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 7 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 31 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 80 70 136
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.42% 5.95% 7.87%
As % of the General category 8.12% 9.45% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 50 77
10th Percentile £405 £317 £237
25th Percentile - £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £564 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +18.68% +2.70%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £675
90th Percentile £778 - £746
South East median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 23
10th Percentile - £22.64 £53.66
25th Percentile £71.80 £25.95 £60.98
Median hourly rate £73.60 £61.50 £70.39
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.64% +10.15%
75th Percentile £75.40 £68.75 £82.23
90th Percentile £78.19 £76.25 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £21.35 £25.15 £61.06
% change year-on-year -15.11% -58.81% +2.62%

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 985 741 900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 54.48% 63.01% 52.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 466 427
10th Percentile £359 £294 £271
25th Percentile £450 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £602 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 37 63
10th Percentile £17.25 - £22.15
25th Percentile £24.13 £14.75 £47.56
Median hourly rate £80.75 £32.05 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +151.95% -47.97% +9.88%
75th Percentile £88.00 £58.00 £73.60
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.35 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £18.82 £57.35
% change year-on-year +105.74% -67.18% +9.24%

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 7 September 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
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 7 September 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 -35 29 £625 -3.85% 27
Maidenhead - 21 £500 - 7
Wokingham -6 14 £425 +7.59% 1
Windsor +4 4 £415 -12.63% 2
Slough +6 3 - - 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 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.50%) CPLEX
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (26.25%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.75%) NEC Housing
4 2 (2.50%) Primavera
4 2 (2.50%) Workday HCM
5 1 (1.25%) iTrent
5 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.75%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) SaaS
3 8 (10.00%) OCI
4 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.75%) IaaS
6 3 (3.75%) PaaS
7 2 (2.50%) AWS
7 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.25%) GCP
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.25%) Miro
8 1 (1.25%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) Network Security
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) LAN
2 4 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (5.00%) WAN
3 2 (2.50%) DHCP
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) NAS
3 2 (2.50%) SAN
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) BGP
4 1 (1.25%) Internet
4 1 (1.25%) OSPF
4 1 (1.25%) SSL
4 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.50%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Finance
3 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Local Government
5 6 (7.50%) Military
6 4 (5.00%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Billing
8 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (32.50%) Lead
2 10 (12.50%) Architect
3 8 (10.00%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (8.75%) Transformation Manager
5 6 (7.50%) Senior Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Service Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Finance Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Transformation Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Administrator
8 3 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Audit Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Commercial Manager
8 3 (3.75%) DBA
8 3 (3.75%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.75%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.75%) QA Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.50%) .NET
2 2 (2.50%) Django
2 2 (2.50%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.50%) Flask
2 2 (2.50%) Jinja
2 2 (2.50%) NumPy
2 2 (2.50%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.50%) Pandas
2 2 (2.50%) RESTful
2 2 (2.50%) Swagger
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) pytest
3 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.25%) SAML
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.75%) IVR
2 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) CCTV
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.25%) Replication
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.50%) ERP
2 24 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (15.00%) Agile
6 11 (13.75%) Project Management
6 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
7 10 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (12.50%) ITIL
8 9 (11.25%) Change Management
8 9 (11.25%) Decision-Making
8 9 (11.25%) DevOps
8 9 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (10.00%) PRINCE2
10 7 (8.75%) Migration
10 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.75%) RBAC
11 6 (7.50%) AI
11 6 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.00%) Python
1 4 (5.00%) SQL
2 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (66.25%) Security Cleared
2 25 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 20 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) Degree
5 4 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 4 (5.00%) PMP
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) CISA
7 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) GDPR
1 7 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (5.00%) NCSC
4 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.50%) NIST
4 2 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Data Guard
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (36.25%) Oracle
2 10 (12.50%) SAP
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.00%) Workday
6 3 (3.75%) NEC
7 1 (1.25%) Citrix
7 1 (1.25%) Commvault
7 1 (1.25%) EMC
7 1 (1.25%) Google
7 1 (1.25%) NetApp
7 1 (1.25%) Planview
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.25%) Veeam
7 1 (1.25%) Veritas
7 1 (1.25%) VMware
7 1 (1.25%) Zscaler