Power BI Specialist Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Power BI Specialist
England > London

The median Microsoft Power BI Specialist daily rate in London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 376 448
Rank change year-on-year +13 +72 +142
Contract jobs requiring a Power BI Specialist 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% 0.006% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.007% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £250 - £434
25th Percentile £375 £156 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £163 £523
Median % change year-on-year +161.54% -68.90% -12.92%
75th Percentile £513 £169 £549
90th Percentile £570 - £565
England median daily rate £425 £163 £481
% change year-on-year +161.54% -66.23% -16.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,486 15,331 20,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.03% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,366 10,240 15,087
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 180 230
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.48 £18.15
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.26
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £36.94
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -5.25% +15.44%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.38 £63.44
90th Percentile £66.54 £72.19 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Power BI Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Power BI Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI Specialist in London

Power BI Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Power BI Specialist job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Power BI Specialist job vacancies in London

Power BI Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI Specialist in London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI Specialist in London

Power BI Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Central London - 1 £450 -
Power BI Specialist
England

Power BI Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Power BI Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Power BI Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Power BI
1 10 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (70.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (50.00%) Finance
4 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) Power Query
5 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Azure
6 3 (30.00%) Analytics
6 3 (30.00%) ETL
6 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (20.00%) AutoML
7 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (20.00%) FinOps
7 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (20.00%) Case Management
7 2 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 2 (20.00%) ERP
7 2 (20.00%) Python

Power BI Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Power BI
2 5 (50.00%) Power Query
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Local Government
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) AutoML
5 2 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (20.00%) Case Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) FinOps
5 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) Tagetik