Project Management Contracts in Berkshire

Project Management
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Management 159 197 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.33% 11.24% 14.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.36% 12.50% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 134 222
10th Percentile £314 £349 £333
25th Percentile £413 £386 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +0.96% +10.71%
75th Percentile £608 £599 £560
90th Percentile £649 £638 £613
South East median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% - +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £41.25 £54.20 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £58.91 £77.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £68.55 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% -14.31% +190.91%
75th Percentile £62.00 £78.91 £82.50
90th Percentile £72.33 £84.07 -
South East median hourly rate £32.75 £46.05 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.88% +39.55% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,698 1,576 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.95% 89.90% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,005 1,363
10th Percentile £231 £350 £272
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 48 37
10th Percentile £17.45 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.72 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.57 £57.82 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +175.32% -0.24%
75th Percentile £71.89 £73.69 £35.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £73.11
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Berkshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Berkshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Berkshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Berkshire

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in Berkshire

Project Management
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 Project Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 -1 92 £501 -4.21% 53
Bracknell -7 26 £550 -8.33% 10
Slough 0 7 £525 +16.67% 8
Wokingham +2 3 £575 - 6
Newbury -7 3 £475 +11.76% 6
Windsor -9 3 £763 +205.00% 3
Maidenhead -9 2 £550 -8.33% 3
Project Management
South East

Project Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.77%) Confluence
2 5 (3.14%) SAS
3 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (15.09%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (13.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (8.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Primavera
2 3 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.26%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.26%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.95%) Azure
2 15 (9.43%) OCI
3 7 (4.40%) Smartsheet
4 3 (1.89%) SaaS
5 2 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.63%) AWS
6 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.63%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.06%) Firewall
2 14 (8.81%) DHCP
2 14 (8.81%) DNS
2 14 (8.81%) SAN
3 6 (3.77%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (2.52%) WAN
5 2 (1.26%) LAN
5 2 (1.26%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.26%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.26%) VPN
6 1 (0.63%) Junos
6 1 (0.63%) MPLS
6 1 (0.63%) SDH
6 1 (0.63%) SMS
6 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.63%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.14%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (1.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.26%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.63%) MySQL
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.63%) Power BI
3 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) JIRA
General
1 73 (45.91%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.38%) Finance
3 31 (19.50%) Telecoms
4 20 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.58%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.32%) Legal
6 17 (10.69%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (6.29%) Mandarin Language
8 9 (5.66%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (5.03%) Marketing
10 7 (4.40%) Law
10 7 (4.40%) Retail
11 6 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.26%) Automotive
13 1 (0.63%) Billing
13 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (32.08%) Project Manager
2 20 (12.58%) Analyst
3 19 (11.95%) Senior
4 14 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (8.18%) Lead
6 10 (6.29%) Storage Engineer
7 9 (5.66%) Senior Manager
7 9 (5.66%) Senior Project Manager
8 8 (5.03%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.40%) HR Manager
9 7 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Development Manager
11 5 (3.14%) Business Manager
11 5 (3.14%) Developer
11 5 (3.14%) Finance Manager
11 5 (3.14%) Operations Manager
11 5 (3.14%) Project Leader
11 5 (3.14%) Systems Development Manager
11 5 (3.14%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 2 (1.26%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (0.63%) ADO
2 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.69%) Data Centre
2 13 (8.18%) PMI
3 9 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.40%) Life Science
5 6 (3.77%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.52%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.26%) Replication
10 1 (0.63%) Blog
10 1 (0.63%) CCTV
10 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Social Media
10 1 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.21%) Windows
2 16 (10.06%) Windows Server
2 16 (10.06%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (9.43%) Linux
4 14 (8.81%) Windows 10
4 14 (8.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (8.81%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (8.81%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (25.79%) Project Delivery
3 27 (16.98%) Agile
4 25 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (14.47%) Change Management
5 23 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (13.21%) ITIL
7 19 (11.95%) PRINCE2
7 19 (11.95%) Risk Management
8 16 (10.06%) Collaborative Working
9 15 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (9.43%) Matrix Organization
9 15 (9.43%) Roadmaps
10 14 (8.81%) Break/Fix
10 14 (8.81%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (8.81%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (8.81%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (8.81%) Portfolio Management
10 14 (8.81%) Proactive Monitoring
10 14 (8.81%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.06%) PowerShell
2 8 (5.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (34.59%) Degree
2 36 (22.64%) Security Cleared
3 29 (18.24%) DV Cleared
4 21 (13.21%) SC Cleared
5 17 (10.69%) PMI Certification
6 15 (9.43%) CCNA
6 15 (9.43%) CCNP
6 15 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.77%) PMP
8 5 (3.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (2.52%) CISM
9 4 (2.52%) CISSP
9 4 (2.52%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.89%) APMP
11 2 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.26%) MBA
11 2 (1.26%) PgMP
12 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.63%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.47%) PMO
2 12 (7.55%) QA
3 5 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.89%) SLA
5 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) ITGC
System Software
1 15 (9.43%) Active Directory
1 15 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (8.81%) Hyper-V
2 14 (8.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (9.43%) SCCM
2 14 (8.81%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (8.81%) NetBackup
2 14 (8.81%) SCOM
2 14 (8.81%) vCenter Server
2 14 (8.81%) WSUS
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Grafana
3 1 (0.63%) Graylog
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.63%) Nagios
3 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.69%) Oracle
3 16 (10.06%) Cisco
4 15 (9.43%) EMC
4 15 (9.43%) Juniper
4 15 (9.43%) VMware
5 14 (8.81%) 3PAR
5 14 (8.81%) Dell
5 14 (8.81%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (8.81%) HP
5 14 (8.81%) Palo Alto
5 14 (8.81%) Symantec
5 14 (8.81%) Veeam
6 5 (3.14%) IFS
6 5 (3.14%) Reuters
7 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.52%) SAP
8 2 (1.26%) Workday
9 1 (0.63%) Concur
9 1 (0.63%) Splunk