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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 51 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 +28
Contract jobs citing Power BI 124 81 104
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.46% 4.07% 4.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.16% 19.71% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 52 68
10th Percentile £322 £401 £371
25th Percentile £425 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £691
90th Percentile £749 £687 £775
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £23.44 £29.07 £40.50
% change year-on-year -19.38% -28.22% +5.19%

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 398 411 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.52% 20.66% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 272 366
10th Percentile £342 £400 £405
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £685 £700
90th Percentile £746 £738 £834
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £29.63 -
25th Percentile £55.81 £30.46 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.31% -34.31% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £33.27 £50.25
90th Percentile - £34.11 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% +3.14%

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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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +20 110 £525 - 59
West End of London +10 4 £475 +18.75% 2
City of Westminster +4 4 £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 9 (7.26%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (7.26%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.65%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.03%) Confluence
4 3 (2.42%) Apache
4 3 (2.42%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (16.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.23%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.61%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 45 (36.29%) Azure
3 19 (15.32%) AWS
4 15 (12.10%) Snowflake
5 14 (11.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (11.29%) GCP
5 14 (11.29%) Power Automate
6 10 (8.06%) dbt
6 10 (8.06%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.84%) GitHub
9 6 (4.84%) Prefect
9 6 (4.84%) Serverless
10 4 (3.23%) Dagster
11 3 (2.42%) IBM Watson
11 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (35.48%) Tableau
2 23 (18.55%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.06%) Looker
4 8 (6.45%) Metadata
4 8 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.65%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.84%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.84%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.23%) MySQL
7 4 (3.23%) Power Query
7 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.23%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.42%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.42%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.42%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.42%) OLAP
8 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Git
2 8 (6.45%) JIRA
3 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.81%) ERwin
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 55 (44.35%) Finance
2 36 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.90%) Banking
5 9 (7.26%) Front Office
6 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.84%) Back Office
7 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.23%) Legal
9 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.61%) Automotive
10 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.81%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (26.61%) Analyst
2 19 (15.32%) Data Engineer
2 19 (15.32%) Developer
3 14 (11.29%) Senior
4 12 (9.68%) Data Analyst
5 11 (8.87%) Data Scientist
6 10 (8.06%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Business Analyst
7 9 (7.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Consultant
8 8 (6.45%) Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.23%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (3.23%) Service Analyst
10 4 (3.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (2.42%) Data Modeller
11 3 (2.42%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.06%) PySpark
2 9 (7.26%) scikit-learn
3 6 (4.84%) Kafka
3 6 (4.84%) NumPy
3 6 (4.84%) Pandas
4 4 (3.23%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.23%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.42%) .NET
5 3 (2.42%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.42%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.61%) CSS
6 2 (1.61%) HTML
6 2 (1.61%) JSON
6 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.61%) XML
6 2 (1.61%) YAML
7 1 (0.81%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.23%) Clustering
3 4 (3.23%) Equities
3 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.42%) Derivative
5 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.61%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.61%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.81%) FMCG
6 1 (0.81%) PMI
6 1 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Unix
1 1 (0.81%) Windows
1 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (92.74%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (48.39%) Analytics
3 45 (36.29%) Data Modelling
4 41 (33.06%) Visualisation
5 36 (29.03%) Data Engineering
6 30 (24.19%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (24.19%) ETL
7 28 (22.58%) Data Visualisation
8 24 (19.35%) Agile
8 24 (19.35%) AI
8 24 (19.35%) Data Governance
9 22 (17.74%) Data Science
9 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (15.32%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (15.32%) Decision-Making
11 18 (14.52%) Data Analysis
11 18 (14.52%) DevOps
12 17 (13.71%) Machine Learning
13 15 (12.10%) Migration
13 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.81%) SQL
2 45 (36.29%) Python
3 9 (7.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.45%) Scala
5 6 (4.84%) R
6 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.61%) C#
7 2 (1.61%) IronPython
7 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) Java
8 1 (0.81%) Korn
8 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.06%) Degree
3 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) PMP
5 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.42%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.61%) CFA
6 2 (1.61%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) IIBA
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) MBA
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (25.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.45%) QA
3 7 (5.65%) GDPR
4 5 (4.03%) PMO
5 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.42%) SLA
6 2 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.61%) Basel III
7 1 (0.81%) GAAP
7 1 (0.81%) GRC
7 1 (0.81%) IFRS
7 1 (0.81%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (3.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.23%) Terraform
2 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.81%) SCCM
3 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.74%) Databricks
3 8 (6.45%) Google
4 7 (5.65%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.65%) Workday
5 6 (4.84%) Informatica
6 5 (4.03%) SAP
7 4 (3.23%) Amplitude
7 4 (3.23%) Oracle
8 3 (2.42%) Cognos
8 3 (2.42%) Foundry
8 3 (2.42%) IBM
8 3 (2.42%) Palantir
8 3 (2.42%) Planview
8 3 (2.42%) Sage
9 2 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.61%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.81%) Adobe
10 1 (0.81%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.81%) Salesforce