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 1 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 92 75 149
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.10% 6.57% 7.73%
As % of the General category 10.85% 10.89% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 52 55
10th Percentile £271 £328 £234
25th Percentile £381 £500 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £613 £455
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% +34.62% -9.00%
75th Percentile £495 £700 £580
90th Percentile £598 - £663
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £460
% change year-on-year -4.76% +14.13% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 44
10th Percentile £29.88 - £48.40
25th Percentile £51.21 £60.75 £55.03
Median hourly rate £73.60 £67.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% +9.58% +112.41%
75th Percentile £77.73 £87.50 £73.50
90th Percentile £80.07 £92.30 £87.51
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £37.29 £58.30
% change year-on-year -41.00% -36.05% +49.49%

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 848 689 1,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 47.01% 60.39% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 445 534
10th Percentile £306 £308 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £607
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 22 92
10th Percentile £25.91 £25.22 £19.15
25th Percentile £71.80 £32.12 £42.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 £59.50 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +39.50% +1.72% +58.08%
75th Percentile £88.00 £82.48 £68.05
90th Percentile £104.80 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £48.61 £19.97 £45.00
% change year-on-year +143.42% -55.62% -7.29%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +8 36 £425 +6.25% 1
Reading -34 31 £425 -34.62% 21
Windsor - 9 £463 - 1
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 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.17%) CPLEX
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.09%) iTrent
2 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.91%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.78%) Entra ID
3 9 (9.78%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.52%) AWS
4 6 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (6.52%) Serverless
5 5 (5.43%) Azure Functions
5 5 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.43%) Power Automate
5 5 (5.43%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.17%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.17%) GitHub
8 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.78%) Firewall
2 7 (7.61%) LAN
3 6 (6.52%) DHCP
3 6 (6.52%) DNS
3 6 (6.52%) WAN
4 5 (5.43%) VPN
5 4 (4.35%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.26%) BGP
6 3 (3.26%) Network Security
6 3 (3.26%) OSPF
6 3 (3.26%) SAN
7 2 (2.17%) BIG-IP
7 2 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.17%) Junos
7 2 (2.17%) NAS
7 2 (2.17%) SSL
7 2 (2.17%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.09%) Internet
8 1 (1.09%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Power BI
2 5 (5.43%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.26%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.17%) Metadata
4 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.09%) MS Access
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.09%) Parquet
5 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.61%) JIRA
2 5 (5.43%) Git
3 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (1.09%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.09%) Postman
4 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.39%) Finance
3 14 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Military
5 4 (4.35%) Retail
6 3 (3.26%) Billing
6 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.17%) Marketing
7 2 (2.17%) Publishing
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Humanities
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Legal
8 1 (1.09%) Local Government
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 11 (11.96%) Senior
2 10 (10.87%) Analyst
3 8 (8.70%) Architect
4 7 (7.61%) Lead
5 6 (6.52%) Senior Manager
6 5 (5.43%) Administrator
6 5 (5.43%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) DBA
6 5 (5.43%) Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (5.43%) Transformation Manager
7 4 (4.35%) Consultant
7 4 (4.35%) Finance Manager
7 4 (4.35%) Head of Infrastructure
7 4 (4.35%) Head of IT
7 4 (4.35%) Head of IT Infrastructure
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Transformation Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Audit Manager
8 3 (3.26%) QA Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) ADO
1 3 (3.26%) Pandas
1 3 (3.26%) REST
2 2 (2.17%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.17%) Django
2 2 (2.17%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.17%) Flask
2 2 (2.17%) Jinja
2 2 (2.17%) LDAP
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (2.17%) NumPy
2 2 (2.17%) OAuth
2 2 (2.17%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.17%) pytest
2 2 (2.17%) RESTful
2 2 (2.17%) SOAP
2 2 (2.17%) Swagger
2 2 (2.17%) YAML
3 1 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.26%) CMDB
4 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.17%) Clustering
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) PKI
5 2 (2.17%) Replication
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.09%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Windows
2 9 (9.78%) Linux
3 7 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.26%) Unix
5 2 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.09%) Android
6 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (17.39%) Agile
3 15 (16.30%) DevOps
4 11 (11.96%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (11.96%) Roadmaps
5 10 (10.87%) ITIL
6 9 (9.78%) Analytics
6 9 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (9.78%) CI/CD
6 9 (9.78%) Decision-Making
6 9 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (8.70%) Change Management
7 8 (8.70%) ERP
7 8 (8.70%) High Availability
7 8 (8.70%) Observability
7 8 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (8.70%) Project Delivery
7 8 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (7.61%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.96%) Python
2 10 (10.87%) SQL
3 8 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.35%) Bash
5 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.09%) Korn
7 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.26%) CISSP
4 3 (3.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.26%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.26%) PMP
5 2 (2.17%) GIAC
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) CEH
6 1 (1.09%) CFCE
6 1 (1.09%) CISM
6 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.09%) GCFA
6 1 (1.09%) GCIA
6 1 (1.09%) GCIH
6 1 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) GDPR
2 8 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (8.70%) QA
3 5 (5.43%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.26%) NCSC
4 3 (3.26%) NIST
5 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.09%) GRC
6 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.17%) Docker
3 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (4.35%) Data Guard
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.26%) Terraform
4 2 (2.17%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.09%) Ansible
5 1 (1.09%) Argo
5 1 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Kibana
5 1 (1.09%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.09%) Nessus
5 1 (1.09%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.09%) OpenVAS
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 17 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) Oracle
3 10 (10.87%) SAP
4 8 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.26%) Splunk
6 3 (3.26%) VMware
7 2 (2.17%) Cisco
7 2 (2.17%) Citrix
7 2 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (2.17%) F5
7 2 (2.17%) Juniper
7 2 (2.17%) NetApp
7 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.17%) Veritas
7 2 (2.17%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.09%) Adobe
8 1 (1.09%) Commvault