Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Project Delivery
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 32 36
Rank change year-on-year -26 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 62 78 103
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.46% 6.25% 5.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 6.71% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 46
10th Percentile £375 £300 £309
25th Percentile £484 £481 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £509
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +13.02% +4.63%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £598
90th Percentile £670 - £638
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £56.43 - -
25th Percentile £80.75 £60.90 £56.16
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.79 £57.32
Median % change year-on-year +31.90% +7.80% +27.38%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.69 £58.48
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £17.50 £37.65 £67.66
% change year-on-year -53.51% -44.36% +40.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Project Delivery 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 1,554 1,163 1,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.72% 93.19% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 652 985
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £412 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -2.91%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 33 99
10th Percentile £19.39 £26.05 £19.93
25th Percentile £57.31 £46.12 £41.88
Median hourly rate £82.50 £61.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.16% +4.23% -8.77%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.66
90th Percentile £104.95 £84.86 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £44.17
% change year-on-year -38.04% +1.89% -1.86%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Berkshire

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in Berkshire

Project Delivery
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 Project Delivery within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 March 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 -25 37 £575 - 17
Wokingham -29 8 £481 -25.96% 1
Bracknell -6 4 £238 -60.42% 1
Thatcham - 4 £535 -
Windsor +2 3 £550 -4.35% 2
Slough - 1 £600 - 6
Project Delivery
South East

Project Delivery
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 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (4.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.29%) Azure
2 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.84%) OCI
4 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle CX
5 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Firewall
1 4 (6.45%) VPN
2 3 (4.84%) LAN
3 2 (3.23%) BGP
3 2 (3.23%) Intranet
3 2 (3.23%) OSPF
3 2 (3.23%) WAN
4 1 (1.61%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.61%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.61%) ISDN
4 1 (1.61%) MPLS
4 1 (1.61%) PSTN
4 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.61%) VoIP
4 1 (1.61%) Wireless
4 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.61%) GIS
3 1 (1.61%) MS Access
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.06%) Aerospace
4 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
6 3 (4.84%) Retail
7 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.23%) Law
8 1 (1.61%) Automotive
8 1 (1.61%) Billing
8 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Project Manager
2 12 (19.35%) Lead
3 5 (8.06%) Analyst
3 5 (8.06%) Consultant
3 5 (8.06%) Senior
4 4 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (6.45%) Implementation Manager
4 4 (6.45%) Implementation Project Manager
4 4 (6.45%) Oracle Project Manager
4 4 (6.45%) PMO Lead
4 4 (6.45%) Project Implementation Manager
4 4 (6.45%) Service Implementation Manager
5 3 (4.84%) Data Migration Lead
5 3 (4.84%) Head of Infrastructure
5 3 (4.84%) Head of IT
5 3 (4.84%) Head of IT Infrastructure
5 3 (4.84%) HR Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) HR Data Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Product Delivery Manager
5 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.84%) ADO
3 2 (3.23%) REST
3 2 (3.23%) SOAP
4 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.61%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
1 5 (8.06%) PMI
1 5 (8.06%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) e-Learning
3 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) iSeries
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Project Management
2 17 (27.42%) Agile
2 17 (27.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (24.19%) PRINCE2
4 11 (17.74%) Change Management
5 10 (16.13%) Budget Management
5 10 (16.13%) Roadmaps
6 8 (12.90%) ITSM
7 7 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (11.29%) ITIL
7 7 (11.29%) Service Management
7 7 (11.29%) Time Management
7 7 (11.29%) Validation
8 6 (9.68%) Coaching
8 6 (9.68%) ERP
8 6 (9.68%) Migration
8 6 (9.68%) Portfolio Management
8 6 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.06%) Programme Delivery
9 5 (8.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
1 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.58%) PMP
4 13 (20.97%) PMI Certification
5 5 (8.06%) APMP
5 5 (8.06%) MAPM
6 4 (6.45%) Degree
7 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.97%) PMO
2 7 (11.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.45%) GDPR
3 4 (6.45%) NIST
4 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.23%) NCSC
5 1 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.23%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Oracle
3 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
4 3 (4.84%) Workday
5 2 (3.23%) Cisco
5 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) ESRI
6 1 (1.61%) F5
6 1 (1.61%) Juniper
6 1 (1.61%) Meraki
6 1 (1.61%) Remedy