Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 72 96
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 6 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.73% 0.89% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.95% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £395 £563 £434
25th Percentile £444 £575 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -22.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £522
90th Percentile £645 £644 £531
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Engineering 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 725 733 1,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.67% 93.61% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 400 639
10th Percentile £313 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +3.81% -0.94%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £618
90th Percentile £670 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 34
10th Percentile £30.10 £27.35 £20.17
25th Percentile £58.00 £29.00 £53.80
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.76 £61.62
Median % change year-on-year +31.96% +0.22% -5.20%
75th Percentile £98.13 £64.73 £66.94
90th Percentile £107.00 £72.20 £86.97
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.25 £61.50 £60.07
% change year-on-year +1.23% +2.37% -1.17%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Reading

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Reading over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Reading

Data Engineering
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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (33.33%) Jinja
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (16.67%) NumPy
3 1 (16.67%) Pandas
3 1 (16.67%) PySpark
3 1 (16.67%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) MLOps
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) LLM
4 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) R
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) logstash
2 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft