Lead Contracts in Berkshire

Leader
South East > Berkshire

The median Leader daily rate in Berkshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 27 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 73 123 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.22% 6.20% 6.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.73% 6.59% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 54 84
10th Percentile £425 £453 £374
25th Percentile £450 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £653
90th Percentile £675 £638 £746
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £63.37 -
25th Percentile £86.29 £64.67 £53.50
Median hourly rate £87.58 £68.67 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.55% +24.85% -31.25%
75th Percentile £88.87 £70.34 £56.50
90th Percentile - £70.43 -
South East median hourly rate £83.50 £31.00 £57.99
% change year-on-year +169.35% -46.54% +65.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Berkshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Berkshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Berkshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Berkshire

Lead
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 Lead 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 +2 39 £625 +8.70% 53
Wokingham +1 18 £550 -3.08% 3
Bracknell +7 4 £454 -27.36% 5
Maidenhead +7 4 £450 -30.77% 3
Slough -12 2 £625 +4.17% 29
Thatcham - 1 £600 -
Lead
South East

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Agile
3 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (17.81%) Project Management
5 12 (16.44%) Oracle
5 12 (16.44%) ITIL
6 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
6 11 (15.07%) Roadmaps
7 10 (13.70%) Project Delivery
8 9 (12.33%) Azure
8 9 (12.33%) DevOps
8 9 (12.33%) Legal
9 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.96%) Scrum
9 8 (10.96%) Analytics
9 8 (10.96%) Data Centre
9 8 (10.96%) Decision-Making
10 7 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (9.59%) VMware
10 7 (9.59%) Release Management
10 7 (9.59%) Data Integration
10 7 (9.59%) Linux
10 7 (9.59%) Service Management
11 6 (8.22%) SAP
11 6 (8.22%) Windows
11 6 (8.22%) ERP
11 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
11 6 (8.22%) DV Cleared
11 6 (8.22%) Degree

Lead Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.74%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.37%) Primavera
3 1 (1.37%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.37%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.37%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.33%) Azure
2 6 (8.22%) OCI
3 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.11%) Oracle CX
5 2 (2.74%) AWS
5 2 (2.74%) Azure API Management
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.74%) Figma
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.74%) PaaS
5 2 (2.74%) SaaS
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.37%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.37%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.37%) GCP
6 1 (1.37%) IaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) Firewall
2 4 (5.48%) DHCP
2 4 (5.48%) DNS
2 4 (5.48%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.37%) 2G
4 1 (1.37%) 3G
4 1 (1.37%) 4G
4 1 (1.37%) 5G
4 1 (1.37%) Network Security
4 1 (1.37%) NGFW
4 1 (1.37%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.37%) SSL
4 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) GitLab
2 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Legal
3 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.74%) Billing
7 2 (2.74%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.37%) Military
8 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.11%) JBoss Seam
2 3 (4.11%) OAuth
2 3 (4.11%) SOAP
2 3 (4.11%) Web Services
3 2 (2.74%) Kafka
3 2 (2.74%) RESTful
4 1 (1.37%) ADO
4 1 (1.37%) LDAP
4 1 (1.37%) Node.js
4 1 (1.37%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) React Native
4 1 (1.37%) REST
4 1 (1.37%) RFC 2544
4 1 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.37%) SAPUI5
4 1 (1.37%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) Podcast
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.74%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Social Media
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Linux
2 6 (8.22%) Windows
3 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.55%) Agile
2 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.81%) Project Management
4 12 (16.44%) ITIL
5 11 (15.07%) Roadmaps
6 10 (13.70%) Project Delivery
7 9 (12.33%) DevOps
8 8 (10.96%) Analytics
8 8 (10.96%) Decision-Making
8 8 (10.96%) Scrum
8 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (9.59%) Data Integration
9 7 (9.59%) Release Management
9 7 (9.59%) Service Management
10 6 (8.22%) ERP
10 6 (8.22%) Programme Governance
10 6 (8.22%) Waterfall
11 5 (6.85%) CRM
11 5 (6.85%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.85%) SQL
2 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.74%) Python
3 1 (1.37%) ABAP
3 1 (1.37%) Java
3 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.37%) R
3 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) Degree
2 6 (8.22%) DV Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.74%) CISSP
4 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.74%) PMP
5 1 (1.37%) ACCA
5 1 (1.37%) CISA
5 1 (1.37%) CISM
5 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) PgMP
5 1 (1.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
2 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.37%) PMO
2 1 (1.37%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) NetBackup
2 2 (2.74%) Terraform
3 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Oracle
2 7 (9.59%) VMware
3 6 (8.22%) SAP
4 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.48%) 3PAR
5 4 (5.48%) Dell
5 4 (5.48%) HP
5 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.48%) Veritas
6 3 (4.11%) Darktrace
6 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.74%) Cisco
7 2 (2.74%) Snow
8 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.37%) Epicor
8 1 (1.37%) IBM
8 1 (1.37%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.37%) Splunk