Data-Driven Decision Making Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data-Driven Decision Making
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 88 79
Rank change year-on-year +24 -9 -
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 1 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.36% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.42% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £724 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £748 - £485
75th Percentile £771 - £530
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £520
% change year-on-year +7.32% -1.44% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Data-Driven Decision Making 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 530 956 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.33% 86.20% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 519 668
10th Percentile £350 £350 £309
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £703 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.05% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 29 20
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.90 £52.23
Median hourly rate £27.50 £61.60 £65.56
Median % change year-on-year -55.36% -6.04% +87.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £76.99 £74.20
90th Percentile £58.00 £87.46 £75.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.55 £58.44
% change year-on-year -47.50% +5.31% +41.87%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Reading

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 1 (100.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode