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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 53 49
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +15
Contract jobs citing Power BI 124 83 99
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.16% 4.12% 4.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.02% 19.26% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 50 65
10th Percentile £350 £412 £365
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +8.24%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £684
90th Percentile £749 £694 £775
London median daily rate £500 £490 £520
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £28.55 £29.07 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% -47.15% +42.86%

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 413 431 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.19% 21.40% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 277 361
10th Percentile £345 £404 £405
25th Percentile £432 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £552 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -4.00% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £695
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £33.51 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £37.23 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £48.25 £39.31 £49.25
% change year-on-year +22.76% -20.19% -1.50%

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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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +13 115 £525 -1.87% 26
West End of London +6 4 £475 - 1
City of Westminster +3 4 £475 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 - 1
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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 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.23%) Confluence
4 3 (2.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
Applications
1 23 (18.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.23%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) 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 47 (37.90%) Azure
3 16 (12.90%) AWS
3 16 (12.90%) Snowflake
4 15 (12.10%) Power Automate
5 13 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (10.48%) GCP
6 12 (9.68%) dbt
7 9 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (7.26%) PowerApps
8 8 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (6.45%) Prefect
9 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.84%) Dagster
9 6 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.84%) GitHub
10 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (3.23%) Serverless
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (33.06%) Tableau
2 24 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.87%) Looker
4 8 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.45%) BigQuery
4 8 (6.45%) Metadata
4 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.84%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.03%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.23%) Power Query
7 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.23%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.42%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.42%) MySQL
8 3 (2.42%) OLAP
8 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Git
2 6 (4.84%) JIRA
3 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.81%) ERwin
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 59 (47.58%) Finance
2 32 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.94%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.90%) Banking
5 8 (6.45%) Back Office
5 8 (6.45%) Front Office
5 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.84%) Legal
7 4 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Automotive
9 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.81%) International Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (28.23%) Analyst
2 21 (16.94%) Data Engineer
3 19 (15.32%) Developer
4 14 (11.29%) Data Analyst
4 14 (11.29%) Senior
5 11 (8.87%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.26%) Business Analyst
6 9 (7.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Architect
8 7 (5.65%) Consultant
9 5 (4.03%) Lead
9 5 (4.03%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (3.23%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
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
10 4 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) scikit-learn
2 8 (6.45%) PySpark
3 6 (4.84%) Kafka
3 6 (4.84%) NumPy
3 6 (4.84%) Pandas
4 4 (3.23%) JSON
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%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.61%) REST
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%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.23%) Clustering
2 4 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.23%) Equities
2 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.42%) Derivative
4 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.61%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.61%) PMI
4 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.61%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Unix
1 1 (0.81%) Windows
1 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (91.13%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (49.19%) Analytics
3 40 (32.26%) Data Modelling
4 37 (29.84%) Visualisation
5 34 (27.42%) Data Engineering
6 30 (24.19%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (22.58%) ETL
8 24 (19.35%) Data Governance
9 23 (18.55%) Agile
9 23 (18.55%) AI
9 23 (18.55%) Data Science
9 23 (18.55%) Data Visualisation
10 21 (16.94%) Decision-Making
11 20 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (13.71%) Data Analysis
14 15 (12.10%) Machine Learning
14 15 (12.10%) Validation
15 14 (11.29%) Migration
15 14 (11.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 60 (48.39%) SQL
2 43 (34.68%) Python
3 10 (8.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.84%) R
4 6 (4.84%) Scala
5 4 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.61%) Java
7 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
8 1 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (8.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.26%) Degree
3 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.42%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.42%) PMP
5 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.61%) CFA
5 2 (1.61%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.61%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) IIBA
6 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.81%) MBA
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) RIBA
6 1 (0.81%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (28.23%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.26%) GDPR
2 9 (7.26%) QA
3 6 (4.84%) PMO
4 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.42%) SLA
5 2 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.61%) Basel III
6 1 (0.81%) GAAP
6 1 (0.81%) IFRS
6 1 (0.81%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.42%) Terraform
2 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) SCCM
3 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.13%) Databricks
3 9 (7.26%) Workday
4 7 (5.65%) Google
5 6 (4.84%) Informatica
5 6 (4.84%) Oracle
5 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.03%) SAP
7 4 (3.23%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.42%) Cognos
8 3 (2.42%) Foundry
8 3 (2.42%) IBM
8 3 (2.42%) Palantir
8 3 (2.42%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.42%) Sage
9 2 (1.61%) Planview
10 1 (0.81%) Adobe
10 1 (0.81%) Murex
10 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.81%) Yardi