Data Management Contracts in Reading

Data Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management 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 50 71 72
Rank change year-on-year +21 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Management 10 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 1.68% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.86% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile £525 £452 £414
25th Percentile £600 £506 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £563 £515
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% +9.22% +23.35%
75th Percentile £850 £691 £613
90th Percentile £880 £763 £637
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% +19.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Management 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%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Reading

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in Reading

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Reading

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in Reading

Data Management
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 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Power Query
3 2 (20.00%) Big Data
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) HBase
4 1 (10.00%) HDInsight
4 1 (10.00%) Impala
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Report Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) PMO Lead
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Architect
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (30.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) VBA
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) ISEB
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) StreamSets