Data Lake Contracts in Berkshire

Data Lakes
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake 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 79 118 99
Rank change year-on-year +39 -19 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 14 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.19% 0.30% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.38% 2.37% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 14
10th Percentile £463 £585 £490
25th Percentile £481 £619 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £525 £713 £613
90th Percentile £550 £735 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 167 253 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.24% 12.75% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 138 185
10th Percentile £406 £313 £340
25th Percentile £457 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £663 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 8
10th Percentile - £19.00 £44.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £38.32 £53.25
Median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £79.19
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Berkshire

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in Berkshire

Data Lake
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 Lake 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 - 5 £525 - 1
Bracknell +19 3 £480 -
Reading +31 2 £550 -4.35% 15
Windsor -9 1 £500 -29.82% 1
Maidenhead - 1 £500 - 1
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Data Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Report Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Reporting Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) JSON
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 2 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 2 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) CSOC
1 6 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 5 (35.71%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (42.86%) Process Improvement
1 6 (42.86%) Security Operations
1 6 (42.86%) SIEM
1 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (35.71%) Data Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) GIAC
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks