Data Science Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Data Science
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Data Science skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 7 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 3.93% - 12.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £433 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 - £550
75th Percentile £469 - £863
90th Percentile - - £880
Berkshire median daily rate £588 £386 £575
% change year-on-year +52.40% -32.96% +32.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wokingham

Data Science 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 159 81 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 89.33% 86.17% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 62 41
10th Percentile £328 £313 £315
25th Percentile £393 £350 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -13.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £650
90th Percentile £625 £600 £863
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
75th Percentile £14.15 - -
90th Percentile £14.24 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.46% +2.49% +45.65%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Wokingham

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

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

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Collibra
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
1 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Management Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Pandas
1 3 (42.86%) scikit-learn
2 2 (28.57%) NumPy
3 1 (14.29%) Faiss
3 1 (14.29%) Matplotlib
3 1 (14.29%) Plotly
3 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
3 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (42.86%) LLM
3 3 (42.86%) Model Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Predictive Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Predictive Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Time Series Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Use Case
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker