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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 28 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 107 81 132
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.54% 6.69% 7.29%
As % of the General category 10.55% 10.96% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 55 66
10th Percentile £358 £325 £248
25th Percentile £413 £500 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +21.15% +1.59%
75th Percentile - £700 £675
90th Percentile £690 - £746
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 30
10th Percentile £29.69 £23.60 £48.94
25th Percentile £40.92 £43.75 £56.31
Median hourly rate £73.60 £61.50 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -1.05% -0.66%
75th Percentile £75.40 £68.75 £84.84
90th Percentile £77.73 £76.25 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £21.35 £25.29 £61.33
% change year-on-year -15.56% -58.77% +2.22%

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 1,014 739 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.48% 61.02% 53.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 455 474
10th Percentile £349 £320 £243
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -4.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £624
90th Percentile £736 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 41 69
10th Percentile £23.01 £14.75 £17.58
25th Percentile £71.80 £17.30 £41.50
Median hourly rate £84.00 £32.31 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +159.98% -47.55% +18.23%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £70.39
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.50 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £48.50 £18.85 £50.00
% change year-on-year +157.36% -62.31% -

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -41 34 £535 -17.77% 12
Wokingham -2 30 £425 +7.59% 1
Maidenhead - 21 £500 - 1
Windsor +9 8 £450 -5.26%
Slough +7 1 - - 1
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 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.87%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (19.63%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.87%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.93%) iTrent
4 1 (0.93%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.93%) Primavera
4 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) Azure
2 9 (8.41%) OCI
3 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.48%) SaaS
4 7 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.74%) AWS
6 4 (3.74%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.80%) IaaS
7 3 (2.80%) PaaS
7 3 (2.80%) Serverless
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.87%) GCP
8 2 (1.87%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.87%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.93%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.93%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) Firewall
2 7 (6.54%) LAN
3 6 (5.61%) Network Security
3 6 (5.61%) WAN
4 5 (4.67%) DHCP
4 5 (4.67%) DNS
4 5 (4.67%) VPN
5 4 (3.74%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.80%) BGP
6 3 (2.80%) OSPF
7 2 (1.87%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.87%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.87%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.87%) Junos
7 2 (1.87%) NAS
7 2 (1.87%) SAN
7 2 (1.87%) SSL
7 2 (1.87%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.93%) FTP
8 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.80%) Power BI
3 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) MS Access
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.93%) Parquet
4 1 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.61%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.54%) Military
5 4 (3.74%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.74%) Billing
5 4 (3.74%) Local Government
5 4 (3.74%) Retail
6 2 (1.87%) Law
6 2 (1.87%) Legal
6 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Humanities
7 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Publishing
7 1 (0.93%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Lead
2 12 (11.21%) Senior
3 11 (10.28%) Analyst
3 11 (10.28%) Architect
4 7 (6.54%) Developer
4 7 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.61%) Business Analyst
5 6 (5.61%) Senior Manager
6 5 (4.67%) DBA
6 5 (4.67%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (4.67%) Service Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Administrator
7 4 (3.74%) Consultant
7 4 (3.74%) Finance Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Head of Infrastructure
7 4 (3.74%) Head of IT
7 4 (3.74%) Head of IT Infrastructure
7 4 (3.74%) Senior Transformation Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Transformation Manager
8 3 (2.80%) Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.80%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (2.80%) Pandas
2 2 (1.87%) .NET
2 2 (1.87%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.87%) Django
2 2 (1.87%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.87%) Flask
2 2 (1.87%) Jinja
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.87%) NumPy
2 2 (1.87%) OAuth
2 2 (1.87%) OpenAPI
2 2 (1.87%) pytest
2 2 (1.87%) RESTful
2 2 (1.87%) Swagger
3 1 (0.93%) ADO
3 1 (0.93%) JWT
3 1 (0.93%) Loki
3 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (3.74%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.80%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.80%) IVR
3 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.87%) Clustering
4 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.87%) PKI
4 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.93%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.28%) Windows
2 7 (6.54%) Linux
3 6 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.80%) Unix
5 2 (1.87%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Android
6 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.23%) ERP
2 23 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (15.89%) Agile
3 17 (15.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (14.02%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (13.08%) DevOps
5 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (10.28%) Roadmaps
8 10 (9.35%) Decision-Making
8 10 (9.35%) ITIL
8 10 (9.35%) RBAC
9 9 (8.41%) Change Management
9 9 (8.41%) Migration
9 9 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (7.48%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.48%) High Availability
10 8 (7.48%) Project Delivery
10 8 (7.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.35%) SQL
2 9 (8.41%) Python
3 3 (2.80%) Bash
3 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.93%) Korn
5 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (71.96%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.10%) SC Cleared
3 23 (21.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Degree
5 5 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.74%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.74%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) CISA
7 1 (0.93%) CISM
7 1 (0.93%) CISSP
7 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) RHCE
7 1 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.08%) GDPR
2 11 (10.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.61%) NCSC
3 6 (5.61%) QA
4 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (10.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.74%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.87%) Docker
3 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (3.74%) Data Guard
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.87%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.93%) Ansible
5 1 (0.93%) Argo
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (28.97%) Oracle
2 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.28%) SAP
4 6 (5.61%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.74%) Workday
6 3 (2.80%) VMware
7 2 (1.87%) Cisco
7 2 (1.87%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (1.87%) F5
7 2 (1.87%) Juniper
7 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.87%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.87%) Splunk
8 1 (0.93%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.93%) Braze
8 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.93%) NEC
8 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.93%) Zscaler