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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 74 186 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.18% 9.44% 10.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.13% 20.83% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 83 93
10th Percentile £352 £205 £349
25th Percentile £406 £338 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.35% +15.24% +16.67%
75th Percentile £604 £608 £638
90th Percentile £638 £620 £735
South East median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 4
10th Percentile - £18.86 £26.16
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.97 £45.91
Median hourly rate £32.31 £41.50 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year -22.14% -35.53% +28.75%
75th Percentile £53.50 £43.19 £72.84
90th Percentile £73.63 £45.63 £77.96
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £48.00
% change year-on-year -1.05% +19.48% +6.67%

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 432 893 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.09% 45.33% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 419 314
10th Percentile £320 £278 £349
25th Percentile £425 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £721
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 97 42
10th Percentile £27.81 £41.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £42.91 £55.04 £49.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.34
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.72% +211.13%
75th Percentile £87.38 £85.65 £75.50
90th Percentile £88.87 £88.52 £80.14
South East median hourly rate £46.90 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.22% -4.42% +33.33%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -22 27 £500 -17.36% 230
Bracknell +1 15 £450 +5.88% 38
Wokingham -6 8 £500 -17.01% 18
Slough +2 6 £525 +43.84% 262
Windsor -3 4 £489 -45.69% 10
Maidenhead +3 2 - - 19
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 6 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.05%) Camunda
3 2 (2.70%) CMS
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.35%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.11%) MS Visio
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.70%) SAP GRC
2 2 (2.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (2.70%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.35%) BPCS
3 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.35%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.35%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.92%) Azure
2 11 (14.86%) Power Platform
3 9 (12.16%) GCP
4 8 (10.81%) AWS
5 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.76%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.41%) SaaS
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.05%) dbt
9 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.35%) IaaS
10 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.35%) PaaS
10 1 (1.35%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.35%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) 5G
1 4 (5.41%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (5.41%) VLAN
1 4 (5.41%) Wireless
2 3 (4.05%) 4G
2 3 (4.05%) 802.11
2 3 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.70%) Broadband
3 2 (2.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) DOCSIS
3 2 (2.70%) Firewall
3 2 (2.70%) GPON
3 2 (2.70%) LTE
3 2 (2.70%) MPLS
3 2 (2.70%) Network Security
3 2 (2.70%) VoIP
3 2 (2.70%) xDSL
4 1 (1.35%) DHCP
4 1 (1.35%) HTTP
4 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Power BI
2 7 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.46%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.11%) Tableau
4 4 (5.41%) Big Data
4 4 (5.41%) Metadata
5 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) EDMS
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.35%) Power Query
6 1 (1.35%) Sisense
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) ERwin
1 4 (5.41%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (4.05%) Selenium
3 2 (2.70%) JIRA
3 2 (2.70%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.35%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.35%) CMake
4 1 (1.35%) Git
4 1 (1.35%) Metasploit
General
1 48 (64.86%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.57%) Telecoms
4 11 (14.86%) Finance
5 8 (10.81%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.41%) Legal
8 3 (4.05%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.35%) French Language
10 1 (1.35%) Italian Language
10 1 (1.35%) Marketing
10 1 (1.35%) Military
10 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.35%) Retail
10 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (9.46%) Architect
1 7 (9.46%) Project Manager
2 6 (8.11%) Lead
2 6 (8.11%) Senior
3 5 (6.76%) Analyst
4 4 (5.41%) Data Modeller
5 3 (4.05%) Consultant
5 3 (4.05%) Data Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Scrum Master
5 3 (4.05%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Wireless Engineer
6 2 (2.70%) Data Centre Manager
6 2 (2.70%) Data Centre Project Manager
6 2 (2.70%) HR Manager
6 2 (2.70%) Information Security Auditor
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 2 (2.70%) OSS Architect
6 2 (2.70%) Security Auditor
6 2 (2.70%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) 802.1X
1 3 (4.05%) Web Services
2 2 (2.70%) OAuth
3 1 (1.35%) .NET
3 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.35%) CNTK
3 1 (1.35%) EDI
3 1 (1.35%) MDX
3 1 (1.35%) Middleware
3 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.35%) OpenVINO
3 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.35%) REST
3 1 (1.35%) SOAP
3 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.11%) Life Science
4 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.76%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Learning Management System
6 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) PKI
6 2 (2.70%) PMI
6 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.70%) TM Forum
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.89%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (40.54%) Computer Science
3 18 (24.32%) Agile
3 18 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (21.62%) Migration
4 16 (21.62%) Project Management
5 14 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (16.22%) Data Modelling
7 10 (13.51%) Analytics
7 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (12.16%) Data Migration
8 9 (12.16%) Decision-Making
8 9 (12.16%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.81%) Change Management
9 8 (10.81%) PRINCE2
10 7 (9.46%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (9.46%) Data Collection
10 7 (9.46%) Data Science
10 7 (9.46%) DevOps
11 6 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.86%) Python
1 11 (14.86%) SQL
2 4 (5.41%) Java
3 2 (2.70%) C++
4 1 (1.35%) ABAP
4 1 (1.35%) Bicep
4 1 (1.35%) C
4 1 (1.35%) C#
4 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.35%) Ruby
4 1 (1.35%) VB
4 1 (1.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (32.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 23 (31.08%) Master's Degree
3 9 (12.16%) Security Cleared
4 8 (10.81%) PMP
5 7 (9.46%) PMI Certification
5 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
6 6 (8.11%) CISSP
7 5 (6.76%) CISM
7 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.05%) CISMP
8 3 (4.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (2.70%) CCDP
9 2 (2.70%) CCNA
9 2 (2.70%) CCNP
9 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.70%) PhD
10 1 (1.35%) ACCA
10 1 (1.35%) ISEB
10 1 (1.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) QA
2 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.41%) GRC
3 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.05%) GDPR
4 3 (4.05%) NIST
5 2 (2.70%) OASIS TOSCA
5 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.35%) COSHH
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.35%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (2.70%) Ansible
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.35%) CASB
3 1 (1.35%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.35%) SCCM
3 1 (1.35%) SCOM
3 1 (1.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) SAP
3 3 (4.05%) AirMagnet
3 3 (4.05%) Aruba
3 3 (4.05%) Cisco
3 3 (4.05%) Ekahau
3 3 (4.05%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (4.05%) Google
3 3 (4.05%) Juniper
3 3 (4.05%) Meraki
3 3 (4.05%) Oracle
4 2 (2.70%) Amdocs
4 2 (2.70%) Ericsson
4 2 (2.70%) Huawei
4 2 (2.70%) IBM
4 2 (2.70%) NetCracker
4 2 (2.70%) Nokia
4 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.70%) Workday
5 1 (1.35%) PeopleSoft