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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 40 77
Rank change year-on-year -2 +37 +6
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 80 59 29
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.47% 5.08% 1.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.64% 13.59% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 42 22
10th Percentile £400 £367 £226
25th Percentile £500 £491 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year - -9.28% +7.78%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £819
90th Percentile £725 £588 £820
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £574
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.50% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £63.10 -
25th Percentile - £65.88 £20.75
Median hourly rate £15.00 £71.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.87% +230.23% -64.90%
75th Percentile £17.25 £75.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £18.03 £78.30 -
South East median hourly rate £25.75 £62.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year -58.80% +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 633 434 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.38% 37.35% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 271 245
10th Percentile £311 £293 £272
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £613
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 17 26
10th Percentile £16.18 £32.05 £18.63
25th Percentile £31.25 £42.50 £27.56
Median hourly rate £71.00 £61.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% +44.69% -34.29%
75th Percentile £87.76 £87.25 £60.44
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.87 £69.93
South East median hourly rate £41.25 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +21.74% -40.92% +4.87%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -2 56 £550 - 35
Slough - 7 £500 - 8
Windsor - 3 £575 - 4
Wokingham -14 2 £275 -39.73% 1
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 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Primavera
1 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.25%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.25%) SAP PP
1 1 (1.25%) Teamcenter
1 1 (1.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.50%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) AWS
3 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (7.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.75%) GCP
6 2 (2.50%) OCI
6 2 (2.50%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.25%) Miro
7 1 (1.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) LAN
2 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.25%) DHCP
3 1 (1.25%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.25%) MPLS
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.25%) TETRA
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
3 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.25%) Wireless
3 1 (1.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Power BI
1 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.25%) MySQL
2 1 (1.25%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.75%) Advertising
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Local Government
7 2 (2.50%) Police
8 1 (1.25%) Aviation
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Analyst
2 8 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (7.50%) Senior
3 6 (7.50%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (6.25%) Lead
4 5 (6.25%) Support Assistant
4 5 (6.25%) Systems Support
5 4 (5.00%) Architect
5 4 (5.00%) Consultant
5 4 (5.00%) Designer
5 4 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (5.00%) Service Designer
6 3 (3.75%) Integration Consultant
6 3 (3.75%) IT Technician
6 3 (3.75%) Product Lead
6 3 (3.75%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.75%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 3 (3.75%) SCCM Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Security Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.25%) REST
1 1 (1.25%) SailPoint
1 1 (1.25%) SAP PI
1 1 (1.25%) Software Packaging
1 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Blog
3 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) IVR
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) PKI
5 1 (1.25%) Replication
5 1 (1.25%) SCADA
5 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Rocky
4 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
1 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (11.25%) SIEM
2 9 (11.25%) Use Case
3 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 8 (10.00%) DevOps
3 8 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 8 (10.00%) Migration
3 8 (10.00%) Project Management
3 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (8.75%) Project Delivery
4 7 (8.75%) Validation
5 6 (7.50%) Agile
5 6 (7.50%) Change Management
5 6 (7.50%) Data Transformation
5 6 (7.50%) Risk Management
5 6 (7.50%) SOAR
5 6 (7.50%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (6.25%) SQL
3 3 (3.75%) Python
4 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (1.25%) CISSP
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) GCFA
5 1 (1.25%) GIAC
5 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) GRC
2 1 (1.25%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.25%) NIST
2 1 (1.25%) PMO
2 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Grafana
2 1 (1.25%) Podman
2 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (38.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.75%) Virgin Media
3 6 (7.50%) SAP
4 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.75%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.75%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) VMware
6 2 (2.50%) Workday
7 1 (1.25%) Avaya
7 1 (1.25%) Ceridian
7 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) NGA Human Resources