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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 60 137 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.18% 8.11% 6.98%
As % of the General category 8.25% 15.27% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 73 64
10th Percentile £259 £244 £273
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £443
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +7.34% -8.76%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £550
90th Percentile £700 £746 £620
South East median daily rate £525 £534 £500
% change year-on-year -1.63% +6.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 7
10th Percentile £22.01 £53.66 £55.38
25th Percentile £25.55 £60.98 £58.13
Median hourly rate £48.00 £70.39 £63.91
Median % change year-on-year -31.81% +10.15% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £82.23 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.13 £87.46 £73.50
South East median hourly rate £25.11 £61.06 £59.50
% change year-on-year -58.87% +2.62% +197.50%

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 727 897 1,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.73% 53.11% 60.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 414 629
10th Percentile £292 £264 £236
25th Percentile £400 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 61 40
10th Percentile - £20.75 £16.78
25th Percentile £14.75 £49.00 £23.57
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £55.19
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +11.61% +145.30%
75th Percentile £58.00 £72.33 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.35 £87.46 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -67.18% +9.24% +133.33%

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
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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -12 30 £569 -9.07% 13
Bracknell -3 9 £575 +35.29%
Wokingham - 8 £395 -
Slough - 2 £550 - 44
Windsor - 1 £475 -
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 (1.67%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.67%) Mule
1 1 (1.67%) nginx
1 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) Primavera
1 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) AWS
2 8 (13.33%) Azure
3 4 (6.67%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.00%) Serverless
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) Boomi
6 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.67%) Route 53
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) Internet
2 2 (3.33%) SAN
2 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.67%) DHCP
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) VLAN
3 1 (1.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) GIS
3 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
4 1 (1.67%) QGIS
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.00%) JUnit
1 3 (5.00%) Mockito
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) JMeter
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.67%) DbUnit
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) jMock
3 1 (1.67%) Maven
3 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Marketing
4 5 (8.33%) Electronics
4 5 (8.33%) Local Government
4 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.67%) Legal
6 2 (3.33%) Law
6 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Billing
7 1 (1.67%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (11.67%) Analyst
3 6 (10.00%) Senior
4 5 (8.33%) Administrator
4 5 (8.33%) Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Active Directory Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Lead
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.00%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.33%) Consultant
7 2 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Programme Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 2 (3.33%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) REST
1 4 (6.67%) Web Services
2 3 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (5.00%) HTML
2 3 (5.00%) jQuery
2 3 (5.00%) JSON
2 3 (5.00%) SOAP
2 3 (5.00%) Spring
2 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.00%) XML
3 2 (3.33%) ADO
3 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Camel
3 2 (3.33%) RESTful
3 2 (3.33%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.33%) WireMock
4 1 (1.67%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Replication
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) HP Storage
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) SCADA
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.67%) Agile
2 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (11.67%) Risk Management
5 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (8.33%) DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (8.33%) ITIL
6 5 (8.33%) Programme Management
7 4 (6.67%) Data Privacy
7 4 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (6.67%) Microservices
7 4 (6.67%) Migration
7 4 (6.67%) SDLC
7 4 (6.67%) SIEM
7 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) Python
2 8 (13.33%) Java
2 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.33%) SQL
4 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.33%) Go
6 2 (3.33%) R
7 1 (1.67%) C
7 1 (1.67%) C++
7 1 (1.67%) Perl
7 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (76.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) CISSP
5 3 (5.00%) CFCE
5 3 (5.00%) GCFA
5 3 (5.00%) GCIA
5 3 (5.00%) GCIH
5 3 (5.00%) GIAC
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.33%) Degree
6 2 (3.33%) JNCIA
6 2 (3.33%) VCAP
7 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) GDPR
1 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.33%) NIST
3 3 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.33%) SLA
5 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.67%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.67%) NCSC
5 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
1 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.67%) vSphere
3 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.67%) NFS
5 1 (1.67%) Postfix
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (3.33%) Kibana
3 2 (3.33%) vRealize
4 1 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.67%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) SCCM
4 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) Cisco
2 7 (11.67%) SAP
3 6 (10.00%) Splunk
4 5 (8.33%) Juniper
4 5 (8.33%) VMware
5 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.00%) ArcSight
6 3 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (5.00%) LogRhythm
6 3 (5.00%) NetApp
7 2 (3.33%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.33%) Dell
7 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.33%) HP
7 2 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.33%) Veeam
7 2 (3.33%) Veritas
8 1 (1.67%) ESRI