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 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 30
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 178 192 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.04% 10.57% 5.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.58% 11.14% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 128 72
10th Percentile £428 £475 £401
25th Percentile £513 £540 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +10.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £620
90th Percentile £765 £733 £683
South East median daily rate £578 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 3
10th Percentile £52.90 £55.94 £38.50
25th Percentile £55.94 £59.54 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -23.91% +37.10%
75th Percentile - £70.61 £87.50
90th Percentile £63.13 £75.75 -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £82.50
% change year-on-year -4.75% -21.61% +33.06%

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 1,858 1,723 2,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 94.88% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 1,107 1,469
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £376 £415 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 56 41
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.69 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.19 £79.72 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -6 129 £650 -2.73% 22
Maidenhead +4 19 £600 +4.35%
Wokingham -1 3 £530 -24.29%
Bracknell -12 3 £525 +2.44% 1
Slough +4 2 £525 - 2
Windsor -7 2 £675 +50.00% 2
Consultant
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 70 (39.33%) SAP
2 66 (37.08%) Security Cleared
3 44 (24.72%) SC Cleared
4 35 (19.66%) Social Skills
5 34 (19.10%) DV Cleared
6 32 (17.98%) Oracle
7 31 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (14.61%) SAP QM
9 21 (11.80%) PLM
10 18 (10.11%) GAP Analysis
10 18 (10.11%) Agile
10 18 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
11 17 (9.55%) Oracle EBS R12
11 17 (9.55%) Rational DOORS
11 17 (9.55%) Business Strategy
11 17 (9.55%) Workshop Facilitation
12 16 (8.99%) Systems Engineering
12 16 (8.99%) Prototyping
12 16 (8.99%) Roadmaps
12 16 (8.99%) Analogue Electronics
12 16 (8.99%) Ethernet
12 16 (8.99%) Electronics
12 16 (8.99%) Integration Testing
12 16 (8.99%) Requirements Management
12 16 (8.99%) Robotics
13 15 (8.43%) SAP EWM
13 15 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (8.43%) Telecoms
13 15 (8.43%) Design for Manufacturing

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 26 (14.61%) SAP QM
2 17 (9.55%) Oracle EBS R12
3 15 (8.43%) SAP EWM
4 12 (6.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (5.62%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
7 7 (3.93%) Maximo
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (1.69%) SAP PLM
9 2 (1.12%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (1.12%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.56%) SAP PP
10 1 (0.56%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.87%) Azure
2 10 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (2.81%) AWS
3 5 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.12%) 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 (8.99%) Ethernet
2 13 (7.30%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (3.93%) 3G
3 7 (3.93%) 4G
3 7 (3.93%) 5G
3 7 (3.93%) Network Security
4 6 (3.37%) Firewall
5 3 (1.69%) FTP
6 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.12%) 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 12 (6.74%) Oracle Database
2 7 (3.93%) SAP HANA
3 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.12%) MySQL
5 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (9.55%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (5.62%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) NWDI
4 1 (0.56%) NWDS
General
1 35 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.99%) Electronics
4 15 (8.43%) Telecoms
5 13 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.18%) Finance
7 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.25%) French Language
8 4 (2.25%) German Language
8 4 (2.25%) Retail
9 2 (1.12%) Marketing
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.49%) SAP Basis
2 5 (2.81%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (1.69%) Visualforce
4 2 (1.12%) CSS
4 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.12%) 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 (8.99%) Analogue Electronics
1 16 (8.99%) Robotics
2 8 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.93%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.93%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.12%) IoT
5 2 (1.12%) iPad
5 2 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.56%) Smart Energy
6 1 (0.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.25%) Unix
2 3 (1.69%) Windows
3 2 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (11.80%) PLM
3 18 (10.11%) Agile
3 18 (10.11%) GAP Analysis
3 18 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 17 (9.55%) Business Strategy
4 17 (9.55%) Workshop Facilitation
5 16 (8.99%) Integration Testing
5 16 (8.99%) Prototyping
5 16 (8.99%) Requirements Management
5 16 (8.99%) Roadmaps
5 16 (8.99%) Systems Engineering
6 15 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (8.43%) Design for Manufacturing
6 15 (8.43%) Regulatory Compliance
7 14 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (6.74%) E-business
8 12 (6.74%) Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (6.18%) Conflict Resolution
9 11 (6.18%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.49%) SQL
2 2 (1.12%) Groovy
2 2 (1.12%) Java
2 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.56%) PHP
3 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (37.08%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 34 (19.10%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (3.37%) CISA
5 6 (3.37%) CISM
5 6 (3.37%) CISMP
5 6 (3.37%) CISSP
5 6 (3.37%) CRISC
6 5 (2.81%) Degree
6 5 (2.81%) ISACA
7 1 (0.56%) ACCA
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) CCIE
7 1 (0.56%) CCSP
7 1 (0.56%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.87%) NIST
2 13 (7.30%) COBIT
3 8 (4.49%) GDPR
4 7 (3.93%) GRC
4 7 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.69%) QA
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.12%) Ansible
1 2 (1.12%) Grafana
1 2 (1.12%) Graylog
1 2 (1.12%) Nagios
1 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
1 2 (1.12%) Terraform
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (39.33%) SAP
2 32 (17.98%) Oracle
3 7 (3.93%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.69%) Informatica
5 3 (1.69%) Splunk
6 2 (1.12%) 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