Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 94 113
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 22 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.50% 0.71% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 0.79% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 10
10th Percentile £409 £545 £436
25th Percentile £451 £575 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £638 £513
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% +24.39% -18.00%
75th Percentile £522 £688 £611
90th Percentile £555 £693 £871
South East median daily rate £480 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -16.52% +2.58% -2.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Engineering 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 1,303 1,385 1,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.88% 89.94% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 766 965
10th Percentile £306 £313 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £691 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 41 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.00 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +26.05%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.87 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Berkshire

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 +15 9 £450 -25.00% 4
Wokingham - 6 £458 - 1
Windsor - 3 £513 - 1
Bracknell - 2 - -
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Apache Spark
2 4 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (13.64%) Apache
4 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) GCP
3 8 (36.36%) AWS
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (18.18%) dbt
5 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
6 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (9.09%) IaaS
6 2 (9.09%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Relational Database
2 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
2 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (18.18%) Big Data
3 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
3 4 (18.18%) Power BI
3 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 4 (18.18%) Tableau
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
4 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
5 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.55%) MySQL
6 1 (4.55%) Neo4j
6 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
6 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Data Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Data Scientist
2 3 (13.64%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Data Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) scikit-learn
2 5 (22.73%) NumPy
2 5 (22.73%) Pandas
3 4 (18.18%) PyTorch
3 4 (18.18%) TensorFlow
4 3 (13.64%) Kafka
5 2 (9.09%) Jinja
6 1 (4.55%) Faiss
6 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (40.91%) Decision-Making
3 9 (40.91%) Visualisation
4 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 7 (31.82%) Data Science
6 6 (27.27%) Agile
6 6 (27.27%) LLM
6 6 (27.27%) Statistical Modelling
6 6 (27.27%) Time Series Analysis
6 6 (27.27%) Use Case
7 5 (22.73%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (22.73%) Data Cleansing
7 5 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (22.73%) ETL
7 5 (22.73%) Predictive Modelling
7 5 (22.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 14 (63.64%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) R
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 8 (36.36%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) logstash
2 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Google
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Foundry
4 1 (4.55%) Palantir