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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 46 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing Power BI 117 88 93
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.84% 4.47% 3.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.89% 20.51% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 55 57
10th Percentile £350 £409 £394
25th Percentile £423 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £685 £688
90th Percentile £749 £813 £775
London median daily rate £500 £491 £523
% change year-on-year +1.83% -6.03% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £29.63 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £30.46 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.79% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £33.27 -
90th Percentile - £34.11 -
London median hourly rate £23.50 £29.07 £66.25
% change year-on-year -19.16% -56.12% +65.63%

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 405 429 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.75% 21.79% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 276 358
10th Percentile £341 £404 £411
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £700
90th Percentile £738 £754 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -9.09%

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 May 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 13 May 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 +8 108 £525 -4.55% 66
City of Westminster +3 5 £475 - 1
West End of London - 5 £475 - 1
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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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 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (8.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.56%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (19.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.42%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.71%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 117 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 49 (41.88%) Azure
3 16 (13.68%) Snowflake
4 15 (12.82%) Power Automate
5 14 (11.97%) AWS
6 12 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (9.40%) GCP
8 10 (8.55%) dbt
8 10 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.69%) PowerApps
10 8 (6.84%) GitHub
11 7 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (5.98%) Prefect
12 5 (4.27%) Dagster
12 5 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (3.42%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.42%) SaaS
13 4 (3.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) DNS
1 1 (0.85%) Firewall
1 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (29.06%) Tableau
2 22 (18.80%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.40%) Looker
4 8 (6.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.84%) BigQuery
4 8 (6.84%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.13%) Metadata
5 6 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.42%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.42%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.56%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.56%) MySQL
8 3 (2.56%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.71%) OLAP
9 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.71%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (6.84%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (1.71%) GitLab
3 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.85%) ERwin
4 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 56 (47.86%) Finance
2 27 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (16.24%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.82%) Banking
5 7 (5.98%) Back Office
6 6 (5.13%) Front Office
6 6 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.27%) Legal
8 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.56%) Retail
10 2 (1.71%) Automotive
10 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.85%) Military
11 1 (0.85%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (29.91%) Analyst
2 19 (16.24%) Data Engineer
3 18 (15.38%) Developer
4 15 (12.82%) Data Analyst
5 12 (10.26%) Senior
6 9 (7.69%) Architect
7 8 (6.84%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Consultant
9 6 (5.13%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.42%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.42%) Lead
10 4 (3.42%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Service Analyst
10 4 (3.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (2.56%) Risk Analyst
11 3 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.55%) PySpark
2 8 (6.84%) Kafka
3 6 (5.13%) .NET
4 4 (3.42%) REST
4 4 (3.42%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.56%) JSON
5 3 (2.56%) NumPy
5 3 (2.56%) Pandas
6 2 (1.71%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.71%) CSS
6 2 (1.71%) HTML
6 2 (1.71%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.71%) React
6 2 (1.71%) Redux
6 2 (1.71%) RESTful
6 2 (1.71%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.71%) YAML
7 1 (0.85%) Playwright
7 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.42%) Equities
4 4 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.56%) Clustering
5 3 (2.56%) Derivative
5 3 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.71%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.71%) PMI
6 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.85%) CMDB
7 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (89.74%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (45.30%) Analytics
3 39 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 31 (26.50%) Data Engineering
5 27 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 26 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (19.66%) Agile
7 23 (19.66%) ETL
8 20 (17.09%) Decision-Making
9 19 (16.24%) AI
9 19 (16.24%) Data Governance
10 17 (14.53%) DevOps
11 16 (13.68%) Data Science
11 16 (13.68%) Data Visualisation
12 15 (12.82%) Data Analysis
12 15 (12.82%) Migration
13 14 (11.97%) Actionable Insight
13 14 (11.97%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.97%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.59%) SQL
2 37 (31.62%) Python
3 11 (9.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.27%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.27%) Scala
5 4 (3.42%) R
6 3 (2.56%) C#
7 2 (1.71%) Java
7 2 (1.71%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.71%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (9.40%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.98%) Degree
3 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.56%) PMP
5 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.71%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.71%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.85%) CFA
6 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) MBA
6 1 (0.85%) RIBA
6 1 (0.85%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (29.91%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.84%) GDPR
3 7 (5.98%) PMO
3 7 (5.98%) QA
4 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.56%) SLA
5 2 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.71%) Basel III
6 1 (0.85%) GAAP
6 1 (0.85%) IFRS
6 1 (0.85%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.85%) P3O
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.85%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.42%) Terraform
2 3 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.85%) SCCM
3 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 19 (16.24%) Databricks
3 9 (7.69%) Workday
4 7 (5.98%) Oracle
5 6 (5.13%) Google
6 5 (4.27%) Informatica
6 5 (4.27%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.42%) Amplitude
7 4 (3.42%) SAP
8 3 (2.56%) Foundry
8 3 (2.56%) Palantir
8 3 (2.56%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.71%) Cognos
9 2 (1.71%) IBM
9 2 (1.71%) Planview
9 2 (1.71%) Sage
10 1 (0.85%) Adobe
10 1 (0.85%) Murex
10 1 (0.85%) VMware
10 1 (0.85%) Yardi