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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 55 58
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Power BI 105 86 98
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.42% 3.66% 3.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.58% 18.14% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 59 65
10th Percentile £325 £397 £355
25th Percentile £405 £460 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £740 £745
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.05 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00
75th Percentile £31.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.15 - -
London median hourly rate £25.01 £30.59 £39.25
% change year-on-year -18.26% -22.06% +12.14%

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 395 474 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.39% 20.20% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 333 390
10th Percentile £359 £413 £386
25th Percentile £425 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -1.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £704 £703
90th Percentile £779 £823 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £22.70 £37.20 £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £37.88 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 £48.88
90th Percentile - £41.60 £51.05
London median hourly rate £52.50 £43.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.09% -4.44% -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

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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 13 November 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI in Central London over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in Central London

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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 13 November 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 97 £525 -9.09% 240
Camden - 1 - - 1
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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 12 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.71%) Confluence
3 5 (4.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.86%) Apache
5 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 30 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.95%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 40 (38.10%) Azure
3 20 (19.05%) Power Automate
4 17 (16.19%) PowerApps
5 11 (10.48%) AWS
6 10 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (7.62%) GCP
8 8 (7.62%) Snowflake
9 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.76%) SaaS
11 4 (3.81%) dbt
11 4 (3.81%) GitHub
11 4 (3.81%) ShareGate
12 3 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) HTTP
1 1 (0.95%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.86%) Tableau
2 15 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 9 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.62%) Power Query
5 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.81%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.81%) Metadata
7 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.86%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.86%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.86%) Looker
8 3 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.90%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.90%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 12 (11.43%) JIRA
2 4 (3.81%) Git
3 2 (1.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.95%) Postman
4 1 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (43.81%) Finance
2 36 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 29 (27.62%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.43%) Banking
5 7 (6.67%) Front Office
5 7 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.86%) Back Office
7 3 (2.86%) Legal
7 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.90%) Marketing
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Law
9 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (20.00%) Analyst
2 16 (15.24%) Lead
2 16 (15.24%) Senior
3 13 (12.38%) Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Architect
5 11 (10.48%) Consultant
6 9 (8.57%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Data Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (4.76%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.81%) Data Scientist
11 3 (2.86%) Data Business Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Power BI Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Risk Consultant
11 3 (2.86%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (3.81%) .NET
2 4 (3.81%) PySpark
3 3 (2.86%) JSON
3 3 (2.86%) NumPy
3 3 (2.86%) Pandas
3 3 (2.86%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.90%) ADO
4 2 (1.90%) XML
5 1 (0.95%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.95%) Altair
5 1 (0.95%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.95%) Kafka
5 1 (0.95%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.95%) Middleware
5 1 (0.95%) Node.js
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.95%) REST
5 1 (0.95%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.86%) Derivative
2 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.86%) Market Risk
2 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.90%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (1.90%) Swaptions
4 1 (0.95%) BYOD
4 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (94.29%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (40.95%) Analytics
3 33 (31.43%) Data Modelling
3 33 (31.43%) Visualisation
4 29 (27.62%) Agile
5 22 (20.95%) Data Governance
5 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (19.05%) Decision-Making
7 19 (18.10%) Data Visualisation
8 17 (16.19%) ETL
8 17 (16.19%) Migration
9 16 (15.24%) Actionable Insight
9 16 (15.24%) Data Analysis
10 15 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (13.33%) AI
11 14 (13.33%) DevOps
11 14 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.43%) Data Engineering
13 11 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
13 11 (10.48%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 51 (48.57%) SQL
2 33 (31.43%) Python
3 11 (10.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (7.62%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.81%) Java
5 4 (3.81%) Scala
6 3 (2.86%) Korn
6 3 (2.86%) R
6 3 (2.86%) VBA
7 2 (1.90%) C#
7 2 (1.90%) IronPython
8 1 (0.95%) Bash
8 1 (0.95%) Bicep
8 1 (0.95%) C++
8 1 (0.95%) Groovy
8 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.95%) LookML
8 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.52%) Degree
1 10 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.90%) ACCA
4 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.90%) CFA
4 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.95%) CIMA
5 1 (0.95%) CISA
5 1 (0.95%) CISSP
5 1 (0.95%) CRISC
5 1 (0.95%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.95%) IIBA
5 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.95%) PMP
5 1 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.67%) GDPR
3 5 (4.76%) PMO
3 5 (4.76%) QA
4 3 (2.86%) Basel II
5 2 (1.90%) NIST
6 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.95%) GRC
6 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.90%) Terraform
2 1 (0.95%) Grafana
2 1 (0.95%) Istio
2 1 (0.95%) Opsgenie
2 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.95%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 40 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) Databricks
3 5 (4.76%) SAP
4 4 (3.81%) Google
4 4 (3.81%) Oracle
4 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.86%) Dataiku
5 3 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.90%) Adobe
6 2 (1.90%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.90%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.90%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.90%) Planview
7 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.95%) Cognos
7 1 (0.95%) IBM
7 1 (0.95%) Informatica
7 1 (0.95%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.95%) Progress
7 1 (0.95%) Sage