Degree Contracts in Berkshire

Academic Degree
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 27 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Degree 80 211 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.82% 10.64% 9.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.91% 23.63% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 98 76
10th Percentile £215 £170 £324
25th Percentile £400 £205 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £603
90th Percentile £643 - £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile - £19.45 £26.16
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £45.91
Median hourly rate £42.78 £42.50 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% -33.98% +21.46%
75th Percentile £61.89 £64.37 £72.84
90th Percentile £76.99 £69.45 £77.96
South East median hourly rate £58.38 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% +27.44% +8.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 423 893 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.06% 45.01% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 431 341
10th Percentile £313 £206 £349
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 82 39
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £20.70
25th Percentile £59.44 £52.90 £50.45
Median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%
75th Percentile £79.30 £75.24 £75.38
90th Percentile £88.73 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
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 Degree 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 -14 32 £450 -10.00% 96
Wokingham -9 13 £450 -21.74% 8
Bracknell +3 11 £425 +19.30% 26
Slough - 8 £413 - 64
Windsor -5 4 £489 - 11
Maidenhead +4 1 - - 24
Degree
South East

Degree
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 7 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) CMS
3 1 (1.25%) Camunda
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (7.50%) MS Visio
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.25%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.25%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.25%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.50%) Azure
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.75%) AWS
3 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (3.75%) GCP
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.25%) IaaS
5 1 (1.25%) OCI
5 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
2 7 (8.75%) 3G
2 7 (8.75%) 4G
2 7 (8.75%) 5G
3 6 (7.50%) Network Security
4 5 (6.25%) 2G
4 5 (6.25%) Ethernet
4 5 (6.25%) MPLS
5 4 (5.00%) VLAN
6 3 (3.75%) 802.11
6 3 (3.75%) DNS
6 3 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (3.75%) Wireless
7 2 (2.50%) Broadband
7 2 (2.50%) Firewall
7 2 (2.50%) LAN
7 2 (2.50%) RANAP
7 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.50%) WAN
7 2 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Big Data
1 4 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.00%) Metadata
1 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) ERwin
1 4 (5.00%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (3.75%) Selenium
3 2 (2.50%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.50%) Git
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.25%) CMake
General
1 49 (61.25%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Finance
4 10 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 7 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.50%) Legal
7 5 (6.25%) Marketing
8 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Law
9 2 (2.50%) Multimedia
9 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.25%) Dutch Language
10 1 (1.25%) German Language
10 1 (1.25%) Military
10 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (8.75%) Analyst
2 6 (7.50%) Lead
2 6 (7.50%) Project Manager
3 5 (6.25%) Architect
3 5 (6.25%) Senior
4 4 (5.00%) Data Modeller
5 3 (3.75%) Designer
5 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) IP Designer
5 3 (3.75%) Network Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) SCADA Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) Scrum Master
5 3 (3.75%) Test Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) Wireless Engineer
6 2 (2.50%) Agile Scrum Master
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Officer
6 2 (2.50%) Development Specialist
6 2 (2.50%) HR Manager
6 2 (2.50%) Security Auditor
6 2 (2.50%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) 802.1X
1 3 (3.75%) Web Services
2 2 (2.50%) OAuth
3 1 (1.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.25%) CNTK
3 1 (1.25%) CSS
3 1 (1.25%) HTML
3 1 (1.25%) Middleware
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.25%) OpenVINO
3 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) SOAP
3 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.75%) Life Science
3 6 (7.50%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 5 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (6.25%) SCADA
4 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) Learning Management System
7 2 (2.50%) PKI
7 2 (2.50%) PMI
7 2 (2.50%) Podcast
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) Social Media
7 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 5 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 16 (20.00%) Agile
4 14 (17.50%) Project Management
4 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (11.25%) Data Modelling
5 9 (11.25%) Information Security
5 9 (11.25%) Migration
5 9 (11.25%) Network Design
6 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (10.00%) Data Collection
6 8 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (8.75%) Data Protection
7 7 (8.75%) PRINCE2
7 7 (8.75%) Roadmaps
7 7 (8.75%) Scenario Testing
7 7 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (7.50%) Data Migration
8 6 (7.50%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.50%) SQL
2 9 (11.25%) Python
3 5 (6.25%) Java
4 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.75%) C++
5 3 (3.75%) Perl
6 2 (2.50%) C
6 2 (2.50%) C#
6 2 (2.50%) Ruby
7 1 (1.25%) Bicep
7 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) VB
7 1 (1.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (22.50%) Master's Degree
3 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) CISSP
4 6 (7.50%) PMI Certification
4 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.25%) CISM
5 5 (6.25%) PMP
6 4 (5.00%) CCNA
6 4 (5.00%) CCNP
6 4 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.00%) ISEB
7 3 (3.75%) CCDP
7 3 (3.75%) CISMP
7 3 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.50%) GPEN
8 2 (2.50%) GWAPT
8 2 (2.50%) OSCE
8 2 (2.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.00%) NIST
3 3 (3.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.50%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.50%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.25%) COSHH
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.25%) GRC
5 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.25%) CASB
2 1 (1.25%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) SCCM
2 1 (1.25%) SCOM
2 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) SAP
3 5 (6.25%) Cisco
4 3 (3.75%) AirMagnet
4 3 (3.75%) Aruba
4 3 (3.75%) Ekahau
4 3 (3.75%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (3.75%) Juniper
4 3 (3.75%) Meraki
5 2 (2.50%) Empirix
5 2 (2.50%) NetScout
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.50%) Workday
6 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.25%) Facebook
6 1 (1.25%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce