Public Sector Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 20 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +19
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 81 156 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.77% 7.92% 6.13%
As % of the General category 11.04% 14.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 61 72
10th Percentile £312 £234 £339
25th Percentile £501 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -5.64% -2.50%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £628
90th Percentile - £738 £721
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.66% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 44 1
10th Percentile £24.39 £43.92 -
25th Percentile £52.25 £55.95 £57.50
Median hourly rate £64.50 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.70% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £73.44 £79.61 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.90 £87.52 -
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £58.40 £49.00
% change year-on-year -51.19% +19.17% +145.00%

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 common skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 734 1,058 1,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 61.32% 53.71% 60.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 500 639
10th Percentile £305 £213 £325
25th Percentile £406 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -2.77% +5.64%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 91 31
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.00 £16.84
25th Percentile £21.45 £42.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £41.14 £58.49 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.66% +133.96% +13.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.29 £66.21
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £74.00
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.07% -10.00% +150.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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 +6 50 £650 +4.00% 76
Wokingham -3 8 £395 -19.88% 6
Bracknell -5 5 £575 +15.00% 5
Slough -3 2 £550 +105.61% 64
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.23%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.23%) ArcGIS
1 1 (1.23%) CMS
1 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.23%) Mule
1 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.23%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.23%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.41%) Azure
2 4 (4.94%) AWS
3 3 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.47%) Serverless
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.23%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.23%) Boomi
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.23%) Route 53
5 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Firewall
1 2 (2.47%) SAN
2 1 (1.23%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.23%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.23%) Internet
2 1 (1.23%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.23%) Junos
2 1 (1.23%) LAN
2 1 (1.23%) VSAN
2 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) GIS
1 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.47%) Power BI
2 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.23%) Data Hub
3 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.23%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) Selenium
3 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) JUnit
3 3 (3.70%) Mockito
4 2 (2.47%) JMeter
5 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.23%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.23%) jMock
5 1 (1.23%) Maven
5 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (39.51%) Telecoms
2 30 (37.04%) Finance
3 28 (34.57%) Manufacturing
3 28 (34.57%) Marketing
4 27 (33.33%) Electronics
5 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
6 7 (8.64%) Local Government
7 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.70%) Military
9 2 (2.47%) Law
9 2 (2.47%) Legal
9 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Billing
10 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (37.04%) Architect
2 21 (25.93%) Active Directory Architect
3 12 (14.81%) Senior
4 5 (6.17%) Analyst
4 5 (6.17%) Information Security Specialist
4 5 (6.17%) Information Specialist
4 5 (6.17%) Security Specialist
4 5 (6.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 5 (6.17%) Senior Information Security Specialist
4 5 (6.17%) Senior Security Specialist
5 4 (4.94%) Administrator
5 4 (4.94%) Developer
6 3 (3.70%) Java Developer
6 3 (3.70%) Programme Manager
6 3 (3.70%) Security Architect
7 2 (2.47%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (2.47%) Network Architect
7 2 (2.47%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (2.47%) Storage Administrator
7 2 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) REST
2 3 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (3.70%) Hibernate
2 3 (3.70%) HTML
2 3 (3.70%) JSON
2 3 (3.70%) Spring
2 3 (3.70%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.70%) Web Services
3 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Camel
3 2 (2.47%) jQuery
3 2 (2.47%) RESTful
3 2 (2.47%) SOAP
3 2 (2.47%) WireMock
3 2 (2.47%) XML
4 1 (1.23%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.23%) React
4 1 (1.23%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.23%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.23%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.47%) Replication
4 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.23%) CMDB
4 1 (1.23%) CSOC
4 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.23%) HP Storage
4 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.23%) SCADA
4 1 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (38.27%) Windows
2 5 (6.17%) Linux
3 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.04%) Agile
1 30 (37.04%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 27 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 23 (28.40%) Test Automation
4 21 (25.93%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 8 (9.88%) Risk Management
8 7 (8.64%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.64%) DevOps
8 7 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (6.17%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (6.17%) Security Architecture
9 5 (6.17%) Workflow
10 4 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (4.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.94%) ITIL
10 4 (4.94%) Risk Assessment
10 4 (4.94%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 27 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.58%) Python
3 5 (6.17%) Java
4 4 (4.94%) Bash
4 4 (4.94%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.94%) SQL
5 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.47%) R
7 1 (1.23%) C
7 1 (1.23%) C#
7 1 (1.23%) C++
7 1 (1.23%) Perl
7 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (79.01%) Security Cleared
2 34 (41.98%) DV Cleared
3 19 (23.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) CISM
5 3 (3.70%) CISSP
6 2 (2.47%) GIAC
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.23%) CCDA
7 1 (1.23%) CCDP
7 1 (1.23%) CCNA
7 1 (1.23%) CCNP
7 1 (1.23%) CFCE
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.23%) GCFA
7 1 (1.23%) GCIA
7 1 (1.23%) GCIH
7 1 (1.23%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.23%) MCSE
7 1 (1.23%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.94%) NCSC
3 3 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.47%) SLA
5 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.23%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 21 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.70%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.70%) vSphere
3 2 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.23%) NFS
4 1 (1.23%) Postfix
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Kibana
3 1 (1.23%) Ansible
3 1 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.23%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.23%) Grafana
3 1 (1.23%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.23%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.23%) SCCM
3 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (37.04%) SAP
2 6 (7.41%) Cisco
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 3 (3.70%) Juniper
4 3 (3.70%) NetApp
4 3 (3.70%) VMware
5 2 (2.47%) 3PAR
5 2 (2.47%) Dell
5 2 (2.47%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.47%) HP
5 2 (2.47%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.47%) Veeam
5 2 (2.47%) Veritas
6 1 (1.23%) BMC
6 1 (1.23%) Concur
6 1 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.23%) F5