Thought Leadership Contracts in Berkshire

Thought Leadership
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 116 82
Rank change year-on-year +35 -34 +26
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 10 3 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.86% 0.15% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.17% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 14
10th Percentile - £466 £406
25th Percentile - £489 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +1.43% -13.72%
75th Percentile - £579 £719
90th Percentile - £605 £796
South East median daily rate £550 £495 £613
% change year-on-year +11.11% -19.18% +3.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Thought 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 1,081 1,730 1,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.27% 88.81% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 911 1,048
10th Percentile £313 £213 £350
25th Percentile £416 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £631
90th Percentile £675 £688 £703
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.91% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 49
10th Percentile £22.29 £18.95 £19.30
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.44 £24.50
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.57 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +6.48% +170.24%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.59
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.40
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +123.23%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in Berkshire

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in Berkshire

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in Berkshire

Thought 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 Thought Leadership within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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 +45 6 - - 10
Windsor - 4 - - 2
Thought Leadership
South East

Thought 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 1 (10.00%) Appian
General
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) Back Office
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Architect
4 1 (10.00%) BSS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) OSS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) EPoS
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (30.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 3 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (30.00%) Order Management
3 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Coaching
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Conversational UI
5 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Product Strategy
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (10.00%) BT
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Nokia
1 1 (10.00%) Openreach
1 1 (10.00%) Rakuten
1 1 (10.00%) Virgin Media