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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing Power BI 112 81 97
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.66% 3.73% 3.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.28% 18.79% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 56 66
10th Percentile £313 £406 £341
25th Percentile £381 £458 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.55% +2.56%
75th Percentile £641 £676 £699
90th Percentile £749 £703 £775
London median daily rate £500 £514 £540
% change year-on-year -2.72% -4.81% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
London median hourly rate £21.75 £30.59 £32.12
% change year-on-year -28.90% -4.76% -19.70%

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 358 431 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.09% 19.87% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 283 379
10th Percentile £338 £405 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £702
90th Percentile £749 £785 £825
London median daily rate £525 £565 £570
% change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -49.42%
75th Percentile £35.50 £41.38 -
90th Percentile - £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

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

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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 11 January 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 11 January 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 99 £521 -9.48% 32
West End of London +10 3 £475 +18.75%
City of Westminster +5 3 £475 -
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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 11 (9.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.46%) Confluence
4 3 (2.68%) Apache
5 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 30 (26.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.79%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (34.82%) Azure
3 19 (16.96%) Power Automate
4 16 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 11 (9.82%) AWS
5 11 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (8.04%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.14%) GCP
8 6 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (4.46%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (3.57%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.68%) dbt
11 3 (2.68%) GitHub
11 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.68%) ShareGate
12 2 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) HTTP
1 1 (0.89%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (27.68%) Tableau
2 13 (11.61%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (8.04%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.57%) Looker
5 4 (3.57%) Power Query
5 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.68%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.68%) Metadata
6 3 (2.68%) MySQL
6 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.79%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.79%) Spotfire
7 2 (1.79%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) JIRA
2 6 (5.36%) Git
3 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.89%) Selenium
General
1 46 (41.07%) Finance
2 31 (27.68%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (26.79%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.61%) Banking
5 11 (9.82%) Front Office
6 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.46%) Back Office
9 4 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.68%) Legal
10 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Automotive
11 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.89%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.89%) Law
12 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (25.89%) Analyst
2 16 (14.29%) Developer
3 13 (11.61%) Lead
4 11 (9.82%) Senior
5 10 (8.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 10 (8.93%) Data Analyst
5 10 (8.93%) Data Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Architect
6 9 (8.04%) Consultant
7 8 (7.14%) Data Scientist
8 7 (6.25%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.57%) Programme Manager
10 4 (3.57%) Service Analyst
11 3 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 3 (2.68%) Data Architect
11 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (2.68%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.68%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.25%) scikit-learn
2 6 (5.36%) PySpark
3 5 (4.46%) NumPy
3 5 (4.46%) Pandas
4 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.68%) .NET
5 3 (2.68%) Kafka
5 3 (2.68%) Matplotlib
5 3 (2.68%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.79%) CSS
6 2 (1.79%) HTML
6 2 (1.79%) JSON
6 2 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.79%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.79%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.89%) Altair
7 1 (0.89%) Playwright
7 1 (0.89%) REST
7 1 (0.89%) XML
7 1 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.46%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.57%) Derivative
4 3 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.68%) Equities
4 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.79%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Swaptions
6 1 (0.89%) Clustering
6 1 (0.89%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.89%) FMCG
6 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.89%) NHS
6 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (95.54%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (41.07%) Analytics
3 38 (33.93%) Visualisation
4 33 (29.46%) Data Modelling
5 26 (23.21%) Data Visualisation
6 25 (22.32%) Agile
7 23 (20.54%) Data Governance
8 22 (19.64%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (17.86%) Data Engineering
10 19 (16.96%) ETL
10 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (15.18%) AI
11 17 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (14.29%) Decision-Making
12 16 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (13.39%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (13.39%) DevOps
14 14 (12.50%) Data Analysis
14 14 (12.50%) Data Science
15 13 (11.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 48 (42.86%) SQL
2 33 (29.46%) Python
3 8 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.25%) Scala
5 6 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.57%) R
7 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.68%) Korn
8 2 (1.79%) IronPython
8 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.79%) VBA
9 1 (0.89%) C#
9 1 (0.89%) C++
9 1 (0.89%) Java
9 1 (0.89%) LookML
9 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.93%) Degree
3 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.57%) PMP
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.79%) CFA
7 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.89%) IIBA
8 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.89%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.25%) GDPR
2 7 (6.25%) PMO
3 6 (5.36%) QA
4 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.68%) SLA
5 2 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.79%) Basel III
6 1 (0.89%) GAAP
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) IFRS
6 1 (0.89%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.89%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.29%) Databricks
3 7 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.36%) Oracle
4 6 (5.36%) SAP
5 5 (4.46%) Google
6 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.57%) Workday
7 3 (2.68%) Planview
8 2 (1.79%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.79%) Cognos
8 2 (1.79%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.79%) IBM
8 2 (1.79%) Informatica
8 2 (1.79%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.79%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.79%) Sage
9 1 (0.89%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.89%) UiPath