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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 54 53
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Power BI 108 87 102
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.45% 3.63% 3.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.19% 17.98% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 58 69
10th Percentile £313 £400 £330
25th Percentile £385 £459 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +4.55% +1.15%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £738 £718 £745
London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.59 £26.24
% change year-on-year -18.27% +16.58% -30.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 370 484 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.69% 20.19% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 328 384
10th Percentile £340 £413 £375
25th Percentile £418 £481 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +1.28%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £700
90th Percentile £750 £818 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £32.15 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.38 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -34.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 -
90th Percentile - £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -18.18%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 +16 98 £500 -13.04% 35
Camden - 1 - - 1
Power BI
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 13 (12.04%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.70%) Confluence
4 3 (2.78%) Apache
5 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (26.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 43 (39.81%) Azure
3 23 (21.30%) Power Automate
4 20 (18.52%) PowerApps
5 11 (10.19%) AWS
5 11 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (9.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (7.41%) GCP
9 7 (6.48%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.63%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (3.70%) dbt
11 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (3.70%) ShareGate
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.78%) GitHub
12 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) HTTP
1 1 (0.93%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.00%) Tableau
2 13 (12.04%) Data Lake
3 10 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.41%) Power Query
5 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.63%) Metadata
6 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.70%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.78%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.78%) Looker
8 3 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.85%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.85%) MySQL
9 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.85%) Spotfire
9 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.93%) OLAP
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) JIRA
2 6 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.93%) Postman
General
1 46 (42.59%) Finance
2 34 (31.48%) Social Skills
3 32 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.19%) Banking
5 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.48%) Front Office
7 5 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Back Office
9 3 (2.78%) Legal
10 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.85%) Marketing
10 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (22.22%) Analyst
2 14 (12.96%) Lead
2 14 (12.96%) Senior
3 12 (11.11%) Developer
4 11 (10.19%) Architect
5 10 (9.26%) Consultant
6 9 (8.33%) Data Analyst
7 8 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Data Scientist
8 6 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
10 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Consultant
10 3 (2.78%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.78%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (2.78%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (2.78%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.56%) PySpark
3 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (4.63%) NumPy
3 5 (4.63%) Pandas
4 3 (2.78%) .NET
4 3 (2.78%) JSON
4 3 (2.78%) Matplotlib
4 3 (2.78%) Seaborn
5 2 (1.85%) Kafka
5 2 (1.85%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.85%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.85%) XML
6 1 (0.93%) ADO
6 1 (0.93%) Altair
6 1 (0.93%) Node.js
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.93%) REST
6 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.63%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.78%) Derivative
3 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.85%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.85%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (94.44%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (42.59%) Analytics
3 40 (37.04%) Visualisation
4 37 (34.26%) Data Modelling
5 27 (25.00%) Agile
6 26 (24.07%) Data Governance
7 23 (21.30%) Data Visualisation
8 22 (20.37%) Actionable Insight
9 19 (17.59%) Decision-Making
9 19 (17.59%) ETL
10 18 (16.67%) AI
10 18 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (15.74%) Data Analysis
11 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (14.81%) Data Engineering
12 16 (14.81%) DevOps
13 15 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (13.89%) Migration
14 14 (12.96%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 48 (44.44%) SQL
2 37 (34.26%) Python
3 12 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.48%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.63%) Scala
6 4 (3.70%) R
7 3 (2.78%) Korn
7 3 (2.78%) VBA
8 2 (1.85%) IronPython
8 2 (1.85%) Java
8 2 (1.85%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.93%) C#
9 1 (0.93%) C++
9 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.93%) LookML
9 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.26%) Degree
3 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.85%) CFA
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.85%) PMP
6 1 (0.93%) ACCA
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) CISA
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) CRISC
6 1 (0.93%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.93%) IIBA
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) MBA
6 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.41%) GDPR
3 7 (6.48%) PMO
4 5 (4.63%) QA
5 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.74%) Databricks
3 5 (4.63%) Google
3 5 (4.63%) Oracle
3 5 (4.63%) SAP
4 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.78%) Planview
6 2 (1.85%) Adobe
6 2 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.85%) Cognos
6 2 (1.85%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.85%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.85%) IBM
6 2 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.85%) Sage
7 1 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.93%) Tenable
7 1 (0.93%) UiPath