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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 97 132 163
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 6.54% 8.80% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.42% 9.71% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 75 99
10th Percentile £413 £279 £363
25th Percentile £500 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year - +6.28% +15.00%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £699 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 9
10th Percentile - £41.10 £44.67
25th Percentile £20.79 £41.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £29.04 £42.50 £68.67
Median % change year-on-year -31.68% -38.11% -5.29%
75th Percentile £57.42 £43.75 £72.00
90th Percentile £81.75 £55.03 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £42.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year -41.52% -28.53% +88.03%

All Process and 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 1,308 1,360 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.20% 90.67% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 878 755 960
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -0.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 39 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.68 £24.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%
75th Percentile £80.50 £64.08 £67.75
90th Percentile £96.00 £68.57 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £47.51 £54.39
% change year-on-year -53.14% -12.64% +45.03%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 +2 53 £575 +4.55% 10
Bracknell -2 17 £650 +13.04%
Wokingham -21 11 £447 -25.50%
Slough -1 10 £500 -21.57% 5
Thatcham - 3 £535 - 1
Windsor -4 2 £488 - 1
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 20 (20.62%) Confluence
2 14 (14.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (8.25%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (8.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (4.12%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.03%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.34%) Azure
2 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.06%) AWS
3 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.03%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.03%) GitHub
4 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.03%) Rubrik
4 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Broadband
1 3 (3.09%) Network Security
1 3 (3.09%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.06%) 5G
2 2 (2.06%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.06%) Wireless
3 1 (1.03%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Power BI
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (19.59%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.03%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) Gradle
2 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.03%) Maven
General
1 43 (44.33%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.90%) Finance
3 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.22%) Retail
6 6 (6.19%) Automotive
6 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.12%) Legal
8 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.06%) Marketing
10 1 (1.03%) Billing
10 1 (1.03%) Electronics
10 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Military
10 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (54.64%) Project Manager
2 11 (11.34%) Analyst
2 11 (11.34%) Lead
3 10 (10.31%) Support Analyst
4 7 (7.22%) Oracle Project Manager
5 5 (5.15%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 5 (5.15%) IT Analyst
5 5 (5.15%) IT Support
5 5 (5.15%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (5.15%) Junior
5 5 (5.15%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (5.15%) Junior Support Analyst
5 5 (5.15%) Portfolio Analyst
5 5 (5.15%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 5 (5.15%) Security Manager
5 5 (5.15%) Security Project Manager
6 4 (4.12%) IT Manager
6 4 (4.12%) Programme Manager
6 4 (4.12%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.09%) ADO
3 1 (1.03%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) Ajax
3 1 (1.03%) ATL
3 1 (1.03%) CSS
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) React
3 1 (1.03%) REST
3 1 (1.03%) Spring
3 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Mobile App
2 8 (8.25%) Virtual Team
3 7 (7.22%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.22%) PMI
4 6 (6.19%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.06%) Handset
6 2 (2.06%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.03%) CMDB
7 1 (1.03%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (46.39%) Agile
2 30 (30.93%) Project Delivery
2 30 (30.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (27.84%) PRINCE2
5 25 (25.77%) Change Management
6 17 (17.53%) Waterfall
7 15 (15.46%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (13.40%) CRM
8 13 (13.40%) Data Protection
8 13 (13.40%) ITSM
9 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.37%) ITIL
9 12 (12.37%) Service Management
10 11 (11.34%) Portfolio Management
10 11 (11.34%) Project Governance
11 10 (10.31%) Decision-Making
11 10 (10.31%) PRINCE
12 9 (9.28%) Budget Management
13 8 (8.25%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.06%) SQL
2 1 (1.03%) Java
2 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.03%) Perl
2 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.03%) X++
Qualifications
1 27 (27.84%) PMP
2 26 (26.80%) PMI Certification
3 21 (21.65%) Degree
4 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
5 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.19%) MAPM
7 5 (5.15%) A+ Certification
7 5 (5.15%) APMP
8 4 (4.12%) CISM
8 4 (4.12%) CISSP
9 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.56%) PMO
2 11 (11.34%) QA
3 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.19%) NIST
4 2 (2.06%) GRC
5 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.49%) Oracle
3 6 (6.19%) Remedy
4 5 (5.15%) IFS
4 5 (5.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.06%) Progress
5 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco
6 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.03%) Juniper
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) Workday