Big Data Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Big Data
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 92 106
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing Big Data 5 19 13
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.34% 1.28% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.51% 7.76% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 9
10th Percentile - £491 £450
25th Percentile £525 £500 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £688 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -14.06% +8.47%
75th Percentile £575 £763 £863
90th Percentile - £800 £955
South East median daily rate £425 £694 £600
% change year-on-year -38.74% +15.63% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.67
25th Percentile - - £55.90
Median hourly rate - - £61.53
75th Percentile - - £66.90
90th Percentile - - £69.96
South East median hourly rate - - £61.53

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 199 245 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.46% 16.57% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 146 166
10th Percentile £410 £383 £365
25th Percentile £423 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +3.04% +19.79%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £663
90th Percentile £664 £675 £706
South East median daily rate £462 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.70% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 9
10th Percentile - £34.67 £55.03
25th Percentile - £41.25 £59.00
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.24% +14.55%
75th Percentile - £64.95 £79.78
90th Percentile - £65.62 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £63.15 £52.78
% change year-on-year -36.66% +19.65% +124.25%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Big Data

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Big Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Big Data

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 21 December 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 +7 2 £550 -29.03%
Wokingham -27 2 - -
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (60.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) NumPy
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
1 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (60.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Statistics
2 4 (80.00%) Time Series Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Model Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Predictive Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks