Contingency Planning Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Contingency Planning
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Contingency Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 92 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 +30 +5
Contract jobs citing Contingency Planning 15 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.01% 0.65% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.73% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 5
10th Percentile £546 £470 £458
25th Percentile £631 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -0.43% +8.95%
75th Percentile £670 £703 £588
90th Percentile £738 £738 £618
South East median daily rate £650 £573 £569
% change year-on-year +13.54% +0.66% +6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £95.00 - £28.92

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Contingency Planning 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 1,310 1,379 1,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.63% 90.25% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 762 965
10th Percentile £305 £313 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £693 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 41 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.00 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.87 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Contingency Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Contingency Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Contingency Planning job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Contingency Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Contingency Planning

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contingency Planning in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contingency Planning in Berkshire

Contingency Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Contingency Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Contingency Planning

Contingency Planning
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 Contingency Planning within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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 +18 15 £660 +15.28% 2
Contingency Planning
South East

Contingency Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
1 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (53.33%) Power Platform
1 8 (53.33%) SaaS
2 6 (40.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Project Manager
1 6 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (26.67%) Programme Manager
4 2 (13.33%) E-Business Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
1 8 (53.33%) E-business
1 8 (53.33%) Matrix Organization
1 8 (53.33%) PRINCE2
1 8 (53.33%) Waterfall
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) ITSM
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Project Governance
3 4 (26.67%) Service Management
4 3 (20.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Identification
5 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (13.33%) Inventory Management
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) PMP
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) APMP
2 3 (20.00%) MAPM
2 3 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Oracle