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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 32 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 10.88% - 1.49%
As % of the General category 19.88% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 0 0
10th Percentile £290 - -
25th Percentile £393 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile £630 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 161 21 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 54.76% 18.10% 44.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 11 7
10th Percentile £219 £313 £445
25th Percentile £314 £331 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £451 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -9.90% +22.85%
75th Percentile £492 £500 £600
90th Percentile £575 £600 £740
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £58.16
% change year-on-year -36.26% +0.57% +66.70%

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 21 November 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 (6.25%) GeoServer
1 2 (6.25%) Smallworld
2 1 (3.13%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.13%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) SAN
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) VLAN
2 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (6.25%) GIS
1 2 (6.25%) QGIS
2 1 (3.13%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) Metasploit
1 1 (3.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Site Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Backup Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Compliance Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Loki
2 2 (6.25%) LDAP
3 1 (3.13%) NumPy
3 1 (3.13%) Pandas
3 1 (3.13%) RAML
3 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.13%) PMI
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.38%) Windows
4 1 (3.13%) Kali Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (25.00%) Agile
2 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (18.75%) ITIL
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (9.38%) DevSecOps
6 3 (9.38%) High Availability
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
6 3 (9.38%) Observability
6 3 (9.38%) Service Management
6 3 (9.38%) SIEM
7 2 (6.25%) Analytics
7 2 (6.25%) Data Collection
7 2 (6.25%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (12.50%) Bash
2 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) Go
3 2 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (84.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) CISSP
4 2 (6.25%) CEH
4 2 (6.25%) CISM
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) GIAC
5 1 (3.13%) GPEN
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.13%) OSCP
5 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.13%) PMP
5 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.13%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.38%) vSphere
3 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Argo
2 3 (9.38%) Grafana
2 3 (9.38%) Kustomize
2 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
3 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.13%) Nmap
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 5 (15.63%) Virgin Media
2 5 (15.63%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.25%) 3PAR
4 2 (6.25%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.25%) ESRI
4 2 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) HP
4 2 (6.25%) Intergraph
4 2 (6.25%) NetApp
4 2 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (6.25%) Veritas
5 1 (3.13%) FireEye
5 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.13%) Palantir
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Tanium