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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 47 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +35
Contract jobs citing Power BI 110 83 106
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.34% 3.93% 4.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.47% 20.29% 19.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 58 71
10th Percentile £319 £400 £363
25th Percentile £394 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £686
90th Percentile £749 £703 £775
London median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
London median hourly rate £18.94 £28.60 £39.25
% change year-on-year -33.78% -27.13% +9.03%

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 361 409 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.53% 19.37% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 265 382
10th Percentile £326 £406 £413
25th Percentile £409 £470 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £713
90th Percentile £743 £749 £837
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £34.83 £37.20 £38.88
25th Percentile £38.33 £37.88 £40.19
Median hourly rate £45.88 £40.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -7.51% -48.57%
75th Percentile £53.67 £41.38 £47.19
90th Percentile £57.30 £41.60 £49.03
London median hourly rate £54.00 £42.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +27.06% -2.86% -1.27%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +14 97 £510 -11.30% 60
West End of London +10 3 £475 +18.75% 1
City of Westminster +5 3 £475 - 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 9 (8.18%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.36%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.55%) Confluence
4 3 (2.73%) Apache
4 3 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.82%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 27 (24.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (35.45%) Azure
3 17 (15.45%) Power Automate
4 14 (12.73%) AWS
5 12 (10.91%) PowerApps
6 11 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (9.09%) GCP
8 9 (8.18%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.55%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.64%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.64%) dbt
11 4 (3.64%) GitHub
11 4 (3.64%) Serverless
12 3 (2.73%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.73%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.73%) IBM Watson
12 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) HTTP
1 1 (0.91%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (30.91%) Tableau
2 13 (11.82%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.55%) Looker
3 5 (4.55%) Metadata
4 4 (3.64%) MySQL
4 4 (3.64%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.73%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.73%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.73%) Power Query
6 2 (1.82%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.82%) OLAP
6 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.82%) Spotfire
6 2 (1.82%) Text Mining
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) JIRA
2 8 (7.27%) Git
3 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.91%) ERwin
5 1 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 46 (41.82%) Finance
2 33 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (26.36%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.73%) Banking
5 11 (10.00%) Front Office
6 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.45%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.55%) Back Office
9 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.82%) Automotive
10 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.82%) Legal
10 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.91%) Law
11 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (25.45%) Analyst
2 15 (13.64%) Developer
3 12 (10.91%) Senior
4 11 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 11 (10.00%) Lead
5 10 (9.09%) Consultant
5 10 (9.09%) Data Scientist
6 9 (8.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (8.18%) Data Analyst
7 7 (6.36%) Architect
7 7 (6.36%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.64%) Programme Manager
9 4 (3.64%) Service Analyst
10 3 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 3 (2.73%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.73%) Data Modeller
10 3 (2.73%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.73%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.18%) scikit-learn
2 8 (7.27%) PySpark
3 6 (5.45%) NumPy
3 6 (5.45%) Pandas
4 4 (3.64%) Matplotlib
4 4 (3.64%) Seaborn
5 3 (2.73%) .NET
5 3 (2.73%) Kafka
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.73%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.73%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.82%) CSS
6 2 (1.82%) HTML
6 2 (1.82%) JSON
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.91%) Altair
7 1 (0.91%) Node.js
7 1 (0.91%) Playwright
7 1 (0.91%) REST
7 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.64%) Derivative
5 3 (2.73%) Equities
5 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.82%) Clustering
6 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.82%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.91%) FMCG
7 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (94.55%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (42.73%) Analytics
3 40 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 34 (30.91%) Data Modelling
5 28 (25.45%) Agile
5 28 (25.45%) Data Visualisation
6 24 (21.82%) Data Engineering
7 22 (20.00%) AI
8 21 (19.09%) Data Governance
9 20 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (17.27%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (16.36%) ETL
12 17 (15.45%) DevOps
13 16 (14.55%) Data Analysis
13 16 (14.55%) Data Science
14 15 (13.64%) Decision-Making
14 15 (13.64%) Machine Learning
14 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (42.73%) SQL
2 34 (30.91%) Python
3 7 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (6.36%) Scala
4 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.73%) R
5 2 (1.82%) IronPython
5 2 (1.82%) Korn
5 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.82%) VBA
6 1 (0.91%) C#
6 1 (0.91%) C++
6 1 (0.91%) Java
6 1 (0.91%) LookML
6 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.00%) Degree
3 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.64%) PMP
5 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.82%) CFA
6 2 (1.82%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.91%) IIBA
7 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.91%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.36%) PMO
2 7 (6.36%) QA
3 5 (4.55%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.73%) SLA
5 2 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.82%) Basel III
6 1 (0.91%) GAAP
6 1 (0.91%) GRC
6 1 (0.91%) IFRS
6 1 (0.91%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.73%) Terraform
2 1 (0.91%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (29.09%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.36%) Databricks
3 7 (6.36%) Google
3 7 (6.36%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.45%) Oracle
4 6 (5.45%) SAP
5 4 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.64%) Workday
6 3 (2.73%) Cognos
6 3 (2.73%) IBM
6 3 (2.73%) Planview
6 3 (2.73%) Sage
7 2 (1.82%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.82%) Foundry
7 2 (1.82%) Informatica
7 2 (1.82%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.82%) Palantir
7 2 (1.82%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.91%) UiPath