Data Analysis Contracts in Reading

Data Analysis
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 68 49
Rank change year-on-year +23 -19 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 15 23 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.51% 1.93% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.14% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 26
10th Percentile £590 £223 £290
25th Percentile £631 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -16.28% +28.16%
75th Percentile - £517 £706
90th Percentile - £597 £784
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £433 £520
% change year-on-year +27.17% -16.83% +25.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Data 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) ERwin
1 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (73.33%) Telecoms
2 10 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Retail
3 7 (46.67%) Billing
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) IT Manager
2 7 (46.67%) IT Operations Manager
2 7 (46.67%) Operations Manager
3 6 (40.00%) Performance Manager
4 5 (33.33%) Telecoms Manager
5 4 (26.67%) Data Manager
6 3 (20.00%) Architect
7 2 (13.33%) Analyst
7 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
7 2 (13.33%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (13.33%) Senior
7 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (13.33%) Senior Operations Analyst
7 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
8 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
8 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
1 10 (66.67%) DataOps
2 3 (20.00%) Analytics
2 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (13.33%) Use Case
3 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (6.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (6.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Splunk
2 7 (46.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) OpenAI
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) Google