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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 71 77 105
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.88% 6.72% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 7.18% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 56 42
10th Percentile £375 £300 £302
25th Percentile £438 £470 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £648 £638 £598
90th Percentile £738 - £637
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
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 £67.55 £57.32
% change year-on-year -74.09% +17.85% +19.42%

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 1,580 1,072 1,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.43% 93.54% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 626 990
10th Percentile £303 £311 £213
25th Percentile £403 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £670 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -0.83% +1.85% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 29 102
10th Percentile £19.65 £25.93 £18.96
25th Percentile £65.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.57
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +1.53% +10.13%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £71.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.27 £87.41
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -18.75% -11.11%

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 25 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
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 25 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 -29 40 £575 - 17
Wokingham -19 12 £375 -42.31% 1
Bracknell -4 6 £648 +7.92% 1
Thatcham - 4 £535 -
Windsor +5 3 £550 -4.35% 2
Slough - 2 £525 - 10
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 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.41%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.82%) OCI
5 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.41%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) Firewall
2 6 (8.45%) VPN
3 5 (7.04%) LAN
4 4 (5.63%) BGP
4 4 (5.63%) OSPF
4 4 (5.63%) WAN
5 3 (4.23%) MPLS
5 3 (4.23%) SD-WAN
5 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.82%) Intranet
6 2 (2.82%) NAS
6 2 (2.82%) SAN
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.41%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.41%) ISDN
7 1 (1.41%) PSTN
7 1 (1.41%) VoIP
7 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) MS Access
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.45%) Aerospace
6 5 (7.04%) Retail
6 5 (7.04%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Legal
9 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.82%) Law
10 1 (1.41%) Automotive
10 1 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Project Manager
2 13 (18.31%) Lead
3 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 6 (8.45%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (7.04%) Senior
6 4 (5.63%) Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Implementation Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Implementation Project Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Network Manager
6 4 (5.63%) PMO Lead
6 4 (5.63%) Product Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Product Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Project Implementation Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Service Implementation Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Coordinator
7 3 (4.23%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (4.23%) Head of Infrastructure
7 3 (4.23%) Head of IT Infrastructure
7 3 (4.23%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) ADO
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.41%) Middleware
2 1 (1.41%) REST
2 1 (1.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Data Centre
1 7 (9.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.04%) PMI
3 3 (4.23%) e-Learning
3 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.82%) Replication
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.41%) CMDB
5 1 (1.41%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) iSeries
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) Project Management
2 24 (33.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (26.76%) Change Management
4 17 (23.94%) PRINCE2
5 16 (22.54%) Agile
6 15 (21.13%) Budget Management
7 12 (16.90%) ITIL
8 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
8 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.27%) ITSM
10 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (11.27%) Programme Delivery
10 8 (11.27%) Validation
11 7 (9.86%) ERP
11 7 (9.86%) Migration
11 7 (9.86%) Service Management
11 7 (9.86%) Vulnerability Management
12 6 (8.45%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (38.03%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
3 18 (25.35%) PMP
4 15 (21.13%) PMI Certification
5 5 (7.04%) APMP
5 5 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.04%) MAPM
6 4 (5.63%) Degree
7 2 (2.82%) CISM
7 2 (2.82%) CISSP
8 1 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.54%) PMO
2 10 (14.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (9.86%) NIST
4 4 (5.63%) GDPR
5 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.82%) NCSC
5 2 (2.82%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.82%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.68%) Oracle
3 7 (9.86%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.63%) SAP
5 3 (4.23%) Cisco
6 2 (2.82%) Meraki
6 2 (2.82%) Workday
7 1 (1.41%) F5
7 1 (1.41%) Juniper
7 1 (1.41%) Remedy
7 1 (1.41%) Salesforce