Data Engineering Contracts in Reading

Data Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 79 83
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 5 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.42% 0.77% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.85% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £416 £443 £405
25th Percentile £422 £488 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -19.13% +1.10% +37.88%
75th Percentile £510 £622 £728
90th Percentile £564 £643 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £438 £525 £569
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +37.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £75.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Reading

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Reading

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Reading

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Smart Meter
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) ETL Development
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Ab Initio