Analytics Contract Job Trends in Reading

Analytics
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 36 28
Rank change year-on-year -17 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 23 63 66
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.28% 5.82% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 6.41% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 46 58
10th Percentile £440 £339 £463
25th Percentile £506 £441 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £518 £610
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.16% +15.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £630 £699 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £605
% change year-on-year - -13.22% +18.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Analytics 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 983 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.31% 90.85% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 551 628
10th Percentile £337 £330 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £609 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 11 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £41.24
25th Percentile £16.66 £49.38 £59.89
Median hourly rate £58.00 £60.46 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -4.48% -2.63%
75th Percentile £82.25 £67.21 £65.25
90th Percentile £96.75 £74.87 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +21.68%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in Reading

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Reading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Reading

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Analytics

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Workday HCM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP QM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) GitHub
3 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.70%) Azure API Management
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
4 2 (8.70%) Boomi
4 2 (8.70%) Google Analytics
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) OneDrive
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 2 (8.70%) Slack
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) 2G
1 2 (8.70%) 5G
1 2 (8.70%) LTE
1 2 (8.70%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (8.70%) Unified Communications
1 2 (8.70%) VoIP
1 2 (8.70%) WebEx
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Data Hub
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
1 2 (8.70%) Tableau
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Data Mart
2 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) MLflow
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Retail
4 2 (8.70%) Arabic Language
4 2 (8.70%) Billing
4 2 (8.70%) Brand Awareness
4 2 (8.70%) Dutch Language
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) French Language
4 2 (8.70%) German Language
4 2 (8.70%) Italian Language
4 2 (8.70%) Japanese Language
4 2 (8.70%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Polish Language
4 2 (8.70%) Portuguese Language
4 2 (8.70%) Spanish Language
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing Executive
4 2 (8.70%) React Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Report Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.70%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
1 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.70%) CSS
1 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
1 2 (8.70%) Jest
1 2 (8.70%) OAuth
1 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
1 2 (8.70%) OpenID
1 2 (8.70%) React
1 2 (8.70%) REST
1 2 (8.70%) SAML
1 2 (8.70%) Sass
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Blog
2 2 (8.70%) IoT
2 2 (8.70%) Social Media
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) AI
2 6 (26.09%) Data Analysis
3 5 (21.74%) Identity Management
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
4 4 (17.39%) MLOps
4 4 (17.39%) Validation
5 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.04%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (13.04%) Data Interpretation
5 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.04%) Log Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) RBAC
5 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) PHP
5 2 (8.70%) R
5 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CFCE
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) GCFA
3 1 (4.35%) GCIA
3 1 (4.35%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.35%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) Kubeflow
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) Dell
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) HubSpot
3 2 (8.70%) Virgin Media
3 2 (8.70%) Workday
4 1 (4.35%) ArcSight
4 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.35%) Intel
4 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk