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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 91 104
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 7 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.59% 0.88% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.02% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £518 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £450 £775
Median % change year-on-year +33.06% -41.94% +24.00%
75th Percentile £691 - £875
90th Percentile £739 - £878
South East median daily rate £515 £438 £800
% change year-on-year +17.60% -45.31% +28.00%

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 1,097 1,464 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.72% 86.37% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 776 1,004
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £684 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.87% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 73 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.86 £18.10
25th Percentile £17.30 £42.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +147.42%
75th Percentile £62.24 £72.33 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.75 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -60.33% +11.53% +85.43%

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

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

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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 Thought Leadership within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Windsor - 4 - - 1
Reading +10 3 £599 - 3
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 (14.29%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Robot Framework
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Back Office
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Architect
3 1 (14.29%) BSS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Development
3 1 (14.29%) OSS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Jinja
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) NETCONF
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Coaching
5 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
5 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation
6 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 1 (14.29%) Open Source
6 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
6 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) BT
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Openreach
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) Veracode
1 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media
1 1 (14.29%) Workday