Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Public Sector
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Wokingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 28 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 35 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 10.61% 1.77% 1.47%
As % of the General category 18.72% 8.33% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 2 0
10th Percentile £303 £364 -
25th Percentile £393 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -
75th Percentile £574 £425 -
90th Percentile £650 £436 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £552 £500
% change year-on-year -9.42% +10.40% -9.09%

All General Skills
Wokingham

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 187 24 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 56.67% 21.24% 47.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 13 11
10th Percentile £219 £313 £310
25th Percentile £314 £325 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £350 £480
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -27.08% +18.81%
75th Percentile £492 £451 £563
90th Percentile £581 £490 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £58.34 £58.00
% change year-on-year -56.89% +0.58% +118.87%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Wokingham over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Wokingham

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 2 (5.71%) GeoServer
1 2 (5.71%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 8 (22.86%) GCP
4 5 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) SAN
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) VLAN
2 1 (2.86%) Wireless
2 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (5.71%) GIS
1 2 (5.71%) QGIS
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Burp Suite
1 2 (5.71%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) NeoLoad
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Lead
2 5 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Backup Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Lead Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Storage Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Loki
2 2 (5.71%) LDAP
3 1 (2.86%) NumPy
3 1 (2.86%) Pandas
3 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Onboarding
2 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.86%) HP Storage
5 1 (2.86%) PMI
5 1 (2.86%) Replication
5 1 (2.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.43%) Windows
4 1 (2.86%) Kali Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.00%) Agile
3 7 (20.00%) ITIL
4 5 (14.29%) DevOps
4 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
5 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (11.43%) Service Management
6 3 (8.57%) Change Management
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps
6 3 (8.57%) High Availability
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.57%) ITSM
6 3 (8.57%) Observability
6 3 (8.57%) SIEM
6 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) Bash
2 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.71%) Go
3 2 (5.71%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (82.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) CISSP
4 2 (5.71%) CEH
4 2 (5.71%) CISM
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Scheme
5 1 (2.86%) GIAC
5 1 (2.86%) GPEN
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.86%) OSCP
5 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.86%) PMP
5 1 (2.86%) Postgraduate
5 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.86%) RHCE
5 1 (2.86%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) GDPR
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.57%) vSphere
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Argo
2 3 (8.57%) Grafana
2 3 (8.57%) Kustomize
2 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Nmap
4 1 (2.86%) Kibana
4 1 (2.86%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Red Hat
2 6 (17.14%) Virgin Media
3 5 (14.29%) VMware
4 3 (8.57%) Google
4 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.71%) 3PAR
5 2 (5.71%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (5.71%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.71%) ESRI
5 2 (5.71%) HP
5 2 (5.71%) Intergraph
5 2 (5.71%) NetApp
5 2 (5.71%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (5.71%) Veritas
6 1 (2.86%) Dell
6 1 (2.86%) FireEye
6 1 (2.86%) Palantir
6 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Tanium