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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 75
Rank change year-on-year -15 +42 +2
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 78 65 31
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.14% 5.50% 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.54% 14.91% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 43 23
10th Percentile £400 £371 £240
25th Percentile £500 £494 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.58% +1.30%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £818
90th Percentile £725 £588 £820
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £575
% change year-on-year -2.15% -11.13% +7.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £15.15 £63.10 -
25th Percentile £15.38 £65.88 £20.75
Median hourly rate £16.50 £71.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.76% +230.23% -64.90%
75th Percentile £17.90 £75.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £18.30 £78.30 -
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £62.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year -23.94% +233.33% -52.08%

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 676 436 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.86% 36.92% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 267 259
10th Percentile £313 £300 £235
25th Percentile £400 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.91% +8.03%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £650 £690
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 18 27
10th Percentile £19.21 £32.05 £11.89
25th Percentile £31.31 £44.63 £20.06
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 £60.28
90th Percentile - £88.87 £69.88
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +54.94% -40.92% +14.70%

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 21 August 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
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 21 August 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 -5 55 £550 - 14
Wokingham -16 5 £275 -43.44% 1
Windsor - 4 £575 - 3
Slough - 3 - - 6
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 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Primavera
1 1 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.28%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.28%) SAP PP
1 1 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (1.28%) Teamcenter
1 1 (1.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.51%) Azure
2 9 (11.54%) AWS
3 6 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.13%) OCI
5 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.85%) GCP
6 3 (3.85%) SaaS
7 2 (2.56%) GitHub
7 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.56%) PaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.28%) Miro
8 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) LAN
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (1.28%) DHCP
3 1 (1.28%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) MPLS
3 1 (1.28%) Network Security
3 1 (1.28%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.28%) TETRA
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
3 1 (1.28%) WAN
3 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.13%) Power BI
3 2 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.56%) MySQL
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (2.56%) Vitess
4 1 (1.28%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.28%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (1.28%) Metadata
4 1 (1.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.28%) ERwin
1 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 18 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
3 5 (6.41%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Local Government
5 2 (2.56%) Police
6 1 (1.28%) Advertising
6 1 (1.28%) Aviation
6 1 (1.28%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (16.67%) Analyst
2 8 (10.26%) Business Analyst
3 6 (7.69%) Architect
3 6 (7.69%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (6.41%) Lead
4 5 (6.41%) Senior
4 5 (6.41%) Support Assistant
4 5 (6.41%) Systems Support
5 4 (5.13%) Consultant
5 4 (5.13%) Designer
5 4 (5.13%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (5.13%) Service Designer
6 3 (3.85%) Integration Consultant
6 3 (3.85%) Product Lead
6 3 (3.85%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.85%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 3 (3.85%) SCCM Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) Security Analyst
6 3 (3.85%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (2.56%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) Terraform
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.28%) REST
2 1 (1.28%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.28%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.41%) Operational Technology
2 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.56%) IVR
3 2 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (1.28%) Blog
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.28%) PKI
4 1 (1.28%) SCADA
4 1 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Windows
2 3 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (14.10%) Migration
4 9 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (11.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 9 (11.54%) SIEM
4 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (11.54%) Use Case
5 8 (10.26%) Data Analysis
5 8 (10.26%) DevOps
5 8 (10.26%) Project Management
6 7 (8.97%) Agile
6 7 (8.97%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.97%) Project Delivery
6 7 (8.97%) Validation
7 6 (7.69%) Change Management
7 6 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 6 (7.69%) SOAR
7 6 (7.69%) Threat Detection
7 6 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.54%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (7.69%) SQL
3 4 (5.13%) Python
4 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.28%) CISSP
5 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.28%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) GCFA
5 1 (1.28%) GIAC
5 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.28%) GDPR
2 1 (1.28%) GRC
2 1 (1.28%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.28%) NIST
2 1 (1.28%) PMO
2 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) SCCM
2 2 (2.56%) Grafana
2 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.95%) Virgin Media
3 7 (8.97%) SAP
4 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.13%) Oracle
6 3 (3.85%) CyberArk
6 3 (3.85%) Google
7 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.56%) Workday
8 1 (1.28%) Avaya
8 1 (1.28%) Ceridian
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco
8 1 (1.28%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.28%) IBM
8 1 (1.28%) NGA Human Resources
8 1 (1.28%) Sparx
8 1 (1.28%) VMware