Degree Contracts in Berkshire

Academic Degree
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 207 164 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.83% 9.45% 11.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.76% 30.20% 40.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 75 129
10th Percentile £193 £324 £329
25th Percentile £205 £395 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £608 £636 £538
90th Percentile - £690 £628
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile £19.15 £26.16 £18.40
25th Percentile £27.93 £45.91 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.50 £64.38 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.53% +21.46% +24.71%
75th Percentile £48.19 £72.84 £66.70
90th Percentile £64.65 £77.96 £74.92
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £45.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +27.44% +19.21% -11.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 836 543 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 43.75% 31.30% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 305 377
10th Percentile £213 £327 £330
25th Percentile £430 £431 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +12.82% +3.72%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £720 £671
South East median daily rate £550 £522 £500
% change year-on-year +5.41% +4.35% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 37 14
10th Percentile £41.40 £21.60 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £54.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +209.16% -0.12%
75th Percentile £75.24 £75.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.54% +33.60% +4.71%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
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 Degree within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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 +8 128 £513 -2.38% 111
Bracknell -6 28 £425 -20.56% 24
Wokingham +3 11 £575 -17.86% 12
Newbury +2 2 £500 +212.50% 6
Windsor -7 2 £900 - 11
Maidenhead -9 2 £232 -59.65% 10
Degree
South East

Degree
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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (9.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.38%) SAS
2 7 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Moodle
Applications
1 52 (25.12%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (16.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (5.80%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.97%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.48%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.48%) Blender
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.57%) Azure
2 25 (12.08%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.21%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (8.21%) Azure Storage
5 16 (7.73%) Snowflake
6 14 (6.76%) OCI
7 11 (5.31%) AWS
8 10 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.42%) Smartsheet
10 4 (1.93%) PaaS
11 3 (1.45%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.45%) IaaS
11 3 (1.45%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.45%) Veeva
12 2 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.97%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.48%) NuGet
13 1 (0.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (18.36%) DNS
2 36 (17.39%) Firewall
3 31 (14.98%) DHCP
4 22 (10.63%) LAN
5 15 (7.25%) SAN
6 9 (4.35%) SSL
7 8 (3.86%) 4G
8 7 (3.38%) 3G
8 7 (3.38%) 5G
8 7 (3.38%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (3.38%) VoLTE
8 7 (3.38%) WAN
9 6 (2.90%) Diameter Protocol
9 6 (2.90%) GGSN
9 6 (2.90%) LTE
9 6 (2.90%) RANAP
9 6 (2.90%) SGSN
9 6 (2.90%) Wireshark
10 5 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (2.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.73%) Tableau
2 7 (3.38%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (2.42%) Power BI
4 4 (1.93%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.45%) Big Data
5 3 (1.45%) EDMS
5 3 (1.45%) Metadata
6 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.97%) Power Query
6 2 (0.97%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.48%) DTS
7 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.48%) MySQL
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 13 (6.28%) JIRA
2 3 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.97%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.48%) CMake
4 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) Maven
4 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 132 (63.77%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.67%) Telecoms
3 36 (17.39%) Finance
4 35 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (13.04%) Legal
6 24 (11.59%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (9.66%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (7.25%) Marketing
9 13 (6.28%) Mandarin Language
10 10 (4.83%) Public Sector
11 9 (4.35%) Manufacturing
12 7 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.90%) Law
13 6 (2.90%) Multimedia
14 4 (1.93%) Electronics
15 3 (1.45%) Automotive
15 3 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.97%) French Language
16 2 (0.97%) German Language
16 2 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (14.49%) Analyst
2 21 (10.14%) Lead
3 19 (9.18%) Support Specialist
4 17 (8.21%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (7.25%) Architect
5 15 (7.25%) Hardware Engineer
5 15 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (6.76%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (6.76%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (6.76%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.83%) Storage Engineer
8 9 (4.35%) Developer
9 8 (3.86%) Communications Manager
9 8 (3.86%) Internal Communications Manager
10 7 (3.38%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.38%) IFS Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Consultant
11 6 (2.90%) HR Assistant
11 6 (2.90%) Support Engineer
12 5 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.70%) ARM Templates
2 9 (4.35%) Web Services
3 3 (1.45%) HTML
3 3 (1.45%) XML
4 2 (0.97%) CSS
4 2 (0.97%) Flash
4 2 (0.97%) YAML
5 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.48%) CNTK
5 1 (0.48%) jQuery
5 1 (0.48%) JSON
5 1 (0.48%) Node.js
5 1 (0.48%) OpenVINO
5 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.48%) React
5 1 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.56%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (12.08%) PKI
3 16 (7.73%) Data Centre
4 15 (7.25%) Driving Licence
5 10 (4.83%) Credit Risk
5 10 (4.83%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.35%) Life Science
6 9 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.45%) PMI
8 3 (1.45%) Solar Power
9 2 (0.97%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.97%) Social Media
10 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.48%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.48%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 63 (30.43%) Windows
2 44 (21.26%) Linux
3 39 (18.84%) Windows Server
4 34 (16.43%) Windows 10
4 34 (16.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 32 (15.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (7.25%) Windows 7
6 15 (7.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (6.76%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.97%) Unix
9 1 (0.48%) Android
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.71%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (26.57%) Project Management
3 51 (24.64%) ITIL
4 50 (24.15%) Analytics
5 44 (21.26%) Agile
6 30 (14.49%) DevOps
7 29 (14.01%) Decision-Making
8 28 (13.53%) Customer Service
9 24 (11.59%) Computer Science
10 21 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (9.66%) CI/CD
11 20 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (8.70%) RBAC
12 18 (8.70%) Release Management
12 18 (8.70%) Service Management
13 17 (8.21%) Budget Management
13 17 (8.21%) Identity Management
13 17 (8.21%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 17 (8.21%) Privileged Identity Management
13 17 (8.21%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 21 (10.14%) C#
3 17 (8.21%) Bicep
3 17 (8.21%) VB
3 17 (8.21%) VBScript
4 14 (6.76%) SQL
5 5 (2.42%) Python
6 3 (1.45%) F#
6 3 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.97%) Java
8 1 (0.48%) C++
8 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (34.30%) Security Cleared
2 59 (28.50%) DV Cleared
3 32 (15.46%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (7.25%) CCNA
6 15 (7.25%) CCNP
7 11 (5.31%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.90%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.42%) CIPD
10 4 (1.93%) CISSP
11 3 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.45%) ACCA
11 3 (1.45%) CIMA
11 3 (1.45%) CISA
11 3 (1.45%) CISM
11 3 (1.45%) CISMP
11 3 (1.45%) CRISC
11 3 (1.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) QA
2 7 (3.38%) SLA
3 5 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.45%) COBIT
5 3 (1.45%) GRC
5 3 (1.45%) NIST
5 3 (1.45%) PMO
6 2 (0.97%) GDPR
7 1 (0.48%) HL7
System Software
1 47 (22.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.21%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (8.21%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (7.25%) Firmware
3 15 (7.25%) Hyper-V
3 15 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (6.76%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (25.60%) SCCM
2 33 (15.94%) SCOM
3 31 (14.98%) WSUS
4 20 (9.66%) Kubernetes
5 17 (8.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (8.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (7.73%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (7.25%) NetBackup
8 14 (6.76%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.97%) Ansible
9 2 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 82 (39.61%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.91%) HP
3 20 (9.66%) Oracle
4 18 (8.70%) Juniper
5 17 (8.21%) VMware
6 16 (7.73%) Alteryx
6 16 (7.73%) Cisco
6 16 (7.73%) EMC
7 15 (7.25%) 3PAR
7 15 (7.25%) Palo Alto
8 14 (6.76%) Dell
8 14 (6.76%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (6.76%) Symantec
8 14 (6.76%) Veeam
9 12 (5.80%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.38%) IFS
11 6 (2.90%) Empirix
11 6 (2.90%) NetScout
12 5 (2.42%) Reuters
13 4 (1.93%) Workday