Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Technical Leadership
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 74 111
Rank change year-on-year -22 +37 -26
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 20 33 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.34% 2.24% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.47% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 8
10th Percentile £400 £275 £363
25th Percentile £405 £383 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £703 £519
90th Percentile £618 £781 £631
South East median daily rate £573 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -6.83% +11.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - £86.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £88.50
75th Percentile £80.00 - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £81.00 - £88.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Technical Leadership 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 1,306 1,338 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.59% 90.84% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 745 939
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -1.14%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £686 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.54% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 37 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.15 £24.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £61.50 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -0.24% +25.17%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £70.15 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% -9.09% +41.94%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Berkshire

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
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 Technical Leadership within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 December 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 -1 8 £616 +54.05% 20
Windsor -6 4 £524 -4.73% 1
Bracknell -4 3 - -
Slough -4 1 £400 -27.27% 44
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
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 3 (15.00%) Anypoint
1 3 (15.00%) Camunda
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Drupal
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) DHCP
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Backup Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Storage Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) REST
2 7 (35.00%) SOAP
3 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (15.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
4 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) CMDB
2 3 (15.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) ITSM
4 6 (30.00%) ITIL
5 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (20.00%) CAD
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) DataWeave
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GRC
2 3 (15.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) CloudHub
3 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.00%) BMC
2 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) HP
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas
3 1 (5.00%) Zscaler