79%) Prefect
10 7 (5.79%) SaaS
10 7 (5.79%) Serverless
11 6 (4.96%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (4.13%) Dagster
12 5 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) DNS
1 3 (2.48%) Firewall
1 3 (2.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (23.14%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (16.53%) Tableau
3 16 (13.22%) SQL Server
4 12 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (9.92%) Data Lake
5 11 (9.09%) Star Schema
6 10 (8.26%) Metadata
7 9 (7.44%) Power Query
8 8 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.61%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (5.79%) BigQuery
9 7 (5.79%) Looker
9 7 (5.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (4.13%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.31%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.48%) GIS
12 3 (2.48%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) JIRA
2 3 (2.48%) Git
3 2 (1.65%) GitLab
3 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.83%) MLflow
4 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (42.98%) Finance
2 28 (23.14%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.57%) Banking
5 10 (8.26%) Retail
6 8 (6.61%) Legal
7 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.13%) Marketing
9 4 (3.31%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.31%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.48%) Back Office
10 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.65%) Front Office
11 2 (1.65%) Law
11 2 (1.65%) Military
11 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.83%) Advertising
12 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (28.93%) Analyst
2 20 (16.53%) Data Analyst
3 17 (14.05%) Data Engineer
4 16 (13.22%) Architect
5 14 (11.57%) Developer
6 12 (9.92%) Senior
7 9 (7.44%) Consultant
7 9 (7.44%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.61%) Business Analyst
9 6 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.31%) Power BI Analyst
11 4 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.31%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.48%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (2.48%) Lead
12 3 (2.48%) Power Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.57%) PySpark
2 8 (6.61%) Kafka
3 7 (5.79%) .NET
4 5 (4.13%) Terraform
5 3 (2.48%) REST
5 3 (2.48%) RESTful
6 2 (1.65%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.65%) JSON
6 2 (1.65%) React
6 2 (1.65%) Redux
7 1 (0.83%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.83%) CSS
7 1 (0.83%) HTML
7 1 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.83%) LangChain
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.83%) OAuth
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.83%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.96%) Clustering
4 5 (4.13%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.31%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.48%) CMDB
6 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.48%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.48%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.65%) Derivative
7 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.65%) FMCG
7 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.65%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.65%) PMI
8 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Windows
2 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
3 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (90.08%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (46.28%) Analytics
3 50 (41.32%) Data Modelling
4 34 (28.10%) Data Governance
5 32 (26.45%) DevOps
6 28 (23.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (22.31%) CI/CD
7 27 (22.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (21.49%) ETL
9 25 (20.66%) Data Engineering
10 24 (19.83%) Agile
10 24 (19.83%) AI
10 24 (19.83%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (17.36%) Decision-Making
11 21 (17.36%) Migration
12 15 (12.40%) Data Architecture
13 14 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.74%) Use Case
14 13 (10.74%) Visualisation
15 12 (9.92%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 60 (49.59%) SQL
2 31 (25.62%) Python
3 24 (19.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.79%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.31%) C#
7 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.65%) Java
8 2 (1.65%) R
8 2 (1.65%) VBA
8 2 (1.65%) XMLA
9 1 (0.83%) Bicep
9 1 (0.83%) Korn
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.61%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.48%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (24.79%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.26%) QA
3 6 (4.96%) GDPR
4 5 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.13%) PMO
5 2 (1.65%) P3O
6 1 (0.83%) COBIT
6 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Grafana
1 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
1 3 (2.48%) SCCM
1 3 (2.48%) SCOM
2 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (37.19%) Microsoft
2 29 (23.97%) Databricks
3 6 (4.96%) Informatica
3 6 (4.96%) Workday
4 5 (4.13%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) SAP
4 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.31%) VMware
6 3 (2.48%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.48%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.48%) BMC
6 3 (2.48%) Commvault
6 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.48%) Google
6 3 (2.48%) Remedy
6 3 (2.48%) Splunk
7 2 (1.65%) Adobe
7 2 (1.65%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.65%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.83%) Salesforce