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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +25
Contract jobs citing Power BI 109 82 101
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.29% 3.83% 3.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.19% 19.48% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 58 69
10th Percentile £319 £400 £363
25th Percentile £391 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +2.22% +4.90%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £684
90th Percentile £749 £703 £751
London median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
London median hourly rate £19.38 £29.60 £39.25
% change year-on-year -34.53% -24.60% -1.88%

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 361 421 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.52% 19.67% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 279 380
10th Percentile £325 £411 £413
25th Percentile £411 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.77% +1.49%
75th Percentile £663 £685 £700
90th Percentile £739 £757 £825
London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £37.20 £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.88 £40.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.51% -48.57%
75th Percentile £35.50 £41.38 £47.19
90th Percentile - £41.60 £49.03
London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +8.43% -2.35% -22.73%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +11 96 £505 -12.17% 37
West End of London +10 3 £475 +18.75%
City of Westminster +5 3 £475 -
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 10 (9.17%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.42%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.59%) Confluence
4 3 (2.75%) Apache
4 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.83%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 27 (24.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.83%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (35.78%) Azure
3 16 (14.68%) Power Automate
4 14 (12.84%) AWS
5 12 (11.01%) PowerApps
6 11 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (9.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (9.17%) GCP
8 9 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.59%) GitHub
10 5 (4.59%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.67%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (3.67%) dbt
11 4 (3.67%) Serverless
12 3 (2.75%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.75%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) HTTP
1 1 (0.92%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (31.19%) Tableau
2 13 (11.93%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.50%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.59%) Looker
4 5 (4.59%) Metadata
5 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.67%) MySQL
5 4 (3.67%) Power Query
5 4 (3.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.75%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.83%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.83%) OLAP
7 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.83%) Spotfire
7 2 (1.83%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) JIRA
2 8 (7.34%) Git
3 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.92%) ERwin
5 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 44 (40.37%) Finance
2 32 (29.36%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (26.61%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.84%) Banking
5 11 (10.09%) Front Office
6 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.50%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.59%) Back Office
9 4 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Automotive
11 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Legal
11 2 (1.83%) Retail
11 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.92%) Law
12 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (23.85%) Analyst
2 15 (13.76%) Developer
3 12 (11.01%) Data Engineer
3 12 (11.01%) Senior
4 11 (10.09%) Lead
5 10 (9.17%) Consultant
5 10 (9.17%) Data Scientist
6 9 (8.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (7.34%) Data Analyst
8 7 (6.42%) Architect
9 6 (5.50%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.59%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.67%) Programme Manager
11 4 (3.67%) Service Analyst
12 3 (2.75%) Data Architect
12 3 (2.75%) Data Modeller
12 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Consultant
12 3 (2.75%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.75%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) scikit-learn
2 8 (7.34%) PySpark
3 6 (5.50%) NumPy
3 6 (5.50%) Pandas
4 4 (3.67%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.67%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.75%) .NET
5 3 (2.75%) Kafka
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.75%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.75%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.83%) CSS
6 2 (1.83%) HTML
6 2 (1.83%) JSON
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.92%) Altair
7 1 (0.92%) Node.js
7 1 (0.92%) Playwright
7 1 (0.92%) REST
7 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.42%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) Derivative
5 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.75%) Equities
6 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.83%) Clustering
6 2 (1.83%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.83%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (94.50%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (43.12%) Analytics
3 40 (36.70%) Visualisation
4 34 (31.19%) Data Modelling
5 28 (25.69%) Data Visualisation
6 27 (24.77%) Agile
7 23 (21.10%) Data Engineering
8 22 (20.18%) Actionable Insight
8 22 (20.18%) Data Governance
9 21 (19.27%) AI
10 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (17.43%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (17.43%) ETL
12 17 (15.60%) Data Science
12 17 (15.60%) DevOps
13 16 (14.68%) Data Analysis
14 15 (13.76%) Decision-Making
14 15 (13.76%) Machine Learning
15 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.95%) SQL
2 34 (31.19%) Python
3 7 (6.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (6.42%) Scala
4 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.75%) R
5 2 (1.83%) IronPython
5 2 (1.83%) Korn
5 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.83%) VBA
6 1 (0.92%) C#
6 1 (0.92%) C++
6 1 (0.92%) Java
6 1 (0.92%) LookML
6 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (11.01%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.09%) Degree
3 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.67%) PMP
5 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.83%) CFA
6 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.92%) IIBA
7 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.92%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.27%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.42%) PMO
3 6 (5.50%) QA
4 5 (4.59%) GDPR
5 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.75%) SLA
6 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.83%) Basel III
7 1 (0.92%) GAAP
7 1 (0.92%) GRC
7 1 (0.92%) IFRS
7 1 (0.92%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.43%) Databricks
3 7 (6.42%) Google
3 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.50%) Oracle
4 6 (5.50%) SAP
5 4 (3.67%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.67%) Workday
6 3 (2.75%) Cognos
6 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 3 (2.75%) Planview
6 3 (2.75%) Sage
7 2 (1.83%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.83%) Foundry
7 2 (1.83%) Informatica
7 2 (1.83%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.83%) Palantir
7 2 (1.83%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.92%) UiPath