Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Analytics
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 65 79
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 3 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.30% 0.32% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.34% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £535
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.40%
75th Percentile £725 - £553
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £390 £590 £350
% change year-on-year -33.90% +68.57% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.50 - £51.06
% change year-on-year - - -35.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Data 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 878 583 1,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.98% 93.88% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 341 609
10th Percentile £319 £313 £213
25th Percentile £420 £422 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £615
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 3 44
10th Percentile £64.10 £35.55 £20.17
25th Percentile £80.75 £45.38 £52.90
Median hourly rate £84.00 £61.76 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year +36.01% -0.05% -4.94%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.48 £72.33
90th Percentile £105.55 £74.10 £87.51
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +34.97% +2.25% +5.72%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in Reading

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Data 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Change Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) IT Governance
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk