Data Analysis Contracts in Berkshire

Data Analysis
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis 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 65 86 59
Rank change year-on-year +21 -27 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 28 38 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.39% 1.92% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.15% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £212 £233 £280
25th Percentile £463 £309 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £433 £520
Median % change year-on-year +27.17% -16.83% +25.39%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £680
90th Percentile £700 £950 £784
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £17.33
25th Percentile - £41.25 £18.95
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year - +82.40% +3.56%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £42.79
90th Percentile - - £53.49
South East median hourly rate £21.39 £21.04 £28.16
% change year-on-year +1.69% -25.30% +44.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Analysis 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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Berkshire

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in Berkshire

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Berkshire

Data Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in Berkshire

Data Analysis
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 Data Analysis 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
Reading +23 15 £700 +55.56% 24
Slough - 5 £525 - 22
Wokingham - 4 £625 -
Bracknell +12 1 - - 1
Data Analysis
South East

Data Analysis
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 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
1 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Azure AI
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) Tableau
3 3 (10.71%) Big Data
3 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.57%) Power Query
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) ERwin
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 12 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Telecoms
3 10 (35.71%) Retail
4 7 (25.00%) Billing
4 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Legal
5 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
6 2 (7.14%) Finance
7 1 (3.57%) Games
7 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) IT Manager
3 7 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 7 (25.00%) IT Operations Manager
3 7 (25.00%) Operations Manager
4 6 (21.43%) Performance Manager
5 5 (17.86%) Architect
5 5 (17.86%) Telecoms Manager
6 4 (14.29%) Data Manager
6 4 (14.29%) Senior
7 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (10.71%) SQL Analyst
7 3 (10.71%) SQL Data Analyst
8 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Data Modeller
8 2 (7.14%) Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Oracle Analyst
8 2 (7.14%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 2 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Kafka
1 1 (3.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
2 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (35.71%) DataOps
3 7 (25.00%) Analytics
4 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 6 (21.43%) Visualisation
5 5 (17.86%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 4 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (14.29%) ETL
6 4 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (10.71%) Data Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
7 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (10.71%) Use Case
8 2 (7.14%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.57%) R
3 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.57%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Splunk
2 7 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 4 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 4 (14.29%) Salesforce
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle
5 2 (7.14%) Sparx
5 2 (7.14%) Workday
6 1 (3.57%) Ariba
6 1 (3.57%) Databricks
6 1 (3.57%) Google
6 1 (3.57%) SAP