Technology Strategy Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Technology Strategy
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Technology Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 91 117
Rank change year-on-year -14 +26 -2
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 8 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.54% 0.79% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.87% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £173 £561 -
25th Percentile £233 £583 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -39.66% - +15.08%
75th Percentile £488 £775 £775
90th Percentile £553 £813 £778
South East median daily rate £550 £628 £722
% change year-on-year -12.43% -12.95% +20.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Technology Strategy 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 1,301 1,372 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.44% 90.32% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 760 964
10th Percentile £305 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 39 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.68 £24.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.08 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.25 £68.57 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.38 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -53.16% -10.69% +42.67%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Technology Strategy job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Technology Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Technology Strategy

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in Berkshire

Technology Strategy
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 Technology Strategy within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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 +6 5 £450 -37.93% 4
Wokingham - 2 £175 -
Technology Strategy
South East

Technology Strategy
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 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) Plotly
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) IT Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Feasibility Study
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) BCP
4 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Workday
Technology Strategy jobs