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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 54 56
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Power BI 111 88 103
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.65% 3.67% 3.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.46% 18.18% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 60 70
10th Percentile £321 £399 £331
25th Percentile £405 £461 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +2.56%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £741 £709 £745
London median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.05 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00
75th Percentile £31.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.15 - -
London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.59 £38.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% -19.50% +8.57%

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 390 484 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.84% 20.17% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 333 386
10th Percentile £358 £413 £375
25th Percentile £425 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £598
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -1.67% +1.92%
75th Percentile £675 £704 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £22.70 £37.20 £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £37.88 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 £48.88
90th Percentile - £41.60 £51.05
London median hourly rate £50.75 £44.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.34% -2.22% -18.18%

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

Power BI
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

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Central London over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Central London

Power BI
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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI in Central London over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in Central London

Power BI
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 23 November 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 +18 102 £525 -8.70% 241
Camden - 1 - - 1
Power BI
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 13 (11.71%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.41%) Confluence
3 5 (4.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.70%) Apache
5 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 32 (28.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.90%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 41 (36.94%) Azure
3 23 (20.72%) Power Automate
4 20 (18.02%) PowerApps
5 11 (9.91%) AWS
5 11 (9.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (7.21%) GCP
9 7 (6.31%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.41%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.60%) dbt
11 4 (3.60%) GitHub
11 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (3.60%) SaaS
11 4 (3.60%) ShareGate
12 3 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) HTTP
1 1 (0.90%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.42%) Tableau
2 16 (14.41%) Data Lake
3 10 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.11%) Power Query
5 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.60%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.60%) Metadata
8 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.70%) Looker
8 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.80%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.80%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.80%) Spotfire
9 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) JIRA
2 4 (3.60%) Git
3 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.90%) Postman
4 1 (0.90%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (43.24%) Finance
2 38 (34.23%) Social Skills
3 33 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.71%) Banking
5 7 (6.31%) Front Office
5 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Back Office
8 3 (2.70%) Legal
8 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Law
10 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (21.62%) Analyst
2 16 (14.41%) Senior
3 15 (13.51%) Developer
3 15 (13.51%) Lead
4 12 (10.81%) Architect
4 12 (10.81%) Consultant
5 9 (8.11%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 9 (8.11%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.21%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Data Scientist
7 6 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (3.60%) Power BI Developer
10 3 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Consultant
10 3 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (2.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Graph
1 5 (4.50%) scikit-learn
2 4 (3.60%) .NET
2 4 (3.60%) PySpark
3 3 (2.70%) JSON
3 3 (2.70%) NumPy
3 3 (2.70%) Pandas
4 2 (1.80%) ADO
4 2 (1.80%) Matplotlib
4 2 (1.80%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.80%) Seaborn
4 2 (1.80%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.80%) XML
5 1 (0.90%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.90%) Altair
5 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.90%) Kafka
5 1 (0.90%) Middleware
5 1 (0.90%) Node.js
5 1 (0.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.60%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.70%) Derivative
3 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.80%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.80%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.80%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.90%) BYOD
5 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.90%) FMCG
5 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) IoT
5 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (94.59%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (41.44%) Analytics
3 37 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 35 (31.53%) Data Modelling
5 30 (27.03%) Agile
6 23 (20.72%) Data Governance
7 21 (18.92%) Actionable Insight
7 21 (18.92%) Data Visualisation
7 21 (18.92%) Decision-Making
8 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (16.22%) ETL
9 18 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (15.32%) Data Analysis
10 17 (15.32%) Migration
11 16 (14.41%) AI
12 15 (13.51%) Data Engineering
13 14 (12.61%) DevOps
13 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (10.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.95%) SQL
2 36 (32.43%) Python
3 11 (9.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (7.21%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.60%) Java
5 4 (3.60%) R
5 4 (3.60%) Scala
6 3 (2.70%) Korn
6 3 (2.70%) VBA
7 2 (1.80%) C#
7 2 (1.80%) IronPython
8 1 (0.90%) Bash
8 1 (0.90%) Bicep
8 1 (0.90%) C++
8 1 (0.90%) Groovy
8 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.90%) LookML
8 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.01%) Degree
3 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.80%) ACCA
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.80%) CFA
5 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) PMP
6 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) CIMA
6 1 (0.90%) CISA
6 1 (0.90%) CISSP
6 1 (0.90%) CRISC
6 1 (0.90%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.90%) IIBA
6 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.31%) GDPR
3 6 (5.41%) PMO
4 5 (4.50%) QA
5 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.80%) Basel II
5 2 (1.80%) NIST
6 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.90%) GRC
6 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.80%) Terraform
2 1 (0.90%) Grafana
2 1 (0.90%) Istio
2 1 (0.90%) Opsgenie
2 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.90%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 42 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.41%) Databricks
3 6 (5.41%) SAP
4 5 (4.50%) Oracle
5 4 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.70%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.70%) Planview
7 2 (1.80%) Adobe
7 2 (1.80%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.80%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.80%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.90%) Cognos
8 1 (0.90%) IBM
8 1 (0.90%) Informatica
8 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.90%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.90%) Progress
8 1 (0.90%) Sage