Big Data Contracts in Berkshire

Big Data
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 115 103
Rank change year-on-year +51 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing Big Data 29 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.47% 0.45% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.37% 3.56% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 9
10th Percentile £466 £243 £540
25th Percentile - £370 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £774
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -39.08% +44.67%
75th Percentile £550 £703 £784
90th Percentile £700 £788 £786
South East median daily rate £545 £448 £575
% change year-on-year +21.65% -22.09% +4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 167 253 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.24% 12.75% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 138 185
10th Percentile £406 £313 £340
25th Percentile £457 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £663 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 8
10th Percentile - £19.00 £44.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £38.32 £53.25
Median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £79.19
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Berkshire

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Berkshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Berkshire

Big Data
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 Big Data within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Windsor +5 15 £500 -25.93%
Reading +32 6 £638 +50.35% 12
Wokingham -8 5 £550 -29.03%
Maidenhead +4 1 £500 +96.08%
Big Data
South East

Big Data
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 12 (41.38%) Apache Spark
2 5 (17.24%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) AWS
3 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (17.24%) GCP
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub
7 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.45%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Hadoop
1 8 (27.59%) Relational Database
2 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (17.24%) Metadata
4 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
5 3 (10.34%) Apache Hive
5 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.90%) MySQL
6 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (6.90%) Power BI
6 2 (6.90%) Spark SQL
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.45%) GIS
7 1 (3.45%) HBase
7 1 (3.45%) HDInsight
7 1 (3.45%) Impala
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) ERwin
3 4 (13.79%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Data Modeller
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Big Data Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.90%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Modeller
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) PySpark
2 4 (13.79%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) scikit-learn
3 3 (10.34%) TensorFlow
4 2 (6.90%) NumPy
4 2 (6.90%) Pandas
4 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.45%) Prophet
5 1 (3.45%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.90%) IoT
3 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) SCADA
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Windows
3 5 (17.24%) Ubuntu
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Analytics
2 8 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (27.59%) ETL
3 7 (24.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (24.14%) Data Cleansing
3 7 (24.14%) Data Science
3 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) High Availability
4 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (17.24%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 5 (17.24%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Open Source
5 5 (17.24%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
1 18 (62.07%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.90%) R
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Perl
5 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Flume
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Ansible
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Databricks
2 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.79%) Google
3 4 (13.79%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.45%) Virgin Media