Consultant Contracts 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 25 August 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
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 12 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 +17
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Consultant 87 206 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.37% 12.17% 6.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.04% 13.30% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 117 68
10th Percentile £450 £455 £313
25th Percentile £500 £563 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +12.89% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £746 £715
90th Percentile £731 £808 £750
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £518
% change year-on-year -8.33% +15.74% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 6
10th Percentile - £56.15 £54.72
25th Percentile £85.75 - £57.74
Median hourly rate £86.50 £61.60 £64.90
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% -5.08% -27.89%
75th Percentile £87.25 - £67.42
90th Percentile - £73.31 £67.75
South East median hourly rate £86.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +40.42% +2.67% -29.41%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,082 1,549 1,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 91.49% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 847 1,061
10th Percentile £325 £313 £303
25th Percentile £413 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £695 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 82 58
10th Percentile £14.75 £21.43 £17.38
25th Percentile £18.48 £55.80 £36.42
Median hourly rate £34.80 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -43.51% +6.54% +106.49%
75th Percentile £69.06 £76.59 £72.25
90th Percentile £87.43 £96.75 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 25 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -13 48 £563 -16.67% 43
Slough -4 8 £513 +7.89% 90
Windsor +3 7 £500 -9.09% 5
Wokingham - 5 £500 - 1
Bracknell 0 1 - -
Thatcham - 1 £600 -
Consultant
South East

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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 28 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 21 (24.14%) Microsoft
4 17 (19.54%) SAP
5 16 (18.39%) SC Cleared
6 15 (17.24%) Oracle
7 13 (14.94%) DV Cleared
7 13 (14.94%) SAP S/4HANA
8 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (13.79%) Agile
9 10 (11.49%) Oracle EBS
9 10 (11.49%) SAP EWM
10 9 (10.34%) Azure
10 9 (10.34%) Finance
11 8 (9.20%) Manufacturing
11 8 (9.20%) Migration
11 8 (9.20%) SAP WM
11 8 (9.20%) SQL
11 8 (9.20%) Logistics
11 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (9.20%) Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (9.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (9.20%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (8.05%) Roadmaps
12 7 (8.05%) NIST
12 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (8.05%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (8.05%) PL/SQL

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 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) Camunda
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (14.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (11.49%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (11.49%) SAP EWM
3 8 (9.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 8 (9.20%) SAP WM
4 7 (8.05%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (4.60%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle AGIS
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (1.15%) SAP GTS
7 1 (1.15%) SAP MM
7 1 (1.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (1.15%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.34%) Azure
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.45%) AWS
3 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.30%) IaaS
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (2.30%) OCI
4 2 (2.30%) PaaS
4 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.30%) SaaS
5 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Network Security
2 2 (2.30%) ATM
2 2 (2.30%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.30%) Frame Relay
2 2 (2.30%) GPRS
2 2 (2.30%) GSM
2 2 (2.30%) LAN
2 2 (2.30%) LTE
2 2 (2.30%) MPLS
2 2 (2.30%) SAN
2 2 (2.30%) SDH
2 2 (2.30%) UMTS
2 2 (2.30%) VPN
2 2 (2.30%) WAN
2 2 (2.30%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.15%) NGN
3 1 (1.15%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) GIS
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Postman
2 1 (1.15%) Git
2 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Maven
2 1 (1.15%) Selenium
2 1 (1.15%) Toad
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.34%) Finance
3 8 (9.20%) Manufacturing
3 8 (9.20%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.15%) Automotive
6 1 (1.15%) Billing
6 1 (1.15%) Military
6 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) SOAP
2 2 (2.30%) NumPy
2 2 (2.30%) Pandas
2 2 (2.30%) SciPy
3 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.15%) React
3 1 (1.15%) REST
3 1 (1.15%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.15%) SAP TM
3 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Algorithms
1 6 (6.90%) Operational Technology
2 5 (5.75%) SCADA
3 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Replication
4 2 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Unix
3 2 (2.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (13.79%) Agile
1 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (9.20%) Logistics
2 8 (9.20%) Migration
2 8 (9.20%) Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (8.05%) GAP Analysis
3 7 (8.05%) Roadmaps
3 7 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (6.90%) Risk Management
4 6 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (6.90%) Workshop Facilitation
5 5 (5.75%) Business Transformation
5 5 (5.75%) ITIL
5 5 (5.75%) Test Automation
6 4 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (4.60%) Process Improvement
6 4 (4.60%) Security Architecture
6 4 (4.60%) SIEM
6 4 (4.60%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.20%) SQL
2 7 (8.05%) PL/SQL
3 6 (6.90%) Python
4 5 (5.75%) Perl
5 4 (4.60%) Java
6 2 (2.30%) ABAP
6 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.15%) R
7 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.60%) CISSP
5 3 (3.45%) CISM
5 3 (3.45%) Degree
5 3 (3.45%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.30%) CCNP
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.30%) GCIA
6 2 (2.30%) GCIH
6 2 (2.30%) ISEB
6 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.15%) CEH
7 1 (1.15%) GCFA
7 1 (1.15%) GIAC
7 1 (1.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) NIST
2 6 (6.90%) QA
3 5 (5.75%) GDPR
3 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.45%) NCSC
4 3 (3.45%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.30%) RMADS
6 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.15%) COBIT
6 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.60%) HP ALM
1 4 (4.60%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.30%) QRadar
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.54%) SAP
3 15 (17.24%) Oracle
4 6 (6.90%) Cisco
4 6 (6.90%) Splunk
5 4 (4.60%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.60%) HP
6 3 (3.45%) Broadcom
6 3 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.45%) Symantec
7 2 (2.30%) Juniper
8 1 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.15%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.15%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.15%) Remedy
8 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.15%) VMware