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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 55 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 +35
Contract jobs citing Power BI 115 78 109
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.30% 3.75% 4.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.87% 18.98% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 52 72
10th Percentile £320 £401 £363
25th Percentile £402 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £680 £685
90th Percentile £749 £701 £772
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.07 -
London median hourly rate £19.38 £29.07 £40.50
% change year-on-year -33.35% -28.22% +9.46%

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 385 411 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.76% 19.74% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 268 369
10th Percentile £340 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £751 £838
London median daily rate £525 £565 £558
% change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £30.61 -
25th Percentile £55.81 £32.91 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £41.00 £50.25
90th Percentile - £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £52.00 £41.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +25.30% -5.14% +4.01%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +14 101 £521 -0.86% 32
West End of London +9 4 £475 +18.75%
City of Westminster +5 4 £475 - 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 9 (7.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.48%) Confluence
4 3 (2.61%) Apache
4 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (19.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (33.91%) Azure
3 15 (13.04%) Power Automate
4 14 (12.17%) AWS
5 12 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (8.70%) GCP
6 10 (8.70%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (6.09%) Snowflake
9 6 (5.22%) GitHub
10 5 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.35%) Serverless
11 4 (3.48%) dbt
12 3 (2.61%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.61%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.61%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.61%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) HTTP
1 1 (0.87%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (32.17%) Tableau
2 17 (14.78%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.96%) Looker
4 6 (5.22%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.22%) Metadata
5 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.48%) MySQL
6 4 (3.48%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.61%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.61%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.61%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.61%) Power Query
7 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.74%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.74%) OLAP
8 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.74%) Spotfire
8 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Git
2 8 (6.96%) JIRA
3 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.87%) ERwin
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 51 (44.35%) Finance
2 36 (31.30%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.43%) Banking
5 9 (7.83%) Front Office
6 8 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.35%) Back Office
8 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Automotive
10 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.87%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.87%) Legal
11 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (26.09%) Analyst
2 17 (14.78%) Developer
3 15 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) Senior
5 12 (10.43%) Data Analyst
6 11 (9.57%) Data Scientist
7 10 (8.70%) Consultant
7 10 (8.70%) Lead
8 9 (7.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (6.96%) Business Analyst
10 7 (6.09%) Architect
11 5 (4.35%) Data Architect
11 5 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (3.48%) Senior Data Scientist
12 4 (3.48%) Service Analyst
13 3 (2.61%) Data Modeller
13 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Consultant
13 3 (2.61%) Programme Manager
13 3 (2.61%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) PySpark
1 9 (7.83%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.22%) NumPy
2 6 (5.22%) Pandas
3 4 (3.48%) Matplotlib
3 4 (3.48%) Seaborn
4 3 (2.61%) JSON
4 3 (2.61%) Kafka
4 3 (2.61%) PyTorch
4 3 (2.61%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.74%) CSS
5 2 (1.74%) HTML
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.74%) REST
5 2 (1.74%) XML
5 2 (1.74%) YAML
6 1 (0.87%) .NET
6 1 (0.87%) Altair
6 1 (0.87%) GeoJSON
6 1 (0.87%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.61%) Equities
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) Clustering
5 2 (1.74%) Derivative
5 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (93.91%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (47.83%) Analytics
3 44 (38.26%) Visualisation
4 42 (36.52%) Data Modelling
5 32 (27.83%) Data Visualisation
6 28 (24.35%) Data Engineering
7 24 (20.87%) Agile
8 23 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (19.13%) ETL
9 22 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (18.26%) Data Governance
10 21 (18.26%) Data Science
11 20 (17.39%) AI
12 19 (16.52%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (14.78%) Machine Learning
14 15 (13.04%) Data Analysis
14 15 (13.04%) Decision-Making
14 15 (13.04%) DevOps
15 14 (12.17%) Dashboard Development
15 14 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.83%) SQL
2 40 (34.78%) Python
3 8 (6.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.09%) Scala
5 6 (5.22%) R
6 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.74%) C#
7 2 (1.74%) IronPython
7 2 (1.74%) Korn
7 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.87%) Bicep
8 1 (0.87%) C++
8 1 (0.87%) Java
8 1 (0.87%) LookML
8 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.83%) Degree
3 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) PMP
5 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.74%) CFA
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) IIBA
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) MBA
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.61%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.09%) QA
3 6 (5.22%) PMO
4 4 (3.48%) GDPR
5 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.61%) SLA
6 2 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.74%) Basel III
7 1 (0.87%) GAAP
7 1 (0.87%) GRC
7 1 (0.87%) IFRS
7 1 (0.87%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.48%) Terraform
2 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.87%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.65%) Databricks
3 7 (6.09%) Google
3 7 (6.09%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.22%) SAP
5 5 (4.35%) Oracle
6 4 (3.48%) Amplitude
6 4 (3.48%) Workday
7 3 (2.61%) Cognos
7 3 (2.61%) Foundry
7 3 (2.61%) IBM
7 3 (2.61%) Informatica
7 3 (2.61%) Palantir
7 3 (2.61%) Planview
7 3 (2.61%) Sage
8 2 (1.74%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.74%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.87%) Adobe
9 1 (0.87%) Automation Anywhere