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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 41 46
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Power BI 123 95 98
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.72% 4.95% 4.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.60% 22.46% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 60 62
10th Percentile £374 £404 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +2.49% +4.76%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £669
90th Percentile £754 £838 £750
London median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.01 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.79 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.87 -
90th Percentile - £33.55 -
London median hourly rate £25.50 £29.07 £66.25
% change year-on-year -12.28% -56.12% +26.19%

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 430 423 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.51% 22.03% 22.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 283 381
10th Percentile £355 £404 £411
25th Percentile £456 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £700
90th Percentile £742 £775 £783
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £21.53 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £29.07 £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 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £85.50 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £39.31 £47.50
% change year-on-year +13.22% -17.25% -13.64%

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

Power BI
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

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Central London over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Central London

Power BI
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 June 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 +6 115 £525 -4.98% 21
City of Westminster -2 5 £475 - 2
West End of London - 5 £475 - 4
Southwark - 2 £613 - 1
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 £375 - 1
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 12 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.25%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.63%) Apache
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (17.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.25%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 59 (47.97%) Azure
3 18 (14.63%) Snowflake
4 15 (12.20%) AWS
4 15 (12.20%) Power Automate
5 12 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.94%) dbt
6 11 (8.94%) GCP
7 10 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (8.13%) GitHub
7 10 (8.13%) PowerApps
8 9 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.50%) Serverless
10 7 (5.69%) Prefect
11 6 (4.88%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) DNS
1 3 (2.44%) Firewall
1 3 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.95%) Tableau
2 22 (17.89%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.94%) Looker
4 10 (8.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (8.13%) SQL Server
5 9 (7.32%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.88%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.88%) Metadata
6 6 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (4.07%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (3.25%) Mixpanel
8 4 (3.25%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.44%) GIS
9 3 (2.44%) Power Query
9 3 (2.44%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.63%) OLAP
10 2 (1.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Git
2 6 (4.88%) JIRA
3 2 (1.63%) GitLab
3 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.81%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.81%) ERwin
4 1 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (43.90%) Finance
2 20 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (16.26%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.38%) Banking
4 5 (4.07%) Legal
5 4 (3.25%) Back Office
5 4 (3.25%) Retail
5 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.44%) Front Office
6 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.44%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.63%) Automotive
7 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Marketing
7 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (25.20%) Analyst
2 22 (17.89%) Data Engineer
3 16 (13.01%) Architect
4 15 (12.20%) Data Analyst
4 15 (12.20%) Developer
5 11 (8.94%) Senior
6 9 (7.32%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.69%) Lead
7 7 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.88%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) Consultant
9 5 (4.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.25%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.44%) Power BI Analyst
11 3 (2.44%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.57%) PySpark
2 9 (7.32%) .NET
3 8 (6.50%) Kafka
4 4 (3.25%) REST
5 3 (2.44%) CSS
5 3 (2.44%) HTML
5 3 (2.44%) JSON
5 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.44%) RESTful
6 2 (1.63%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.63%) React
6 2 (1.63%) Redux
6 2 (1.63%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.81%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.81%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.81%) NumPy
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.81%) Pandas
7 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.25%) Clustering
3 4 (3.25%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.44%) CMDB
4 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.63%) Derivative
5 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.63%) Equities
5 2 (1.63%) PMI
5 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.63%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (89.43%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (48.78%) Analytics
3 44 (35.77%) Data Modelling
4 32 (26.02%) Data Engineering
5 28 (22.76%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (20.33%) DevOps
6 25 (20.33%) ETL
7 24 (19.51%) AI
8 23 (18.70%) Data Governance
9 22 (17.89%) Agile
9 22 (17.89%) CI/CD
9 22 (17.89%) Decision-Making
9 22 (17.89%) Visualisation
10 20 (16.26%) Migration
11 15 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (12.20%) Use Case
12 14 (11.38%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (11.38%) Data Science
13 13 (10.57%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.28%) SQL
2 39 (31.71%) Python
3 14 (11.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.07%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.25%) C#
6 4 (3.25%) R
7 3 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.63%) Java
8 2 (1.63%) Scala
9 1 (0.81%) Bicep
9 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.57%) DBS Check
1 13 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.69%) Degree
4 3 (2.44%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PMP
6 1 (0.81%) RIBA
6 1 (0.81%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (26.83%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.50%) GDPR
3 6 (4.88%) QA
4 5 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.07%) PMO
5 3 (2.44%) SLA
6 2 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.81%) Basel III
7 1 (0.81%) COBIT
7 1 (0.81%) GAAP
7 1 (0.81%) IFRS
7 1 (0.81%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.81%) P3O
7 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) Terraform
2 3 (2.44%) Grafana
2 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.44%) SCCM
3 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (32.52%) Microsoft
2 24 (19.51%) Databricks
3 9 (7.32%) Workday
4 7 (5.69%) Oracle
5 6 (4.88%) Informatica
5 6 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.07%) Amplitude
6 5 (4.07%) Google
7 4 (3.25%) Foundry
7 4 (3.25%) Palantir
7 4 (3.25%) SAP
8 3 (2.44%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.44%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.44%) Splunk
9 2 (1.63%) Adobe
9 2 (1.63%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.63%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.81%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.81%) Cognos