Data Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Data Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £620, 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 75 109 89
Rank change year-on-year +34 -20 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 18 15 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.53% 0.76% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 0.80% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 19
10th Percentile £397 £167 £460
25th Percentile £502 £228 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £453 £575
Median % change year-on-year +37.02% -21.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £709 £566 £719
90th Percentile £741 £606 £784
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.60% -
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £67.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year - +55.17% -37.86%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +25 7 £670 +36.73% 21
Windsor - 4 £503 -
Maidenhead - 3 - - 1
Wokingham - 1 - - 1
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) PySpark
3 10 (55.56%) Python
4 9 (50.00%) Apache Spark
5 8 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (44.44%) Databricks
6 7 (38.89%) Data Engineering
6 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (38.89%) Big Data
7 6 (33.33%) Analytics
7 6 (33.33%) ETL
8 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
8 5 (27.78%) Data Integration
9 4 (22.22%) High Availability
9 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
9 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
9 4 (22.22%) Agile
9 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
9 4 (22.22%) LLM
9 4 (22.22%) DevOps
10 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
10 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
10 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
10 3 (16.67%) Apache
10 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (16.67%) JavaScript

Data Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Collibra
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Big Data
2 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.11%) Spark SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Electronics
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) PySpark
2 2 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 2 (11.11%) JDBC
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) Data Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) Data Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) High Availability
5 4 (22.22%) LLM
6 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 2 (11.11%) Data Validation
7 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 10 (55.56%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Databricks
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Foundry
3 3 (16.67%) Palantir
4 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 2 (11.11%) Virgin Media
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle