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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Power BI 121 104 93
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.60% 5.08% 3.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.01% 22.56% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 65 59
10th Percentile £371 £393 £361
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.09%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £675
90th Percentile £749 £838 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £20.27 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.93 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.54 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.16% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 £35.01 -
90th Percentile - £35.60 -
London median hourly rate £25.50 £31.54 £66.25
% change year-on-year -19.14% -52.40% +42.47%

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 432 461 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.41% 22.50% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 308 374
10th Percentile £355 £403 £400
25th Percentile £463 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £553 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -3.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £690 £710
90th Percentile £754 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.54 £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 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £41.00 £43.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.31% -24.22%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +1 115 £550 - 21
Southwark - 3 £575 - 1
City of Westminster -8 2 £549 - 2
West End of London - 2 £549 - 4
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 £375 -
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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 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.48%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (16.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.83%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 61 (50.41%) Azure
3 19 (15.70%) Snowflake
4 17 (14.05%) AWS
4 17 (14.05%) Power Automate
5 15 (12.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (9.92%) PowerApps
7 11 (9.09%) dbt
8 10 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (8.26%) GCP
8 10 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (7.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (7.44%) GitHub
10 7 (5.79%) Prefect
10 7 (5.79%) Serverless
11 6 (4.96%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (4.96%) SaaS
12 5 (4.13%) Dagster
12 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) DNS
1 3 (2.48%) Firewall
1 3 (2.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.49%) Tableau
2 24 (19.83%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.09%) Looker
4 10 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (8.26%) SQL Server
5 9 (7.44%) BigQuery
5 9 (7.44%) Data Lake
6 7 (5.79%) Metadata
6 7 (5.79%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (4.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (4.13%) Star Schema
9 4 (3.31%) Mixpanel
9 4 (3.31%) Power Query
9 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.48%) GIS
10 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Git
2 6 (4.96%) JIRA
3 2 (1.65%) GitLab
3 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (43.80%) Finance
2 24 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.40%) Banking
5 6 (4.96%) Legal
6 4 (3.31%) Back Office
6 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.31%) Retail
6 4 (3.31%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Front Office
7 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.48%) Marketing
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (27.27%) Analyst
2 21 (17.36%) Data Engineer
3 19 (15.70%) Data Analyst
4 17 (14.05%) Architect
5 13 (10.74%) Developer
6 10 (8.26%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.26%) Senior
7 8 (6.61%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.96%) Consultant
9 6 (4.96%) Lead
10 5 (4.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (3.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Power BI Analyst
11 4 (3.31%) Power Platform Developer
12 3 (2.48%) Data Business Analyst
12 3 (2.48%) Data Scientist
12 3 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.74%) PySpark
2 9 (7.44%) .NET
3 8 (6.61%) Kafka
4 4 (3.31%) REST
5 3 (2.48%) JSON
5 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.48%) RESTful
6 2 (1.65%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.65%) React
6 2 (1.65%) Redux
7 1 (0.83%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.83%) GeoJSON
7 1 (0.83%) LangChain
7 1 (0.83%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.83%) NumPy
7 1 (0.83%) Pandas
7 1 (0.83%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.83%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.83%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.31%) Clustering
3 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.31%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.48%) CMDB
4 3 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.48%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.65%) Derivative
5 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.65%) Equities
5 2 (1.65%) PMI
5 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (90.08%) Business Intelligence
2 58 (47.93%) Analytics
3 48 (39.67%) Data Modelling
4 30 (24.79%) Data Engineering
5 28 (23.14%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (21.49%) Data Governance
7 25 (20.66%) AI
7 25 (20.66%) ETL
8 24 (19.83%) DevOps
9 23 (19.01%) CI/CD
10 22 (18.18%) Decision-Making
11 21 (17.36%) Agile
12 20 (16.53%) Migration
12 20 (16.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (14.05%) Visualisation
15 14 (11.57%) Data Architecture
15 14 (11.57%) Use Case
16 13 (10.74%) Data Analysis
17 12 (9.92%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (44.63%) SQL
2 37 (30.58%) Python
3 17 (14.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.96%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.31%) C#
6 4 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.31%) R
7 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.65%) Java
8 2 (1.65%) Scala
8 2 (1.65%) VBA
9 1 (0.83%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.74%) DBS Check
3 12 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.61%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) RIBA
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (26.45%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.79%) QA
3 6 (4.96%) GDPR
3 6 (4.96%) PMO
4 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.65%) P3O
6 1 (0.83%) COBIT
6 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.83%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.13%) Terraform
2 3 (2.48%) Grafana
2 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.48%) SCCM
3 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (33.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (19.01%) Databricks
3 6 (4.96%) Informatica
3 6 (4.96%) Workday
4 5 (4.13%) Amplitude
4 5 (4.13%) Oracle
5 4 (3.31%) Google
5 4 (3.31%) SAP
6 3 (2.48%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.48%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.48%) Foundry
6 3 (2.48%) Palantir
6 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.48%) Splunk
7 2 (1.65%) Adobe
7 2 (1.65%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.83%) Sage
8 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.83%) VMware