Sage Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Sage
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Sage products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sage over the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sage Group PLC.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 93 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Contract jobs citing Sage 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.056% 0.081% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.097% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
South East median daily rate £663 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +32.50% -4.76% -8.70%

All Vendors
Berkshire

Sage falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,031 599 1,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.82% 48.38% 51.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 368 599
10th Percentile £300 £346 £205
25th Percentile £413 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.73%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 15 48
10th Percentile £16.44 £21.81 £22.66
25th Percentile £20.79 £27.63 £51.07
Median hourly rate £81.00 £56.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +42.74% -2.67% -2.57%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £62.66
90th Percentile £96.50 £83.11 £68.63
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £28.38 £42.50
% change year-on-year +4.33% -33.22% -5.56%

Sage
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Sage job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Sage
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Sage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Sage

Sage
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Sage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Sage

Sage
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 Sage within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 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 -8 1 £600 +20.00% 1
Sage
South East

Sage
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sage X3
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FMCG
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Negotiation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management