Software Assurance Consultant Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Software Assurance Consultant
South East > Berkshire

The median Software Assurance Consultant daily rate in Berkshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Assurance Consultant 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.052% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South East median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,777 1,103 1,664
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 92.15% 92.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 685 881
10th Percentile £330 £325 £313
25th Percentile £421 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 45 98
10th Percentile £25.49 £14.75 £18.68
25th Percentile £41.25 £18.87 £48.24
Median hourly rate £83.00 £48.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.92% -22.08% +6.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £77.37
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.40 £90.00
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +114.71% -56.15% +14.70%

Software Assurance Consultant Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 28 July 2026, Software Assurance Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Software Assurance Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) tSQLt
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing

Software Assurance Consultant Skill Set
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance