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 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 23 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 63 128 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.34% 7.51% 10.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.75% 17.34% 27.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 73 110
10th Percentile £348 £202 £148
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £608 £600
90th Percentile £615 £638 £735
South East median daily rate £463 £463 £500
% change year-on-year - -7.50% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile - £25.97 £67.38
25th Percentile - £35.71 £68.21
Median hourly rate £32.05 £41.50 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.77% -41.13% +26.45%
75th Percentile £32.18 £42.19 £71.87
90th Percentile £32.26 £50.75 £72.15
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% -4.42% +33.33%

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 400 738 687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.93% 43.31% 38.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 393 395
10th Percentile £278 £315 £213
25th Percentile £406 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +10.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £624
90th Percentile £660 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 67 47
10th Percentile £25.79 £42.33 £34.21
25th Percentile £31.08 £56.59 £51.07
Median hourly rate £40.44 £61.71 £63.91
Median % change year-on-year -34.47% -3.44% +203.95%
75th Percentile £87.38 £85.86 £74.13
90th Percentile £88.87 £98.50 £75.84
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.17 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.77% -3.05% +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
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 20 September 2025.

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
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 20 September 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 -16 24 £450 -25.62% 66
Bracknell +3 14 £475 -26.92% 9
Wokingham -1 7 £463 -22.92% 19
Slough -2 5 £500 +47.06% 160
Maidenhead +1 2 - - 6
Thatcham - 1 - -
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 5 (7.94%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.17%) Camunda
3 2 (3.17%) CMS
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) nginx
4 1 (1.59%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.59%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.17%) SAP GRC
2 2 (3.17%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.59%) BPCS
3 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.59%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.59%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.59%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.59%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.59%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.46%) Power Platform
2 10 (15.87%) AWS
3 9 (14.29%) GCP
4 8 (12.70%) Azure
5 5 (7.94%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.35%) dbt
7 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.17%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) SaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Serverless
8 1 (1.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Wireless
2 3 (4.76%) 5G
2 3 (4.76%) 802.11
2 3 (4.76%) MPLS
2 3 (4.76%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (4.76%) VLAN
2 3 (4.76%) VoIP
2 3 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.17%) 4G
3 2 (3.17%) DNS
3 2 (3.17%) DOCSIS
3 2 (3.17%) GPON
3 2 (3.17%) LTE
3 2 (3.17%) Network Security
3 2 (3.17%) xDSL
4 1 (1.59%) Converged Networks
4 1 (1.59%) DHCP
4 1 (1.59%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.59%) Firewall
4 1 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) Power BI
2 8 (12.70%) Tableau
3 6 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.17%) Big Data
5 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.59%) EDMS
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.59%) Power Query
6 1 (1.59%) Redis
6 1 (1.59%) Sisense
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Git
1 4 (6.35%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.59%) CMake
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 38 (60.32%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Telecoms
4 9 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (6.35%) Legal
6 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.59%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.59%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.59%) French Language
8 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.59%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (9.52%) Analyst
1 6 (9.52%) Senior
2 5 (7.94%) Developer
2 5 (7.94%) Project Manager
3 4 (6.35%) Architect
3 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
4 3 (4.76%) Consultant
4 3 (4.76%) Data Centre Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Data Scientist
4 3 (4.76%) Lead
4 3 (4.76%) Network Engineer
4 3 (4.76%) Support Engineer
4 3 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
4 3 (4.76%) Wireless Engineer
5 2 (3.17%) Administrator
5 2 (3.17%) Development Specialist
5 2 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (3.17%) Software Developer
5 2 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.17%) Pandas
2 2 (3.17%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.17%) REST
2 2 (3.17%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.17%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.59%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.59%) CNTK
3 1 (1.59%) EDI
3 1 (1.59%) Express.js
3 1 (1.59%) HTML
3 1 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.59%) Middleware
3 1 (1.59%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.59%) OpenVINO
3 1 (1.59%) Plotly
3 1 (1.59%) SOAP
3 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.94%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.35%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.17%) Learning Management System
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Life Science
5 2 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.17%) TM Forum
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
6 1 (1.59%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.59%) SCADA
6 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Windows
2 6 (9.52%) Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Computer Science
1 28 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (17.46%) DevOps
2 11 (17.46%) Migration
3 10 (15.87%) Agile
3 10 (15.87%) Analytics
3 10 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (15.87%) Visualisation
4 9 (14.29%) Change Management
4 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 9 (14.29%) Project Management
5 8 (12.70%) Data Science
5 8 (12.70%) PRINCE2
6 7 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
6 7 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 7 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.22%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) SQL
3 3 (4.76%) C#
3 3 (4.76%) Java
3 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.17%) Ada
4 2 (3.17%) Assembly Language
4 2 (3.17%) C
4 2 (3.17%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.59%) ABAP
5 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.59%) Bash
5 1 (1.59%) Bicep
5 1 (1.59%) C++
5 1 (1.59%) VB
5 1 (1.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (34.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (23.81%) Master's Degree
3 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
4 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.94%) PMP
6 3 (4.76%) CISMP
6 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.76%) PMI Certification
6 3 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.17%) CCNA
7 2 (3.17%) CCNP
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.17%) CISSP
7 2 (3.17%) SAP Certification
8 1 (1.59%) ACCA
8 1 (1.59%) CCDP
8 1 (1.59%) CISM
8 1 (1.59%) GCIA
8 1 (1.59%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) GRC
2 4 (6.35%) PMO
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.17%) OASIS TOSCA
4 1 (1.59%) COSHH
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (3.17%) Ansible
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.59%) SCCM
3 1 (1.59%) SCOM
3 1 (1.59%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) vRealize
3 1 (1.59%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (1.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) SAP
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) AirMagnet
4 3 (4.76%) Aruba
4 3 (4.76%) Cisco
4 3 (4.76%) Ekahau
4 3 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) IBM
4 3 (4.76%) Juniper
4 3 (4.76%) Meraki
5 2 (3.17%) Amdocs
5 2 (3.17%) Ericsson
5 2 (3.17%) Huawei
5 2 (3.17%) NetCracker
5 2 (3.17%) Nokia
6 1 (1.59%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) VMware