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 22 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 39 108
Rank change year-on-year -10 +69 -43
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 70 57 16
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.87% 4.98% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.87% 14.39% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 13
10th Percentile £317 £354 £279
25th Percentile £497 £454 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £526 £573
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -8.12% +0.66%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £650
90th Percentile £725 £643 £910
South East median daily rate £488 £480 £588
% change year-on-year +1.56% -18.30% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.03 - -
25th Percentile £32.19 - -
Median hourly rate £49.25 - -
75th Percentile £66.19 - -
90th Percentile £76.28 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £17.62 £16.00
% change year-on-year +169.81% +10.13% -

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 644 396 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.56% 34.59% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 240 325
10th Percentile £280 £302 £205
25th Percentile £363 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £646 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 15 28
10th Percentile £19.34 £26.40 £11.79
25th Percentile £38.29 £32.05 £20.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 £53.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.14% +27.38% -35.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.28 £61.63
90th Percentile - £91.05 £68.30
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £47.81 £47.19
% change year-on-year +41.20% +1.31% -5.63%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -11 39 £515 -6.36% 17
Wokingham -12 19 £475 -8.03%
Windsor - 4 £575 - 2
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 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.43%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.43%) R3 Corda
3 1 (1.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.14%) Azure
2 7 (10.00%) AWS
3 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (4.29%) OCI
4 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.29%) SaaS
5 2 (2.86%) GitHub
5 2 (2.86%) PaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.43%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.43%) n8n
6 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Firewall
1 3 (4.29%) Network Security
1 3 (4.29%) VPN
2 2 (2.86%) SNMP
3 1 (1.43%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) LAN
3 1 (1.43%) MPLS
3 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.43%) TETRA
3 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) Power BI
2 2 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.86%) MySQL
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (2.86%) Vitess
3 1 (1.43%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.43%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (1.43%) Metadata
3 1 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Burp Suite
1 2 (2.86%) Metasploit
1 2 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.43%) ERwin
2 1 (1.43%) Git
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.71%) Finance
4 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.86%) Marketing
5 2 (2.86%) Police
6 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Publishing
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) Architect
1 12 (17.14%) Senior
2 7 (10.00%) Analyst
2 7 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 6 (8.57%) Project Manager
4 4 (5.71%) Business Analyst
4 4 (5.71%) Platform Architect
4 4 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Data Modeller
5 3 (4.29%) Designer
5 3 (4.29%) Developer
5 3 (4.29%) IT Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) ITSM Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Service Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Service Designer
5 3 (4.29%) Service Management Analyst
6 2 (2.86%) OSS Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) OSS Systems Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Support Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) REST
1 2 (2.86%) SOAP
2 1 (1.43%) Node.js
2 1 (1.43%) React
2 1 (1.43%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) CMDB
4 2 (2.86%) IVR
4 2 (2.86%) Replication
5 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.43%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) SCADA
5 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (15.71%) Migration
3 11 (15.71%) SIEM
4 10 (14.29%) SOAR
5 9 (12.86%) AI
5 9 (12.86%) Data Analysis
5 9 (12.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 7 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 7 (10.00%) ITSM
7 6 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.57%) Service Management
8 5 (7.14%) Change Management
8 5 (7.14%) Data Modelling
8 5 (7.14%) Project Management
8 5 (7.14%) RBAC
9 4 (5.71%) Agile
9 4 (5.71%) CRM
9 4 (5.71%) Programme Management
9 4 (5.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.00%) Python
2 9 (12.86%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.57%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.86%) SQL
6 1 (1.43%) Bash
6 1 (1.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.86%) CHECK Team Member
4 2 (2.86%) CREST Certified
4 2 (2.86%) Cyber Scheme
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.86%) SLA
4 1 (1.43%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Terraform
2 2 (2.86%) Grafana
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.86%) Nmap
2 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (34.29%) Virgin Media
2 11 (15.71%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.29%) LogRhythm
4 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.29%) SAP
4 3 (4.29%) Sparx
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco
5 2 (2.86%) HubSpot
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle
5 2 (2.86%) Remedy
5 2 (2.86%) Workday
6 1 (1.43%) Adobe
6 1 (1.43%) Avaya
6 1 (1.43%) BMC
6 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) Instagram
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.43%) VMware