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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 92 123 124
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 7.40% 7.57% 6.97%
As % of the General category 11.98% 13.84% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 76 56
10th Percentile £321 £264 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £474
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +10.61% -3.37%
75th Percentile £588 £691 £600
90th Percentile £641 £742 £648
South East median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 12
10th Percentile £23.89 £41.25 £57.63
25th Percentile £26.75 £48.97 £61.15
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.06 £65.81
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -7.22% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.80 £72.33
90th Percentile £75.10 £75.40 £74.96
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -51.27% -29.17% +200.00%

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 768 889 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 61.74% 54.71% 60.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 427 605
10th Percentile £275 £279 £210
25th Percentile £406 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.58% +0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £620
90th Percentile £650 £698 £700
South East median daily rate £484 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -3.30% -0.10% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 48 52
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.06 £17.38
25th Percentile £17.69 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £30.41 £58.49 £58.03
Median % change year-on-year -48.02% +0.79% +40.87%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.87 £68.44
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.60 £75.13
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £55.87 £52.10
% change year-on-year -64.20% +7.24% +100.38%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +4 42 £500 -23.08% 29
Wokingham - 26 £445 -
Bracknell -7 9 £575 +35.29% 2
Slough - 3 £550 - 59
Windsor - 1 £475 - 2
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 2 (2.17%) GeoServer
1 2 (2.17%) Smallworld
2 1 (1.09%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.09%) Mule
2 1 (1.09%) nginx
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.09%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.09%) Primavera
1 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.48%) Azure
2 14 (15.22%) AWS
3 8 (8.70%) GCP
4 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.26%) OpenShift
4 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.26%) Serverless
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.09%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub
6 1 (1.09%) IaaS
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.09%) Route 53
6 1 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) Firewall
2 2 (2.17%) DWDM
2 2 (2.17%) Internet
2 2 (2.17%) SAN
2 2 (2.17%) SDH
2 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.09%) DHCP
3 1 (1.09%) DNS
3 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.09%) HTTP
3 1 (1.09%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.09%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.09%) SSL
3 1 (1.09%) VLAN
3 1 (1.09%) VSAN
3 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) GIS
1 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.26%) QGIS
3 2 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.17%) Power BI
3 2 (2.17%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.09%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.09%) Metadata
4 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.26%) JUnit
1 3 (3.26%) Mockito
2 2 (2.17%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) JMeter
2 2 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.09%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.09%) DbUnit
3 1 (1.09%) jMock
3 1 (1.09%) Maven
3 1 (1.09%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.09%) NeoLoad
3 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Finance
4 5 (5.43%) Local Government
5 4 (4.35%) Legal
5 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.17%) Electronics
6 2 (2.17%) Law
6 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.17%) Marketing
7 1 (1.09%) Billing
7 1 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.39%) Architect
2 13 (14.13%) Consultant
3 10 (10.87%) Network Consultant
3 10 (10.87%) Senior
4 9 (9.78%) Analyst
5 7 (7.61%) Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Lead
7 5 (5.43%) Site Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Administrator
8 4 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.35%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Cisco Consultant
9 3 (3.26%) Cisco Network Consultant
9 3 (3.26%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Migration Consultant
9 3 (3.26%) Network Architect
9 3 (3.26%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) Web Services
2 4 (4.35%) jQuery
2 4 (4.35%) REST
3 3 (3.26%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.26%) Hibernate
3 3 (3.26%) HTML
3 3 (3.26%) JSON
3 3 (3.26%) Loki
3 3 (3.26%) SOAP
3 3 (3.26%) Spring
3 3 (3.26%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.26%) XML
4 2 (2.17%) ADO
4 2 (2.17%) Apache Camel
4 2 (2.17%) Node.js
4 2 (2.17%) React
4 2 (2.17%) RESTful
4 2 (2.17%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.43%) Data Centre
1 5 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.26%) Replication
3 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.17%) SCADA
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.09%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Linux
2 12 (13.04%) Windows
3 6 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.17%) Android
4 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.09%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (19.57%) Migration
2 17 (18.48%) Agile
2 17 (18.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 16 (17.39%) Roadmaps
4 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 10 (10.87%) ITIL
7 9 (9.78%) Decision-Making
8 8 (8.70%) DevOps
9 7 (7.61%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (7.61%) Risk Management
9 7 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (5.43%) Change Management
11 5 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (5.43%) SIEM
11 5 (5.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (4.35%) Strategic Roadmap
12 4 (4.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.74%) Python
2 10 (10.87%) Java
3 7 (7.61%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.52%) SQL
5 4 (4.35%) Bash
5 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.17%) Go
6 2 (2.17%) R
7 1 (1.09%) C
7 1 (1.09%) C++
7 1 (1.09%) Perl
7 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (79.35%) Security Cleared
2 36 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.52%) CISSP
5 3 (3.26%) CFCE
5 3 (3.26%) GCFA
5 3 (3.26%) GCIA
5 3 (3.26%) GCIH
5 3 (3.26%) GIAC
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.17%) Degree
6 2 (2.17%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.17%) VCAP
7 1 (1.09%) CEH
7 1 (1.09%) CISM
7 1 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) GDPR
1 7 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.52%) NIST
3 3 (3.26%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) SLA
5 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.09%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.09%) NCSC
5 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.09%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.61%) vSphere
3 6 (6.52%) Docker
4 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.09%) NDS
5 1 (1.09%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 1 (1.09%) NFS
5 1 (1.09%) Postfix
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.35%) Grafana
2 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.26%) Argo
3 3 (3.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (3.26%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.17%) Kibana
4 2 (2.17%) SCCM
4 2 (2.17%) vRealize
5 1 (1.09%) Ansible
5 1 (1.09%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.09%) Nmap
5 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.09%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (20.65%) Cisco
2 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.96%) Aruba
4 9 (9.78%) VMware
5 7 (7.61%) Juniper
6 6 (6.52%) Red Hat
6 6 (6.52%) Salesforce
6 6 (6.52%) Splunk
7 4 (4.35%) SAP
7 4 (4.35%) Virgin Media
8 3 (3.26%) ArcSight
8 3 (3.26%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (3.26%) ESRI
8 3 (3.26%) LogRhythm
8 3 (3.26%) NetApp
8 3 (3.26%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.17%) 3PAR
9 2 (2.17%) F5
9 2 (2.17%) Google
9 2 (2.17%) Intergraph