Portfolio Management Contracts in Berkshire

Portfolio Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Portfolio Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Portfolio Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 95 89
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +35
Contract jobs citing Portfolio Management 3 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 1.36% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.53% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £661 £424 £509
25th Percentile £678 £444 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £460 £610
Median % change year-on-year +54.89% -24.59% +4.72%
75th Percentile £753 £466 £678
90th Percentile £774 £468 £699
South East median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £58.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Portfolio Management 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 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Portfolio Management in Berkshire

Portfolio Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Portfolio Management in Berkshire

Portfolio Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Portfolio Management in Berkshire

Portfolio Management
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 Portfolio Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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 +23 1 - - 6
Slough - 1 £650 -
Portfolio Management
South East

Portfolio Management
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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) APMP
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PgMP
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) P3O
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IFS
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler