Technical Leadership Contracts in Berkshire

Technical Leadership
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 64 88
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 30 55 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.64% 2.86% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 3.24% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 13
10th Percentile £350 £510 £382
25th Percentile £359 £570 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.04% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £725
90th Percentile £621 £716 £828
South East median daily rate £533 £598 £600
% change year-on-year -10.88% -0.42% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £80.85
South East median hourly rate - £18.00 £66.71
% change year-on-year - -73.02% +6.74%

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 1,058 1,695 1,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.97% 88.01% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 854 980
10th Percentile £325 £237 £345
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £611 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £707
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 104 54
10th Percentile £26.90 £17.15 £18.50
25th Percentile £32.31 £41.25 £26.34
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.80 £63.84
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -4.76% +203.63%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.89 £74.66
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
% change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Berkshire

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Berkshire

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Berkshire

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in Berkshire

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 31 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 -1 15 £350 -46.15% 19
Wokingham - 6 £550 - 1
Bracknell +14 2 £595 +8.18% 1
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
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 (6.67%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) PaaS
3 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (13.33%) DHCP
2 4 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) 4G
3 2 (6.67%) 5G
3 2 (6.67%) DOCSIS
3 2 (6.67%) GPON
3 2 (6.67%) HTTP
3 2 (6.67%) LTE
3 2 (6.67%) MPLS
3 2 (6.67%) MQTT
3 2 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (6.67%) VoIP
3 2 (6.67%) xDSL
4 1 (3.33%) Converged Networks
4 1 (3.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MySQL
1 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.33%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Cucumber
1 13 (43.33%) GitLab
1 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
1 13 (43.33%) JIRA
1 13 (43.33%) REST Assured
1 13 (43.33%) Selenium
2 9 (30.00%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Law
4 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
5 5 (16.67%) Billing
6 4 (13.33%) Police
7 2 (6.67%) Automotive
8 1 (3.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Designer
3 5 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Applications Architect
6 2 (6.67%) OSS Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Citrix Specialist
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Specialist
7 1 (3.33%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) REST
2 13 (43.33%) Java EE
3 9 (30.00%) ARM Templates
4 5 (16.67%) JSON
4 5 (16.67%) Web Services
5 2 (6.67%) Apache Axis
5 2 (6.67%) PostGIS
5 2 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) TM Forum
2 5 (16.67%) Frameworx
3 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Infotainment
4 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
1 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) DevOps
2 13 (43.33%) Configuration Management
2 13 (43.33%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (43.33%) Software Architecture
2 13 (43.33%) Software Engineering
2 13 (43.33%) Test Automation
3 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (30.00%) Microservices
5 8 (26.67%) ITIL
6 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (16.67%) CRM
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Experience
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
7 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Ruby
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) SC Cleared
1 19 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) CISSP
2 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.67%) OASIS TOSCA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.33%) XenApp
3 1 (3.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Ansible
1 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (33.33%) Terraform
3 9 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (30.00%) Podman
4 4 (13.33%) NetBackup
5 2 (6.67%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (13.33%) 3PAR
2 4 (13.33%) Dell
2 4 (13.33%) HP
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.33%) Veritas
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Amdocs
3 2 (6.67%) Ericsson
3 2 (6.67%) Huawei
3 2 (6.67%) NetCracker
3 2 (6.67%) Nokia
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix
4 1 (3.33%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Teradata