Power BI Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Power BI
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Power BI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power BI 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 50 56 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Power BI 10 35 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 2.94% 3.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.51% 18.82% 22.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 19
10th Percentile - £243 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -9.52% +0.96%
75th Percentile £401 £551 £581
90th Percentile £513 £588 £598
Berkshire median daily rate £428 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -9.04% -6.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £62.20
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.00 £79.19
% change year-on-year -47.46% -22.97% +251.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 74 186 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.40% 15.60% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 98 116
10th Percentile £407 £353 £379
25th Percentile £500 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £595
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £53.10
25th Percentile - £61.60 £61.75
Median hourly rate - £64.55 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year - -14.50% +235.56%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in Reading

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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 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power Query
2 2 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) HBase
3 1 (10.00%) HDInsight
3 1 (10.00%) Impala
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ERwin
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) PMO Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Report Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Portfolio Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ADO
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Data Management
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Data Reconciliation
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
5 2 (20.00%) Artefact Management
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) VBA
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) StreamSets