Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Lakes
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 8 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.58% 1.12% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.00% 6.41% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 19
10th Percentile £433 £480 £461
25th Percentile £444 £500 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -17.24%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £638
90th Percentile £578 £680 £668
South East median daily rate £425 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -22.02% -5.22% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £60.00

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 200 281 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.38% 17.46% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 170 169
10th Percentile £411 £385 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.43% +19.79%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £663
90th Percentile £650 £671 £703
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 10
10th Percentile - £20.75 £55.60
25th Percentile - £41.25 £57.88
Median hourly rate - £48.18 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.52% +14.55%
75th Percentile - £63.16 £77.83
90th Percentile - £64.73 £80.82
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.53
% change year-on-year -16.98% -4.65% +129.67%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Berkshire

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Lake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Lake

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 26 November 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 +12 2 - - 4
Wokingham -21 2 £475 -
Maidenhead -2 1 - -
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) ArcGIS
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Spatial
1 1 (12.50%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) Tableau
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) GIS
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Spatial Data
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) GIS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) MLOps
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) DataOps
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Master Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) R
4 1 (12.50%) Magik
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (25.00%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) ESRI
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP