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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 44 62
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +1
Contract jobs citing Power BI 132 106 77
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.06% 5.15% 3.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.80% 23.04% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 65 47
10th Percentile £364 £370 £366
25th Percentile £449 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £650
90th Percentile £748 £838 £715
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
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 £28.55 £34.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -16.03% -48.68% +63.58%

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 443 460 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.97% 22.36% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 305 358
10th Percentile £355 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -3.07% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £711
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.54 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% - -
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -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

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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 1 August 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 1 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 +5 124 £550 - 81
West End of London - 4 £506 -
Southwark - 3 £575 -
City of Westminster -7 2 £549 - 5
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 £375 -
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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 16 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.03%) Confluence
4 2 (1.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) BambooHR
2 3 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.52%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.76%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 65 (49.24%) Azure
3 21 (15.91%) Power Automate
4 19 (14.39%) PowerApps
4 19 (14.39%) Snowflake
5 18 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (12.88%) AWS
7 14 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (9.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (7.58%) dbt
10 9 (6.82%) GCP
10 9 (6.82%) GitHub
10 9 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (6.06%) Serverless
12 7 (5.30%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (5.30%) Prefect
12 7 (5.30%) SaaS
13 5 (3.79%) Dagster
13 5 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.27%) DNS
1 3 (2.27%) Firewall
1 3 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.97%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (18.94%) Tableau
3 16 (12.12%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 10 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (7.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (7.58%) Looker
6 9 (6.82%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.82%) Star Schema
7 8 (6.06%) Metadata
7 8 (6.06%) Power Query
7 8 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.30%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (3.79%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.03%) Mixpanel
10 4 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) JIRA
2 5 (3.79%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) GitLab
3 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.76%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (46.21%) Finance
2 30 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 26 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.12%) Banking
5 9 (6.82%) Retail
6 7 (5.30%) Legal
7 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.79%) Marketing
9 4 (3.03%) Back Office
9 4 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.27%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.27%) Front Office
10 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.52%) Law
11 2 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 37 (28.03%) Analyst
2 21 (15.91%) Data Analyst
2 21 (15.91%) Data Engineer
3 19 (14.39%) Developer
4 17 (12.88%) Architect
5 13 (9.85%) Senior
6 10 (7.58%) Data Architect
7 9 (6.82%) Business Analyst
8 8 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (5.30%) Power BI Developer
9 7 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.55%) Consultant
10 6 (4.55%) Lead
10 6 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (3.03%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (3.03%) Power BI Analyst
11 4 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.03%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.85%) PySpark
2 9 (6.82%) .NET
2 9 (6.82%) Kafka
3 4 (3.03%) REST
4 3 (2.27%) JSON
4 3 (2.27%) RESTful
5 2 (1.52%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.52%) React
5 2 (1.52%) Redux
6 1 (0.76%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.76%) CSS
6 1 (0.76%) GeoJSON
6 1 (0.76%) HTML
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.76%) Middleware
6 1 (0.76%) OAuth
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.76%) XML
6 1 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.79%) Clustering
3 5 (3.79%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (3.03%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.27%) CMDB
5 3 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.52%) Derivative
6 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.52%) Equities
6 2 (1.52%) FMCG
6 2 (1.52%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.52%) PMI
6 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (90.15%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (45.45%) Analytics
3 52 (39.39%) Data Modelling
4 31 (23.48%) Data Governance
4 31 (23.48%) ETL
5 29 (21.97%) Data Engineering
5 29 (21.97%) DevOps
6 28 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (20.45%) CI/CD
8 26 (19.70%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (18.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (18.18%) Agile
10 24 (18.18%) Decision-Making
11 23 (17.42%) AI
12 22 (16.67%) Migration
13 17 (12.88%) Visualisation
14 15 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (10.61%) Data Architecture
16 13 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (9.85%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 63 (47.73%) SQL
2 35 (26.52%) Python
3 20 (15.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.06%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.79%) C#
6 4 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.03%) R
7 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.52%) Bicep
8 2 (1.52%) Java
8 2 (1.52%) Scala
8 2 (1.52%) VBA
9 1 (0.76%) Korn
9 1 (0.76%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 17 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.06%) Degree
5 3 (2.27%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.52%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) RIBA
7 1 (0.76%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (24.24%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.82%) QA
3 6 (4.55%) GDPR
3 6 (4.55%) PMO
4 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.52%) P3O
6 1 (0.76%) COBIT
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.79%) Terraform
2 3 (2.27%) Grafana
2 3 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.27%) SCCM
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (1.52%) SCOM
4 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (35.61%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.21%) Databricks
3 7 (5.30%) Informatica
4 6 (4.55%) SAP
4 6 (4.55%) Workday
5 5 (3.79%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.79%) Oracle
6 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.27%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.27%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.27%) Google
7 3 (2.27%) Splunk
7 3 (2.27%) VMware
8 2 (1.52%) Adobe
8 2 (1.52%) BMC
8 2 (1.52%) Commvault
8 2 (1.52%) Foundry
8 2 (1.52%) Palantir
8 2 (1.52%) Remedy