Analytics Contracts in Berkshire

Analytics
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -18
Contract jobs citing Analytics 48 92 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.20% 4.77% 4.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 5.37% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 49 44
10th Percentile £361 £261 £340
25th Percentile £425 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £639
90th Percentile £609 £644 £726
South East median daily rate £491 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.73% +10.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile - £41.25 £53.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% -46.33% +58.38%
75th Percentile - £48.19 -
90th Percentile - £56.18 -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £51.75 £32.30
% change year-on-year -38.07% +60.22% -30.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,063 1,713 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.00% 88.85% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 899 1,013
10th Percentile £304 £213 £349
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -3.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £702
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 101 48
10th Percentile £21.81 £18.50 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.00 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +5.50% +174.99%
75th Percentile £77.19 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.32 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +127.91%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in Berkshire

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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 Analytics within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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 -8 17 £525 -13.22% 50
Wokingham -2 14 £450 -47.83% 3
Bracknell +15 8 £480 +53.60% 6
Windsor -6 3 £500 -44.44% 9
Slough - 2 £550 - 29
Analytics
South East

Analytics
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 5 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.25%) CMS
2 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.08%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) AWS
3 9 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 8 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (8.33%) GCP
8 3 (6.25%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.17%) Azure API Management
9 2 (4.17%) Azure App Service
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.17%) Serverless
9 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) DNS
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) DHCP
2 1 (2.08%) HTTP
2 1 (2.08%) Internet
2 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.08%) IPFIX
2 1 (2.08%) LAN
2 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.08%) SSL
2 1 (2.08%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) WAN
2 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Power BI
2 8 (16.67%) Big Data
3 5 (10.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.42%) Tableau
4 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.17%) Power Query
5 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.08%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.08%) HBase
6 1 (2.08%) Impala
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.08%) ERwin
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) Postman
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Telecoms
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.33%) Marketing
5 3 (6.25%) Billing
5 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.17%) Electronics
6 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) French Language
7 1 (2.08%) Games
7 1 (2.08%) Italian Language
7 1 (2.08%) Local Government
7 1 (2.08%) Publishing
7 1 (2.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Architect
2 8 (16.67%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Operations Manager
6 3 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Telecoms Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Junior
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Tester
7 2 (4.17%) Telecoms Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) PySpark
2 4 (8.33%) .NET
3 3 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.25%) SOAP
4 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.17%) Gherkin
4 2 (4.17%) Kafka
4 2 (4.17%) REST
4 2 (4.17%) RESTful
4 2 (4.17%) Web Services
5 1 (2.08%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.08%) JSON
5 1 (2.08%) MDX
5 1 (2.08%) OAuth
5 1 (2.08%) OpenID
5 1 (2.08%) React
5 1 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Learning Management System
3 2 (4.17%) Life Science
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.17%) PKI
3 2 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.17%) SCADA
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) IoT
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Social Media
4 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (10.42%) Linux
3 4 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (25.00%) Agile
3 10 (20.83%) DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) ETL
4 9 (18.75%) Log Analytics
5 8 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 8 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 8 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 7 (14.58%) Data Governance
6 7 (14.58%) Data Modelling
7 6 (12.50%) Data Analytics
7 6 (12.50%) Scrum
7 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (10.42%) ITIL
8 5 (10.42%) Machine Learning
8 5 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) SQL
2 11 (22.92%) Python
3 5 (10.42%) C#
4 4 (8.33%) T-SQL
5 3 (6.25%) Bicep
6 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.17%) R
7 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.08%) Perl
7 1 (2.08%) VB
7 1 (2.08%) VBScript
7 1 (2.08%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) CISSP
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) GIAC
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) CCSK
5 1 (2.08%) CEH
5 1 (2.08%) CISA
5 1 (2.08%) CISM
5 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.08%) GCIA
5 1 (2.08%) GCIH
5 1 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
5 1 (2.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.42%) QA
3 4 (8.33%) GDPR
3 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (4.17%) NIST
5 1 (2.08%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.08%) Docker
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) QRadar
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) CASB
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.08%) SCCM
3 1 (2.08%) SCOM
3 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Databricks
3 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.42%) Splunk
4 4 (8.33%) Google
4 4 (8.33%) Virgin Media
5 3 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.17%) Adobe
6 2 (4.17%) SAP
6 2 (4.17%) Snow
7 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.08%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.08%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (2.08%) Nexthink
7 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle
7 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.08%) StreamSets