Degree Contracts in Berkshire

Academic Degree
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 21 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 209 168 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.58% 9.26% 10.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.43% 28.77% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 76 125
10th Percentile £174 £324 £290
25th Percentile £205 £389 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +6.84% -
75th Percentile £608 £603 £538
90th Percentile - £675 £634
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £26.16 £18.40
25th Percentile £41.25 £45.91 £31.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £64.38 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.98% +21.46% +24.71%
75th Percentile £64.37 £72.84 £66.70
90th Percentile £69.45 £77.96 £74.92
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £45.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +27.44% +11.11% -4.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 892 584 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 45.16% 32.19% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 344 390
10th Percentile £209 £349 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +12.53% +5.68%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £663
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 39 15
10th Percentile £41.50 £20.70 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £50.45 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +208.79% -
75th Percentile £76.12 £75.38 £38.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.32 £44.50
% change year-on-year +0.05% +28.81% +11.25%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +9 126 £500 - 105
Bracknell -6 27 £356 -20.83% 29
Wokingham +6 13 £575 -17.86% 15
Newbury 0 2 £500 +212.50% 5
Maidenhead -10 2 £232 -59.65% 13
Windsor -8 1 - - 8
Crowthorne - 1 - - 2
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 19 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.35%) SAS
3 6 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.39%) Confluence
5 2 (0.96%) CMS
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Moodle
Applications
1 57 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (14.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (6.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (5.74%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.96%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.48%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.48%) Blender
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.84%) Azure
2 27 (12.92%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (7.66%) Entra ID
3 16 (7.66%) Snowflake
4 15 (7.18%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (7.18%) Azure Storage
5 13 (6.22%) OCI
6 11 (5.26%) AWS
7 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.39%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.91%) PaaS
9 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.44%) IaaS
10 3 (1.44%) Veeva
11 2 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.96%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.96%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.48%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.79%) DNS
1 33 (15.79%) Firewall
2 28 (13.40%) DHCP
3 26 (12.44%) LAN
4 14 (6.70%) SAN
5 9 (4.31%) SSL
6 8 (3.83%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.83%) WAN
7 6 (2.87%) 4G
7 6 (2.87%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.39%) 3G
8 5 (2.39%) 5G
8 5 (2.39%) Radio Access Network
8 5 (2.39%) VoLTE
9 4 (1.91%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (1.91%) GGSN
9 4 (1.91%) LTE
9 4 (1.91%) RANAP
9 4 (1.91%) SGSN
9 4 (1.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.66%) Tableau
2 7 (3.35%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (2.39%) Power BI
4 4 (1.91%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.44%) Big Data
5 3 (1.44%) EDMS
5 3 (1.44%) Metadata
6 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.96%) Power Query
6 2 (0.96%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.48%) DTS
7 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.48%) MySQL
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 12 (5.74%) JIRA
2 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.96%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.48%) CMake
4 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) Maven
4 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 132 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.49%) Telecoms
3 39 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (15.79%) Finance
5 29 (13.88%) Legal
6 23 (11.00%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (10.05%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (6.22%) Marketing
9 11 (5.26%) Mandarin Language
9 11 (5.26%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (3.35%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.87%) Law
13 4 (1.91%) Multimedia
14 3 (1.44%) Automotive
15 2 (0.96%) Electronics
15 2 (0.96%) French Language
15 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.96%) German Language
15 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (15.31%) Analyst
2 22 (10.53%) Lead
3 20 (9.57%) Support Specialist
4 18 (8.61%) Hardware Engineer
5 15 (7.18%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (7.18%) Architect
5 15 (7.18%) Project Manager
6 14 (6.70%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (6.70%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.78%) Developer
8 9 (4.31%) Storage Engineer
9 8 (3.83%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.83%) Communications Manager
9 8 (3.83%) Internal Communications Manager
10 7 (3.35%) IFS Developer
11 6 (2.87%) HR Assistant
11 6 (2.87%) Project Leader
11 6 (2.87%) Technical Support
11 6 (2.87%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.66%) ARM Templates
2 9 (4.31%) Web Services
3 3 (1.44%) HTML
3 3 (1.44%) XML
4 2 (0.96%) CSS
4 2 (0.96%) Flash
4 2 (0.96%) OLE
4 2 (0.96%) YAML
5 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.48%) CNTK
5 1 (0.48%) jQuery
5 1 (0.48%) JSON
5 1 (0.48%) Node.js
5 1 (0.48%) OpenVINO
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.48%) React
5 1 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.00%) PKI
1 23 (11.00%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (8.61%) Driving Licence
3 15 (7.18%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.78%) Credit Risk
6 9 (4.31%) Life Science
7 8 (3.83%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.44%) PMI
10 2 (0.96%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.96%) Social Media
10 2 (0.96%) Solar Power
11 1 (0.48%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.48%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 67 (32.06%) Windows
2 42 (20.10%) Linux
3 37 (17.70%) Windows 10
3 37 (17.70%) Windows Server
4 31 (14.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (13.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (8.61%) Windows 7
7 14 (6.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (6.22%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.96%) Unix
10 1 (0.48%) Android
10 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (38.76%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (26.32%) Project Management
3 51 (24.40%) ITIL
4 47 (22.49%) Analytics
5 41 (19.62%) Agile
6 33 (15.79%) Customer Service
7 28 (13.40%) DevOps
8 26 (12.44%) Decision-Making
9 22 (10.53%) Computer Science
10 21 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (9.57%) Software Testing
12 19 (9.09%) Service Delivery
13 18 (8.61%) CI/CD
13 18 (8.61%) Customer Requirements
13 18 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (8.61%) Software Deployment
14 16 (7.66%) Actionable Insight
14 16 (7.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (7.66%) RBAC
14 16 (7.66%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 19 (9.09%) C#
3 15 (7.18%) Bicep
3 15 (7.18%) VB
3 15 (7.18%) VBScript
4 14 (6.70%) SQL
5 6 (2.87%) Python
6 3 (1.44%) F#
6 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.96%) Java
8 1 (0.48%) C++
8 1 (0.48%) R
8 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 64 (30.62%) DV Cleared
3 29 (13.88%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.13%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (7.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.70%) CCNA
6 14 (6.70%) CCNP
6 14 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.31%) Master's Degree
8 8 (3.83%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.39%) CIPD
9 5 (2.39%) PMP
10 4 (1.91%) CISSP
11 3 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.44%) CISA
11 3 (1.44%) CISM
11 3 (1.44%) CISMP
11 3 (1.44%) CRISC
11 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.70%) QA
2 8 (3.83%) SLA
3 5 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.44%) COBIT
5 3 (1.44%) GRC
5 3 (1.44%) NIST
5 3 (1.44%) PMO
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
System Software
1 48 (22.97%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.61%) Firmware
3 15 (7.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (7.18%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (6.70%) Hyper-V
4 14 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (6.22%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (26.32%) SCCM
2 31 (14.83%) SCOM
3 28 (13.40%) WSUS
4 18 (8.61%) Kubernetes
5 16 (7.66%) EMC NetWorker
6 15 (7.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 15 (7.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (6.70%) NetBackup
8 13 (6.22%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.96%) Ansible
9 2 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 85 (40.67%) Microsoft
2 38 (18.18%) HP
3 20 (9.57%) Oracle
4 17 (8.13%) VMware
5 16 (7.66%) Alteryx
5 16 (7.66%) EMC
5 16 (7.66%) Juniper
6 15 (7.18%) Cisco
7 14 (6.70%) 3PAR
7 14 (6.70%) Palo Alto
7 14 (6.70%) ServiceNow
8 13 (6.22%) Dell
8 13 (6.22%) Extreme Networks
8 13 (6.22%) Symantec
8 13 (6.22%) Veeam
9 7 (3.35%) IFS
10 5 (2.39%) Reuters
11 4 (1.91%) Empirix
11 4 (1.91%) NetScout
11 4 (1.91%) Workday