Data Collection Contracts in Berkshire

Data Collection
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Collection 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 81 121 109
Rank change year-on-year +40 -12 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 12 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.15% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.17% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £178
25th Percentile £406 - £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £332
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.92%
75th Percentile £419 - £429
90th Percentile - - £486
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +39.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Collection 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 Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in Berkshire

Data Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Collection in Berkshire

Data Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Collection in Berkshire

Data Collection
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 Collection 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
Wokingham - 7 - - 1
Reading +31 3 - - 7
Windsor - 2 £413 -
Data Collection
South East

Data Collection
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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) 802.11
1 3 (25.00%) VLAN
1 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
1 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (16.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
1 3 (25.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Big Data Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
1 7 (58.33%) Exploratory Testing
1 7 (58.33%) Mathematics
1 7 (58.33%) Optimization Problems
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (58.33%) Scenario Testing
1 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Functional Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Network Design
5 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 1 (8.33%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Master's Degree
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) AirMagnet
1 3 (25.00%) Aruba
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco
1 3 (25.00%) Ekahau
1 3 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
1 3 (25.00%) Juniper
1 3 (25.00%) Meraki