Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Public Sector
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 21 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 104 88 151
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.69% 7.57% 7.75%
As % of the General category 11.53% 12.02% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 56 50
10th Percentile £286 £341 £229
25th Percentile £381 £504 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £464
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +34.77% -15.68%
75th Percentile £498 £700 £600
90th Percentile £600 - £700
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £450
% change year-on-year -7.32% +19.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 46
10th Percentile £29.88 - £45.20
25th Percentile £51.21 £60.75 £55.01
Median hourly rate £73.60 £61.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -0.17% +31.06%
75th Percentile £77.73 £87.50 £72.33
90th Percentile £80.07 £92.30 £87.50
South East median hourly rate £27.16 £25.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +8.64% -57.12% +137.96%

All General Skills
Berkshire

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 902 732 1,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 49.34% 62.94% 56.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 437 553
10th Percentile £306 £300 £205
25th Percentile £400 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +0.10% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £670 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 21 86
10th Percentile £24.96 £19.91 £20.50
25th Percentile £80.00 £30.25 £42.13
Median hourly rate £83.25 £57.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +44.78% -1.37% +16.60%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £68.52
90th Percentile £97.50 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year +106.78% -46.27% -2.70%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Wokingham +7 43 £425 +6.25% 2
Reading -44 33 £425 -34.62% 12
Windsor - 9 £475 - 2
Ascot - 1 £317 -
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
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 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.92%) CPLEX
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.96%) iTrent
2 1 (0.96%) Primavera
2 1 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.92%) Azure
2 13 (12.50%) AWS
3 12 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.65%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.73%) Serverless
6 6 (5.77%) Azure Functions
6 6 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.81%) GCP
7 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.81%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.81%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (3.85%) AWS KMS
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.62%) Firewall
2 7 (6.73%) LAN
3 6 (5.77%) DHCP
3 6 (5.77%) DNS
3 6 (5.77%) WAN
4 5 (4.81%) VPN
5 4 (3.85%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.88%) BGP
6 3 (2.88%) Network Security
6 3 (2.88%) OSPF
6 3 (2.88%) SAN
7 2 (1.92%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.92%) Junos
7 2 (1.92%) NAS
7 2 (1.92%) SSL
7 2 (1.92%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.96%) Internet
8 1 (0.96%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Power BI
2 4 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.92%) Metadata
4 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.96%) MS Access
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.96%) Parquet
5 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.96%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.96%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Git
1 7 (6.73%) JIRA
2 5 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.96%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.96%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.96%) GitLab
3 1 (0.96%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.96%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.96%) Postman
3 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.27%) Finance
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.69%) Military
5 4 (3.85%) Retail
6 3 (2.88%) Billing
6 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Marketing
7 2 (1.92%) Publishing
8 1 (0.96%) Humanities
8 1 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.96%) Local Government
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 14 (13.46%) Architect
2 12 (11.54%) Lead
2 12 (11.54%) Senior
3 11 (10.58%) Analyst
4 6 (5.77%) Developer
4 6 (5.77%) Senior Manager
5 5 (4.81%) Business Analyst
5 5 (4.81%) Transformation Manager
6 4 (3.85%) Administrator
6 4 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (3.85%) Consultant
6 4 (3.85%) Data Analyst
6 4 (3.85%) DBA
6 4 (3.85%) Finance Manager
6 4 (3.85%) Head of Infrastructure
6 4 (3.85%) Head of IT
6 4 (3.85%) Head of IT Infrastructure
6 4 (3.85%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (3.85%) Platform Architect
6 4 (3.85%) Senior Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.85%) REST
2 3 (2.88%) ADO
2 3 (2.88%) LDAP
2 3 (2.88%) OpenAPI
2 3 (2.88%) Pandas
2 3 (2.88%) RESTful
2 3 (2.88%) Swagger
3 2 (1.92%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.92%) Django
3 2 (1.92%) FastAPI
3 2 (1.92%) Flask
3 2 (1.92%) Jinja
3 2 (1.92%) JSON
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.92%) NumPy
3 2 (1.92%) OAuth
3 2 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (1.92%) pytest
3 2 (1.92%) SOAP
3 2 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.88%) CMDB
6 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.92%) Clustering
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.92%) PKI
7 2 (1.92%) Replication
8 1 (0.96%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.96%) State Machine
8 1 (0.96%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.42%) Windows
2 9 (8.65%) Linux
3 7 (6.73%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.88%) Unix
5 2 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.96%) Android
6 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (17.31%) Agile
2 18 (17.31%) DevOps
3 15 (14.42%) ITIL
4 14 (13.46%) Roadmaps
5 12 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (10.58%) CI/CD
6 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (9.62%) Decision-Making
7 10 (9.62%) Migration
7 10 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (8.65%) Change Management
8 9 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (8.65%) RBAC
8 9 (8.65%) Runbook
8 9 (8.65%) Workshop Facilitation
9 8 (7.69%) Analytics
9 8 (7.69%) ERP
9 8 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.50%) Python
2 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.65%) SQL
4 5 (4.81%) Bash
5 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.96%) ABAP
6 1 (0.96%) C#
6 1 (0.96%) Korn
6 1 (0.96%) PHP
6 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (75.96%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.65%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.85%) CISSP
4 4 (3.85%) Degree
5 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.88%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.88%) PMP
6 2 (1.92%) CISM
6 2 (1.92%) GIAC
6 2 (1.92%) RHCE
7 1 (0.96%) CEH
7 1 (0.96%) CFCE
7 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.96%) GCFA
7 1 (0.96%) GCIA
7 1 (0.96%) GCIH
7 1 (0.96%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) GDPR
2 10 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.69%) QA
4 6 (5.77%) NCSC
5 5 (4.81%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (3.85%) NIST
7 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.96%) GRC
8 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (14.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (3.85%) Docker
4 3 (2.88%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (6.73%) Kubernetes
1 7 (6.73%) Terraform
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (2.88%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.92%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.96%) Argo
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) Kibana
5 1 (0.96%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.96%) Nessus
5 1 (0.96%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.96%) Nmap
5 1 (0.96%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 17 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.54%) SAP
3 10 (9.62%) Oracle
4 9 (8.65%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.81%) Citrix
5 5 (4.81%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.81%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.85%) CloudEndure
6 4 (3.85%) Virgin Media
7 3 (2.88%) Splunk
7 3 (2.88%) VMware
8 2 (1.92%) Cisco
8 2 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.92%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.92%) F5
8 2 (1.92%) Google
8 2 (1.92%) Juniper
8 2 (1.92%) NetApp
8 2 (1.92%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.92%) Veritas