Strategic Thinking Contracts in Berkshire

Strategic Thinking
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 106 95
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 +21
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 9 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.77% 0.81% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.91% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £554 - £404
25th Percentile £559 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +22.22% -11.11%
75th Percentile £658 - £638
90th Percentile £736 - £725
South East median daily rate £615 £550 £615
% change year-on-year +11.82% -10.57% +23.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £38.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Strategic Thinking 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 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in Berkshire

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking 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 Strategic Thinking within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 - 4 - - 21
Bracknell +7 2 £615 -
Windsor -7 1 £575 -
Slough - 1 £550 - 12
Strategic Thinking
South East

Strategic Thinking
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) MQTT
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) PostGIS
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Podcast
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
1 2 (22.22%) Social Media
2 1 (11.11%) Infotainment
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Project Management
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
3 2 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Lean Six Sigma
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Measurement
3 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Product Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) GCFA
2 1 (11.11%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Blue Prism
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Nokia
1 2 (22.22%) Rakuten
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler