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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 24 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 126 119 125
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 8.50% 7.93% 7.26%
As % of the General category 13.68% 13.54% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 69 57
10th Percentile £365 £315 £280
25th Percentile £420 £450 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £600
90th Percentile £624 £738 £647
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.18% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 22
10th Percentile £19.16 £41.25 £52.47
25th Percentile £20.87 £48.97 £57.63
Median hourly rate £45.08 £61.50 £63.45
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% -3.08% +35.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.80 £70.50
90th Percentile £68.50 £75.08 £74.96
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £40.68 £59.50
% change year-on-year -49.08% -31.64% +205.13%

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 921 879 1,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.10% 58.60% 62.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 429 591
10th Percentile £269 £239 £205
25th Percentile £406 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £596 £638 £599
90th Percentile £650 £694 £669
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 59
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.40 £20.79
25th Percentile £18.48 £41.25 £45.21
Median hourly rate £26.33 £58.38 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.90% -1.06% +122.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.73 £67.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.97 £75.42
South East median hourly rate £20.75 £42.50 £49.87
% change year-on-year -51.18% -14.77% +63.09%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +9 63 £500 -23.08% 4
Wokingham +5 36 £448 +11.88% 6
Windsor - 6 £475 -
Bracknell -18 5 £525 +6.33% 1
Slough -2 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 (1.59%) GeoServer
1 2 (1.59%) Smallworld
2 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.79%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Primavera
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.67%) Azure
2 20 (15.87%) AWS
3 11 (8.73%) GCP
4 7 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.97%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.17%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (3.17%) AWS Control Tower
6 4 (3.17%) AWS KMS
6 4 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.38%) Serverless
8 2 (1.59%) GitHub
8 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) Firewall
2 3 (2.38%) Internet
2 3 (2.38%) SAN
3 2 (1.59%) DHCP
3 2 (1.59%) DNS
3 2 (1.59%) DWDM
3 2 (1.59%) Network Security
3 2 (1.59%) SDH
3 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.59%) Wireless
4 1 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.79%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.79%) NaaS
4 1 (0.79%) NAS
4 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.79%) VLAN
4 1 (0.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.38%) GIS
1 3 (2.38%) QGIS
2 2 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (1.59%) Power BI
2 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.79%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.79%) Metadata
3 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Git
2 2 (1.59%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.59%) JIRA
2 2 (1.59%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.79%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 30 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.94%) Finance
3 9 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.35%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.17%) Legal
6 3 (2.38%) Electronics
6 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.38%) Marketing
7 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Billing
8 1 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (27.78%) Consultant
2 32 (25.40%) Network Consultant
3 22 (17.46%) Architect
4 13 (10.32%) Lead
5 10 (7.94%) Analyst
6 9 (7.14%) Senior
7 5 (3.97%) Developer
7 5 (3.97%) Site Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.17%) Lead Architect
8 4 (3.17%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.17%) SOC Analyst
9 3 (2.38%) Cisco Consultant
9 3 (2.38%) Migration Consultant
9 3 (2.38%) Penetration Tester
9 3 (2.38%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.38%) Technical Leader
9 3 (2.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.97%) REST
2 4 (3.17%) SOAP
3 3 (2.38%) Loki
3 3 (2.38%) Node.js
3 3 (2.38%) Web Services
4 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.59%) jQuery
4 2 (1.59%) JSON
4 2 (1.59%) LDAP
4 2 (1.59%) React
4 2 (1.59%) RESTful
4 2 (1.59%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.79%) BAPI
5 1 (0.79%) NumPy
5 1 (0.79%) OAuth
5 1 (0.79%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.79%) Pandas
5 1 (0.79%) SAP Smart Forms
5 1 (0.79%) Swagger
5 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.97%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.38%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.59%) CMDB
5 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.59%) Replication
6 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.79%) HP Storage
6 1 (0.79%) PMI
6 1 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.90%) Linux
2 13 (10.32%) Windows
3 6 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Android
4 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.59%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.79%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.13%) Roadmaps
2 42 (33.33%) Migration
3 41 (32.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (23.02%) Collaborative Working
5 24 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (17.46%) Agile
7 18 (14.29%) ITIL
8 13 (10.32%) CI/CD
9 10 (7.94%) Decision-Making
9 10 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (7.14%) DevOps
11 8 (6.35%) Risk Management
11 8 (6.35%) SIEM
12 7 (5.56%) Security Operations
12 7 (5.56%) Workshop Facilitation
13 5 (3.97%) Data Privacy
13 5 (3.97%) DevSecOps
13 5 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (3.97%) Strategic Roadmap
13 5 (3.97%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.67%) Python
2 10 (7.94%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.56%) Java
4 5 (3.97%) Bash
4 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.38%) SQL
6 2 (1.59%) Go
6 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.79%) ABAP
7 1 (0.79%) C
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) C++
7 1 (0.79%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.79%) PHP
7 1 (0.79%) R
7 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (86.51%) Security Cleared
2 63 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.35%) CISSP
4 6 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.97%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.97%) GIAC
6 4 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.17%) CFCE
6 4 (3.17%) Degree
6 4 (3.17%) GCFA
6 4 (3.17%) GCIA
6 4 (3.17%) GCIH
7 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.59%) CEH
7 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.59%) CISM
7 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.59%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) GDPR
1 10 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.35%) NIST
3 5 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.17%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.17%) NCSC
5 3 (2.38%) QA
6 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.59%) SLA
7 1 (0.79%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.79%) GRC
7 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.79%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.97%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) vSphere
3 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.79%) NDS
4 1 (0.79%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 1 (0.79%) NFS
4 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.97%) Terraform
3 4 (3.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 3 (2.38%) Argo
4 3 (2.38%) Grafana
4 3 (2.38%) Kustomize
4 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.59%) Ansible
5 2 (1.59%) Nmap
5 2 (1.59%) SCCM
6 1 (0.79%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.79%) Kibana
6 1 (0.79%) Nessus
6 1 (0.79%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.79%) vRealize
6 1 (0.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 39 (30.95%) Cisco
2 33 (26.19%) Aruba
3 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.35%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.35%) VMware
5 7 (5.56%) Juniper
5 7 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.76%) SAP
6 6 (4.76%) Virgin Media
7 5 (3.97%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.97%) Splunk
8 4 (3.17%) ArcSight
8 4 (3.17%) Citrix
8 4 (3.17%) CloudEndure
8 4 (3.17%) LogRhythm
8 4 (3.17%) NetApp
9 3 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (2.38%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.38%) Google
9 3 (2.38%) Palo Alto