Power BI Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Power BI
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Power BI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power BI over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 47 74
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 +3
Contract jobs citing Power BI 81 103 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.12% 4.06% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.61% 19.22% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 65 96
10th Percentile £391 £391 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -2.87%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £646
90th Percentile £685 £775 £775
London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £29.63 - -
25th Percentile £30.46 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £31.86 - £52.50
75th Percentile £33.27 - £53.75
90th Percentile £34.11 - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.24 £38.50
% change year-on-year +10.79% -31.84% +28.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 413 536 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.99% 21.14% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 363 560
10th Percentile £402 £404 £413
25th Percentile £463 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £690 £725
90th Percentile £738 £788 £789
London median daily rate £561 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.05% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £29.63 - £43.13
25th Percentile £30.46 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £31.86 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -34.31% -42.32% +54.29%
75th Percentile £33.27 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £34.11 - -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +11.11% -21.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in Central London

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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 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in Central London

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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 3 April 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
City of London -7 68 £525 -12.50% 38
West End of London -8 4 £400 - 2
City of Westminster -3 3 £475 -
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.17%) Apache
4 4 (4.94%) Confluence
5 3 (3.70%) Jupyter
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.23%) Revit
5 1 (1.23%) SPSS
5 1 (1.23%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 36 (44.44%) Azure
3 10 (12.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (11.11%) PowerApps
5 8 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (8.64%) AWS
6 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (8.64%) Power Automate
6 7 (8.64%) Snowflake
7 6 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (6.17%) dbt
8 5 (6.17%) GCP
8 5 (6.17%) GitHub
9 3 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) SSH
2 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.23%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.16%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (24.69%) Tableau
3 15 (18.52%) SQL Server
4 9 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 6 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (7.41%) BusinessObjects
5 6 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (6.17%) BigQuery
6 5 (6.17%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (6.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (4.94%) Apache Hive
7 4 (4.94%) Delta Lake
7 4 (4.94%) Power Query
7 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.94%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (3.70%) Big Data
8 3 (3.70%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.70%) Looker
8 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) RStudio
4 2 (2.47%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.23%) ERwin
5 1 (1.23%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.23%) Postman
5 1 (1.23%) Selenium
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (20.99%) Finance
4 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.94%) Banking
6 4 (4.94%) Marketing
7 3 (3.70%) Back Office
8 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.47%) Local Government
8 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Advertising
9 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Electronics
9 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
9 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (34.57%) Developer
2 27 (33.33%) Analyst
3 17 (20.99%) Data Analyst
4 11 (13.58%) Power BI Developer
5 9 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Lead
6 8 (9.88%) Architect
7 7 (8.64%) Business Analyst
8 6 (7.41%) Analyst Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (6.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Snowflake Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.94%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Power BI Analyst
10 4 (4.94%) Power Platform Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Data Manager
11 3 (3.70%) Developer Analyst
11 3 (3.70%) Lead Architect
11 3 (3.70%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) YAML
2 5 (6.17%) PySpark
3 4 (4.94%) JSON
3 4 (4.94%) REST
4 3 (3.70%) pydantic
5 2 (2.47%) .NET
5 2 (2.47%) Kafka
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.23%) CSS
6 1 (1.23%) FHIR
6 1 (1.23%) HTML
6 1 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.23%) MIDP
6 1 (1.23%) Pandas
6 1 (1.23%) Plotly
6 1 (1.23%) pytest
6 1 (1.23%) SOAP
6 1 (1.23%) Web Services
6 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.70%) Reference Data
2 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.47%) CMDB
3 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.23%) Derivative
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.23%) NHS
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.23%) PKI
4 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.23%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (75.31%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (40.74%) Visualisation
3 20 (24.69%) Analytics
4 19 (23.46%) Agile
4 19 (23.46%) Data Modelling
5 17 (20.99%) Data Analysis
5 17 (20.99%) Data Visualisation
6 12 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 12 (14.81%) ETL
7 11 (13.58%) Data Integration
7 11 (13.58%) DevOps
7 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.58%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (13.58%) User Experience
8 10 (12.35%) Data Engineering
8 10 (12.35%) Data Governance
8 10 (12.35%) Data Management
9 9 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (9.88%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.88%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 50 (61.73%) SQL
2 21 (25.93%) Python
3 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.94%) Scala
6 3 (3.70%) Bash
6 3 (3.70%) Bicep
6 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.47%) C#
7 2 (2.47%) Groovy
7 2 (2.47%) Java
7 2 (2.47%) R
7 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) Degree
2 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) CBAP
5 1 (1.23%) CFA
5 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) HNC
5 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.23%) PMP
5 1 (1.23%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.64%) GDPR
3 5 (6.17%) QA
4 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.23%) MiFID
5 1 (1.23%) PMO
5 1 (1.23%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.23%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) SCCM
1 2 (2.47%) Terraform
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.23%) Opsgenie
2 1 (1.23%) SCOrch
2 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.11%) Databricks
2 9 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.17%) Google
3 5 (6.17%) SAP
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle
4 3 (3.70%) Remedy
5 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.47%) BMC
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) Adobe
6 1 (1.23%) Advent
6 1 (1.23%) Apple
6 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco
6 1 (1.23%) Citrix
6 1 (1.23%) Informatica
6 1 (1.23%) Planview
6 1 (1.23%) Progress
6 1 (1.23%) SimCorp