Electronics Contracts in Berkshire

Electronics
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 97 108
Rank change year-on-year +42 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Electronics 38 27 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.24% 1.36% 0.39%
As % of the General category 5.14% 2.40% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 3 7
10th Percentile £578 £237 £358
25th Percentile £600 £319 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% +8.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £700 £547 £491
90th Percentile - £594 £598
South East median daily rate £625 £205 £205
% change year-on-year +204.88% - -45.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £14.30 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -68.22% - -
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year -52.05% +27.44% -

All General Skills
Berkshire

Electronics falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 739 1,127 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 63.00% 56.80% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 551 708
10th Percentile £300 £205 £325
25th Percentile £413 £325 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
75th Percentile £632 £589 £631
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 87 27
10th Percentile £19.91 £22.75 £19.10
25th Percentile £30.25 £42.50 £22.33
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%
75th Percentile £65.62 £69.47 £68.11
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Electronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in Berkshire

Electronics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronics in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Electronics in Berkshire

Electronics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronics in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Electronics in Berkshire

Electronics
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 Electronics within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +57 33 £650 +40.54% 31
Wokingham - 3 - - 1
Bracknell +16 2 £550 - 2
Electronics
South East

Electronics
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:

Applications
1 2 (5.26%) LightWave 3D
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
3 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.63%) Junos
2 1 (2.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
1 4 (10.53%) Selenium
2 3 (7.89%) SpecFlow
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 35 (92.11%) Finance
1 35 (92.11%) Manufacturing
1 35 (92.11%) Marketing
1 35 (92.11%) Public Sector
1 35 (92.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Architect
2 21 (55.26%) Active Directory Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior
5 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Coordinator
6 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Tester
7 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Gherkin
1 3 (7.89%) PySpark
2 2 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.63%) CMDB
1 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (65.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (92.11%) Business Intelligence
1 35 (92.11%) Digital Marketing
1 35 (92.11%) Programme Management
2 24 (63.16%) Agile
2 24 (63.16%) Test Automation
3 21 (55.26%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.79%) DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (7.89%) Data-Driven Testing
6 3 (7.89%) Mathematics
6 3 (7.89%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (7.89%) Physics
6 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (5.26%) Analytics
7 2 (5.26%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (5.26%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) Bash
4 3 (7.89%) SQL
5 2 (5.26%) Bicep
6 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 23 (60.53%) DV Cleared
3 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 21 (55.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) NFS
2 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.26%) vRealize
1 2 (5.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 35 (92.11%) SAP
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix
4 1 (2.63%) Dell
4 1 (2.63%) F5
4 1 (2.63%) HP
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Juniper
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft