Power BI Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft Power BI
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 48 92
Rank change year-on-year -13 +44 -39
Contract jobs citing Power BI 50 51 33
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.14% 3.91% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.51% 23.72% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 26 22
10th Percentile £378 £275 £262
25th Percentile £475 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £410 £513
Median % change year-on-year +24.27% -20.00% +7.89%
75th Percentile £599 £538 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £60.80
25th Percentile - £41.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £70.59
Median % change year-on-year - -10.54% -8.73%
75th Percentile - £64.73 £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £12.36 £63.15 £32.32
% change year-on-year -80.43% +95.39% -18.69%

All Database & BI Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 204 215 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.80% 16.46% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 130 153
10th Percentile £401 £381 £333
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% -12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £675
90th Percentile £652 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 14
10th Percentile - £34.67 £29.50
25th Percentile - £41.25 £56.87
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.24% -16.56%
75th Percentile - £64.95 £70.88
90th Percentile - £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £52.78
% change year-on-year -41.41% +19.65% +32.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Power BI

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Power BI

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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 Power BI within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Reading -2 28 £536 +30.73% 10
Wokingham -16 16 £505 +55.38% 1
Maidenhead - 3 £475 - 3
Windsor - 2 £575 - 1
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South East

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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 17 (34.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 25 (50.00%) Azure
3 19 (38.00%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (34.00%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (30.00%) PowerApps
6 13 (26.00%) Power Automate
7 11 (22.00%) Copilot Studio
7 11 (22.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (20.00%) SaaS
9 6 (12.00%) Entra ID
9 6 (12.00%) GCP
10 4 (8.00%) AWS
10 4 (8.00%) OneDrive
11 3 (6.00%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (6.00%) Azure Functions
11 3 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (6.00%) GitHub
11 3 (6.00%) Miro
11 3 (6.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) 2G
1 2 (4.00%) 5G
1 2 (4.00%) LTE
1 2 (4.00%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (12.00%) Tableau
3 5 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.00%) Metadata
6 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) NeoLoad
3 1 (2.00%) Postman
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Architect
2 11 (22.00%) Platform Architect
2 11 (22.00%) Power Platform Architect
3 10 (20.00%) Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Integration Manager
4 6 (12.00%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Oracle Project Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Integration Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Operational Security Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Security Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Security Operations Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Security Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Service Management Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) ADO
2 3 (6.00%) Plotly
3 2 (4.00%) Pandas
4 1 (2.00%) Matplotlib
4 1 (2.00%) NumPy
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (2.00%) PySpark
4 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) CMDB
1 5 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.00%) IoT
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) SCADA
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (88.00%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (38.00%) DevOps
3 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (24.00%) Waterfall
4 10 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 9 (18.00%) Agile
6 8 (16.00%) Visualisation
7 7 (14.00%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (14.00%) Analytics
7 7 (14.00%) Contingency Planning
7 7 (14.00%) Data Modelling
7 7 (14.00%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (14.00%) E-business
7 7 (14.00%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (14.00%) Service Management
8 6 (12.00%) Data Analysis
9 5 (10.00%) Change Control
9 5 (10.00%) ITSM
9 5 (10.00%) Machine Learning
9 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.00%) SLA
3 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.00%) PMO
4 2 (4.00%) QA
5 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) Oracle
3 4 (8.00%) Databricks
4 3 (6.00%) Foundry
4 3 (6.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.00%) Palantir
4 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.00%) Remedy
6 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.00%) CyberArk