Junior Contracts in Berkshire

Junior
South East > Berkshire

The median Junior daily rate in Berkshire is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 102 122
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 8 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.41% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.71% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £315 £197 £179
25th Percentile £338 £206 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £267 £295
Median % change year-on-year +49.58% -9.35% +38.01%
75th Percentile £438 £344 £408
90th Percentile - £428 £430
South East median daily rate £373 £190 £274
% change year-on-year +96.32% -30.53% +36.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +102.38% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £42.50 £15.33 £18.00
% change year-on-year +177.32% -14.86% -34.55%

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 1,803 1,693 2,276
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 94.90% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,055 1,464
10th Percentile £243 £325 £214
25th Percentile £388 £417 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +8.73%
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 123 59 37
10th Percentile £19.23 £17.42 £13.00
25th Percentile £42.00 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.06 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +207.98% -2.33%
75th Percentile £76.12 £74.90 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.40 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in Berkshire

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Junior in Berkshire

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior in Berkshire

Junior
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 Junior within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 -13 2 £400 +49.58% 3
Wokingham - 2 £338 -
Maidenhead - 2 £425 -
Newbury +1 1 - -
Bracknell -7 1 - - 1
Junior
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) YAML
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Energy Management
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) RSA Archer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Istio
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) GitOps
2 2 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (25.00%) Automotive
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (25.00%) Energy Management
1 2 (25.00%) GitOps
1 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Value Proposition
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Data Science
2 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
2 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Istio
1 2 (25.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (25.00%) VMware