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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 56 86
Rank change year-on-year -7 +30 -35
Contract jobs citing Power BI 53 45 44
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.14% 3.47% 2.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.77% 22.28% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 20 28
10th Percentile £378 £235 £291
25th Percentile £475 £350 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £392 £478
Median % change year-on-year +29.97% -17.91% +2.69%
75th Percentile £625 £493 £588
90th Percentile £663 £538 £625
South East median daily rate £500 £469 £463
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.35% -6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £74.19 - £60.80
25th Percentile £75.36 £41.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £79.65 £63.15 £70.59
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -10.54% -8.73%
75th Percentile £82.86 £64.73 £79.78
90th Percentile £83.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £54.25
% change year-on-year -41.41% +16.41% +24.71%

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 223 202 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.20% 15.56% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 125 156
10th Percentile £400 £379 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £581
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -13.98% +19.85%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £675
90th Percentile £652 £675 £691
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 13
10th Percentile £74.19 £41.25 £26.49
25th Percentile £75.36 £51.41 £56.16
Median hourly rate £79.65 £63.15 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% +0.24% -13.40%
75th Percentile £82.86 £65.17 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.40 £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £59.00
% change year-on-year -41.41% +7.03% +28.26%

Power BI
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 19 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 19 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 31 £583 +51.89% 10
Wokingham -20 16 £505 +55.38% 1
Maidenhead - 3 £475 - 2
Windsor - 2 £575 - 3
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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 19 (35.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 25 (47.17%) Azure
3 21 (39.62%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (32.08%) PowerApps
5 15 (28.30%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (28.30%) Power Automate
6 11 (20.75%) Copilot Studio
6 11 (20.75%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (18.87%) SaaS
8 8 (15.09%) Entra ID
9 6 (11.32%) GCP
9 6 (11.32%) OneDrive
10 4 (7.55%) AWS
11 3 (5.66%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
11 3 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (5.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (5.66%) GitHub
11 3 (5.66%) Miro
11 3 (5.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) 2G
1 2 (3.77%) 5G
1 2 (3.77%) LTE
1 2 (3.77%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (3.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Tableau
2 8 (15.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (9.43%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.89%) Metadata
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) JIRA
2 4 (7.55%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) NeoLoad
3 1 (1.89%) Postman
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.89%) Advertising
6 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Analyst
1 13 (24.53%) Architect
2 11 (20.75%) Platform Architect
2 11 (20.75%) Power Platform Architect
3 7 (13.21%) Data Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Integration Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Oracle Project Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Lead
6 3 (5.66%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Integration Project Manager
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Service Management Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) ADO
2 3 (5.66%) Plotly
3 2 (3.77%) Pandas
4 1 (1.89%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.89%) NumPy
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.89%) PySpark
4 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.89%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.89%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) CMDB
1 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.66%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.77%) IoT
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
4 1 (1.89%) SCADA
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (88.68%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (35.85%) DevOps
3 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (18.87%) Agile
4 10 (18.87%) Analytics
4 10 (18.87%) PRINCE2
4 10 (18.87%) Waterfall
5 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
5 9 (16.98%) Visualisation
6 8 (15.09%) Actionable Insight
6 8 (15.09%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (13.21%) Contingency Planning
7 7 (13.21%) Data Analysis
7 7 (13.21%) E-business
7 7 (13.21%) Machine Learning
7 7 (13.21%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (13.21%) Service Management
8 6 (11.32%) Roadmaps
9 5 (9.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (9.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) SQL
2 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.21%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) SLA
3 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.66%) PMO
3 3 (5.66%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.77%) SCCM
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.75%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Databricks
4 3 (5.66%) Foundry
4 3 (5.66%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.66%) Palantir
4 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.77%) Remedy
6 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.89%) CyberArk