NEC Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

NEC
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of NEC products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NEC over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the NEC Corporation.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 93 110
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 -
Contract jobs citing NEC 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.10% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.29% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £498
75th Percentile £488 - £521
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £413 £510
% change year-on-year +9.09% -19.12% -

All Vendors
Berkshire

NEC falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 974 699 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 50.10% 58.01% 50.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 423 501
10th Percentile £310 £350 £270
25th Percentile £424 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.07%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £735
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 27 45
10th Percentile £25.98 £14.57 £14.50
25th Percentile £47.68 £14.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £87.16 £20.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +320.05% -64.41% -0.77%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £56.50 £67.65
South East median hourly rate £57.00 £19.46 £55.08
% change year-on-year +192.98% -64.68% +22.39%

NEC
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

NEC job vacancy trend in Berkshire

NEC
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NEC

NEC
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NEC

NEC
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 NEC within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 July 2026. 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 -33 1 £475 - 1
Slough - 1 - - 1
NEC
South East

NEC
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Earned Value Management
1 1 (50.00%) Housing Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree