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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 45 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing Power BI 123 103 83
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.74% 5.03% 3.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.34% 22.59% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 63 52
10th Percentile £375 £382 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £655
90th Percentile £749 £838 £734
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £20.27 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.93 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.16% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.01 -
90th Percentile - £35.60 -
London median hourly rate £28.55 £34.33 £66.25
% change year-on-year -16.82% -48.19% +70.97%

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 434 456 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.73% 22.28% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 303 360
10th Percentile £355 £400 £400
25th Percentile £464 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £690 £710
90th Percentile £755 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.54 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% - -
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £39.50 £48.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% -3.96% -12.17%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +5 117 £550 - 30
Southwark - 3 £575 - 1
City of Westminster -9 2 £549 - 5
West End of London - 2 £549 - 3
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 £375 - 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 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.94%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.25%) Confluence
4 2 (1.63%) Apache
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.63%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.81%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (17.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.44%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.63%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.81%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 60 (48.78%) Azure
3 18 (14.63%) Snowflake
4 17 (13.82%) Power Automate
5 16 (13.01%) AWS
6 14 (11.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (10.57%) PowerApps
8 11 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (8.13%) dbt
9 10 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (7.32%) GCP
10 9 (7.32%) GitHub
11 8 (6.50%) Serverless
12 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (5.69%) Prefect
12 7 (5.69%) SaaS
13 5 (4.07%) Dagster
13 5 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) DNS
1 3 (2.44%) Firewall
1 3 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (19.51%) Tableau
2 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 10 (8.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (8.13%) Data Lake
3 10 (8.13%) Looker
4 9 (7.32%) BigQuery
5 8 (6.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (5.69%) Metadata
6 7 (5.69%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (4.07%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (4.07%) Star Schema
9 4 (3.25%) Mixpanel
9 4 (3.25%) Power Query
9 4 (3.25%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) JIRA
2 5 (4.07%) Git
3 2 (1.63%) GitLab
3 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.81%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 55 (44.72%) Finance
2 25 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (19.51%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.38%) Banking
5 7 (5.69%) Legal
6 5 (4.07%) Marketing
6 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.07%) Retail
7 4 (3.25%) Back Office
7 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Front Office
8 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Law
9 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (28.46%) Analyst
2 21 (17.07%) Data Analyst
3 20 (16.26%) Data Engineer
4 17 (13.82%) Architect
5 14 (11.38%) Developer
6 10 (8.13%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.13%) Senior
7 9 (7.32%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.88%) Lead
10 5 (4.07%) Consultant
10 5 (4.07%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (3.25%) Power BI Analyst
11 4 (3.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Snowflake Engineer
12 3 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.76%) PySpark
2 9 (7.32%) .NET
3 8 (6.50%) Kafka
4 4 (3.25%) REST
5 3 (2.44%) JSON
5 3 (2.44%) RESTful
6 2 (1.63%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.63%) React
6 2 (1.63%) Redux
7 1 (0.81%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.81%) CSS
7 1 (0.81%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.81%) LangChain
7 1 (0.81%) OAuth
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.81%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.81%) XML
7 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.07%) Clustering
3 5 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.25%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.25%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.44%) CMDB
5 3 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.63%) Derivative
6 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.63%) Equities
6 2 (1.63%) FMCG
6 2 (1.63%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.63%) PMI
6 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (89.43%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (44.72%) Analytics
3 48 (39.02%) Data Modelling
4 29 (23.58%) Data Engineering
5 26 (21.14%) Data Governance
5 26 (21.14%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (21.14%) ETL
6 24 (19.51%) DevOps
7 23 (18.70%) Agile
8 22 (17.89%) AI
8 22 (17.89%) CI/CD
8 22 (17.89%) Decision-Making
8 22 (17.89%) Migration
9 21 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (16.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (13.01%) Visualisation
12 14 (11.38%) Data Architecture
13 13 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.57%) Use Case
13 13 (10.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.72%) SQL
2 34 (27.64%) Python
3 16 (13.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.69%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.88%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.25%) C#
6 4 (3.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.25%) R
7 3 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.63%) Java
8 2 (1.63%) Scala
8 2 (1.63%) VBA
9 1 (0.81%) Bicep
9 1 (0.81%) Korn
Qualifications
1 17 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.57%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.50%) Degree
5 3 (2.44%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) RIBA
7 1 (0.81%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (26.02%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.13%) QA
3 6 (4.88%) GDPR
3 6 (4.88%) PMO
4 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.63%) P3O
6 1 (0.81%) COBIT
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Terraform
2 3 (2.44%) Grafana
2 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.44%) SCCM
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (1.63%) SCOM
4 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (34.15%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.70%) Databricks
3 7 (5.69%) Informatica
4 6 (4.88%) SAP
4 6 (4.88%) Workday
5 5 (4.07%) Amplitude
5 5 (4.07%) Oracle
6 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.44%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.44%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.44%) Google
7 3 (2.44%) Splunk
7 3 (2.44%) VMware
8 2 (1.63%) Adobe
8 2 (1.63%) BMC
8 2 (1.63%) Commvault
8 2 (1.63%) Foundry
8 2 (1.63%) Palantir
8 2 (1.63%) Remedy