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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 17 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 96 129 167
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 6.44% 9.62% 9.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 10.49% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 75 108
10th Percentile £413 £279 £363
25th Percentile £500 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% +15.56%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £683 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile - - £55.94
25th Percentile - £41.25 £60.66
Median hourly rate £20.79 £42.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.08% -31.45% -27.06%
75th Percentile £67.81 £43.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £85.25 - £72.33
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -41.18% -29.17% +89.93%

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 1,286 1,230 1,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.25% 91.72% 92.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 672 950
10th Percentile £300 £283 £212
25th Percentile £406 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £513
% change year-on-year -0.99% -1.46% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 37 77
10th Percentile £16.39 £27.15 £24.74
25th Percentile £20.57 £42.88 £45.21
Median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +2.25% +0.23%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.62 £65.86
90th Percentile £99.25 £76.18 £75.84
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £46.12 £53.00
% change year-on-year -48.89% -12.98% +17.78%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +3 55 £575 +8.49% 15
Bracknell -3 14 £638 +6.25%
Wokingham -25 11 £447 -25.50%
Slough -3 10 £500 -21.57% 35
Thatcham - 3 £535 - 1
Hungerford - 2 - - 6
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 18 (18.75%) Confluence
2 10 (10.42%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.25%) CMS
Applications
1 21 (21.88%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (3.13%) Primavera
4 1 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.38%) Azure
2 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.08%) AWS
4 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.04%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.04%) GitHub
5 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.04%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.04%) SaaS
5 1 (1.04%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Broadband
1 3 (3.13%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.08%) LAN
2 2 (2.08%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.04%) BGP
3 1 (1.04%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.04%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.04%) Network Security
3 1 (1.04%) OSPF
3 1 (1.04%) WAN
3 1 (1.04%) Wireless
3 1 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (5.21%) Power BI
2 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.04%) Git
2 1 (1.04%) Gradle
2 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.04%) Maven
General
1 43 (44.79%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.08%) Finance
3 18 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.42%) Telecoms
5 9 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.17%) Legal
7 4 (4.17%) Retail
8 3 (3.13%) Automotive
9 2 (2.08%) Billing
9 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.04%) Electronics
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Marketing
10 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 9 (9.38%) Lead
2 9 (9.38%) Project Planner
3 7 (7.29%) Oracle Project Manager
4 6 (6.25%) Analyst
4 6 (6.25%) Support Analyst
5 5 (5.21%) IT Analyst
5 5 (5.21%) IT Support
5 5 (5.21%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Data Centre Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Data Centre Project Manager
6 4 (4.17%) PMO Lead
6 4 (4.17%) Programme Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Test Leader
7 3 (3.13%) IT Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Security Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) Ajax
3 1 (1.04%) ATL
3 1 (1.04%) CSS
3 1 (1.04%) HTML
3 1 (1.04%) React
3 1 (1.04%) REST
3 1 (1.04%) Spring
3 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) PMI
2 8 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 7 (7.29%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.29%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.08%) Handset
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) CMDB
6 1 (1.04%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.04%) iSeries
6 1 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.63%) Agile
2 32 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (32.29%) PRINCE2
4 29 (30.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (28.13%) Project Delivery
6 22 (22.92%) Change Management
7 16 (16.67%) Waterfall
8 13 (13.54%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (13.54%) Data Protection
8 13 (13.54%) ITSM
9 12 (12.50%) Service Management
10 11 (11.46%) Risk Management
11 10 (10.42%) CRM
11 10 (10.42%) Dependency Management
11 10 (10.42%) PRINCE
11 10 (10.42%) Project Governance
12 9 (9.38%) Change Control
12 9 (9.38%) Decision-Making
12 9 (9.38%) ERP
12 9 (9.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.08%) SQL
2 1 (1.04%) Java
2 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.04%) Perl
2 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.04%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) PMI Certification
2 23 (23.96%) Degree
3 22 (22.92%) PMP
4 15 (15.63%) Security Cleared
5 11 (11.46%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.25%) MAPM
7 5 (5.21%) A+ Certification
7 5 (5.21%) APMP
8 4 (4.17%) CISM
8 4 (4.17%) CISSP
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.13%) PMO
2 7 (7.29%) QA
3 6 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) Oracle
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.17%) Remedy
4 3 (3.13%) Cisco
4 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) SAP
5 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) F5
6 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.04%) IFS
6 1 (1.04%) Juniper
6 1 (1.04%) Meraki
6 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.04%) Workday