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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 53 61
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Power BI 102 86 97
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.38% 3.68% 3.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.15% 18.07% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 59 63
10th Percentile £340 £397 £353
25th Percentile £406 £460 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £655
90th Percentile £760 £740 £744
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 £45.55 £39.25
% change year-on-year -45.10% +16.04% +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 390 476 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.57% 20.34% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 336 393
10th Percentile £363 £413 £390
25th Percentile £425 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -0.04% +3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £704
90th Percentile £775 £820 £800
London median daily rate £528 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.13% - -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 £48.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +13 94 £525 -9.48% 379
Camden - 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 12 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.88%) Confluence
3 3 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 30 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (10.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.98%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 102 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 37 (36.27%) Azure
3 20 (19.61%) Power Automate
4 17 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 9 (8.82%) AWS
5 9 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (8.82%) Snowflake
6 8 (7.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.86%) Entra ID
7 7 (6.86%) GCP
8 6 (5.88%) SaaS
9 4 (3.92%) dbt
9 4 (3.92%) GitHub
9 4 (3.92%) ShareGate
10 3 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.53%) Tableau
2 13 (12.75%) Data Lake
3 8 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.88%) Power Query
4 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.92%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.94%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.94%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.94%) Looker
7 3 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.96%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.96%) Metadata
8 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.96%) Spotfire
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) JIRA
2 4 (3.92%) Git
3 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.98%) Postman
4 1 (0.98%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.98%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (42.16%) Finance
2 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
3 30 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.76%) Banking
5 8 (7.84%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.86%) Front Office
7 5 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.94%) Back Office
10 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.96%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.96%) Legal
10 2 (1.96%) Marketing
10 2 (1.96%) Retail
10 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.98%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (20.59%) Analyst
2 17 (16.67%) Lead
3 16 (15.69%) Senior
4 12 (11.76%) Consultant
5 11 (10.78%) Developer
6 10 (9.80%) Architect
7 9 (8.82%) Business Analyst
7 9 (8.82%) Data Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Data Analyst
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (3.92%) Data Architect
12 4 (3.92%) Risk Consultant
13 3 (2.94%) Data Business Analyst
13 3 (2.94%) Data Scientist
13 3 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (2.94%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
13 3 (2.94%) Senior Developer
14 2 (1.96%) DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (3.92%) .NET
3 3 (2.94%) PySpark
4 2 (1.96%) ADO
4 2 (1.96%) JSON
4 2 (1.96%) Pandas
4 2 (1.96%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.98%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.98%) Altair
5 1 (0.98%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.98%) Kafka
5 1 (0.98%) Middleware
5 1 (0.98%) Node.js
5 1 (0.98%) NumPy
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.98%) REST
5 1 (0.98%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.92%) Market Risk
3 3 (2.94%) Derivative
3 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.96%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.96%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.98%) BYOD
5 1 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.98%) Equities
5 1 (0.98%) IoT
5 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.98%) NHS
5 1 (0.98%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (94.12%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (36.27%) Analytics
3 31 (30.39%) Agile
4 29 (28.43%) Data Modelling
4 29 (28.43%) Visualisation
5 25 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (19.61%) Decision-Making
7 19 (18.63%) Data Governance
8 18 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
9 16 (15.69%) Actionable Insight
9 16 (15.69%) Migration
10 15 (14.71%) Data Analysis
10 15 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (13.73%) DevOps
11 14 (13.73%) ETL
12 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (11.76%) AI
13 12 (11.76%) Data Engineering
14 9 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (8.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.04%) SQL
2 30 (29.41%) Python
3 9 (8.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (7.84%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.92%) Java
6 3 (2.94%) Korn
6 3 (2.94%) R
6 3 (2.94%) Scala
6 3 (2.94%) VBA
7 2 (1.96%) C#
7 2 (1.96%) IronPython
8 1 (0.98%) Bash
8 1 (0.98%) Bicep
8 1 (0.98%) Groovy
8 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.98%) LookML
8 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.78%) Degree
2 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.96%) ACCA
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.96%) CFA
7 1 (0.98%) CIMA
7 1 (0.98%) CISA
7 1 (0.98%) CISSP
7 1 (0.98%) CRISC
7 1 (0.98%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.98%) IIBA
7 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.98%) PMP
7 1 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.88%) GDPR
3 5 (4.90%) PMO
4 4 (3.92%) Basel II
4 4 (3.92%) QA
5 2 (1.96%) NIST
6 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.98%) GRC
6 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.96%) Terraform
2 1 (0.98%) Grafana
2 1 (0.98%) Istio
2 1 (0.98%) Opsgenie
2 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.98%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 38 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.75%) Databricks
3 5 (4.90%) Oracle
4 4 (3.92%) SAP
5 3 (2.94%) Dataiku
5 3 (2.94%) Google
5 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.96%) Adobe
6 2 (1.96%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.96%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.96%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.96%) Planview
7 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.98%) Marketo
7 1 (0.98%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.98%) Progress
7 1 (0.98%) Qualys
7 1 (0.98%) Tagetik