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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 117 89 198
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 6.74% 7.00% 10.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.02% 20.27% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 55 108
10th Percentile £204 £187 £148
25th Percentile £238 £291 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £478 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.61% +19.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £496 £566 £588
90th Percentile £588 £648 £608
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 18
10th Percentile £20.79 - £20.04
25th Percentile £80.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.75 £42.88 £61.32
Median % change year-on-year +90.65% -30.07% -12.40%
75th Percentile £85.50 £61.76 £68.63
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.93 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £77.15 £47.81 £53.50
% change year-on-year +61.39% -10.64% +18.89%

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 779 439 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 44.90% 34.54% 45.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 224 457
10th Percentile £253 £250 £205
25th Percentile £350 £400 £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 £685 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 28 78
10th Percentile £20.79 £41.25 £41.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.87 £51.49
Median hourly rate £82.50 £61.63 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% +0.04% -5.23%
75th Percentile £92.31 £68.09 £70.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.37 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £56.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year -49.78% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -7 46 £446 +3.24% 42
Wokingham -11 34 £436 -3.11% 7
Windsor +6 11 £208 -58.50% 4
Slough +3 11 £500 +58.73% 10
Bracknell +2 8 £381 - 6
Maidenhead +2 3 - - 4
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 (6.84%) Confluence
2 5 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.42%) GeoServer
3 4 (3.42%) Smallworld
4 3 (2.56%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.71%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (20.51%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (11.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (10.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Primavera
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.22%) Azure
2 15 (12.82%) AWS
3 6 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.42%) GCP
4 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.71%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.85%) Collibra
7 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.85%) IaaS
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.85%) OCI
7 1 (0.85%) PaaS
7 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.11%) Wireless
2 11 (9.40%) Firewall
3 7 (5.98%) Unified Communications
4 6 (5.13%) Network Security
5 2 (1.71%) 5G
5 2 (1.71%) DNS
5 2 (1.71%) Internet
5 2 (1.71%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.85%) 4G
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.85%) Intranet
6 1 (0.85%) LAN
6 1 (0.85%) Skype
6 1 (0.85%) VoIP
6 1 (0.85%) WAN
6 1 (0.85%) WebEx
6 1 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.69%) MySQL
3 5 (4.27%) Metadata
4 4 (3.42%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (3.42%) GIS
4 4 (3.42%) QGIS
5 2 (1.71%) Big Data
5 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.71%) Power BI
5 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.71%) Tableau
6 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Burp Suite
2 10 (8.55%) JIRA
2 10 (8.55%) Metasploit
3 6 (5.13%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.71%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.71%) Git
4 2 (1.71%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) Appium
5 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.85%) Postman
5 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (50.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.97%) Aerospace
3 11 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.84%) Finance
5 7 (5.98%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Marketing
8 4 (3.42%) Advertising
9 3 (2.56%) Law
9 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Legal
10 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.85%) Avionics
11 1 (0.85%) Billing
11 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.85%) Military
11 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (14.53%) Analyst
2 12 (10.26%) Penetration Tester
2 12 (10.26%) Tester
3 11 (9.40%) Project Manager
4 9 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 9 (7.69%) Technical Support
5 7 (5.98%) Architect
5 7 (5.98%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (5.98%) Senior
6 6 (5.13%) Product Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 5 (4.27%) Engineering Manager
7 5 (4.27%) IT Analyst
7 5 (4.27%) IT Support
7 5 (4.27%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (4.27%) Lead
7 5 (4.27%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.42%) Consultant
8 4 (3.42%) Data Centre Manager
8 4 (3.42%) Data Centre Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.56%) Pandas
1 3 (2.56%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.71%) ADO
2 2 (1.71%) NumPy
2 2 (1.71%) REST
3 1 (0.85%) .NET
3 1 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.85%) Express.js
3 1 (0.85%) HTML
3 1 (0.85%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.85%) Node.js
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (0.85%) Plotly
3 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.85%) SOAP
3 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.85%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.40%) Security Posture
2 9 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.84%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.84%) PMI
4 7 (5.98%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.13%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.27%) Driving Licence
6 5 (4.27%) Handset
6 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (3.42%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.71%) CSOC
9 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.71%) Replication
9 2 (1.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.21%) Windows
2 14 (11.97%) Linux
3 9 (7.69%) Unix
4 2 (1.71%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.71%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.85%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.03%) Computer Science
2 32 (27.35%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (21.37%) Project Management
4 24 (20.51%) Agile
5 22 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (16.24%) PRINCE2
8 18 (15.38%) Information Security
9 16 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (12.82%) Penetration Testing
11 14 (11.97%) Data Protection
11 14 (11.97%) Decision-Making
11 14 (11.97%) Line Management
11 14 (11.97%) Regulatory Compliance
12 13 (11.11%) Customer Service
12 13 (11.11%) ITIL
13 12 (10.26%) DevOps
13 12 (10.26%) Machine Learning
13 12 (10.26%) Service Management
13 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.82%) Python
1 15 (12.82%) SQL
2 12 (10.26%) Java
3 10 (8.55%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.69%) Perl
5 2 (1.71%) C#
5 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.85%) Ada
6 1 (0.85%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.85%) C
6 1 (0.85%) Korn
6 1 (0.85%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (40.17%) Security Cleared
2 39 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 29 (24.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (11.97%) CISSP
4 14 (11.97%) CREST Certified
4 14 (11.97%) PMI Certification
5 11 (9.40%) Master's Degree
5 11 (9.40%) PMP
6 10 (8.55%) CHECK Team Member
6 10 (8.55%) Cyber Scheme
6 10 (8.55%) Postgraduate
7 6 (5.13%) CISM
8 5 (4.27%) A+ Certification
8 5 (4.27%) GIAC
9 4 (3.42%) MAPM
9 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.56%) SANS
11 2 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.51%) PMO
2 16 (13.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (12.82%) QA
4 12 (10.26%) GDPR
5 10 (8.55%) PCI DSS
6 9 (7.69%) NIST
7 6 (5.13%) Data Quality
8 3 (2.56%) DO-254
8 3 (2.56%) IEC 61508
8 3 (2.56%) ISO 26262
9 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.71%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (10.26%) Nmap
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.71%) SCCM
3 1 (0.85%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.85%) Nessus
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) Oracle
3 5 (4.27%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.42%) ESRI
4 4 (3.42%) Intergraph
5 3 (2.56%) Cisco
5 3 (2.56%) Google
5 3 (2.56%) IBM
6 2 (1.71%) Databricks
6 2 (1.71%) Foundry
6 2 (1.71%) HP
6 2 (1.71%) Palantir
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.71%) Splunk
7 1 (0.85%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.85%) BT
7 1 (0.85%) F5
7 1 (0.85%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.85%) Meraki
7 1 (0.85%) Nokia