ISEB Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 89 111
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +18
Contract jobs citing ISEB 10 20 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.85% 1.17% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.51% 2.68% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £390 - £367
25th Percentile - £450 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £395
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +26.58% +1.94%
75th Percentile - £550 £414
90th Percentile - - £419
South East median daily rate £450 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

ISEB 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 399 746 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.87% 43.52% 38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 395 396
10th Percentile £265 £325 £213
25th Percentile £402 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.24% +11.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £598 £651 £623
90th Percentile £664 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 69 44
10th Percentile £25.95 £42.60 £29.36
25th Percentile £31.57 £56.65 £51.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £63.15 £64.52
Median % change year-on-year -30.40% -2.12% +206.85%
75th Percentile £87.31 £85.65 £74.39
90th Percentile £88.87 £98.00 £75.97
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.17 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.77% -3.05% +33.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for ISEB in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ISEB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ISEB

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ISEB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ISEB

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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 ISEB within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Slough - 10 £450 -
ISEB
South East

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) ATM
1 10 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 10 (100.00%) Frame Relay
1 10 (100.00%) GPRS
1 10 (100.00%) GSM
1 10 (100.00%) LAN
1 10 (100.00%) LTE
1 10 (100.00%) MPLS
1 10 (100.00%) SAN
1 10 (100.00%) SDH
1 10 (100.00%) UMTS
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
1 10 (100.00%) WAN
1 10 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) IP Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Test Engineer
3 5 (50.00%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) IP Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) IP Network Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Fault Management
1 10 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (100.00%) Project Management
1 10 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) CCNP
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 10 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) Juniper
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft