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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 45 46
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing Power BI 120 90 92
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.85% 4.59% 3.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.99% 20.98% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 56
10th Percentile £350 £419 £376
25th Percentile £424 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% -3.71% +9.52%
75th Percentile £606 £685 £675
90th Percentile £749 £838 £775
London median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -0.48%
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 £66.25
% change year-on-year -19.16% -56.12% +64.60%

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 414 429 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.75% 21.89% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 278 360
10th Percentile £350 £404 £411
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £687 £702
90th Percentile £746 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -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 £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -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 20 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 20 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 +8 112 £525 -4.55% 23
City of Westminster +1 5 £475 - 3
West End of London - 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 11 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.50%) Confluence
3 3 (2.50%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 54 (45.00%) Azure
3 16 (13.33%) Snowflake
4 15 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 14 (11.67%) AWS
5 14 (11.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (9.17%) GCP
7 10 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (8.33%) dbt
7 10 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (7.50%) PowerApps
9 8 (6.67%) GitHub
10 7 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.83%) Prefect
11 5 (4.17%) Dagster
11 5 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (3.33%) SaaS
12 4 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) DNS
1 1 (0.83%) Firewall
1 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.17%) Tableau
2 22 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (10.00%) Looker
4 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 7 (5.83%) Metadata
7 6 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.33%) Mixpanel
9 4 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.50%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.50%) MySQL
10 3 (2.50%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.67%) OLAP
11 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.67%) Text Mining
12 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) GitLab
3 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) ERwin
4 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 56 (46.67%) Finance
2 23 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.33%) Banking
5 7 (5.83%) Back Office
5 7 (5.83%) Front Office
6 5 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.17%) Legal
7 4 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Retail
9 2 (1.67%) Automotive
9 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.83%) Military
10 1 (0.83%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (26.67%) Analyst
2 22 (18.33%) Data Engineer
3 17 (14.17%) Developer
4 14 (11.67%) Data Analyst
5 12 (10.00%) Architect
6 11 (9.17%) Senior
7 8 (6.67%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Data Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Consultant
9 6 (5.00%) Data Scientist
9 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.17%) Lead
11 4 (3.33%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Service Analyst
11 4 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
12 3 (2.50%) Power BI Analyst
12 3 (2.50%) Programme Manager
12 3 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.00%) PySpark
2 9 (7.50%) Kafka
3 6 (5.00%) .NET
4 4 (3.33%) REST
4 4 (3.33%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.50%) JSON
5 3 (2.50%) NumPy
5 3 (2.50%) Pandas
6 2 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.67%) CSS
6 2 (1.67%) HTML
6 2 (1.67%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.67%) React
6 2 (1.67%) Redux
6 2 (1.67%) RESTful
6 2 (1.67%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.67%) YAML
7 1 (0.83%) Playwright
7 1 (0.83%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.33%) Equities
4 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.50%) Clustering
5 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.50%) Derivative
5 3 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.50%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.67%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.67%) PMI
6 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (90.83%) Business Intelligence
2 58 (48.33%) Analytics
3 43 (35.83%) Data Modelling
4 32 (26.67%) Data Engineering
5 28 (23.33%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (20.83%) Visualisation
7 24 (20.00%) ETL
8 23 (19.17%) Data Governance
9 21 (17.50%) Agile
10 20 (16.67%) DevOps
11 19 (15.83%) AI
11 19 (15.83%) Migration
12 18 (15.00%) Decision-Making
13 17 (14.17%) Data Science
14 16 (13.33%) Data Analysis
14 16 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
15 15 (12.50%) CI/CD
15 15 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (11.67%) Dashboard Development
16 14 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.17%) SQL
2 40 (33.33%) Python
3 11 (9.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.17%) Scala
5 4 (3.33%) R
5 4 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.50%) C#
7 2 (1.67%) Java
7 2 (1.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.83%) Bicep
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) DBS Check
3 7 (5.83%) Degree
4 3 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.67%) PMP
5 2 (1.67%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.83%) CFA
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) MBA
6 1 (0.83%) RIBA
6 1 (0.83%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (29.17%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.67%) GDPR
3 7 (5.83%) QA
4 6 (5.00%) PMO
5 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.50%) SLA
7 2 (1.67%) Basel III
8 1 (0.83%) GAAP
8 1 (0.83%) IFRS
8 1 (0.83%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.83%) P3O
8 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.83%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Terraform
2 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.83%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.83%) SCCM
3 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.33%) Databricks
3 9 (7.50%) Workday
4 6 (5.00%) Google
4 6 (5.00%) Oracle
5 5 (4.17%) Amplitude
5 5 (4.17%) Informatica
6 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.50%) Foundry
7 3 (2.50%) Palantir
7 3 (2.50%) Qualtrics
7 3 (2.50%) SAP
8 2 (1.67%) Cognos
8 2 (1.67%) IBM
8 2 (1.67%) Sage
9 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.83%) Planview
9 1 (0.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.83%) VMware
9 1 (0.83%) Yardi