Data Science Contracts in Reading

Data Science
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -32
Contract jobs citing Data Science 6 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.51% 0.77% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.86% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile £371 £503 £493
25th Percentile £390 £538 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% -14.81% +45.95%
75th Percentile £448 £659 £763
90th Percentile £467 £731 -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +37.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Science 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 1,069 935 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.21% 90.43% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 619 821
10th Percentile £213 £363 £238
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
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 Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Reading

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Reading

Data Science
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 (16.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) CMake
General
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
4 1 (16.67%) Junior
4 1 (16.67%) Junior Data Scientist
4 1 (16.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) CNTK
2 1 (16.67%) NumPy
2 1 (16.67%) OpenVINO
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (50.00%) Smart Meter
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 3 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks