Data Interpretation Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Interpretation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Interpretation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 93 85
Rank change year-on-year +30 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Interpretation 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.17% 0.18% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.21% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £625 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £450 £300
% change year-on-year +19.44% +50.00% -40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Interpretation 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 550 958 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.91% 87.89% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 529 649
10th Percentile £331 £350 £250
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +5.36%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 14
10th Percentile - £14.50 £29.04
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £59.32
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -4.64% +15.26%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.41 £67.42
90th Percentile £69.40 £74.87 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -44.76% -5.34% +22.36%

Data Interpretation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Data Interpretation job vacancy trend in Reading

Data Interpretation
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Data Interpretation
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 2G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Backhaul
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Culture Change
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL