Decision-Making Contracts in Berkshire

Decision-Making
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 37 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 +32 +8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 64 94 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.46% 4.74% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 5.33% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 40 24
10th Percentile £370 £392 £375
25th Percentile £438 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £575 £489
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +17.65% -2.25%
75th Percentile £640 £656 £597
90th Percentile £740 £688 £679
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £59.87 - £47.25
25th Percentile £60.75 £41.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -22.42% -
75th Percentile £81.19 £52.63 £61.63
90th Percentile £90.00 £57.95 £69.05
South East median hourly rate £61.50 £24.97 £22.16
% change year-on-year +146.25% +12.69% -50.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Decision-Making 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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Berkshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Berkshire

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Berkshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Berkshire

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in Berkshire

Decision-Making
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 Decision-Making within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -3 29 £500 -23.08% 88
Wokingham -5 8 £625 +8.70% 1
Windsor - 5 £600 - 3
Slough - 3 £600 - 50
Bracknell +10 1 - - 5
Decision-Making
South East

Decision-Making
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 (4.69%) Apache
1 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Appian
3 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) Azure
2 13 (20.31%) AWS
3 3 (4.69%) GCP
3 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.56%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.56%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.56%) GitHub
5 1 (1.56%) IaaS
5 1 (1.56%) PaaS
5 1 (1.56%) Route 53
5 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) Firewall
1 5 (7.81%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (3.13%) 3G
2 2 (3.13%) 3GPP
2 2 (3.13%) 4G
2 2 (3.13%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (3.13%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) LTE
2 2 (3.13%) MVNO
3 1 (1.56%) 5G
3 1 (1.56%) DMS-100
3 1 (1.56%) ISUP
3 1 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Big Data
1 3 (4.69%) Power BI
2 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.13%) Tableau
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.56%) GIS
3 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.56%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) JIRA
2 10 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.06%) Cucumber
3 9 (14.06%) GitLab
3 9 (14.06%) REST Assured
3 9 (14.06%) Selenium
4 6 (9.38%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.69%) Git
6 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.56%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.56%) jMock
6 1 (1.56%) JUnit
6 1 (1.56%) Maven
6 1 (1.56%) Mockito
General
1 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Telecoms
4 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Law
5 5 (7.81%) Military
6 4 (6.25%) Finance
6 4 (6.25%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Back Office
7 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) Billing
8 1 (1.56%) Games
8 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Local Government
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Architect
2 15 (23.44%) Senior
3 8 (12.50%) Lead
3 8 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Developer
4 6 (9.38%) Security Specialist
4 6 (9.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 6 (9.38%) Senior Security Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Information Security Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Information Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Java Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Security Advisor
7 3 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Automation Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) REST
2 9 (14.06%) Java EE
3 5 (7.81%) ARM Templates
3 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.81%) JBoss Seam
4 2 (3.13%) NumPy
4 2 (3.13%) Pandas
4 2 (3.13%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.56%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.56%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.56%) JPA
5 1 (1.56%) Kafka
5 1 (1.56%) PowerMock
5 1 (1.56%) RESTful
5 1 (1.56%) SAML
5 1 (1.56%) Spring
5 1 (1.56%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.56%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.69%) Operational Technology
2 3 (4.69%) SCADA
3 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) PMI
3 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.56%) CESG
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) NB-IoT
4 1 (1.56%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 15 (23.44%) DevOps
2 15 (23.44%) Risk Assessment
3 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (21.88%) Security Architecture
3 14 (21.88%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 12 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 10 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (14.06%) Agile
6 9 (14.06%) Configuration Management
6 9 (14.06%) Information Assurance
6 9 (14.06%) Software Architecture
6 9 (14.06%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (12.50%) Visualisation
8 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.94%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) Java
2 6 (9.38%) SQL
3 5 (7.81%) Python
4 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (42.19%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.38%) CISM
5 5 (7.81%) Degree
6 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CISA
7 1 (1.56%) CISSP
7 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.56%) ISEB
7 1 (1.56%) MCSE
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PgMP
7 1 (1.56%) PhD
7 1 (1.56%) PMP
7 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) NCSC
2 9 (14.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.13%) GDPR
3 2 (3.13%) NIST
3 2 (3.13%) QA
4 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.81%) Ansible
2 5 (7.81%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (7.81%) Podman
2 5 (7.81%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) Salesforce
2 5 (7.81%) Darktrace
2 5 (7.81%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.25%) VMware
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
5 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.13%) Blue Prism
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) Nokia
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle
5 2 (3.13%) Rakuten
6 1 (1.56%) Ariba
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.56%) ESRI
6 1 (1.56%) IBM
6 1 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow