Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Discovery
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.051% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
South East median daily rate £375 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -23.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Discovery 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 1,628 1,114 1,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.40% 92.22% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 675 826
10th Percentile £325 £350 £303
25th Percentile £413 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £611 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.39% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 45 90
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £16.90
25th Percentile £76.69 £18.87 £41.31
Median hourly rate £84.00 £37.28 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +125.32% -39.48% +2.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £72.33
90th Percentile £106.10 £87.40 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £57.64 £21.99 £54.88
% change year-on-year +162.19% -59.94% +9.75%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Data Discovery job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Discovery
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 Discovery within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 July 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 - 1 £375 -
Data Discovery
South East

Data Discovery
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk