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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 50 49
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Power BI 123 79 99
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.18% 3.97% 4.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.00% 18.72% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 48 64
10th Percentile £350 £409 £369
25th Percentile £443 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -4.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £657 £685
90th Percentile £749 £687 £775
London median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £28.55 £29.07 £40.62
% change year-on-year -1.79% -28.43% +5.51%

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 410 422 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.27% 21.22% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 270 362
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £685 £689
90th Percentile £738 £739 £788
London median daily rate £525 £552 £563
% change year-on-year -4.98% -1.87% -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 £46.50 £41.50 £47.28
% change year-on-year +12.05% -12.22% +8.36%

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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 16 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 16 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 +10 110 £525 - 74
West End of London +7 4 £475 - 2
City of Westminster +2 4 £475 -
Southwark - 1 £650 - 2
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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 10 (8.13%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.88%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.25%) Confluence
5 3 (2.44%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.63%) Apache
Applications
1 23 (18.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.25%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.63%) 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
1 123 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 45 (36.59%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) AWS
4 15 (12.20%) Power Automate
4 15 (12.20%) Snowflake
5 13 (10.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (10.57%) GCP
6 12 (9.76%) dbt
7 10 (8.13%) PowerApps
8 9 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.50%) Prefect
10 7 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.69%) GitHub
11 6 (4.88%) Dagster
11 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (4.07%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (3.25%) Serverless
14 3 (2.44%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (34.15%) Tableau
2 23 (18.70%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.94%) Looker
4 8 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.50%) BigQuery
4 8 (6.50%) Metadata
4 8 (6.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.25%) MySQL
6 4 (3.25%) Power Query
6 4 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.25%) Star Schema
7 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.44%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.44%) OLAP
7 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.63%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) JIRA
3 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.81%) ERwin
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 55 (44.72%) Finance
2 33 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (18.70%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.01%) Banking
5 8 (6.50%) Front Office
5 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.69%) Back Office
7 6 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.88%) Legal
8 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.81%) International Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.81%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (26.83%) Analyst
2 20 (16.26%) Data Engineer
3 19 (15.45%) Developer
4 14 (11.38%) Senior
5 12 (9.76%) Data Analyst
6 11 (8.94%) Data Scientist
7 9 (7.32%) Business Analyst
7 9 (7.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (6.50%) Architect
8 8 (6.50%) Lead
9 7 (5.69%) Consultant
10 5 (4.07%) Power BI Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (3.25%) Service Analyst
11 4 (3.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.44%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.13%) PySpark
2 9 (7.32%) scikit-learn
3 7 (5.69%) Kafka
4 6 (4.88%) NumPy
4 6 (4.88%) Pandas
5 4 (3.25%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.25%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.44%) .NET
6 3 (2.44%) JSON
6 3 (2.44%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.44%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.63%) CSS
7 2 (1.63%) HTML
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.63%) REST
7 2 (1.63%) XML
7 2 (1.63%) YAML
8 1 (0.81%) Altair
8 1 (0.81%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.69%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.25%) Clustering
3 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.25%) Equities
3 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.44%) Derivative
5 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.63%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.63%) Market Risk
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%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
6 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 (91.87%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (47.97%) Analytics
3 43 (34.96%) Data Modelling
4 38 (30.89%) Visualisation
5 37 (30.08%) Data Engineering
6 32 (26.02%) Data Pipeline
7 31 (25.20%) ETL
8 25 (20.33%) Data Visualisation
9 24 (19.51%) Agile
9 24 (19.51%) Data Governance
10 21 (17.07%) AI
10 21 (17.07%) Data Science
11 20 (16.26%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (16.26%) Decision-Making
12 18 (14.63%) Data Analysis
12 18 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (13.01%) DevOps
14 15 (12.20%) Machine Learning
15 14 (11.38%) Migration
15 14 (11.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 62 (50.41%) SQL
2 46 (37.40%) Python
3 10 (8.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.50%) Scala
5 6 (4.88%) R
6 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.63%) IronPython
7 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
8 1 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) Java
8 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.32%) Degree
3 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.44%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.44%) PMP
5 2 (1.63%) CFA
5 2 (1.63%) 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 36 (29.27%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.32%) GDPR
2 9 (7.32%) QA
3 6 (4.88%) PMO
4 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) SLA
5 2 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.63%) 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 4 (3.25%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.44%) Terraform
2 1 (0.81%) SCCM
2 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (27.64%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.89%) Databricks
3 9 (7.32%) Workday
4 7 (5.69%) Google
4 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.88%) Informatica
6 5 (4.07%) Oracle
6 5 (4.07%) SAP
7 4 (3.25%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.44%) Cognos
8 3 (2.44%) Foundry
8 3 (2.44%) IBM
8 3 (2.44%) Palantir
8 3 (2.44%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.44%) Sage
9 2 (1.63%) Planview
10 1 (0.81%) Adobe
10 1 (0.81%) Murex
10 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.81%) Yardi