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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 40 55
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 127 100 80
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.15% 5.17% 3.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.67% 24.81% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 68 54
10th Percentile £350 £347 £364
25th Percentile £425 £407 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £647
90th Percentile £775 £838 £703
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.05 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.38 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.15 -
London median hourly rate £28.40 £31.54 £42.80
% change year-on-year -9.96% -26.31% -5.95%

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 443 403 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.96% 20.82% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 277 353
10th Percentile £362 £384 £413
25th Percentile £460 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £713
90th Percentile £751 £800 £825
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 £37.20
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.13 £37.88
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.56% +20.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 £41.38
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 £41.60
London median hourly rate £34.03 £53.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.68% +19.44% -14.29%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Central London over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Central London

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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

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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 25 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 -3 116 £525 -5.41% 125
West End of London - 4 £475 - 6
Southwark - 2 £513 -
City of Westminster - 1 £538 - 17
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £375 -
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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 (11.81%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.30%) Confluence
3 5 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.57%) Apache
4 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.79%) IIS
5 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 26 (20.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.57%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.57%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.79%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.79%) OneSumX
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 66 (51.97%) Azure
3 23 (18.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (14.17%) Power Automate
6 17 (13.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (11.81%) PowerApps
8 11 (8.66%) AWS
8 11 (8.66%) Snowflake
9 9 (7.09%) GitHub
10 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (6.30%) SaaS
11 7 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (5.51%) Serverless
12 6 (4.72%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (3.94%) Azure Stack
13 5 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (3.15%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) DNS
1 3 (2.36%) Firewall
1 3 (2.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.05%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (13.39%) SQL Server
3 14 (11.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (11.02%) Data Lake
4 12 (9.45%) Star Schema
4 12 (9.45%) Tableau
5 11 (8.66%) Metadata
6 10 (7.87%) Power Query
7 9 (7.09%) Semantic Layer
8 6 (4.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.15%) BigQuery
10 4 (3.15%) Data Hub
10 4 (3.15%) Looker
10 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (11.81%) JIRA
2 4 (3.15%) Git
3 2 (1.57%) GitLab
3 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.79%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.79%) MLflow
4 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (40.94%) Finance
2 31 (24.41%) Social Skills
3 28 (22.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.02%) Banking
5 12 (9.45%) Retail
6 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.94%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.94%) Legal
8 5 (3.94%) Marketing
9 3 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.36%) Law
10 2 (1.57%) Back Office
10 2 (1.57%) Front Office
10 2 (1.57%) Military
10 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (28.35%) Analyst
2 19 (14.96%) Architect
2 19 (14.96%) Data Analyst
3 16 (12.60%) Developer
4 15 (11.81%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.45%) Senior
6 10 (7.87%) Consultant
6 10 (7.87%) Data Architect
7 9 (7.09%) Business Analyst
8 8 (6.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (6.30%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (3.94%) Power Platform Developer
9 5 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Architect
10 4 (3.15%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.15%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.36%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.81%) PySpark
2 7 (5.51%) .NET
3 6 (4.72%) Kafka
4 5 (3.94%) Terraform
5 4 (3.15%) REST
6 3 (2.36%) RESTful
7 2 (1.57%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.57%) JSON
7 2 (1.57%) React
7 2 (1.57%) Redux
7 2 (1.57%) SOAP
7 2 (1.57%) Web Services
8 1 (0.79%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.79%) CSS
8 1 (0.79%) HTML
8 1 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.79%) LangChain
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.79%) OAuth
8 1 (0.79%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.24%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.51%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.15%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.15%) Clustering
5 3 (2.36%) CMDB
5 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.36%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.36%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.57%) FMCG
6 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.79%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Windows
2 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.79%) VMS
3 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (91.34%) Business Intelligence
2 58 (45.67%) Analytics
3 52 (40.94%) Data Modelling
4 36 (28.35%) Data Governance
4 36 (28.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (26.77%) DevOps
6 29 (22.83%) Agile
6 29 (22.83%) CI/CD
6 29 (22.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (18.90%) AI
8 23 (18.11%) Decision-Making
9 22 (17.32%) Migration
10 21 (16.54%) Data Engineering
10 21 (16.54%) ETL
11 20 (15.75%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (11.81%) Data Architecture
14 14 (11.02%) Visualisation
15 13 (10.24%) Dimensional Modelling
15 13 (10.24%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.82%) SQL
2 29 (22.83%) Python
3 27 (21.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.30%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.30%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.15%) C#
6 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.36%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.57%) Java
7 2 (1.57%) R
7 2 (1.57%) XMLA
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) Korn
8 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.02%) DBS Check
4 11 (8.66%) Degree
5 4 (3.15%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.36%) PMP
7 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.79%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.79%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.62%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.45%) QA
3 5 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.15%) GDPR
4 4 (3.15%) PMO
5 2 (1.57%) P3O
6 1 (0.79%) COBIT
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Grafana
1 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (2.36%) Prometheus
1 3 (2.36%) SCCM
1 3 (2.36%) SCOM
2 1 (0.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (38.58%) Microsoft
2 29 (22.83%) Databricks
3 7 (5.51%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.94%) SAP
5 4 (3.15%) Oracle
5 4 (3.15%) VMware
6 3 (2.36%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.36%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.36%) BMC
6 3 (2.36%) Commvault
6 3 (2.36%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.36%) Informatica
6 3 (2.36%) Remedy
6 3 (2.36%) Splunk
6 3 (2.36%) Workday
7 2 (1.57%) Adobe
7 2 (1.57%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.57%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.57%) Planview
7 2 (1.57%) UiPath