Benchmarking Contracts in Berkshire

Benchmarking
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 120 103
Rank change year-on-year +31 -17 +23
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 4 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.16% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.18% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile - - £809
90th Percentile - - £898
South East median daily rate £400 £456 £525
% change year-on-year -12.38% -13.10% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £53.03 -
South East median hourly rate - £53.03 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Benchmarking 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,089 1,698 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.84% 88.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 883 993
10th Percentile £310 £232 £350
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £509
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.67% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 100 47
10th Percentile £21.81 £17.45 £19.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £25.31
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.07 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +2.25% +179.76%
75th Percentile £77.19 £71.89 £73.80
90th Percentile £88.32 £87.46 £79.61
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +132.56%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in Berkshire

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in Berkshire

Benchmarking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Benchmarking in Berkshire

Benchmarking
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 Benchmarking within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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 +33 1 £400 -
Benchmarking
South East

Benchmarking
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 1 (25.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 1 (25.00%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) 2G
1 1 (25.00%) 3G
1 1 (25.00%) 4G
1 1 (25.00%) 5G
1 1 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
1 1 (25.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Category Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) GIS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Radio Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Radio Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Category Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Implementation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
1 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Magik
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (25.00%) ESRI
1 1 (25.00%) Huawei
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Nokia
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle