Strategic Roadmap Contracts in Berkshire

Strategic Roadmaps
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 89 98
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +21
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 14 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.19% 1.30% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.51% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 10
10th Percentile £494 £375 £337
25th Percentile £503 £428 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £475 £403
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +18.01% -36.11%
75th Percentile £511 £500 £603
90th Percentile £590 £560 £631
South East median daily rate £508 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -7.73% -2.22% -11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £59.45 -
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £59.45 -
% change year-on-year +18.02% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Strategic Roadmap 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,076 1,459 1,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.73% 86.18% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 774 1,001
10th Percentile £350 £321 £311
25th Percentile £418 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.66% +0.11% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 74 59
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.70 £18.30
25th Percentile £17.40 £41.50 £44.10
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +130.77%
75th Percentile £63.00 £71.41 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.45 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Strategic Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap in Berkshire

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in Berkshire

Strategic Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Strategic Roadmap
DemandTrendContract 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 Roadmap within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +16 8 £508 +16.67% 3
Windsor +1 4 £500 - 3
Strategic Roadmap
South East

Strategic Roadmap
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 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) Network Security
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Back Office
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Architect
2 8 (57.14%) Security Architect
3 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Automation Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Audit Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) SOC Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 5 (35.71%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) SIEM
3 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 3 (21.43%) Application Security
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
4 3 (21.43%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Secrets Management
4 3 (21.43%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
2 3 (21.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 3 (21.43%) CCSP
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CISA
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) GCIA
3 1 (7.14%) GCIH
3 1 (7.14%) GIAC
3 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
1 4 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 3 (21.43%) PSD2
3 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Splunk