Software Assurance Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Software Assurance
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Software Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in 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 citing Software Assurance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.052% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South East median daily rate £525 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +28.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Software Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,610 1,108 1,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.12% 92.56% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 996 673 804
10th Percentile £330 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £505 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -6.48% +2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £685 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.57% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 44 86
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £16.50
25th Percentile £77.46 £18.48 £41.25
Median hourly rate £84.00 £37.28 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +125.32% -39.21% +3.29%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £71.75
90th Percentile £104.70 £87.43 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £57.79 £21.67 £55.08
% change year-on-year +166.72% -60.66% +10.15%

Software Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Software Assurance job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Software Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Software Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Software Assurance

Software Assurance
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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Software Assurance Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Software Consultant
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 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