Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Analyst
South East > Berkshire

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Berkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 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
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 86 94
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 22 23 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.84% 1.36% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.50% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 11
10th Percentile £392 £243 £155
25th Percentile £455 £315 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £482 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% +4.02% -2.55%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £550
90th Percentile £650 £551 £735
South East median daily rate £425 £488 £463
% change year-on-year -12.82% +5.21% -2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £32.13 - £14.05
25th Percentile £35.16 - £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.44 - £17.50
75th Percentile £40.65 - £40.63
90th Percentile - - £53.75
South East median hourly rate £30.11 £29.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year +3.83% +37.77% +45.17%

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 1,086 1,536 1,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.73% 91.05% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 821 1,051
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 73 60
10th Percentile £14.75 £32.53 £18.36
25th Percentile £16.66 £55.87 £46.46
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £58.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +5.40% +16.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.24 £72.65
90th Percentile £87.28 £97.50 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £51.66
% change year-on-year -56.26% +11.30% +111.81%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in Berkshire

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Berkshire

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies 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 25 September 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 +18 5 £650 +53.85% 7
Slough -1 5 £525 +66.67% 32
Windsor - 3 £468 - 2
Maidenhead -1 1 - - 1
Wokingham - 1 £365 - 5
Data Analyst
South East

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 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 8 (36.36%) Data Analysis
2 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) Oracle
3 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (22.73%) Workday
4 5 (22.73%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (22.73%) Migration
4 5 (22.73%) Data Privacy
4 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (22.73%) People Management
4 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
4 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
5 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Azure
5 4 (18.18%) SaaS
5 4 (18.18%) Tableau
5 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Python
5 4 (18.18%) Benchmarking
5 4 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (18.18%) Power BI
5 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 4 (18.18%) OCI

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
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (9.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
1 4 (18.18%) OCI
1 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
1 4 (18.18%) SaaS
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Power BI
1 4 (18.18%) Tableau
2 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
2 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) ERwin
2 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Military
4 1 (4.55%) Aviation
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Smart Meter
2 2 (9.09%) CCTV
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Data Analysis
2 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (27.27%) Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (22.73%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (22.73%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (22.73%) Data Privacy
4 5 (22.73%) Migration
4 5 (22.73%) People Management
5 4 (18.18%) Benchmarking
5 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 3 (13.64%) Time Management
7 2 (9.09%) Data Governance
7 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) R
4 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Workday
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.09%) Sparx
5 1 (4.55%) Foundry
5 1 (4.55%) Palantir