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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 48 52
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Power BI 128 83 97
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.20% 4.16% 3.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.98% 19.48% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 50 62
10th Percentile £350 £397 £387
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -4.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £680 £687
90th Percentile £749 £725 £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 £23.50 £29.07 £55.00
% change year-on-year -19.16% -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 427 426 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.36% 21.33% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 274 360
10th Percentile £349 £404 £411
25th Percentile £448 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £696
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £553 £563
% change year-on-year -5.06% -1.69% -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 £50.00 £39.31 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.21% -21.39% -4.76%

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 May 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 May 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 +16 119 £525 - 30
West End of London +7 5 £475 - 2
City of Westminster +3 5 £475 - 2
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 10 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (7.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (2.34%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (19.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 52 (40.63%) Azure
3 16 (12.50%) AWS
3 16 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 16 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 13 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.38%) GCP
6 10 (7.81%) dbt
6 10 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.81%) PowerApps
7 9 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (6.25%) GitHub
9 7 (5.47%) Prefect
10 6 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.91%) Dagster
11 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.13%) SaaS
12 4 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) DNS
1 1 (0.78%) Firewall
1 1 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (30.47%) Tableau
2 23 (17.97%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.59%) Looker
4 8 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 8 (6.25%) Metadata
4 8 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.13%) Power Query
7 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.13%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.34%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.34%) MySQL
9 2 (1.56%) OLAP
9 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.56%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.56%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Git
2 6 (4.69%) JIRA
3 2 (1.56%) GitLab
3 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.78%) ERwin
4 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 60 (46.88%) Finance
2 32 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 17 (13.28%) Banking
5 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.47%) Back Office
7 6 (4.69%) Front Office
7 6 (4.69%) Legal
8 5 (3.91%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.56%) Automotive
11 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.78%) International Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Military
12 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (28.91%) Analyst
2 20 (15.63%) Developer
3 19 (14.84%) Data Engineer
4 17 (13.28%) Data Analyst
5 15 (11.72%) Senior
6 11 (8.59%) Data Scientist
7 9 (7.03%) Architect
7 9 (7.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (6.25%) Business Analyst
9 7 (5.47%) Consultant
10 5 (3.91%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.13%) Lead
11 4 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.13%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (3.13%) Service Analyst
11 4 (3.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Snowflake Engineer
12 3 (2.34%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.59%) PySpark
2 9 (7.03%) scikit-learn
3 8 (6.25%) Kafka
4 6 (4.69%) .NET
4 6 (4.69%) NumPy
4 6 (4.69%) Pandas
5 4 (3.13%) JSON
5 4 (3.13%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.13%) REST
5 4 (3.13%) Seaborn
6 3 (2.34%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.34%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.56%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.56%) CSS
7 2 (1.56%) HTML
7 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.56%) React
7 2 (1.56%) Redux
7 2 (1.56%) RESTful
7 2 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.47%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.69%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Clustering
4 4 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.13%) Equities
4 4 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.34%) Derivative
5 3 (2.34%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.56%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.56%) PMI
6 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.78%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (90.63%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (48.44%) Analytics
3 42 (32.81%) Data Modelling
4 36 (28.13%) Visualisation
5 34 (26.56%) Data Engineering
6 31 (24.22%) Data Pipeline
7 27 (21.09%) ETL
8 25 (19.53%) Agile
8 25 (19.53%) AI
9 24 (18.75%) Data Governance
10 21 (16.41%) Data Science
10 21 (16.41%) Data Visualisation
10 21 (16.41%) Decision-Making
11 19 (14.84%) Actionable Insight
12 18 (14.06%) Data Analysis
13 17 (13.28%) DevOps
13 17 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (12.50%) Migration
14 16 (12.50%) Validation
15 15 (11.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 58 (45.31%) SQL
2 46 (35.94%) Python
3 13 (10.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.69%) R
4 6 (4.69%) Scala
5 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.34%) C#
7 2 (1.56%) Java
7 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.78%) Bicep
8 1 (0.78%) C++
8 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.25%) Degree
3 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.34%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.34%) PMP
5 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.56%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.78%) CFA
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.78%) MBA
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.78%) RIBA
6 1 (0.78%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (28.91%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.03%) GDPR
2 9 (7.03%) QA
3 7 (5.47%) PMO
4 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.34%) SLA
5 2 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.56%) Basel III
6 1 (0.78%) GAAP
6 1 (0.78%) IFRS
6 1 (0.78%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.78%) P3O
6 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.34%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.13%) Terraform
2 3 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.78%) Grafana
3 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.78%) SCCM
3 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.19%) Databricks
3 9 (7.03%) Workday
4 7 (5.47%) Google
4 7 (5.47%) Oracle
5 6 (4.69%) Informatica
6 5 (3.91%) SAP
6 5 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.13%) Amplitude
8 3 (2.34%) Cognos
8 3 (2.34%) Foundry
8 3 (2.34%) IBM
8 3 (2.34%) Palantir
8 3 (2.34%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.34%) Sage
9 2 (1.56%) Planview
10 1 (0.78%) Adobe
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.78%) Splunk
10 1 (0.78%) Yardi