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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 87 52
Rank change year-on-year +19 -35 +43
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 31 26 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.56% 1.48% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.72% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 39
10th Percentile £360 £407 £400
25th Percentile £413 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £523 £634 £721
90th Percentile £650 £669 £825
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.70
25th Percentile - £27.75 £27.25
Median hourly rate - £28.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - -31.33% -
75th Percentile - £29.25 £55.75
90th Percentile - - £64.30
South East median hourly rate £89.63 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +37.89% +8.33% +23.51%

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 1,120 1,511 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.49% 86.10% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 795 1,008
10th Percentile £350 £317 £314
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £691 £708
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 77 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.40 £17.17
25th Percentile £18.09 £41.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +8.29% +118.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.39 £70.90
90th Percentile £87.45 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +25 15 £500 +17.65% 40
Bracknell +2 3 £600 - 9
Wokingham -8 2 £450 -26.83% 4
Maidenhead - 2 - - 7
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 2 (6.45%) Camunda
1 2 (6.45%) nginx
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Gunicorn
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP GRC
1 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.23%) OCI
5 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) 5G
1 4 (12.90%) Wireless
2 3 (9.68%) 4G
2 3 (9.68%) 802.11
2 3 (9.68%) Network Security
2 3 (9.68%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (9.68%) VLAN
2 3 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.45%) DOCSIS
3 2 (6.45%) GPON
3 2 (6.45%) LTE
3 2 (6.45%) MPLS
3 2 (6.45%) VoIP
3 2 (6.45%) xDSL
4 1 (3.23%) 3G
4 1 (3.23%) DNS
4 1 (3.23%) Firewall
4 1 (3.23%) HTTP
4 1 (3.23%) SSL
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Power BI
1 3 (9.68%) Tableau
2 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (3.23%) Power Query
3 1 (3.23%) Redis
3 1 (3.23%) Sisense
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.23%) CMake
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Metasploit
General
1 22 (70.97%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Legal
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (3.23%) French Language
6 1 (3.23%) Italian Language
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Lead
2 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Wireless Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) OSS Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Release Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.45%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Tester
5 1 (3.23%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) 802.1X
1 3 (9.68%) OAuth
2 2 (6.45%) Middleware
2 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.23%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.23%) Django
3 1 (3.23%) HTML
3 1 (3.23%) jQuery
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) MDX
3 1 (3.23%) NumPy
3 1 (3.23%) Pandas
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.23%) Web Services
3 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (9.68%) Security Posture
5 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (6.45%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (6.45%) TM Forum
6 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.23%) PKI
6 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) DevOps
3 8 (25.81%) Analytics
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Project Management
5 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
5 6 (19.35%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (16.13%) Data Protection
6 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
6 5 (16.13%) Machine Learning
6 5 (16.13%) Network Design
6 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
6 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.90%) Data Science
7 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (12.90%) ITIL
7 4 (12.90%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) C++
3 2 (6.45%) Java
3 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.23%) ABAP
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) C
4 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (96.77%) Degree
2 24 (77.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (32.26%) Master's Degree
4 4 (12.90%) CISSP
4 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
5 3 (9.68%) PMP
5 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.68%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.45%) CCDP
6 2 (6.45%) CCNA
6 2 (6.45%) CCNP
6 2 (6.45%) CFCE
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (6.45%) GCFA
6 2 (6.45%) GCIA
6 2 (6.45%) GCIH
6 2 (6.45%) GIAC
7 1 (3.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.68%) GRC
2 3 (9.68%) NIST
2 3 (9.68%) QA
3 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.45%) HIPAA
3 2 (6.45%) OASIS TOSCA
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Amdocs OSS
1 2 (6.45%) Ansible
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) CASB
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) SAP
3 3 (9.68%) AirMagnet
3 3 (9.68%) Aruba
3 3 (9.68%) Cisco
3 3 (9.68%) Ekahau
3 3 (9.68%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (9.68%) Juniper
3 3 (9.68%) Meraki
4 2 (6.45%) Amdocs
4 2 (6.45%) ArcSight
4 2 (6.45%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (6.45%) Ericsson
4 2 (6.45%) Huawei
4 2 (6.45%) LogRhythm
4 2 (6.45%) NetCracker
4 2 (6.45%) Nokia
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) Splunk