Data Analyst Contracts in Berkshire

Data Analyst
South East > Berkshire

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Berkshire is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 81 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 22 43 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.88% 2.17% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 2.30% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 24
10th Percentile £353 £276 £280
25th Percentile £437 £325 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -18.37% +13.16%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £538
90th Percentile £565 £555 £646
South East median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - +6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £17.13
25th Percentile - £70.00 £18.44
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year - +276.47% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £23.44
90th Percentile - - £24.38
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £80.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -72.41% +245.68% +18.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Berkshire

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Berkshire

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Berkshire

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Berkshire

Data Analyst
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 Analyst 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 +17 9 £510 +13.33% 15
Bracknell +16 4 £550 -0.90%
Wokingham -8 4 £350 -26.32%
Slough -5 2 £525 - 5
Data Analyst
South East

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Migration
3 7 (31.82%) Data Analysis
3 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Data Migration
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Oracle
6 4 (18.18%) Power BI
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
6 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Change Management
6 4 (18.18%) Validation
6 4 (18.18%) CMDB
6 4 (18.18%) Data Management
6 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
6 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
7 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
7 3 (13.64%) Tableau
7 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
7 3 (13.64%) Data Validation
7 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (13.64%) BMC
7 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
7 3 (13.64%) Project Management

Data Analyst Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (9.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.64%) OCI
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Tableau
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) Metadata
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) ERwin
2 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Billing
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Games
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) CMDB
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Data Analysis
1 7 (31.82%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Data Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (18.18%) Change Management
3 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
3 4 (18.18%) Data Management
3 4 (18.18%) Validation
4 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
4 3 (13.64%) Data Validation
4 3 (13.64%) Impact Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
5 2 (9.09%) Conceptual Models
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) BMC
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.09%) Sparx
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) Workday
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow