Smart Meter Contracts in Berkshire

Smart Metering
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Meter in contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Meter over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 109 118
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -24
Contract jobs citing Smart Meter 4 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.20% 0.28% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% 0.81% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile £415 £264 £538
25th Percentile £419 £319 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -28.70% -
75th Percentile £478 £441 £600
90th Percentile £479 £460 -
South East median daily rate £450 £495 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% -23.85% +113.11%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Smart Meter is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 607 621 776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 30.56% 34.42% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 397 470
10th Percentile £205 £313 £224
25th Percentile £280 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 18
10th Percentile £11.79 £19.25 -
25th Percentile £22.25 £47.56 £17.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £64.68 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +187.64% -18.24%
75th Percentile £62.23 £74.25 £64.03
90th Percentile £67.50 £79.19 £71.89
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £51.25 £21.74
% change year-on-year -7.32% +135.79% -25.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Smart Meter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Meter in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Smart Meter in Berkshire

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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 Smart Meter within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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 4 £450 - 5
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South East

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Ab Initio