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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +22
Contract jobs citing Power BI 125 82 100
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.31% 4.14% 3.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.69% 19.57% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 51 64
10th Percentile £348 £400 £369
25th Percentile £443 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £685
90th Percentile £749 £685 £775
London median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.86 -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £40.62
% change year-on-year -5.40% -28.43% +1.55%

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 421 419 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.89% 21.17% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 270 367
10th Percentile £350 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% -3.06% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £793
London median daily rate £525 £563 £551
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.18% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £33.51 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £37.23 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
% change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +8.23%

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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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +16 111 £525 - 58
West End of London +8 4 £475 +18.75% 2
City of Westminster +2 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 11 (8.80%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.60%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.00%) Confluence
5 3 (2.40%) Apache
5 3 (2.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.20%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 48 (38.40%) Azure
3 18 (14.40%) AWS
4 15 (12.00%) Snowflake
5 14 (11.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (11.20%) GCP
5 14 (11.20%) Power Automate
6 12 (9.60%) dbt
7 10 (8.00%) PowerApps
8 9 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.60%) GitHub
10 7 (5.60%) Prefect
11 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.00%) Dagster
12 5 (4.00%) Serverless
13 3 (2.40%) IBM Watson
13 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (35.20%) Tableau
2 24 (19.20%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.00%) Looker
4 8 (6.40%) Metadata
4 8 (6.40%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.60%) BigQuery
5 7 (5.60%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.20%) MySQL
7 4 (3.20%) Power Query
7 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.20%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.40%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.40%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.40%) OLAP
8 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Git
2 7 (5.60%) JIRA
3 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.80%) ERwin
4 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 54 (43.20%) Finance
2 35 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (20.80%) Social Skills
4 17 (13.60%) Banking
5 9 (7.20%) Front Office
6 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.80%) Back Office
7 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.00%) Legal
9 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Automotive
11 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Retail
12 1 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.80%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.80%) International Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.80%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (26.40%) Analyst
2 20 (16.00%) Data Engineer
3 18 (14.40%) Developer
4 14 (11.20%) Senior
5 12 (9.60%) Data Analyst
6 11 (8.80%) Data Scientist
7 9 (7.20%) Architect
7 9 (7.20%) Business Analyst
7 9 (7.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Lead
8 8 (6.40%) Consultant
9 5 (4.00%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (3.20%) Service Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.00%) PySpark
2 9 (7.20%) scikit-learn
3 7 (5.60%) Kafka
4 6 (4.80%) NumPy
4 6 (4.80%) Pandas
5 4 (3.20%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.20%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.40%) .NET
6 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.40%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.60%) CSS
7 2 (1.60%) HTML
7 2 (1.60%) JSON
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.60%) REST
7 2 (1.60%) XML
7 2 (1.60%) YAML
8 1 (0.80%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.80%) Middleware
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.60%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.20%) Clustering
3 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.20%) Equities
3 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.40%) Derivative
5 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.60%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.60%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.80%) FMCG
6 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) Unix
1 1 (0.80%) Windows
1 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (92.00%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (48.80%) Analytics
3 44 (35.20%) Data Modelling
4 40 (32.00%) Visualisation
5 38 (30.40%) Data Engineering
6 31 (24.80%) Data Pipeline
6 31 (24.80%) ETL
7 27 (21.60%) Data Visualisation
8 25 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 24 (19.20%) AI
10 23 (18.40%) Agile
11 22 (17.60%) Data Science
12 21 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (15.20%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (15.20%) Decision-Making
14 18 (14.40%) Data Analysis
14 18 (14.40%) DevOps
15 17 (13.60%) Machine Learning
16 15 (12.00%) Migration
17 14 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (51.20%) SQL
2 46 (36.80%) Python
3 10 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.40%) Scala
5 6 (4.80%) R
6 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.60%) C#
7 2 (1.60%) IronPython
7 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.80%) Bicep
8 1 (0.80%) C++
8 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.20%) Degree
3 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.40%) PMP
5 2 (1.60%) CFA
5 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.60%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) IIBA
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.80%) MBA
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.80%) RIBA
6 1 (0.80%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (27.20%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.20%) QA
3 8 (6.40%) GDPR
4 4 (3.20%) PMO
5 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.40%) SLA
6 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.60%) Basel III
7 1 (0.80%) GAAP
7 1 (0.80%) GRC
7 1 (0.80%) IFRS
7 1 (0.80%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.80%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (3.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Terraform
2 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.80%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.80%) SCCM
3 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.40%) Databricks
3 8 (6.40%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.40%) Workday
4 7 (5.60%) Google
5 6 (4.80%) Informatica
6 5 (4.00%) SAP
7 4 (3.20%) Amplitude
7 4 (3.20%) Oracle
8 3 (2.40%) Cognos
8 3 (2.40%) Foundry
8 3 (2.40%) IBM
8 3 (2.40%) Palantir
8 3 (2.40%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.40%) Sage
9 2 (1.60%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.60%) Planview
10 1 (0.80%) Adobe
10 1 (0.80%) Murex
10 1 (0.80%) Yardi