Consultant Contracts in Berkshire

Consultant
South East > Berkshire

The median Consultant daily rate in Berkshire is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 22 37
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 190 149 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.86% 8.39% 5.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.57% 8.84% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 92 70
10th Percentile £455 £460 £424
25th Percentile £513 £523 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £721 £638
90th Percentile £765 £750 £683
South East median daily rate £595 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 2
10th Percentile £52.90 £55.94 £33.00
25th Percentile £55.94 £59.54 £41.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +12.48% -7.26%
75th Percentile - £70.61 £73.75
90th Percentile - £75.75 £82.00
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £80.00
% change year-on-year -4.75% -19.16% +29.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,798 1,685 2,252
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 94.88% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 1,052 1,437
10th Percentile £243 £325 £213
25th Percentile £388 £419 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 59 37
10th Percentile £19.12 £17.42 £13.00
25th Percentile £42.00 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.03 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +207.98% -2.33%
75th Percentile £75.24 £74.90 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.40 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Berkshire

Consultant
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 Consultant within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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 +3 133 £654 -3.15% 27
Maidenhead +8 20 £600 +23.08% 3
Slough +5 5 £475 -9.52% 1
Wokingham -1 3 £530 -9.79% 3
Bracknell -4 3 - - 2
Windsor -7 3 £600 +33.33% 1
Consultant
South East

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 79 (41.58%) SAP
2 68 (35.79%) Security Cleared
3 44 (23.16%) SC Cleared
4 39 (20.53%) Social Skills
5 36 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (18.95%) Oracle
6 31 (16.32%) DV Cleared
7 27 (14.21%) SAP QM
8 21 (11.05%) Agile
9 19 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (9.47%) GAP Analysis
10 18 (9.47%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (8.95%) Oracle EBS R12
11 17 (8.95%) Azure
11 17 (8.95%) Rational DOORS
11 17 (8.95%) SAP EWM
11 17 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (8.95%) PLM
12 16 (8.42%) Electronics
12 16 (8.42%) Ethernet
12 16 (8.42%) Oracle Database
12 16 (8.42%) Integration Testing
12 16 (8.42%) Robotics
12 16 (8.42%) Requirements Management
12 16 (8.42%) Systems Engineering
12 16 (8.42%) Prototyping
12 16 (8.42%) Analogue Electronics
12 16 (8.42%) Roadmaps
13 15 (7.89%) Business Strategy
13 15 (7.89%) Design for Manufacturing

Consultant Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 27 (14.21%) SAP QM
2 17 (8.95%) Oracle EBS R12
2 17 (8.95%) SAP EWM
3 14 (7.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (6.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (3.68%) Maximo
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (1.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (1.05%) SAP PP
8 2 (1.05%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.53%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.53%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.53%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.95%) Azure
2 11 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.16%) AWS
4 5 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.58%) GCP
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.05%) SaaS
6 2 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.53%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.53%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.42%) Ethernet
2 13 (6.84%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (4.21%) Network Security
4 7 (3.68%) 3G
4 7 (3.68%) 4G
4 7 (3.68%) 5G
4 7 (3.68%) Firewall
5 3 (1.58%) FTP
5 3 (1.58%) IPsec
5 3 (1.58%) VPN
6 2 (1.05%) BGP
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.05%) DMVPN
6 2 (1.05%) EIGRP
6 2 (1.05%) MPLS
6 2 (1.05%) OSPF
6 2 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.05%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.05%) Sourcefire
6 2 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.42%) Oracle Database
2 11 (5.79%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.11%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (1.58%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.53%) Power BI
5 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (8.95%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (2.63%) JIRA
4 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.05%) JMeter
4 2 (1.05%) Maven
4 2 (1.05%) Selenium
5 1 (0.53%) NWDI
5 1 (0.53%) NWDS
General
1 39 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.42%) Electronics
4 14 (7.37%) Finance
4 14 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.84%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.11%) Retail
7 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.58%) Marketing
8 2 (1.05%) Military
8 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) French Language
9 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.53%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.89%) SAP Basis
2 8 (4.21%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (2.11%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (2.11%) Visualforce
4 2 (1.05%) CSS
4 2 (1.05%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.05%) HTML
5 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.53%) IDoc
5 1 (0.53%) Kafka
5 1 (0.53%) React
5 1 (0.53%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.53%) REST
5 1 (0.53%) SOAP
5 1 (0.53%) Web Services
5 1 (0.53%) XML
5 1 (0.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.42%) Analogue Electronics
1 16 (8.42%) Robotics
2 8 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.68%) Operational Technology
4 6 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.05%) iPad
6 2 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.53%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.53%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.53%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.11%) Unix
2 2 (1.05%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (11.05%) Agile
3 18 (9.47%) GAP Analysis
3 18 (9.47%) User Acceptance Testing
4 17 (8.95%) PLM
4 17 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (8.42%) Integration Testing
5 16 (8.42%) Prototyping
5 16 (8.42%) Requirements Management
5 16 (8.42%) Roadmaps
5 16 (8.42%) Systems Engineering
6 15 (7.89%) Business Strategy
6 15 (7.89%) Design for Manufacturing
6 15 (7.89%) Workshop Facilitation
7 13 (6.84%) Regulatory Compliance
8 12 (6.32%) E-business
8 12 (6.32%) Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (5.79%) DevOps
9 11 (5.79%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (5.26%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.21%) SQL
2 4 (2.11%) Java
2 4 (2.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.05%) Groovy
3 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.05%) Python
4 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.53%) PHP
4 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.32%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.11%) Degree
5 4 (2.11%) ISACA
6 3 (1.58%) CCNA
6 3 (1.58%) CCNP
7 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.53%) ACCA
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) CCIE
7 1 (0.53%) CIMA
7 1 (0.53%) CISA
7 1 (0.53%) CISM
7 1 (0.53%) CISMP
7 1 (0.53%) CISSP
7 1 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.21%) NIST
2 7 (3.68%) COBIT
2 7 (3.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.05%) GRC
3 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.05%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.53%) Firmware
1 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Ansible
1 1 (0.53%) Grafana
1 1 (0.53%) Graylog
1 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.53%) Nagios
1 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (41.58%) SAP
2 36 (18.95%) Oracle
3 8 (4.21%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.68%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.58%) Informatica
6 2 (1.05%) Aruba
6 2 (1.05%) Blue Coat
6 2 (1.05%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco
6 2 (1.05%) F5
6 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.05%) Juniper
6 2 (1.05%) McAfee
6 2 (1.05%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.05%) Splunk
6 2 (1.05%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.53%) Okta
7 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud