Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Data Engineering
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.47% 0.56% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £503 £438
% change year-on-year +9.45% +14.86% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wokingham

Data Engineering 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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 351 165 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 82.39% 93.22% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 99 56
10th Percentile £300 £350 £310
25th Percentile £355 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £588
90th Percentile £588 £675 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.57
% change year-on-year +34.97% +1.53% +4.76%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker