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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 47 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +34
Contract jobs citing Power BI 124 82 106
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.60% 4.04% 4.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.63% 19.76% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 56 69
10th Percentile £320 £406 £363
25th Percentile £421 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £688
90th Percentile £749 £686 £775
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.07 -
London median hourly rate £19.38 £29.07 £33.37
% change year-on-year -33.35% -12.89% -13.32%

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 392 415 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.70% 20.45% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 277 370
10th Percentile £341 £405 £404
25th Percentile £425 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £700
90th Percentile £742 £742 £838
London median daily rate £525 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £30.29 -
25th Percentile £55.81 £32.12 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £35.29 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.71% -27.25% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £38.58 £50.25
90th Percentile - £40.48 -
London median hourly rate £48.25 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +16.27% -7.78% -14.29%

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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 13 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 13 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 - 98
West End of London +10 4 £475 +18.75%
City of Westminster +5 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%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.03%) Confluence
5 3 (2.42%) Apache
5 3 (2.42%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (16.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.42%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) 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
2 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 43 (34.68%) Azure
3 18 (14.52%) AWS
4 15 (12.10%) Power Automate
5 13 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (10.48%) GCP
5 13 (10.48%) Snowflake
6 11 (8.87%) PowerApps
7 9 (7.26%) dbt
8 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.84%) GitHub
10 6 (4.84%) Serverless
11 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.03%) Prefect
12 4 (3.23%) Dagster
13 3 (2.42%) IBM Watson
13 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) HTTP
1 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (35.48%) Tableau
2 21 (16.94%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.06%) Looker
4 8 (6.45%) Metadata
5 7 (5.65%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.84%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.84%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.23%) MySQL
9 3 (2.42%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.42%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.42%) Mixpanel
9 3 (2.42%) OLAP
9 3 (2.42%) Power Query
9 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.61%) Star Schema
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 56 (45.16%) Finance
2 36 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (20.97%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.10%) Banking
5 10 (8.06%) 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 34 (27.42%) Analyst
2 19 (15.32%) Developer
3 18 (14.52%) Data Engineer
4 14 (11.29%) Senior
5 13 (10.48%) Data Analyst
6 11 (8.87%) Data Scientist
7 10 (8.06%) Business Analyst
7 10 (8.06%) Consultant
7 10 (8.06%) Lead
8 9 (7.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (6.45%) Architect
10 5 (4.03%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.03%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.23%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (3.23%) Service Analyst
12 3 (2.42%) Data Modeller
12 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Consultant
12 3 (2.42%) Risk Analyst
12 3 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.06%) PySpark
2 9 (7.26%) scikit-learn
3 6 (4.84%) NumPy
3 6 (4.84%) Pandas
4 5 (4.03%) Kafka
5 4 (3.23%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.23%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.42%) .NET
6 3 (2.42%) JSON
6 3 (2.42%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.42%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.61%) CSS
7 2 (1.61%) HTML
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.61%) REST
7 2 (1.61%) XML
7 2 (1.61%) YAML
8 1 (0.81%) Middleware
8 1 (0.81%) Node.js
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.23%) Equities
3 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.42%) Clustering
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%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.81%) FMCG
6 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
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 59 (47.58%) Analytics
3 43 (34.68%) Data Modelling
3 43 (34.68%) Visualisation
4 34 (27.42%) Data Engineering
5 30 (24.19%) Data Visualisation
6 28 (22.58%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (22.58%) ETL
7 24 (19.35%) Agile
8 23 (18.55%) Data Governance
9 22 (17.74%) AI
9 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (16.94%) Data Science
11 18 (14.52%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (14.52%) Data Analysis
11 18 (14.52%) Decision-Making
12 17 (13.71%) DevOps
12 17 (13.71%) Machine Learning
13 16 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (12.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (50.00%) SQL
2 45 (36.29%) Python
3 8 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (6.45%) Scala
4 6 (4.84%) R
5 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.61%) C#
6 2 (1.61%) IronPython
6 2 (1.61%) Korn
6 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.81%) Bicep
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) Java
7 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.26%) Degree
3 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) PMP
5 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.61%) CFA
6 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
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
7 1 (0.81%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.45%) QA
3 7 (5.65%) GDPR
4 4 (3.23%) 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 34 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.74%) Databricks
3 7 (5.65%) Google
3 7 (5.65%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.65%) Workday
4 5 (4.03%) SAP
5 4 (3.23%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.23%) Informatica
6 3 (2.42%) Cognos
6 3 (2.42%) Foundry
6 3 (2.42%) IBM
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle
6 3 (2.42%) Palantir
6 3 (2.42%) Sage
7 2 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.61%) Planview
7 2 (1.61%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.81%) Adobe
8 1 (0.81%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.81%) Salesforce