Senior Contracts in Berkshire

Senior
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior daily rate in Berkshire is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 27 30
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 190 134 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.62% 7.39% 5.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.20% 7.79% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 76 92
10th Percentile £360 £400 £407
25th Percentile £444 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £595 £600
90th Percentile £686 £644 £660
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £527
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.03% +5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 1
10th Percentile £55.94 £55.94 -
25th Percentile £56.61 £60.47 £62.50
Median hourly rate £59.95 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.80 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.24 £74.79 -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +30.90% +5.88% -7.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,863 1,720 2,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 94.82% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 1,102 1,476
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £376 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 56 41
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.69 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.19 £79.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Berkshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Berkshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Berkshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Berkshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Berkshire

Senior
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 Senior within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +7 111 £533 +2.50% 60
Bracknell +17 32 £513 +32.43% 11
Slough +8 5 £573 +24.46% 17
Wokingham -1 3 £950 +90.00% 4
Newbury -2 3 £350 -20.00% 5
Windsor - 3 £750 - 4
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 86 (45.26%) Security Cleared
2 48 (25.26%) DV Cleared
3 44 (23.16%) Social Skills
4 39 (20.53%) Public Sector
5 35 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (15.26%) Cisco
7 28 (14.74%) Microsoft
7 28 (14.74%) Migration
7 28 (14.74%) Azure
8 27 (14.21%) Agile
9 24 (12.63%) Finance
9 24 (12.63%) DevOps
10 23 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (12.11%) Windows
11 19 (10.00%) SC Cleared
11 19 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 18 (9.47%) Telecoms
13 17 (8.95%) Firewall
13 17 (8.95%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (8.95%) CheckPoint
13 17 (8.95%) DMZ
13 17 (8.95%) B2B
13 17 (8.95%) Portfolio Management
13 17 (8.95%) Banking
13 17 (8.95%) Arista
14 16 (8.42%) Primavera
14 16 (8.42%) Project Management
15 15 (7.89%) Security Architecture
16 14 (7.37%) Configuration Management
17 13 (6.84%) Juniper

Senior Skill Set
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 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.58%) SAS
2 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.58%) SPSS
3 2 (1.05%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.05%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (1.05%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (8.42%) Primavera
2 6 (3.16%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.05%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.53%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.53%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.74%) Azure
2 9 (4.74%) AWS
3 4 (2.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.58%) IaaS
4 3 (1.58%) SaaS
5 2 (1.05%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.53%) Figma
6 1 (0.53%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.53%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.95%) DMZ
1 17 (8.95%) Firewall
2 12 (6.32%) LAN
2 12 (6.32%) WAN
3 7 (3.68%) Network Security
4 5 (2.63%) 3G
4 5 (2.63%) 4G
4 5 (2.63%) 5G
4 5 (2.63%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (1.58%) Broadband
5 3 (1.58%) DHCP
5 3 (1.58%) DNS
5 3 (1.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (1.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.58%) NetScaler
5 3 (1.58%) Skype
6 2 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.53%) BGP
7 1 (0.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.58%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (1.58%) Tableau
2 2 (1.05%) Power BI
3 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.53%) GIS
3 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.26%) JIRA
2 9 (4.74%) REST Assured
2 9 (4.74%) Selenium
3 8 (4.21%) Cucumber
3 8 (4.21%) GitLab
3 8 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.05%) Git
4 2 (1.05%) JMeter
5 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) CMake
5 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
General
1 44 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.53%) Public Sector
3 24 (12.63%) Finance
4 18 (9.47%) Telecoms
5 17 (8.95%) Banking
6 13 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.26%) Aviation
8 7 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.68%) Law
8 7 (3.68%) Police
9 5 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.58%) Local Government
10 3 (1.58%) Military
10 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Marketing
11 2 (1.05%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Advertising
12 1 (0.53%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.79%) Itk
2 8 (4.21%) ARM Templates
2 8 (4.21%) Java EE
2 8 (4.21%) REST
3 4 (2.11%) JSON
4 3 (1.58%) D3.js
5 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.53%) CNTK
5 1 (0.53%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.53%) Kafka
5 1 (0.53%) NumPy
5 1 (0.53%) OpenID
5 1 (0.53%) OpenVINO
5 1 (0.53%) Pandas
5 1 (0.53%) PySpark
5 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.53%) React
5 1 (0.53%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.63%) Data Centre
1 5 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.05%) Motion Graphics
3 2 (1.05%) NHS
3 2 (1.05%) Photography
3 2 (1.05%) PMI
3 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.53%) FMCG
4 1 (0.53%) Graphic Design
4 1 (0.53%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.53%) IoT
4 1 (0.53%) iPad
4 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.53%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.11%) Windows
2 13 (6.84%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.32%) Linux
4 7 (3.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.58%) Unix
6 2 (1.05%) Android
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (14.74%) Migration
3 27 (14.21%) Agile
4 24 (12.63%) DevOps
5 23 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 17 (8.95%) B2B
7 17 (8.95%) Portfolio Management
8 16 (8.42%) Project Management
9 15 (7.89%) Security Architecture
10 14 (7.37%) Configuration Management
11 13 (6.84%) PLM
11 13 (6.84%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (6.32%) Software Engineering
13 11 (5.79%) Acceptance Criteria
13 11 (5.79%) Project Delivery
14 10 (5.26%) Conflict Resolution
14 10 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (5.26%) Test Automation
15 9 (4.74%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.32%) Java
2 9 (4.74%) C
2 9 (4.74%) SQL
3 8 (4.21%) Python
4 6 (3.16%) C++
5 4 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.58%) ActionScript
6 3 (1.58%) C#
6 3 (1.58%) R
7 2 (1.05%) PHP
8 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (45.26%) Security Cleared
2 48 (25.26%) DV Cleared
3 19 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.95%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.11%) Degree
5 4 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.05%) ACCA
6 2 (1.05%) APMP
6 2 (1.05%) CIMA
6 2 (1.05%) ISACA
6 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.53%) HND
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.11%) GDPR
1 4 (2.11%) PMO
2 3 (1.58%) NIST
3 2 (1.05%) COBIT
3 2 (1.05%) GRC
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 11 (5.79%) Docker
2 6 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.58%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 12 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.21%) Ansible
2 8 (4.21%) Docker Swarm
2 8 (4.21%) Podman
2 8 (4.21%) Terraform
3 3 (1.58%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.58%) SCCM
3 3 (1.58%) SCOM
3 3 (1.58%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.58%) WSUS
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Istio
Vendors
1 29 (15.26%) Cisco
2 28 (14.74%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.95%) Arista
3 17 (8.95%) CheckPoint
4 13 (6.84%) Juniper
5 8 (4.21%) Splunk
6 7 (3.68%) VMware
7 4 (2.11%) Citrix
7 4 (2.11%) Oracle
8 3 (1.58%) EMC
8 3 (1.58%) F5
8 3 (1.58%) SAP
8 3 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.53%) Databricks
9 1 (0.53%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat