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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 41 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 -4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 125 106 69
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.86% 5.15% 3.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.07% 23.50% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 64 45
10th Percentile £371 £368 £365
25th Percentile £425 £437 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% -3.91% +7.98%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £669
90th Percentile £757 £838 £723
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £20.27 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.93 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.16% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.01 -
90th Percentile - £35.60 -
London median hourly rate £27.03 £31.54 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.30% -42.66% +40.13%

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 430 451 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.72% 21.91% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 300 364
10th Percentile £363 £400 £402
25th Percentile £463 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £584
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -1.93% -2.71%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £710
90th Percentile £759 £776 £786
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £30.54 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -15.83%

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 12 August 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

Power BI
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 12 August 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 0 118 £538 -2.27% 42
Southwark - 3 £575 -
West End of London - 3 £475 - 2
Kensington and Chelsea -3 1 £375 - 1
City of Westminster -9 1 £538 - 8
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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 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.80%) Confluence
4 2 (1.60%) Apache
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.60%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.80%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.60%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.80%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 61 (48.80%) Azure
3 18 (14.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (14.40%) Power Automate
4 17 (13.60%) Snowflake
5 16 (12.80%) PowerApps
6 15 (12.00%) AWS
7 14 (11.20%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (11.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (8.00%) dbt
9 9 (7.20%) GitHub
10 8 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (6.40%) Serverless
11 7 (5.60%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.60%) GCP
11 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (5.60%) Prefect
11 7 (5.60%) SaaS
12 5 (4.00%) Dagster
12 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) DNS
1 3 (2.40%) Firewall
1 3 (2.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.20%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (17.60%) Tableau
3 16 (12.80%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (8.80%) Data Lake
5 10 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (8.00%) Star Schema
6 9 (7.20%) Looker
6 9 (7.20%) Metadata
6 9 (7.20%) Power Query
7 8 (6.40%) BigQuery
7 8 (6.40%) Semantic Layer
7 8 (6.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) JIRA
2 4 (3.20%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) GitLab
3 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.80%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 55 (44.00%) Finance
2 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.20%) Banking
5 9 (7.20%) Retail
6 7 (5.60%) Legal
7 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.00%) Marketing
9 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.40%) Back Office
10 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.60%) Front Office
11 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.60%) Law
11 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 34 (27.20%) Analyst
2 18 (14.40%) Data Analyst
2 18 (14.40%) Data Engineer
3 17 (13.60%) Architect
3 17 (13.60%) Developer
4 13 (10.40%) Senior
5 10 (8.00%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.40%) Consultant
7 7 (5.60%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (5.60%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) Lead
10 4 (3.20%) Power BI Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (2.40%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) PySpark
2 9 (7.20%) .NET
2 9 (7.20%) Kafka
3 4 (3.20%) REST
4 3 (2.40%) RESTful
5 2 (1.60%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.60%) JSON
5 2 (1.60%) React
5 2 (1.60%) Redux
6 1 (0.80%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.80%) CSS
6 1 (0.80%) HTML
6 1 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.80%) LangChain
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.80%) OAuth
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.80%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.80%) Clustering
4 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.20%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (3.20%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.40%) CMDB
5 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.60%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.60%) FMCG
6 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.60%) PMI
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) VMS
3 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (88.80%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (47.20%) Analytics
3 48 (38.40%) Data Modelling
4 29 (23.20%) Data Governance
4 29 (23.20%) DevOps
4 29 (23.20%) ETL
5 28 (22.40%) CI/CD
6 26 (20.80%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (20.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 24 (19.20%) Decision-Making
8 24 (19.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (18.40%) AI
9 23 (18.40%) Migration
10 22 (17.60%) Agile
11 15 (12.00%) Visualisation
12 14 (11.20%) Data Architecture
12 14 (11.20%) Dimensional Modelling
13 13 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.40%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 61 (48.80%) SQL
2 34 (27.20%) Python
3 22 (17.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.40%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.60%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.20%) C#
7 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.60%) Java
8 2 (1.60%) R
8 2 (1.60%) VBA
8 2 (1.60%) XMLA
9 1 (0.80%) Bicep
9 1 (0.80%) Korn
9 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.20%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.40%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.40%) Degree
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.40%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) RIBA
7 1 (0.80%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.20%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.00%) QA
3 6 (4.80%) GDPR
3 6 (4.80%) PMO
4 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) P3O
6 1 (0.80%) COBIT
6 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.80%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (4.00%) Terraform
2 3 (2.40%) Grafana
2 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.40%) SCCM
2 3 (2.40%) SCOM
3 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (36.80%) Microsoft
2 28 (22.40%) Databricks
3 7 (5.60%) Informatica
4 6 (4.80%) SAP
4 6 (4.80%) Workday
5 5 (4.00%) Oracle
6 4 (3.20%) Amplitude
6 4 (3.20%) Google
6 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.20%) VMware
7 3 (2.40%) Adobe
7 3 (2.40%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.40%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.40%) BMC
7 3 (2.40%) Commvault
7 3 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.40%) Remedy
7 3 (2.40%) Splunk
8 2 (1.60%) Foundry
8 2 (1.60%) Palantir