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 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 133 92 199
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 7.36% 7.34% 9.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.26% 21.20% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 56 106
10th Percentile £204 £204 £148
25th Percentile £238 £323 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £478 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +27.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £500 £591 £588
90th Percentile £588 £650 £608
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 5 18
10th Percentile £20.79 - £20.04
25th Percentile £80.50 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £84.00 £53.50 £61.32
Median % change year-on-year +57.01% -12.76% -12.40%
75th Percentile £88.00 £61.76 £68.63
90th Percentile - £76.93 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £82.00 £55.13 £46.36
% change year-on-year +48.75% +18.92% +3.01%

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 818 434 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 45.29% 34.61% 45.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 224 456
10th Percentile £255 £264 £205
25th Percentile £350 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.44% -8.89%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £615
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 26 78
10th Percentile £21.79 £41.25 £41.25
25th Percentile £70.50 £55.87 £52.37
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% -0.17% -4.75%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.03 £70.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.56 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £33.75 £56.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year -40.52% -2.67% +22.74%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +1 63 £475 +5.56% 43
Wokingham -14 33 £425 -5.56% 10
Windsor +5 11 £208 -58.50% 2
Slough +2 11 £500 +21.21% 19
Bracknell -2 8 £381 - 9
Maidenhead +3 3 - - 5
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 8 (6.02%) Confluence
2 5 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.01%) GeoServer
3 4 (3.01%) Smallworld
4 3 (2.26%) Apache
5 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.50%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (18.80%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (11.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (9.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Primavera
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.30%) Azure
2 16 (12.03%) AWS
3 6 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.76%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.01%) GCP
6 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.50%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.75%) IaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.75%) OCI
8 1 (0.75%) PaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.77%) Wireless
2 11 (8.27%) Firewall
3 7 (5.26%) Unified Communications
4 6 (4.51%) Network Security
5 2 (1.50%) 5G
5 2 (1.50%) DNS
5 2 (1.50%) Internet
5 2 (1.50%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.75%) 3G
6 1 (0.75%) BGP
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.75%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.75%) LAN
6 1 (0.75%) OSPF
6 1 (0.75%) Skype
6 1 (0.75%) VoIP
6 1 (0.75%) WAN
6 1 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.02%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.77%) MySQL
3 4 (3.01%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (3.01%) GIS
3 4 (3.01%) Metadata
3 4 (3.01%) QGIS
4 3 (2.26%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.26%) Power BI
4 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.50%) Big Data
5 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.50%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.50%) Tableau
6 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (9.02%) Burp Suite
3 10 (7.52%) JIRA
3 10 (7.52%) Metasploit
4 2 (1.50%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.50%) Git
4 2 (1.50%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) Appium
5 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Postman
5 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (44.36%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Aerospace
3 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.77%) Finance
4 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Marketing
7 4 (3.01%) Advertising
8 3 (2.26%) Law
8 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Legal
9 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.75%) Avionics
10 1 (0.75%) Billing
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Product Manager
2 19 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 18 (13.53%) Analyst
3 18 (13.53%) Product Delivery Manager
4 14 (10.53%) Systems Delivery Manager
4 14 (10.53%) Systems Manager
5 12 (9.02%) Penetration Tester
5 12 (9.02%) Tester
6 11 (8.27%) Project Manager
7 9 (6.77%) Technical Support
8 8 (6.02%) Architect
9 7 (5.26%) Senior
10 6 (4.51%) Engineering Manager
10 6 (4.51%) Lead
10 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 5 (3.76%) IT Analyst
11 5 (3.76%) IT Support
11 5 (3.76%) IT Support Analyst
11 5 (3.76%) Support Analyst
12 4 (3.01%) Data Centre Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.26%) Pandas
1 3 (2.26%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.50%) ADO
2 2 (1.50%) NumPy
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (1.50%) REST
3 1 (0.75%) .NET
3 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.75%) Express.js
3 1 (0.75%) HTML
3 1 (0.75%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.75%) Node.js
3 1 (0.75%) Plotly
3 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.75%) SOAP
3 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.75%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 13 (9.77%) Data Structures
3 11 (8.27%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.77%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.77%) PMI
5 8 (6.02%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (6.02%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.76%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.76%) Handset
7 5 (3.76%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (3.01%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.50%) CSOC
10 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.50%) Replication
10 2 (1.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.06%) Windows
2 13 (9.77%) Linux
3 10 (7.52%) Unix
4 2 (1.50%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.50%) OpenVMS
4 2 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.86%) Computer Science
2 38 (28.57%) Agile
3 35 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
4 33 (24.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (24.81%) PRINCE2
5 25 (18.80%) Project Management
5 25 (18.80%) Systems Engineering
6 22 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (15.79%) Programme Management
8 19 (14.29%) Change Control
8 19 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 18 (13.53%) Information Security
10 17 (12.78%) Configuration Management
10 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (12.03%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 15 (11.28%) ITIL
12 15 (11.28%) Penetration Testing
12 15 (11.28%) Requirements Management
13 14 (10.53%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.28%) Python
1 15 (11.28%) SQL
2 11 (8.27%) Java
3 10 (7.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.77%) Perl
5 2 (1.50%) Korn
5 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 62 (46.62%) Security Cleared
2 38 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 27 (20.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (11.28%) PMI Certification
5 14 (10.53%) CISSP
5 14 (10.53%) CREST Certified
6 11 (8.27%) Master's Degree
6 11 (8.27%) PMP
7 10 (7.52%) CHECK Team Member
7 10 (7.52%) Cyber Scheme
7 10 (7.52%) Postgraduate
8 6 (4.51%) CISM
9 5 (3.76%) A+ Certification
9 5 (3.76%) GIAC
10 4 (3.01%) MAPM
10 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.26%) SANS
12 2 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.05%) PMO
2 18 (13.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (11.28%) QA
4 12 (9.02%) GDPR
5 11 (8.27%) NIST
6 10 (7.52%) PCI DSS
7 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
8 3 (2.26%) DO-254
8 3 (2.26%) IEC 61508
8 3 (2.26%) ISO 26262
8 3 (2.26%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.50%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (9.02%) Nmap
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (1.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.75%) Ansible
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.75%) Nessus
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.28%) IBM
3 13 (9.77%) Oracle
4 5 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.01%) ESRI
5 4 (3.01%) Intergraph
6 3 (2.26%) Cisco
6 3 (2.26%) Google
7 2 (1.50%) Databricks
7 2 (1.50%) Foundry
7 2 (1.50%) HP
7 2 (1.50%) Palantir
7 2 (1.50%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.50%) Splunk
8 1 (0.75%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.75%) BT
8 1 (0.75%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.75%) Meraki
8 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.75%) Tenable