Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Analytics
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 89 109
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 2 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.13% 0.62% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.67% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £573 - -
25th Percentile £588 £315 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £550 £501
90th Percentile £678 £636 £647
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.83% +8.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £52.67
25th Percentile - £56.69 £55.90
Median hourly rate - £58.38 £61.53
Median % change year-on-year - -5.12% -22.30%
75th Percentile - £60.06 £66.90
90th Percentile - - £69.96
South East median hourly rate - £43.19 £51.06
% change year-on-year - -15.41% -7.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Analytics 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 1,350 1,193 1,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.10% 91.98% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 646 1,005
10th Percentile £293 £273 £210
25th Percentile £401 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.20%
75th Percentile £592 £638 £606
90th Percentile £650 £666 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 37 96
10th Percentile £16.34 £26.15 £20.50
25th Percentile £20.79 £42.88 £43.12
Median hourly rate £59.50 £61.50 £60.57
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +1.53% -6.35%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.62 £70.50
90th Percentile £106.00 £76.18 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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 +2 1 £575 +82.54% 5
Wokingham - 1 £675 - 1
Data Analytics
South East

Data Analytics
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Sentiment Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce