Data Lake Contracts in Reading

Data Lakes
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake 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 58 89 77
Rank change year-on-year +31 -12 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 2 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.17% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.70% 1.08% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile - £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile - £588 £627
90th Percentile - - £766
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% -16.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 74 186 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.40% 15.60% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 98 116
10th Percentile £407 £353 £379
25th Percentile £500 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £595
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £53.10
25th Percentile - £61.60 £61.75
Median hourly rate - £64.55 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year - -14.50% +235.56%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Edge Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) R
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes