Consultant Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Consultant
South East > Berkshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Berkshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 11 30
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 95 193 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.10% 11.37% 6.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.86% 12.50% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 106 63
10th Percentile £402 £455 £313
25th Percentile £500 £513 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £750 £809 £750
South East median daily rate £550 £580 £518
% change year-on-year -5.17% +11.88% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 6
10th Percentile - £57.15 £52.85
25th Percentile £85.75 - £54.11
Median hourly rate £86.50 £61.60 £61.01
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% +0.98% -33.15%
75th Percentile £87.25 £63.62 £67.42
90th Percentile - £74.35 £67.75
South East median hourly rate £86.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +40.42% +2.67% -31.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,072 1,544 1,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 90.98% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 824 1,072
10th Percentile £300 £313 £271
25th Percentile £406 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £696 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 79 61
10th Percentile £14.75 £38.88 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.66 £56.25 £43.33
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.80 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -47.92% +8.63% +63.04%
75th Percentile £68.75 £76.20 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.28 £97.50 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +106.78%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Berkshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Consultant job vacancies 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 17 September 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 -10 52 £550 -13.39% 50
Windsor -2 10 £500 -9.09% 1
Slough -6 6 £550 +15.79% 85
Wokingham - 4 £500 -
Bracknell -1 1 - - 2
Consultant
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 30 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
3 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
4 18 (18.95%) SAP
5 17 (17.89%) SC Cleared
6 16 (16.84%) Finance
7 15 (15.79%) Agile
8 14 (14.74%) Workshop Facilitation
8 14 (14.74%) SAP S/4HANA
9 13 (13.68%) Oracle
9 13 (13.68%) DV Cleared
10 12 (12.63%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (11.58%) Azure
12 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (9.47%) SAP EWM
14 8 (8.42%) Logistics
14 8 (8.42%) Telecoms
14 8 (8.42%) Oracle EBS
14 8 (8.42%) SQL
14 8 (8.42%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (7.37%) Operational Technology
15 7 (7.37%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (7.37%) Linux
15 7 (7.37%) SAP WM
15 7 (7.37%) GIS
15 7 (7.37%) GAP Analysis
15 7 (7.37%) Migration
15 7 (7.37%) Manufacturing
15 7 (7.37%) Cybersecurity

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) Camunda
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.11%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 14 (14.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (9.47%) SAP EWM
3 8 (8.42%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (7.37%) SAP WM
5 6 (6.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (6.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (4.21%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (3.16%) SAP HCM
7 3 (3.16%) SAP PS
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle AGIS
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle iProcurement
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle BRM
9 1 (1.05%) SAP GTS
9 1 (1.05%) SAP MDG
9 1 (1.05%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.63%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (11.58%) Azure
3 7 (7.37%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (4.21%) AWS
4 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.11%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.11%) IaaS
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.11%) OCI
5 2 (2.11%) PaaS
5 2 (2.11%) SaaS
6 1 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.05%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Network Security
2 2 (2.11%) ATM
2 2 (2.11%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.11%) Frame Relay
2 2 (2.11%) GPRS
2 2 (2.11%) GSM
2 2 (2.11%) LAN
2 2 (2.11%) LTE
2 2 (2.11%) MPLS
2 2 (2.11%) SAN
2 2 (2.11%) SDH
2 2 (2.11%) UMTS
2 2 (2.11%) VPN
2 2 (2.11%) WAN
2 2 (2.11%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.05%) HTTP
3 1 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.05%) SSL
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.37%) GIS
2 3 (3.16%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (3.16%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.11%) QGIS
3 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Postman
General
1 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Finance
3 8 (8.42%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.37%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Automotive
7 1 (1.05%) Billing
7 1 (1.05%) Marketing
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) SOAP
2 2 (2.11%) NumPy
2 2 (2.11%) Pandas
2 2 (2.11%) SciPy
3 1 (1.05%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.05%) React
3 1 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (1.05%) SAP TM
3 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Operational Technology
2 6 (6.32%) SCADA
3 5 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.21%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) IoT
5 2 (2.11%) Replication
5 2 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.37%) Linux
2 5 (5.26%) Windows
3 4 (4.21%) Unix
4 2 (2.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.79%) Agile
2 14 (14.74%) Workshop Facilitation
3 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (8.42%) Logistics
6 7 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (7.37%) GAP Analysis
6 7 (7.37%) Migration
6 7 (7.37%) Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (6.32%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (6.32%) ERP
7 6 (6.32%) Process Improvement
7 6 (6.32%) Risk Management
7 6 (6.32%) Roadmaps
8 5 (5.26%) Business Transformation
8 5 (5.26%) Incident Response
8 5 (5.26%) Product Backlog
8 5 (5.26%) Project Delivery
8 5 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (5.26%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.42%) SQL
2 6 (6.32%) PL/SQL
2 6 (6.32%) Python
3 5 (5.26%) Perl
4 4 (4.21%) Java
5 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.05%) ABAP
6 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.68%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.32%) CISSP
5 5 (5.26%) CISM
6 4 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.21%) GCIH
7 3 (3.16%) Degree
7 3 (3.16%) GCFA
7 3 (3.16%) SAP Certification
8 2 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.11%) CCNP
8 2 (2.11%) CCSP
8 2 (2.11%) GCFE
8 2 (2.11%) GCIA
8 2 (2.11%) GREM
8 2 (2.11%) ISEB
8 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) NIST
2 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.26%) QA
3 4 (4.21%) GDPR
4 3 (3.16%) NCSC
4 3 (3.16%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.11%) RMADS
6 1 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.05%) NDS
2 1 (1.05%) NetIQ eDirectory
2 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.21%) HP ALM
1 4 (4.21%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.11%) EnCase
2 2 (2.11%) FTK
2 2 (2.11%) QRadar
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.95%) SAP
3 13 (13.68%) Oracle
4 5 (5.26%) Cisco
4 5 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (5.26%) Splunk
5 4 (4.21%) HP
6 3 (3.16%) Ariba
6 3 (3.16%) Broadcom
6 3 (3.16%) CyberArk
6 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.16%) Symantec
7 2 (2.11%) Darktrace
7 2 (2.11%) ESRI
7 2 (2.11%) Juniper
8 1 (1.05%) Mavenir
8 1 (1.05%) NetIQ
8 1 (1.05%) OpenText
8 1 (1.05%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.05%) VMware