Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in Reading

Synthetic Data
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.12% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

Synthetic Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 275 245 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 31.68% 31.37% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 116 224
10th Percentile £301 £299 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.73%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £510 £480
% change year-on-year -9.31% +6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 10
10th Percentile - - £49.37
25th Percentile £58.00 - £54.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £29.00 £62.47
Median % change year-on-year +181.03% -53.58% -3.41%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £63.29
90th Percentile £105.50 - £67.16
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.75 £54.75 £56.56
% change year-on-year +7.31% -3.20% +2.84%

Synthetic Data
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Understanding
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD