Business Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Business Intelligence (BI)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Business Intelligence 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 47 32 67
Rank change year-on-year -15 +35 -26
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 67 94 54
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.53% 6.36% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 7.00% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 54 35
10th Percentile £413 £328 £316
25th Percentile £514 £466 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +7.95% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £600
90th Percentile £679 £726 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £41.25 £52.72
25th Percentile £19.44 £45.11 £56.01
Median hourly rate £20.01 £60.76 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.07% -3.55% +180.00%
75th Percentile £20.58 £64.73 £68.25
90th Percentile - - £70.50
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £58.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year -62.31% +22.89% +87.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Business Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,302 1,343 1,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.03% 90.80% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 747 957
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -0.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £687 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -2.01% -1.88% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 39 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.68 £24.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%
75th Percentile £80.50 £64.08 £67.75
90th Percentile £96.00 £68.57 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.38 £47.51 £54.56
% change year-on-year -52.89% -12.92% +45.49%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Business Intelligence job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Berkshire

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Business Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Berkshire 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
Reading -5 46 £600 -4.00% 7
Wokingham -23 8 £600 +84.62% 5
Thatcham - 8 £600 -
Maidenhead +2 4 £475 -5.00% 2
Windsor -1 2 £575 +15.00% 1
Slough - 2 £475 - 1
Bracknell -12 1 - - 2
Business Intelligence
South East

Business Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (13.43%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.99%) Primavera
3 2 (2.99%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.49%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 36 (53.73%) Power Platform
2 32 (47.76%) Azure
3 12 (17.91%) GCP
3 12 (17.91%) OCI
4 10 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (11.94%) AWS
6 6 (8.96%) SaaS
7 5 (7.46%) dbt
8 4 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (5.97%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.99%) Miro
9 2 (2.99%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) 2G
1 2 (2.99%) 5G
1 2 (2.99%) LTE
1 2 (2.99%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (53.73%) Power BI
2 22 (32.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 14 (20.90%) Tableau
4 11 (16.42%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (13.43%) Oracle BI EE
6 8 (11.94%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.99%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Git
1 5 (7.46%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) NeoLoad
2 1 (1.49%) Postman
General
1 38 (56.72%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Finance
3 13 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.43%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Legal
6 4 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Electronics
7 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.48%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Advertising
8 1 (1.49%) Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (14.93%) Developer
2 9 (13.43%) Lead
2 9 (13.43%) Oracle Developer
2 9 (13.43%) Project Manager
3 8 (11.94%) Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Consultant
4 7 (10.45%) Oracle Project Manager
4 7 (10.45%) Report Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Functional Consultant
6 4 (5.97%) PMO Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
7 3 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.48%) ERP Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Integration Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Oracle Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (7.46%) ADO
3 3 (4.48%) Web Services
4 2 (2.99%) BAPI
4 2 (2.99%) IDoc
4 2 (2.99%) Pandas
4 2 (2.99%) Plotly
4 2 (2.99%) SAP Basis
5 1 (1.49%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.49%) MDX
5 1 (1.49%) NumPy
5 1 (1.49%) PySpark
5 1 (1.49%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.49%) REST
5 1 (1.49%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.99%) IoT
3 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) Data Modelling
2 19 (28.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 18 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (26.87%) Visualisation
4 15 (22.39%) Agile
5 13 (19.40%) Collaborative Working
5 13 (19.40%) Waterfall
6 12 (17.91%) Data Visualisation
6 12 (17.91%) DevOps
7 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (14.93%) Analytics
8 10 (14.93%) Validation
9 9 (13.43%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (13.43%) Decision-Making
9 9 (13.43%) ERP
10 8 (11.94%) Data Analysis
10 8 (11.94%) Migration
11 7 (10.45%) AI
11 7 (10.45%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) SQL
2 11 (16.42%) Python
3 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.99%) R
4 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) Master's Degree
2 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) GDPR
2 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.97%) PMO
4 2 (2.99%) GRC
4 2 (2.99%) QA
5 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (43.28%) Oracle
2 6 (8.96%) OpenAI
2 6 (8.96%) Salesforce
2 6 (8.96%) SAP
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.48%) Foundry
4 3 (4.48%) Palantir
5 2 (2.99%) Google
6 1 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow