Power BI Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Power BI
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 51 67
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +15
Contract jobs citing Power BI 85 99 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.25% 4.06% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.95% 18.50% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 64 88
10th Percentile £407 £373 £325
25th Percentile £463 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.24% -3.41%
75th Percentile £685 £685 £675
90th Percentile £770 £775 £775
London median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £29.63 - -
25th Percentile £30.46 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £31.86 - £52.50
75th Percentile £33.27 - £53.75
90th Percentile £34.11 - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £55.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year -47.15% +36.65% +34.17%

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 426 535 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.32% 21.92% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 364 517
10th Percentile £404 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £696 £725
90th Percentile £754 £788 £788
London median daily rate £557 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.18 - £43.13
25th Percentile £31.85 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in Central London

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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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in Central London.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 May 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 -2 73 £545 -5.22% 47
City of Westminster -2 3 £475 - 3
West End of London -6 2 £475 - 6
Kensington and Chelsea -1 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 10 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.06%) Apache
3 5 (5.88%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.71%) Confluence
4 4 (4.71%) Jupyter
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 22 (25.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.18%) Revit
6 1 (1.18%) SPSS
6 1 (1.18%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 31 (36.47%) Azure
3 10 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 7 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.06%) AWS
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (7.06%) dbt
5 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (7.06%) Power Automate
5 6 (7.06%) PowerApps
6 5 (5.88%) GCP
6 5 (5.88%) SaaS
7 4 (4.71%) GitHub
8 3 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) SSH
2 1 (1.18%) DHCP
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.88%) Tableau
2 21 (24.71%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (16.47%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.24%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (8.24%) Data Lake
4 7 (8.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (7.06%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (7.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.88%) Apache Hive
6 5 (5.88%) BigQuery
6 5 (5.88%) Data Mining
6 5 (5.88%) Delta Lake
7 4 (4.71%) Power Query
7 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.53%) Big Data
8 3 (3.53%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.53%) Looker
8 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (14.12%) JIRA
2 6 (7.06%) Git
3 4 (4.71%) RStudio
4 2 (2.35%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.18%) ERwin
5 1 (1.18%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.18%) Postman
5 1 (1.18%) Selenium
5 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.18%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.18%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (42.35%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (20.00%) Finance
4 10 (11.76%) Banking
4 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.24%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.06%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.88%) Police
7 5 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Back Office
8 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.53%) Marketing
9 2 (2.35%) Law
9 2 (2.35%) Local Government
9 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Retail
10 1 (1.18%) Advertising
10 1 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (30.59%) Developer
2 22 (25.88%) Analyst
3 12 (14.12%) Data Analyst
3 12 (14.12%) Data Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) Power BI Developer
4 10 (11.76%) Lead
5 7 (8.24%) Business Analyst
5 7 (8.24%) Senior
6 6 (7.06%) Analyst Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Snowflake Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Consultant
8 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.71%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Business Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.53%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) PySpark
2 5 (5.88%) JSON
2 5 (5.88%) YAML
3 4 (4.71%) Pandas
3 4 (4.71%) pydantic
4 3 (3.53%) REST
4 3 (3.53%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.53%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.35%) .NET
5 2 (2.35%) Kafka
6 1 (1.18%) ADO
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.18%) FHIR
6 1 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.18%) MIDP
6 1 (1.18%) pytest
6 1 (1.18%) SOAP
6 1 (1.18%) Web Services
6 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (4.71%) Market Risk
2 4 (4.71%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.18%) CMDB
5 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.18%) Derivative
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.18%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (37.65%) Visualisation
3 26 (30.59%) Agile
3 26 (30.59%) Analytics
4 20 (23.53%) Data Modelling
5 18 (21.18%) Decision-Making
5 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (18.82%) Data Analysis
6 16 (18.82%) Data Visualisation
7 13 (15.29%) Data Governance
8 12 (14.12%) Actionable Insight
8 12 (14.12%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (14.12%) User Experience
9 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.94%) Data Engineering
9 11 (12.94%) Data Integration
9 11 (12.94%) ETL
9 11 (12.94%) Scrum
10 10 (11.76%) DevOps
10 10 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 59 (69.41%) SQL
2 25 (29.41%) Python
3 5 (5.88%) R
3 5 (5.88%) Scala
4 4 (4.71%) Bash
5 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.35%) C#
6 2 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.35%) Groovy
6 2 (2.35%) Java
6 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.18%) Bicep
7 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) Degree
3 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.35%) PMP
6 1 (1.18%) CBAP
6 1 (1.18%) CFA
6 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) HNC
6 1 (1.18%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.59%) GDPR
3 6 (7.06%) QA
4 4 (4.71%) Basel II
5 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.35%) PMO
7 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.18%) MiFID
7 1 (1.18%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.18%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Terraform
2 2 (2.35%) SCCM
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.18%) SCOrch
3 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Databricks
3 9 (10.59%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.88%) Google
4 5 (5.88%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.35%) Oracle
5 2 (2.35%) Remedy
6 1 (1.18%) Advent
6 1 (1.18%) Apple
6 1 (1.18%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.18%) BMC
6 1 (1.18%) Cegedim Rx
6 1 (1.18%) Citrix
6 1 (1.18%) Informatica
6 1 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) SimCorp