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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 43 50
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Power BI 122 94 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.85% 4.99% 3.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.91% 22.27% 17.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 60 59
10th Percentile £365 £404 £367
25th Percentile £440 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -3.27% +9.52%
75th Percentile £623 £685 £675
90th Percentile £749 £838 £755
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £19.01 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.79 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.07 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £31.87 -
90th Percentile - £33.55 -
London median hourly rate £24.03 £29.07 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.35% -47.15% +35.80%

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 422 422 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.77% 22.40% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 283 363
10th Percentile £350 £404 £407
25th Percentile £450 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £703
90th Percentile £749 £773 £785
London median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.18% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £20.27 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £25.93 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.86 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -34.31% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £51.01 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £80.40 -
London median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -27.08% -8.57%

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

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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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +6 115 £550 - 58
City of Westminster -1 5 £475 - 3
West End of London - 5 £475 - 1
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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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 12 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.46%) Confluence
3 3 (2.46%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.82%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (16.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.28%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.10%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 56 (45.90%) Azure
3 17 (13.93%) Snowflake
4 16 (13.11%) AWS
5 13 (10.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (10.66%) Power Automate
6 11 (9.02%) dbt
6 11 (9.02%) GCP
7 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.38%) GitHub
7 9 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (6.56%) PowerApps
9 7 (5.74%) Prefect
9 7 (5.74%) Serverless
10 6 (4.92%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.10%) Dagster
11 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (4.10%) SaaS
12 4 (3.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) DNS
1 2 (1.64%) Firewall
1 2 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.23%) Tableau
2 22 (18.03%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (9.84%) Looker
4 10 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.56%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.92%) Metadata
7 5 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.28%) Mixpanel
8 4 (3.28%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.46%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.64%) MySQL
10 2 (1.64%) OLAP
10 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.64%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.64%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Git
2 7 (5.74%) JIRA
3 2 (1.64%) GitLab
3 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.82%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.82%) ERwin
4 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.82%) Selenium
General
1 55 (45.08%) Finance
2 22 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.75%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.11%) Banking
5 7 (5.74%) Back Office
5 7 (5.74%) Front Office
6 5 (4.10%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.10%) Legal
7 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.46%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.46%) Retail
9 2 (1.64%) Automotive
9 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Advertising
10 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.82%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (26.23%) Analyst
2 23 (18.85%) Data Engineer
3 17 (13.93%) Developer
4 14 (11.48%) Architect
5 13 (10.66%) Data Analyst
6 10 (8.20%) Senior
7 7 (5.74%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (5.74%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.74%) Lead
7 7 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.28%) Consultant
8 4 (3.28%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.28%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Snowflake Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Power BI Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (2.46%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.84%) PySpark
2 9 (7.38%) Kafka
3 8 (6.56%) .NET
4 4 (3.28%) REST
5 3 (2.46%) JSON
5 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.64%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.64%) CSS
6 2 (1.64%) HTML
6 2 (1.64%) React
6 2 (1.64%) Redux
6 2 (1.64%) RESTful
6 2 (1.64%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.82%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.82%) Middleware
7 1 (0.82%) NumPy
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.82%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.82%) XML
7 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.28%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (3.28%) Equities
4 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.46%) Clustering
5 3 (2.46%) CMDB
5 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.46%) Derivative
5 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.46%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.64%) PMI
6 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (89.34%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (45.90%) Analytics
3 42 (34.43%) Data Modelling
4 34 (27.87%) Data Engineering
5 27 (22.13%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (19.67%) ETL
7 23 (18.85%) DevOps
8 22 (18.03%) Data Governance
8 22 (18.03%) Visualisation
9 20 (16.39%) Agile
9 20 (16.39%) AI
9 20 (16.39%) Migration
10 19 (15.57%) CI/CD
11 18 (14.75%) Decision-Making
12 15 (12.30%) Dashboard Development
12 15 (12.30%) Data Visualisation
12 15 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (11.48%) Data Analysis
14 13 (10.66%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.62%) SQL
2 38 (31.15%) Python
3 10 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.28%) R
5 4 (3.28%) Scala
6 3 (2.46%) C#
6 3 (2.46%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.64%) Java
7 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.82%) Bicep
8 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.66%) DBS Check
1 13 (10.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) Degree
4 3 (2.46%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.64%) PMP
5 2 (1.64%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.82%) CFA
6 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) RIBA
6 1 (0.82%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (27.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.74%) GDPR
2 7 (5.74%) QA
3 5 (4.10%) PMO
4 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.46%) SLA
6 2 (1.64%) Basel III
7 1 (0.82%) COBIT
7 1 (0.82%) GAAP
7 1 (0.82%) IFRS
7 1 (0.82%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.82%) P3O
7 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.82%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.10%) Terraform
2 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.46%) SCCM
3 2 (1.64%) Grafana
3 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (30.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.03%) Databricks
3 9 (7.38%) Workday
4 6 (4.92%) Informatica
4 6 (4.92%) Oracle
4 6 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.10%) Amplitude
5 5 (4.10%) Google
6 3 (2.46%) Foundry
6 3 (2.46%) Palantir
6 3 (2.46%) Qualtrics
6 3 (2.46%) SAP
7 2 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.64%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.64%) Splunk
8 1 (0.82%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.82%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.82%) Planview
8 1 (0.82%) Yardi