IT Strategy Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

IT/Technology Strategy
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring IT Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 81 106
Rank change year-on-year -24 +25 +9
Contract jobs citing IT Strategy 2 26 14
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.15% 1.61% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 1.82% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 12
10th Percentile £455 £500 -
25th Percentile £463 £520 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £605 £725
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% -16.62% +16.00%
75th Percentile £488 £775 £775
90th Percentile £495 £808 £798
South East median daily rate £503 £598 £700
% change year-on-year -15.90% -14.64% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

IT Strategy 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 1,213 1,431 1,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.72% 88.72% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 773 971
10th Percentile £322 £326 £238
25th Percentile £420 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £501
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +7.78% +0.20%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £689 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 54 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £22.33 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.72 £42.60 £46.01
Median hourly rate £27.50 £59.47 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.76% -3.64% +26.60%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.42 £72.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.24 £77.27
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £57.54 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.01% +9.60% +18.00%

IT Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

IT Strategy job vacancy trend in Berkshire

IT Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IT Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IT Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IT Strategy

IT Strategy
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 IT Strategy within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 November 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 +5 1 £450 -37.93% 10
IT Strategy
South East

IT Strategy
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 1 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) Plotly
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Design
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Workday