Project Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Project Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 89 114 166
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.87% 9.79% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.76% 10.55% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 63 90
10th Percentile £357 £350 £315
25th Percentile £400 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.97% -11.90% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £608
90th Percentile £650 £651 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £480 £495
% change year-on-year +9.38% -3.03% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile £42.13 £49.65 £41.25
25th Percentile £55.25 £52.13 £41.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% +4.55% -35.29%
75th Percentile £85.25 £72.90 £62.00
90th Percentile £89.90 £81.39 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £46.64 £75.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -37.81% +111.27% -11.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Project 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 1,546 1,081 1,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 84.62% 92.79% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 631 903
10th Percentile £303 £305 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.77% -3.05%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.20% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 26 101
10th Percentile £33.25 £22.29 £18.50
25th Percentile £80.00 £32.05 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.54 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.84% +0.81% +5.50%
75th Percentile £88.00 £76.77 £71.75
90th Percentile £104.75 £88.19 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -4.04%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Berkshire

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in Berkshire

Project 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 Project Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -17 45 £550 +10.00% 19
Bracknell -1 15 £610 +10.91% 1
Wokingham -18 13 £400 +14.29% 5
Windsor +8 6 £450 -25.00% 2
Slough -3 4 £500 +11.11% 6
Hungerford - 3 - - 1
Thatcham - 2 £535 -
Maidenhead - 1 - - 2
Project Management
South East

Project Management
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 6 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.62%) Confluence
3 3 (3.37%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (20.22%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (2.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.37%) Primavera
2 3 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.25%) SAP QM
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.12%) Sage X3
4 1 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.37%) Azure
2 2 (2.25%) AWS
2 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
2 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.25%) Smartsheet
3 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.12%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (1.12%) GitHub
3 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.12%) Miro
3 1 (1.12%) Rubrik
3 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.12%) Veeva
3 1 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) WAN
2 9 (10.11%) MPLS
2 9 (10.11%) SD-WAN
3 7 (7.87%) LAN
4 6 (6.74%) Firewall
5 5 (5.62%) BGP
5 5 (5.62%) OSPF
6 4 (4.49%) Internet
6 4 (4.49%) NAS
6 4 (4.49%) SAN
6 4 (4.49%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.49%) VPN
7 3 (3.37%) Network Security
8 1 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.12%) DHCP
8 1 (1.12%) DNS
8 1 (1.12%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.12%) SMS
8 1 (1.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.25%) Power BI
4 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.12%) Metadata
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.12%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) Gradle
2 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.12%) Maven
General
1 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.21%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (19.10%) Finance
4 8 (8.99%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.62%) Legal
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.37%) Billing
7 3 (3.37%) Retail
8 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.12%) Automotive
9 1 (1.12%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 41 (46.07%) Project Manager
2 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 10 (11.24%) Lead
4 9 (10.11%) Project Planner
5 7 (7.87%) Change Manager
6 5 (5.62%) Network Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Coordinator
7 4 (4.49%) Network Project Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.37%) Agile Project Manager
8 3 (3.37%) PMO Lead
8 3 (3.37%) SAP Manager
8 3 (3.37%) SAP Project Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Senior
8 3 (3.37%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Technical Project Manager
9 2 (2.25%) E-Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.12%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (1.12%) ADO
1 1 (1.12%) CSS
1 1 (1.12%) HTML
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.12%) React
1 1 (1.12%) REST
1 1 (1.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Data Protection Act
1 11 (12.36%) PMI
2 8 (8.99%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.37%) FMCG
4 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.37%) Replication
5 2 (2.25%) IVR
5 2 (2.25%) Life Science
5 2 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.12%) iSeries
6 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Windows
2 3 (3.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (30.34%) Project Delivery
4 26 (29.21%) PRINCE2
5 25 (28.09%) Change Management
6 22 (24.72%) Agile
7 16 (17.98%) Risk Management
8 13 (14.61%) ITIL
8 13 (14.61%) Migration
9 12 (13.48%) Budget Management
9 12 (13.48%) Data Protection
9 12 (13.48%) ITSM
10 11 (12.36%) Decision-Making
10 11 (12.36%) Service Management
11 10 (11.24%) Dependency Management
12 9 (10.11%) ERP
12 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (8.99%) Programme Management
13 8 (8.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.25%) SQL
2 1 (1.12%) Java
2 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (32.58%) PMP
1 29 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (30.34%) PMI Certification
3 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
4 15 (16.85%) Degree
5 8 (8.99%) MAPM
6 6 (6.74%) APMP
7 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.84%) PMO
2 6 (6.74%) NIST
3 5 (5.62%) GDPR
3 5 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.49%) QA
5 3 (3.37%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.12%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.12%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.11%) Oracle
2 8 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.99%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.74%) SAP
4 5 (5.62%) Cisco
5 2 (2.25%) Concur
5 2 (2.25%) Meraki
5 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.25%) Workday
5 2 (2.25%) Zoho
6 1 (1.12%) Commvault
6 1 (1.12%) EMC
6 1 (1.12%) F5
6 1 (1.12%) Juniper
6 1 (1.12%) NetApp
6 1 (1.12%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.12%) Sage
6 1 (1.12%) Veeam
6 1 (1.12%) Veritas
6 1 (1.12%) VMware