Trend Analysis Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Trend Analysis
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Trend Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 92 107
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing Trend Analysis 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.22% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £295 £325
Median % change year-on-year +66.10% -9.23% -
75th Percentile - - £338
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £471 £310 £394
% change year-on-year +51.94% -21.27% -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Trend Analysis 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 1,482 1,082 1,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 81.83% 91.54% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 667 775
10th Percentile £350 £334 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -7.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £663 £696
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 41 75
10th Percentile £16.81 £14.75 £19.93
25th Percentile £35.22 £17.30 £47.56
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.31 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +152.24% -47.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £72.04
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.25 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £22.07 £57.35
% change year-on-year +137.54% -61.52% +9.24%

Trend Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Trend Analysis job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Trend Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Trend Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Trend Analysis

Trend Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Trend Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Trend Analysis

Trend Analysis
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 Trend Analysis within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. 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 -22 2 £490 -
Trend Analysis
South East

Trend Analysis
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) dbt
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau Desktop
General
1 2 (50.00%) Publishing
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Scorecard
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
1 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow