Data Engineer Contracts in Reading

Data Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Reading is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 74 74
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 13 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.10% 1.45% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.52% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 20
10th Percentile £169 £446 £332
25th Percentile £354 £472 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +9.30% -1.15%
75th Percentile £591 £631 £632
90th Percentile £618 £669 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £453 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.81% - -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 -
% change year-on-year -10.60% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,096 988 1,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 668 882
10th Percentile £213 £363 £177
25th Percentile £413 £460 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £657 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £491
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.92% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -0.24%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Reading

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Reading

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Reading

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Reading region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) ETL
2 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 4 (30.77%) Data Science
3 4 (30.77%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) XML
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
3 4 (30.77%) Ab Initio
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (23.08%) User Stories
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) ETL Development
4 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (23.08%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Smart Meter
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 3 (23.08%) Linux
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless

Data Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (7.69%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) 2G
1 1 (7.69%) 3G
1 1 (7.69%) 4G
1 1 (7.69%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 2 (15.38%) GIS
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) NumPy
2 1 (7.69%) Pandas
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
1 3 (23.08%) Smart Meter
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) ETL
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
2 4 (30.77%) Data Science
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) ETL Development
3 3 (23.08%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) User Stories
4 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
5 1 (7.69%) Data Validation
5 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.69%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) MBCS
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Ab Initio
2 3 (23.08%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Ericsson
3 1 (7.69%) Mavenir
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy