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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Power BI 113 85 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.64% 3.63% 3.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.38% 18.20% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 58 63
10th Percentile £313 £409 £335
25th Percentile £381 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +5.00% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £695
90th Percentile £749 £718 £745
London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £38.00
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.59 £26.24
% change year-on-year -18.27% +16.58% -25.03%

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 372 467 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.55% 19.97% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 307 378
10th Percentile £340 £410 £375
25th Percentile £415 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £598
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.09% +2.14%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £749 £800 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £32.10 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.25 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -34.48%
75th Percentile £49.88 £41.38 -
90th Percentile £58.20 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -16.28%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 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 +18 103 £500 -16.67% 17
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 12 (10.62%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.19%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.42%) Confluence
4 3 (2.65%) Apache
5 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 28 (24.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 42 (37.17%) Azure
3 23 (20.35%) Power Automate
4 20 (17.70%) PowerApps
5 12 (10.62%) AWS
5 12 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (7.96%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (7.96%) GCP
8 8 (7.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.42%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.54%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (3.54%) dbt
11 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (3.54%) ShareGate
12 3 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.65%) GitHub
12 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) HTTP
1 1 (0.88%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (26.55%) Tableau
2 13 (11.50%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.85%) Data Lake
4 7 (6.19%) Power Query
5 6 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.42%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.54%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.54%) Looker
7 4 (3.54%) Metadata
8 3 (2.65%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.65%) MySQL
8 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.77%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.77%) Spotfire
9 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.88%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.88%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 11 (9.73%) JIRA
2 7 (6.19%) Git
3 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.88%) Postman
5 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 50 (44.25%) Finance
2 33 (29.20%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (29.20%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Banking
4 11 (9.73%) Front Office
5 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.31%) Back Office
6 6 (5.31%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.65%) Legal
10 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.77%) Marketing
10 2 (1.77%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Law
11 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (23.89%) Analyst
2 13 (11.50%) Developer
2 13 (11.50%) Lead
2 13 (11.50%) Senior
3 11 (9.73%) Data Engineer
4 10 (8.85%) Architect
4 10 (8.85%) Consultant
5 9 (7.96%) Business Analyst
5 9 (7.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 9 (7.96%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) Data Scientist
7 6 (5.31%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 4 (3.54%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.54%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (2.65%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.65%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (2.65%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) PySpark
1 7 (6.19%) scikit-learn
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (4.42%) NumPy
2 5 (4.42%) Pandas
3 3 (2.65%) .NET
3 3 (2.65%) JSON
3 3 (2.65%) Kafka
3 3 (2.65%) Matplotlib
3 3 (2.65%) Seaborn
4 2 (1.77%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.77%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.77%) XML
5 1 (0.88%) ADO
5 1 (0.88%) Altair
5 1 (0.88%) Node.js
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.88%) Playwright
5 1 (0.88%) REST
5 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.42%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.54%) Derivative
2 4 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.65%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.65%) Equities
3 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.77%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.77%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.77%) Swaptions
5 1 (0.88%) Clustering
5 1 (0.88%) FMCG
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.88%) NHS
5 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (94.69%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (40.71%) Analytics
3 40 (35.40%) Visualisation
4 36 (31.86%) Data Modelling
5 26 (23.01%) Agile
5 26 (23.01%) Data Governance
6 25 (22.12%) Data Visualisation
7 23 (20.35%) Actionable Insight
8 20 (17.70%) Data Engineering
8 20 (17.70%) ETL
9 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (15.04%) AI
10 17 (15.04%) Data Analysis
10 17 (15.04%) Decision-Making
10 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (14.16%) DevOps
11 16 (14.16%) Migration
12 14 (12.39%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.13%) SQL
2 37 (32.74%) Python
3 10 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.19%) Scala
5 4 (3.54%) R
6 3 (2.65%) Korn
6 3 (2.65%) VBA
7 2 (1.77%) IronPython
7 2 (1.77%) Java
7 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.88%) C#
8 1 (0.88%) C++
8 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) LookML
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.85%) Degree
3 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.65%) CFA
5 3 (2.65%) PMP
6 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) ACCA
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CISA
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) CRISC
7 1 (0.88%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.88%) IIBA
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) MBA
7 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.19%) GDPR
2 7 (6.19%) PMO
2 7 (6.19%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Basel III
4 1 (0.88%) GRC
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (36.28%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) Databricks
3 5 (4.42%) Google
3 5 (4.42%) Oracle
3 5 (4.42%) SAP
4 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.65%) Planview
6 2 (1.77%) Adobe
6 2 (1.77%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.77%) Cognos
6 2 (1.77%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.77%) IBM
6 2 (1.77%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.77%) Sage
7 1 (0.88%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.88%) Marketo
7 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.88%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.88%) UiPath