Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Digital Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.068% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £121.77 - -
South East median hourly rate £121.77 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Digital Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,301 1,372 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.44% 90.32% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 760 964
10th Percentile £305 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 39 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.68 £24.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.08 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.25 £68.57 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.38 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -53.16% -10.69% +42.67%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
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 Digital Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 - 1 - - 1
Digital Engineering
South East

Digital Engineering
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared