Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Onboarding
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 33 93
Rank change year-on-year -23 +60 -25
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 72 70 25
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.80% 5.95% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.17% 16.55% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 43 18
10th Percentile £321 £353 £444
25th Percentile £478 £494 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £577
Median % change year-on-year - -4.72% +0.39%
75th Percentile £691 £588 £768
90th Percentile £725 £620 £867
South East median daily rate £492 £505 £575
% change year-on-year -2.57% -12.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £15.40 £63.10 -
25th Percentile £15.63 £65.88 £20.75
Median hourly rate £17.10 £71.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.91% +230.23% -
75th Percentile £34.67 £75.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £63.67 £78.30 -
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £62.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -23.94% +190.70% +26.47%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 708 423 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.40% 35.94% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 250 317
10th Percentile £300 £300 £206
25th Percentile £375 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £597 £583 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 22 34
10th Percentile £19.34 £32.05 £11.84
25th Percentile £31.38 £48.75 £19.66
Median hourly rate £83.00 £62.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.88% +49.39% -35.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.44 £60.44
90th Percentile - £88.87 £69.03
South East median hourly rate £63.00 £33.89 £55.00
% change year-on-year +85.92% -38.39% +4.76%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Onboarding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Onboarding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Berkshire

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Onboarding.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Onboarding in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in Berkshire

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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 -23 44 £515 -6.36% 29
Wokingham -18 11 £300 -41.18% 6
Windsor - 4 £575 - 3
Slough +10 2 - - 7
Onboarding
South East

Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.39%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.39%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.39%) Primavera
2 1 (1.39%) R3 Corda
2 1 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.06%) Azure
2 8 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 7 (9.72%) AWS
4 4 (5.56%) OCI
5 3 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.17%) SaaS
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.78%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.39%) GCP
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.39%) Miro
7 1 (1.39%) n8n
7 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Network Security
1 4 (5.56%) VPN
2 3 (4.17%) DNS
2 3 (4.17%) LAN
3 2 (2.78%) Firewall
4 1 (1.39%) DHCP
4 1 (1.39%) DMVPN
4 1 (1.39%) MPLS
4 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.39%) TETRA
4 1 (1.39%) WAN
4 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.78%) MySQL
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (2.78%) Vitess
4 1 (1.39%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.39%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (1.39%) Metadata
4 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.39%) ERwin
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Metasploit
General
1 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.56%) Finance
4 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Local Government
5 2 (2.78%) Police
6 1 (1.39%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
6 1 (1.39%) Publishing
6 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (15.28%) Senior
2 10 (13.89%) Analyst
3 9 (12.50%) Architect
4 6 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.94%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.56%) Designer
6 4 (5.56%) Service Designer
6 4 (5.56%) Support Assistant
6 4 (5.56%) Systems Support
7 3 (4.17%) IT Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) ITSM Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) Lead
7 3 (4.17%) Platform Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Service Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) Service Management Analyst
8 2 (2.78%) Change Manager
8 2 (2.78%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.78%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (1.39%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.78%) CMDB
3 2 (2.78%) IVR
3 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.39%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) PKI
4 1 (1.39%) SCADA
4 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Windows
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (26.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (20.83%) Migration
4 11 (15.28%) Data Analysis
5 9 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 9 (12.50%) Project Management
5 9 (12.50%) SIEM
6 8 (11.11%) Agile
6 8 (11.11%) SOAR
6 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (9.72%) AI
7 7 (9.72%) Change Management
7 7 (9.72%) Project Delivery
8 6 (8.33%) Data Protection
8 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (6.94%) RBAC
9 5 (6.94%) Service Management
9 5 (6.94%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (6.94%) User Experience
10 4 (5.56%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.89%) Python
2 8 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.33%) SQL
4 5 (6.94%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.39%) Bash
5 1 (1.39%) Bicep
5 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (1.39%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Scheme
4 1 (1.39%) Degree
4 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) SLA
4 1 (1.39%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.39%) NIST
4 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.39%) PMO
4 1 (1.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Grafana
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
1 2 (2.78%) Terraform
2 1 (1.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Virgin Media
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.72%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
4 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.17%) SAP
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco
5 2 (2.78%) HubSpot
5 2 (2.78%) LogRhythm
5 2 (2.78%) Remedy
6 1 (1.39%) Ceridian
6 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.39%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) Instagram
6 1 (1.39%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.39%) Sparx
6 1 (1.39%) TikTok
6 1 (1.39%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) Workday