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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 48 51
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Power BI 123 83 99
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.04% 4.12% 4.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.22% 19.39% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 50 64
10th Percentile £345 £412 £373
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +8.24%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £685
90th Percentile £749 £694 £775
London median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £29.63 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £30.46 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.79% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £33.27 -
90th Percentile - £34.11 -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.40% -47.15% +36.65%

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 421 428 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.24% 21.24% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 276 360
10th Percentile £343 £404 £406
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% -3.54% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £695
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £554 £563
% change year-on-year -5.23% -1.51% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year +19.14% -17.77% -6.19%

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 28 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 28 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 +14 115 £525 -1.87% 52
West End of London +6 4 £475 - 2
City of Westminster +2 4 £475 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 - 1
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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 10 (8.13%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (8.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.44%) Confluence
3 3 (2.44%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (19.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.25%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 48 (39.02%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) Power Automate
4 15 (12.20%) Snowflake
5 14 (11.38%) AWS
6 13 (10.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (9.76%) GCP
8 10 (8.13%) dbt
8 10 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (8.13%) PowerApps
9 8 (6.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.69%) Prefect
11 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (4.88%) GitHub
12 5 (4.07%) Dagster
12 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.25%) Serverless
14 3 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) DNS
1 1 (0.81%) Firewall
1 1 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (31.71%) Tableau
2 23 (18.70%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.94%) Looker
4 8 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.50%) BigQuery
4 8 (6.50%) Metadata
4 8 (6.50%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.25%) Power Query
7 4 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.25%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.44%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.44%) MySQL
9 2 (1.63%) OLAP
9 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.63%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Git
2 6 (4.88%) JIRA
3 2 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.81%) ERwin
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 57 (46.34%) Finance
2 29 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (18.70%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.20%) Banking
5 9 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.69%) Back Office
6 7 (5.69%) Front Office
7 6 (4.88%) Legal
8 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.63%) Automotive
11 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.81%) International Banking
12 1 (0.81%) Military
12 1 (0.81%) Retail
12 1 (0.81%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (27.64%) Analyst
2 19 (15.45%) Data Engineer
2 19 (15.45%) Developer
3 15 (12.20%) Data Analyst
4 12 (9.76%) Senior
5 11 (8.94%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.50%) Architect
8 7 (5.69%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.69%) Consultant
9 5 (4.07%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Lead
10 4 (3.25%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (3.25%) Service Analyst
10 4 (3.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.44%) Data Architect
11 3 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.32%) scikit-learn
2 8 (6.50%) PySpark
3 6 (4.88%) Kafka
3 6 (4.88%) NumPy
3 6 (4.88%) Pandas
4 4 (3.25%) JSON
4 4 (3.25%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.25%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.44%) .NET
5 3 (2.44%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.44%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.63%) CSS
6 2 (1.63%) HTML
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.63%) REST
6 2 (1.63%) XML
6 2 (1.63%) YAML
7 1 (0.81%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.69%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (5.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.25%) Clustering
2 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.25%) Equities
2 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.44%) Derivative
4 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.63%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.63%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.63%) PMI
4 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.63%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Unix
2 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (91.06%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (50.41%) Analytics
3 39 (31.71%) Data Modelling
4 37 (30.08%) Visualisation
5 33 (26.83%) Data Engineering
6 29 (23.58%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (21.14%) ETL
8 25 (20.33%) AI
9 24 (19.51%) Agile
10 23 (18.70%) Data Governance
11 22 (17.89%) Data Science
11 22 (17.89%) Data Visualisation
12 21 (17.07%) Decision-Making
13 19 (15.45%) Actionable Insight
14 18 (14.63%) Data Analysis
15 17 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (12.20%) DevOps
16 15 (12.20%) Machine Learning
16 15 (12.20%) Validation
17 13 (10.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (46.34%) SQL
2 43 (34.96%) Python
3 11 (8.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.88%) R
4 6 (4.88%) Scala
5 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.63%) Java
7 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
8 1 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.50%) Degree
3 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.44%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.44%) PMP
5 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.63%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.63%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.81%) CFA
6 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.81%) MBA
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) RIBA
6 1 (0.81%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (29.27%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.32%) GDPR
2 9 (7.32%) QA
3 7 (5.69%) PMO
4 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) SLA
5 2 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.63%) Basel III
6 1 (0.81%) GAAP
6 1 (0.81%) IFRS
6 1 (0.81%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.81%) P3O
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.44%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Terraform
2 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.81%) SCCM
3 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (28.46%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.26%) Databricks
3 9 (7.32%) Workday
4 7 (5.69%) Google
4 7 (5.69%) Oracle
5 6 (4.88%) Informatica
6 5 (4.07%) SAP
6 5 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.25%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.44%) Cognos
8 3 (2.44%) Foundry
8 3 (2.44%) IBM
8 3 (2.44%) Palantir
8 3 (2.44%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.44%) Sage
9 2 (1.63%) Planview
10 1 (0.81%) Adobe
10 1 (0.81%) Murex
10 1 (0.81%) Splunk
10 1 (0.81%) Yardi