Statistics Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Statistics
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 104 113
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Statistics 10 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.80% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.63% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £416 £222 £339
25th Percentile £422 £237 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £285 £380
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -25.00% +35.71%
75th Percentile £475 £315 £519
90th Percentile - £341 £733
South East median daily rate £450 £318 £495
% change year-on-year +41.73% -35.86% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Statistics 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 1,126 1,433 1,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.51% 88.18% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 763 998
10th Percentile £322 £325 £250
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 £637
90th Percentile £650 £692 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 59 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.19 £21.20
25th Percentile £17.45 £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 £64.06 £63.42 £73.59
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.27 £76.28
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.43 £53.50
% change year-on-year -64.56% +9.22% +51.95%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Statistics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Statistics

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Statistics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Statistics

Statistics
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 Statistics within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Reading +27 3 - - 3
Maidenhead +2 3 £450 +83.67%
Wokingham - 3 £425 -
Statistics
South East

Statistics
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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Big Data
1 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Scientist
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Site Manager
2 1 (10.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Pandas
1 4 (40.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (30.00%) NumPy
3 1 (10.00%) Matplotlib
3 1 (10.00%) Plotly
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (50.00%) Data Science
1 5 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) LLM
2 4 (40.00%) Model Validation
2 4 (40.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Time Series Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Use Case
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) SWOT Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) BT
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy