Backtesting Job Trends in Berkshire

Backtesting
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Backtesting skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Backtesting 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.032% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Backtesting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,207 1,577 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 70.35% 88.40% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,483 689 1,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,975 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +3.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Backtesting
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Backtesting relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Backtesting job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Backtesting
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Backtesting.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Backtesting

Backtesting
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backtesting within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Slough - 1 £70,000 - 2
Backtesting
South East

Backtesting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Experimental Design
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft