Computer Science Contracts in Berkshire

Computer Science
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 97 59
Rank change year-on-year +29 -38 +31
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 25 27 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.13% 1.36% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 1.53% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 31
10th Percentile £428 £180 £390
25th Percentile £450 £311 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £380 £565
Median % change year-on-year +25.66% -32.74% -5.83%
75th Percentile £545 £456 £721
90th Percentile £650 £623 -
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £515
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.62% +19.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.70
25th Percentile - - £27.25
Median hourly rate - - £41.50
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - £64.30
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £65.00 £20.47
% change year-on-year -66.31% +217.54% -50.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Computer 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Berkshire

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Berkshire

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Berkshire

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Berkshire

Computer Science
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 Computer Science within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 +30 13 £475 +19.72% 32
Windsor -5 4 £489 - 3
Wokingham -10 2 £450 -26.83% 3
Slough - 1 £630 - 17
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
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 (4.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) OCI
3 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) VLAN
2 3 (12.00%) 3G
2 3 (12.00%) 4G
2 3 (12.00%) 5G
2 3 (12.00%) 802.11
2 3 (12.00%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (12.00%) Wireless
3 2 (8.00%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) GGSN
3 2 (8.00%) LTE
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) RANAP
3 2 (8.00%) SGSN
3 2 (8.00%) VoLTE
3 2 (8.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (4.00%) 2G
4 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Big Data
1 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.00%) Metadata
1 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) ERwin
1 4 (16.00%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (8.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Metasploit
3 1 (4.00%) CMake
General
1 21 (84.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.00%) Multimedia
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Military
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Data Modeller
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Wireless Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Modeller
4 2 (8.00%) Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Information Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support
5 1 (4.00%) Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) SAP Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (8.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) CNTK
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) Middleware
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.00%) OpenVINO
3 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (20.00%) Data Science
2 5 (20.00%) Network Design
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (16.00%) Data Architecture
3 4 (16.00%) Data Cleansing
3 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (16.00%) Data Security
3 4 (16.00%) Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Physical Data Model
3 4 (16.00%) Project Management
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (12.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) C++
4 2 (8.00%) C
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Ruby
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Degree
2 20 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (28.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (12.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (8.00%) CCDP
6 2 (8.00%) CCNA
6 2 (8.00%) CCNP
6 2 (8.00%) CEH
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (8.00%) CISSP
6 2 (8.00%) GPEN
6 2 (8.00%) GWAPT
6 2 (8.00%) OSCE
6 2 (8.00%) OSCP
7 1 (4.00%) CISA
7 1 (4.00%) CISM
7 1 (4.00%) GIAC
7 1 (4.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) CASB
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.00%) AirMagnet
3 3 (12.00%) Aruba
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco
3 3 (12.00%) Ekahau
3 3 (12.00%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (12.00%) Juniper
3 3 (12.00%) Meraki
4 2 (8.00%) Empirix
4 2 (8.00%) NetScout
5 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.00%) Forcepoint
5 1 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto