Public Sector Contracts 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +41
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 84 143 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.21% 7.39% 7.60%
As % of the General category 11.55% 13.13% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 47 106
10th Percentile £334 £213 £348
25th Percentile £501 £411 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £460 £540
Median % change year-on-year +35.87% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £593 £669
90th Percentile - £663 £721
South East median daily rate £536 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +18.45% -9.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 45 2
10th Percentile - £44.56 £30.80
25th Percentile £60.75 £55.00 £36.50
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +31.06% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £72.33 £56.50
90th Percentile £92.30 £87.50 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £26.25 £58.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -54.97% +137.96% +22.50%

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 1,089 1,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.40% 56.28% 61.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 548 662
10th Percentile £297 £205 £325
25th Percentile £409 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.91% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £629
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £497 £500
% change year-on-year +0.70% -0.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 87 27
10th Percentile £19.91 £20.49 £18.50
25th Percentile £30.25 £42.00 £21.33
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.30 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +6.00% +161.59%
75th Percentile £65.62 £68.28 £68.11
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -50.96% -5.26% +137.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Berkshire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 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 11 May 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 +11 53 £650 +18.18% 36
Wokingham -6 6 £400 -18.86% 4
Bracknell +3 4 £563 +12.50% 5
Slough -7 3 £425 +29.77% 4
Maidenhead - 2 £525 - 1
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 (1.19%) Apache
1 1 (1.19%) ArcGIS
1 1 (1.19%) CMS
1 1 (1.19%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.19%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.19%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.90%) Azure
2 5 (5.95%) AWS
3 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.38%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.38%) Serverless
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.19%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.19%) IaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.19%) PaaS
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.19%) DHCP
1 1 (1.19%) DNS
1 1 (1.19%) Firewall
1 1 (1.19%) FTP
1 1 (1.19%) iSCSI
1 1 (1.19%) Junos
1 1 (1.19%) LAN
1 1 (1.19%) SMTP
1 1 (1.19%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.19%) Telnet
1 1 (1.19%) VSAN
1 1 (1.19%) WAN
1 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.57%) GIS
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.38%) Power BI
3 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.19%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.19%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Git
1 5 (5.95%) Selenium
2 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.57%) JUnit
2 3 (3.57%) Mockito
2 3 (3.57%) SpecFlow
3 2 (2.38%) JMeter
4 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.19%) DbUnit
4 1 (1.19%) JIRA
4 1 (1.19%) jMock
4 1 (1.19%) Maven
4 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (52.38%) Telecoms
2 37 (44.05%) Finance
3 35 (41.67%) Manufacturing
3 35 (41.67%) Marketing
4 34 (40.48%) Electronics
5 8 (9.52%) Social Skills
6 5 (5.95%) Local Government
6 5 (5.95%) Military
7 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (33.33%) Architect
2 21 (25.00%) Active Directory Architect
3 17 (20.24%) Senior
4 8 (9.52%) Information Security Specialist
4 8 (9.52%) Information Specialist
4 8 (9.52%) Security Specialist
4 8 (9.52%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 8 (9.52%) Senior Information Security Specialist
4 8 (9.52%) Senior Security Specialist
5 7 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Analyst
6 5 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Developer
7 4 (4.76%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Administrator
8 3 (3.57%) Consultant
8 3 (3.57%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.57%) Java Developer
9 2 (2.38%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) REST
2 3 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (3.57%) Gherkin
2 3 (3.57%) Hibernate
2 3 (3.57%) HTML
2 3 (3.57%) JSON
2 3 (3.57%) PySpark
2 3 (3.57%) Spring
2 3 (3.57%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.57%) Web Services
3 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Camel
3 2 (2.38%) jQuery
3 2 (2.38%) RESTful
3 2 (2.38%) SOAP
3 2 (2.38%) WireMock
3 2 (2.38%) XML
3 2 (2.38%) YAML
4 1 (1.19%) PowerMock
4 1 (1.19%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.38%) CMDB
3 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.38%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.38%) Replication
3 2 (2.38%) SCADA
4 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.19%) CSOC
4 1 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.05%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (40.48%) Digital Marketing
2 34 (40.48%) Programme Management
3 31 (36.90%) Agile
4 26 (30.95%) Test Automation
5 21 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 15 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (11.90%) DevOps
7 10 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.71%) Risk Management
9 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
9 8 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (7.14%) Process Improvement
10 6 (7.14%) Project Management
10 6 (7.14%) SIEM
11 5 (5.95%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (5.95%) Security Architecture
11 5 (5.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (5.95%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.71%) Python
2 9 (10.71%) SQL
3 4 (4.76%) Bash
3 4 (4.76%) Java
4 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.38%) Bicep
5 2 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.38%) Perl
5 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.19%) C#
6 1 (1.19%) R
6 1 (1.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (79.76%) Security Cleared
2 37 (44.05%) DV Cleared
3 24 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.52%) CISM
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.38%) CISSP
7 1 (1.19%) APMP
7 1 (1.19%) Degree
7 1 (1.19%) GIAC
7 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.19%) PMP
7 1 (1.19%) VCAP
7 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.95%) NCSC
3 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.57%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) COBIT
4 1 (1.19%) P3O
4 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) Docker
3 2 (2.38%) NFS
3 2 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.19%) Postfix
4 1 (1.19%) Samba
4 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Kibana
2 2 (2.38%) vRealize
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.19%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (1.19%) yum
Vendors
1 36 (42.86%) SAP
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Cisco
4 3 (3.57%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) Oracle
5 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.38%) HP
5 2 (2.38%) Splunk
5 2 (2.38%) VMware
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.19%) BMC
6 1 (1.19%) Capita
6 1 (1.19%) Citrix
6 1 (1.19%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.19%) Dell
6 1 (1.19%) ESRI
6 1 (1.19%) F5
6 1 (1.19%) Juniper
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.19%) Veeam