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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -26 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 77 110 156
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.27% 9.64% 8.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 10.37% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 63 78
10th Percentile £323 £350 £313
25th Percentile £375 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £608
90th Percentile £638 £650 £641
South East median daily rate £512 £483 £475
% change year-on-year +6.21% +1.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £42.13 £37.02 £41.25
25th Percentile £51.59 £44.08 £41.50
Median hourly rate £81.25 £52.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -4.09% -19.77%
75th Percentile £84.88 £65.83 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.63 £78.56 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £75.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -43.67% +150.00% -34.85%

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 1,499 1,061 1,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.09% 92.99% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 660 856
10th Percentile £306 £325 £235
25th Percentile £400 £418 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -2.05% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 25 104
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £75.50 £32.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.80
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +1.14% -3.49%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £71.89
90th Percentile £107.00 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £26.53 £47.50
% change year-on-year +97.89% -44.15% -9.52%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -21 37 £523 +7.07% 22
Bracknell -5 12 £645 +17.27%
Wokingham -17 10 £400 +14.29% 1
Windsor +5 6 £450 -25.00%
Slough -3 6 £600 +33.33% 5
Hungerford - 3 - -
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 5 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.60%) Chatbot
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.90%) Primavera
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.60%) SAP QM
4 1 (1.30%) Sage X3
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.90%) Azure
1 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
1 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (2.60%) Smartsheet
3 1 (1.30%) AWS
3 1 (1.30%) Miro
3 1 (1.30%) SaaS
3 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.30%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) WAN
2 9 (11.69%) MPLS
2 9 (11.69%) SD-WAN
3 6 (7.79%) Firewall
3 6 (7.79%) LAN
4 5 (6.49%) BGP
4 5 (6.49%) OSPF
5 4 (5.19%) Internet
5 4 (5.19%) NAS
5 4 (5.19%) SAN
5 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.19%) VPN
6 3 (3.90%) Network Security
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.30%) DHCP
7 1 (1.30%) DNS
7 1 (1.30%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.30%) SMS
7 1 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (3.90%) Power BI
1 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) Metadata
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) Gradle
2 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.47%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Finance
4 7 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.90%) Billing
9 2 (2.60%) Legal
9 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.60%) Retail
10 1 (1.30%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.30%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 33 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 9 (11.69%) Project Planner
2 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 7 (9.09%) Lead
4 6 (7.79%) Change Manager
5 5 (6.49%) Network Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Network Project Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Coordinator
7 3 (3.90%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (3.90%) SAP Manager
7 3 (3.90%) SAP Project Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Senior
7 3 (3.90%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Technical Project Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Data Centre Project Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Project Quality Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Test Leader
8 2 (2.60%) Workstream Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Workstream Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (1.30%) CSS
1 1 (1.30%) HTML
1 1 (1.30%) React
1 1 (1.30%) REST
1 1 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Data Centre
1 10 (12.99%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 7 (9.09%) PMI
3 4 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.90%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.90%) FMCG
4 3 (3.90%) Life Science
4 3 (3.90%) Replication
5 2 (2.60%) IVR
5 2 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.30%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.30%) iSeries
6 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Windows
2 3 (3.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (27.27%) Change Management
3 21 (27.27%) PRINCE2
4 20 (25.97%) Project Delivery
5 19 (24.68%) Agile
6 15 (19.48%) Migration
7 14 (18.18%) Risk Management
8 13 (16.88%) ITIL
9 11 (14.29%) Data Protection
9 11 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (11.69%) Budget Management
11 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.39%) ERP
11 8 (10.39%) Impact Assessments
11 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
12 7 (9.09%) AI
12 7 (9.09%) ITSM
12 7 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.60%) SQL
2 1 (1.30%) Java
2 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.68%) PMP
3 17 (22.08%) PMI Certification
4 16 (20.78%) SC Cleared
5 13 (16.88%) Degree
6 4 (5.19%) MAPM
7 3 (3.90%) APMP
8 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) PMO
2 5 (6.49%) GDPR
2 5 (6.49%) NIST
3 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.60%) QA
6 1 (1.30%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) ServiceNow
2 7 (9.09%) SAP
3 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.79%) Oracle
4 4 (5.19%) Cisco
5 2 (2.60%) Concur
5 2 (2.60%) Meraki
5 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.60%) Workday
5 2 (2.60%) Zoho
6 1 (1.30%) Commvault
6 1 (1.30%) EMC
6 1 (1.30%) F5
6 1 (1.30%) NetApp
6 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.30%) Sage
6 1 (1.30%) Veeam
6 1 (1.30%) Veritas
6 1 (1.30%) VMware