Data Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Data Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £453 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 87 87
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 15 26 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.76% 1.43% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.51% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 25
10th Percentile £167 £460 £369
25th Percentile £228 £488 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £566 £719 £625
90th Percentile £606 £784 £703
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £43.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +55.17% -37.86% +382.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,871 1,718 2,289
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.81% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 1,099 1,473
10th Percentile £213 £325 £205
25th Percentile £376 £419 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 57 41
10th Percentile £18.85 £17.34 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £21.65 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.47 £73.59 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.05 £79.61 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
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 Data Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 -12 13 £490 -20.00% 7
Slough +15 2 £271 -48.43% 1
Data Engineer
South East

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) SQL
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) ETL
2 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (26.67%) Data Science
3 4 (26.67%) Ab Initio
3 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (26.67%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) XML
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) ETL Development
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (20.00%) User Stories
4 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Smart Meter
4 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Unix
4 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
1 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) 3G
1 2 (13.33%) 4G
2 1 (6.67%) 2G
2 1 (6.67%) 5G
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) GPRS
2 1 (6.67%) RNC
2 1 (6.67%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (6.67%) VoLTE
2 1 (6.67%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) GIS
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) NumPy
2 1 (6.67%) Pandas
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (20.00%) Smart Meter
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) ETL
2 4 (26.67%) Analytics
2 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (26.67%) Data Science
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) ETL Development
3 3 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) User Stories
4 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
5 1 (6.67%) Prototyping
5 1 (6.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) MBCS
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Ab Initio
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Ericsson
3 1 (6.67%) Mavenir
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Remedy