Data Science Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Science
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 96 90
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Science 31 15 26
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.50% 0.92% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 1.04% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 22
10th Percentile £424 £230 £401
25th Percentile £456 £383 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £386 £608
Median % change year-on-year +48.96% -36.46% +37.29%
75th Percentile £863 £531 £638
90th Percentile £950 £670 £845
South East median daily rate £475 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +11.76% -29.17% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £30.11 £42.88 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.78% - -
South East median hourly rate £30.11 £34.94 £19.00
% change year-on-year -13.82% +83.89% -4.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Science 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 1,123 1,441 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.49% 88.03% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 767 993
10th Percentile £320 £325 £251
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £634
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 61 67
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £23.11
25th Percentile £17.84 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £34.80 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -40.51% -5.34% +22.36%
75th Percentile £62.31 £63.41 £73.59
90th Percentile £80.73 £75.24 £76.46
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £58.49 £54.37
% change year-on-year -64.56% +7.58% +55.34%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Berkshire

Data Science
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Data Science
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 Science within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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 - 9 £440 -
Reading +26 6 £575 +49.16% 10
Windsor -1 6 £900 - 2
Maidenhead +4 4 £475 +102.13% 2
Bracknell -4 1 - -
Slough - 1 £725 - 65
Data Science
South East

Data Science
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 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.68%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) Azure
2 10 (32.26%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.23%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Big Data
1 4 (12.90%) Hadoop
1 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.68%) Power BI
2 3 (9.68%) Tableau
3 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.23%) Metadata
4 1 (3.23%) Neo4j
4 1 (3.23%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Data Scientist
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Security Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) HR Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) HR Data Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Data Management Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Data Scientist
6 1 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Reference Data Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) scikit-learn
2 6 (19.35%) Pandas
3 5 (16.13%) NumPy
3 5 (16.13%) PyTorch
3 5 (16.13%) TensorFlow
4 4 (12.90%) Google JAX
4 4 (12.90%) JAX
5 1 (3.23%) Faiss
5 1 (3.23%) Matplotlib
5 1 (3.23%) Plotly
5 1 (3.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (51.61%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (6.45%) Robotics
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) Machine Learning
2 17 (54.84%) LLM
3 15 (48.39%) Visualisation
4 14 (45.16%) Analytics
4 14 (45.16%) Data Visualisation
4 14 (45.16%) DevOps
5 13 (41.94%) Agile
5 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (35.48%) AI
6 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
6 11 (35.48%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
9 7 (22.58%) Computer Vision
9 7 (22.58%) Data Engineering
9 7 (22.58%) Decision-Making
9 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (22.58%) Predictive Analytics
9 7 (22.58%) Prototyping
10 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) C++
3 4 (12.90%) Java
3 4 (12.90%) R
4 3 (9.68%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Master's Degree
3 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) EU AI Act
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) GRC
2 2 (6.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
3 3 (9.68%) Foundry
3 3 (9.68%) Palantir
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.45%) Workday
5 1 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) Virgin Media