Consultant Contracts in Berkshire

Consultant
South East > Berkshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Berkshire is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 16 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 180 181 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.23% 10.09% 5.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.84% 10.63% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 122 75
10th Percentile £440 £475 £404
25th Percentile £513 £543 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £641 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +16.59% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £720 £638
90th Percentile £765 £748 £683
South East median daily rate £575 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -1.88% +6.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 2
10th Percentile £52.90 £55.94 £33.00
25th Percentile £55.94 £59.54 £41.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +12.48% -7.26%
75th Percentile - £70.61 £73.75
90th Percentile £63.13 £75.75 £82.00
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £80.00
% change year-on-year -4.75% -19.16% +29.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,830 1,703 2,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 94.93% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 1,097 1,470
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £381 £419 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 55 41
10th Percentile £18.65 £17.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £23.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.80 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.59 £79.83 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Berkshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -8 130 £654 -3.15% 19
Maidenhead +6 19 £600 +4.35%
Wokingham +1 3 £530 -24.29% 1
Bracknell -8 3 £525 +2.44% 3
Slough +7 2 £525 - 2
Windsor -8 2 £675 +50.00% 3
Consultant
South East

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 72 (40.00%) SAP
2 68 (37.78%) Security Cleared
3 47 (26.11%) SC Cleared
4 37 (20.56%) Social Skills
5 33 (18.33%) DV Cleared
5 33 (18.33%) Oracle
6 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (15.00%) SAP QM
8 21 (11.67%) PLM
9 18 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
9 18 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (9.44%) SAP EWM
10 17 (9.44%) Oracle EBS R12
10 17 (9.44%) Rational DOORS
10 17 (9.44%) Agile
10 17 (9.44%) Workshop Facilitation
10 17 (9.44%) Business Strategy
11 16 (8.89%) Roadmaps
11 16 (8.89%) Analogue Electronics
11 16 (8.89%) Systems Engineering
11 16 (8.89%) Prototyping
11 16 (8.89%) Electronics
11 16 (8.89%) Telecoms
11 16 (8.89%) Ethernet
11 16 (8.89%) Integration Testing
11 16 (8.89%) Requirements Management
11 16 (8.89%) Robotics
12 15 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
12 15 (8.33%) Public Sector

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 27 (15.00%) SAP QM
2 17 (9.44%) Oracle EBS R12
2 17 (9.44%) SAP EWM
3 12 (6.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (3.89%) Maximo
7 3 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (1.67%) SAP PLM
8 2 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (1.11%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (1.11%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.56%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.78%) Azure
2 10 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (2.78%) AWS
3 5 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.56%) GCP
6 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.56%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.89%) Ethernet
2 13 (7.22%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (3.89%) 3G
3 7 (3.89%) 4G
3 7 (3.89%) 5G
4 6 (3.33%) Firewall
4 6 (3.33%) Network Security
5 3 (1.67%) FTP
6 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.11%) VPN
7 1 (0.56%) Broadband
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.56%) IPsec
7 1 (0.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.22%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.44%) SAP HANA
3 5 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.11%) MySQL
5 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (9.44%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) NWDI
4 1 (0.56%) NWDS
General
1 37 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.89%) Electronics
3 16 (8.89%) Telecoms
4 15 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.11%) Finance
6 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.22%) French Language
7 4 (2.22%) German Language
7 4 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.11%) Marketing
8 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.00%) SAP Basis
2 5 (2.78%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (1.67%) Visualforce
4 2 (1.11%) CSS
4 2 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.11%) HTML
5 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.56%) IDoc
5 1 (0.56%) Kafka
5 1 (0.56%) React
5 1 (0.56%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.56%) REST
5 1 (0.56%) SOAP
5 1 (0.56%) Web Services
5 1 (0.56%) XML
5 1 (0.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.89%) Analogue Electronics
1 16 (8.89%) Robotics
2 8 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.89%) Operational Technology
4 6 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.11%) IoT
6 2 (1.11%) iPad
6 2 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.56%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.22%) Unix
2 3 (1.67%) Windows
3 2 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (11.67%) PLM
3 18 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
3 18 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 17 (9.44%) Agile
4 17 (9.44%) Business Strategy
4 17 (9.44%) Workshop Facilitation
5 16 (8.89%) Integration Testing
5 16 (8.89%) Prototyping
5 16 (8.89%) Requirements Management
5 16 (8.89%) Roadmaps
5 16 (8.89%) Systems Engineering
6 15 (8.33%) Design for Manufacturing
6 15 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
7 14 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (6.67%) E-business
8 12 (6.67%) Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (5.56%) DevOps
9 10 (5.56%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.44%) SQL
2 2 (1.11%) Groovy
2 2 (1.11%) Java
2 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.56%) PHP
3 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 47 (26.11%) SC Cleared
3 33 (18.33%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (3.33%) CISA
5 6 (3.33%) CISM
5 6 (3.33%) CISMP
5 6 (3.33%) CISSP
5 6 (3.33%) CRISC
6 5 (2.78%) Degree
7 4 (2.22%) ISACA
8 1 (0.56%) ACCA
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.56%) CCIE
8 1 (0.56%) CCNA
8 1 (0.56%) CCNP
8 1 (0.56%) CCSP
8 1 (0.56%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.22%) NIST
2 12 (6.67%) COBIT
3 7 (3.89%) GDPR
3 7 (3.89%) GRC
3 7 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.67%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.11%) Ansible
1 2 (1.11%) Grafana
1 2 (1.11%) Graylog
1 2 (1.11%) Nagios
1 2 (1.11%) Prometheus
1 2 (1.11%) Terraform
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 72 (40.00%) SAP
2 33 (18.33%) Oracle
3 7 (3.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.67%) Informatica
5 3 (1.67%) Splunk
6 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) BMC
7 1 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Kenna
7 1 (0.56%) Okta
7 1 (0.56%) OpenText
7 1 (0.56%) Remedy
7 1 (0.56%) Workday