Strategic Planning Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Strategic Planning
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Strategic Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 111 112
Rank change year-on-year +23 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 9 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.73% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £413 £443 -
25th Percentile £420 £471 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £731 £512 -
90th Percentile £780 £534 -
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +10.00% -18.37% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.57
25th Percentile - - £53.13
Median hourly rate - - £55.64
75th Percentile - - £57.52
90th Percentile - - £57.70
South East median hourly rate - - £55.64
% change year-on-year - - +416.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Strategic Planning 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 1,122 1,436 1,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.48% 88.37% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 766 991
10th Percentile £321 £330 £250
25th Percentile £413 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +3.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £691 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 57 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.08 £21.23
25th Percentile £17.30 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £32.31 £58.49 £62.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.76% -6.26% +23.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.41 £73.28
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.08 £76.19
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £53.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +8.97% +50.87%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Strategic Planning job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Planning in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Planning in Berkshire

Strategic Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
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 Strategic Planning within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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 +35 5 £675 +30.43% 4
Wokingham - 2 £420 -
Windsor -7 1 £675 +35.00%
Strategic Planning
South East

Strategic Planning
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Google Workspace
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DTS
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Law
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Forensic Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) CMDB
2 2 (22.22%) IoT
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Service Design
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Forensics
4 2 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (22.22%) Document Management
4 2 (22.22%) E-Discovery
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) Budgeting
5 1 (11.11%) Contextual Inquiry
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (22.22%) CCSP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) GCFA
1 2 (22.22%) GCFE
1 2 (22.22%) GCIH
1 2 (22.22%) GREM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PgMP
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) EnCase
1 2 (22.22%) FTK
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (22.22%) Darktrace