Business Intelligence Contracts in Reading

Business Intelligence (BI)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 54 38
Rank change year-on-year +35 -16 -4
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 49 37 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 8.21% 3.10% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 3.44% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 29
10th Percentile £513 £237 £373
25th Percentile £588 £351 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +42.47% -13.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £504 £590
90th Percentile - £588 £645
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £408 £525
% change year-on-year +47.24% -22.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £62.20
25th Percentile - £56.25 £75.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -21.08% +251.96%
75th Percentile - £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £62.50 £79.19
% change year-on-year -48.72% -21.08% +251.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Business Intelligence in Reading

Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Business Intelligence in Reading

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Intelligence in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Intelligence in Reading

Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Intelligence in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Business Intelligence in Reading

Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 7 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.12%) AWS
5 3 (6.12%) OCI
6 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.04%) GCP
7 1 (2.04%) Serverless
7 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.04%) Junos
2 1 (2.04%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Power BI
2 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (6.12%) Power Query
3 2 (4.08%) Big Data
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.04%) HBase
4 1 (2.04%) HDInsight
4 1 (2.04%) Impala
4 1 (2.04%) Metadata
4 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Git
1 4 (8.16%) Selenium
2 3 (6.12%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.04%) ERwin
General
1 39 (79.59%) Telecoms
2 34 (69.39%) Finance
3 33 (67.35%) Electronics
3 33 (67.35%) Manufacturing
3 33 (67.35%) Marketing
3 33 (67.35%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Architect
2 21 (42.86%) Active Directory Architect
3 7 (14.29%) Senior
4 6 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Developer
6 4 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Report Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Cognos Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Developer Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Telecoms Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Telecoms Business Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) PySpark
2 3 (6.12%) Gherkin
3 2 (4.08%) Kafka
3 2 (4.08%) YAML
4 1 (2.04%) ADO
4 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) CMDB
3 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.04%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (53.06%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) Digital Marketing
1 33 (67.35%) Programme Management
2 27 (55.10%) Agile
3 24 (48.98%) Test Automation
4 21 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (16.33%) DevOps
6 6 (12.24%) Analytics
6 6 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (8.16%) Data Integration
8 4 (8.16%) Data Management
8 4 (8.16%) ETL
8 4 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (6.12%) Data Analysis
9 3 (6.12%) Data Reconciliation
9 3 (6.12%) ERP
9 3 (6.12%) Migration
9 3 (6.12%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.24%) SQL
3 5 (10.20%) Python
4 4 (8.16%) Bash
5 3 (6.12%) VBA
6 2 (4.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Perl
7 1 (2.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (59.18%) Security Cleared
2 23 (46.94%) DV Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) PMO
2 2 (4.08%) QA
System Software
1 21 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Ansible
2 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (67.35%) SAP
2 4 (8.16%) Databricks
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle
4 2 (4.08%) Cognos
4 2 (4.08%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.08%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) Citrix
5 1 (2.04%) Dell
5 1 (2.04%) F5
5 1 (2.04%) HP
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Juniper
5 1 (2.04%) StreamSets