Degree Contract Job Trends 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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 132 82 211
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 7.19% 7.02% 10.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.00% 19.25% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 45 98
10th Percentile £204 £216 £170
25th Percentile £239 £400 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £608
90th Percentile £600 £642 -
South East median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.75% - +3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 4 13
10th Percentile £80.50 - £19.30
25th Percentile £82.25 £32.05 £41.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £42.78 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.71% +0.65% -33.98%
75th Percentile £88.00 £61.89 £65.00
90th Percentile - £76.99 £69.80
South East median hourly rate £84.00 £58.38 £57.35
% change year-on-year +43.90% +1.79% +27.44%

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 825 426 881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 44.96% 36.47% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 232 430
10th Percentile £280 £314 £212
25th Percentile £359 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% -1.36% -
75th Percentile £600 £656 £634
90th Percentile £716 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 22 81
10th Percentile £28.75 £32.05 £41.50
25th Percentile £78.35 £59.44 £52.90
Median hourly rate £83.00 £66.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +24.12% +8.56% -4.99%
75th Percentile £88.00 £79.30 £75.24
90th Percentile £97.50 £88.73 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.05% +0.05%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Berkshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

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 3 May 2026. 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 72 £575 +27.78% 44
Wokingham -14 29 £400 -11.11% 6
Windsor +9 12 £208 -57.54% 2
Bracknell -2 10 £313 -26.47% 6
Slough +6 3 £500 +21.21% 14
Maidenhead +5 2 £775 - 7
Degree
South East

Degree
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 6 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (7.58%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Primavera
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.88%) Azure
2 14 (10.61%) AWS
3 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.27%) Lucidchart
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.76%) IaaS
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (0.76%) PaaS
4 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.09%) Firewall
2 11 (8.33%) Wireless
3 3 (2.27%) Network Security
3 3 (2.27%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.52%) LAN
4 2 (1.52%) NAS
4 2 (1.52%) SAN
4 2 (1.52%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) 2G
5 1 (0.76%) 3G
5 1 (0.76%) 4G
5 1 (0.76%) BGP
5 1 (0.76%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.76%) DHCP
5 1 (0.76%) DNS
5 1 (0.76%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) OSPF
5 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.58%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.82%) MySQL
3 3 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.27%) Power BI
3 3 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (21.21%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (7.58%) Burp Suite
2 10 (7.58%) Metasploit
3 7 (5.30%) JIRA
4 2 (1.52%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.76%) GitLab
5 1 (0.76%) Postman
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 46 (34.85%) Aerospace
2 45 (34.09%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.61%) Finance
5 7 (5.30%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.79%) Law
7 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Marketing
9 3 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Police
11 1 (0.76%) Advertising
11 1 (0.76%) Avionics
11 1 (0.76%) Billing
11 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (24.24%) Product Manager
2 29 (21.97%) Delivery Manager
3 28 (21.21%) Product Delivery Manager
4 22 (16.67%) Systems Delivery Manager
4 22 (16.67%) Systems Manager
5 12 (9.09%) Analyst
6 11 (8.33%) Architect
7 10 (7.58%) Lead
7 10 (7.58%) Penetration Tester
7 10 (7.58%) Project Manager
7 10 (7.58%) Tester
8 9 (6.82%) Technical Support
9 7 (5.30%) Engineering Manager
10 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared Project Manager
10 5 (3.79%) Security Advisor
10 5 (3.79%) Security Architect
11 4 (3.03%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.03%) Security Manager
11 4 (3.03%) Senior
12 3 (2.27%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.03%) ADO
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (0.76%) .NET
3 1 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.76%) HTML
3 1 (0.76%) REST
3 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.97%) Product Ownership
2 22 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 10 (7.58%) PMI
3 10 (7.58%) Security Posture
3 10 (7.58%) Virtual Team
4 8 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.79%) CCTV
5 5 (3.79%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.03%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.27%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.76%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.70%) Windows
2 11 (8.33%) Linux
3 10 (7.58%) Unix
4 2 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.52%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.52%) Computer Science
2 45 (34.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (31.06%) Agile
4 40 (30.30%) PRINCE2
5 38 (28.79%) Systems Engineering
6 32 (24.24%) Programme Management
6 32 (24.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 29 (21.97%) Cybersecurity
7 29 (21.97%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 27 (20.45%) Change Control
9 26 (19.70%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 25 (18.94%) Configuration Management
11 24 (18.18%) Requirements Management
12 23 (17.42%) SysML
12 23 (17.42%) UML
13 21 (15.91%) DoDAF
14 18 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (13.64%) Validation
15 16 (12.12%) Project Management
16 15 (11.36%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.09%) SQL
2 11 (8.33%) Python
3 10 (7.58%) Java
4 9 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.82%) Perl
5 2 (1.52%) Korn
5 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.76%) C#
6 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 82 (62.12%) Security Cleared
2 35 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (12.12%) PMI Certification
5 12 (9.09%) CREST Certified
5 12 (9.09%) PMP
6 10 (7.58%) CHECK Team Member
6 10 (7.58%) Cyber Scheme
6 10 (7.58%) Postgraduate
7 5 (3.79%) MAPM
8 4 (3.03%) CISSP
9 3 (2.27%) APMP
9 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.52%) GIAC
10 2 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.76%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.76%) CISA
11 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.15%) PMO
2 19 (14.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (9.85%) QA
4 12 (9.09%) GDPR
5 10 (7.58%) PCI DSS
6 8 (6.06%) NIST
7 7 (5.30%) NIST 800
8 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
9 3 (2.27%) DO-254
9 3 (2.27%) IEC 61508
9 3 (2.27%) ISO 26262
10 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
10 2 (1.52%) GRC
10 2 (1.52%) ISO 9001
10 2 (1.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.58%) Nmap
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (18.94%) IBM
2 13 (9.85%) Oracle
3 10 (7.58%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.30%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.52%) Cisco
5 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.76%) BT
6 1 (0.76%) Commvault
6 1 (0.76%) EMC
6 1 (0.76%) F5
6 1 (0.76%) Infor
6 1 (0.76%) JDA
6 1 (0.76%) Meraki
6 1 (0.76%) NetApp
6 1 (0.76%) Nokia
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.76%) SAP
6 1 (0.76%) Veeam
6 1 (0.76%) Veritas
6 1 (0.76%) VMware