Senior Contract Job Trends in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior daily rate in Reading is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 88 51 107
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 7.75% 8.54% 9.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% 9.06% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 25 48
10th Percentile £361 £400 £446
25th Percentile £475 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £604
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -0.62% +7.05%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £653 £720
Berkshire median daily rate £581 £550 £569
% change year-on-year +5.64% -3.25% -1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £53.40 - £53.63
25th Percentile £73.02 £66.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £80.44 £67.50 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.16% +15.89% -20.76%
75th Percentile £86.94 £68.75 £60.67
90th Percentile £88.00 - £69.03
Berkshire median hourly rate £73.60 £77.00 £59.78
% change year-on-year -4.42% +28.82% -9.43%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 1,057 563 1,035
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 94.30% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 362 573
10th Percentile £357 £350 £319
25th Percentile £475 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £644 £622 £650
90th Percentile £744 £700 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 20 47
10th Percentile £30.00 - £45.71
25th Percentile £75.50 £14.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £84.00 £28.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -54.55% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £58.44 £87.48
90th Percentile £105.30 £70.00 £100.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £48.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +72.92% -22.08% +8.29%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Senior job vacancy trend in Reading

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Reading

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Reading over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Reading

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Reading

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Reading over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Reading

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 29 July 2026, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 43 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 25 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 24 (27.27%) Azure
4 22 (25.00%) Agile
5 21 (23.86%) Python
5 21 (23.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (19.32%) DevOps
7 15 (17.05%) Oracle
8 13 (14.77%) Juniper
9 12 (13.64%) DV Cleared
9 12 (13.64%) SQL
9 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
10 10 (11.36%) Firewall
10 10 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (11.36%) Validation
11 9 (10.23%) AWS
11 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (10.23%) BGP
11 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
11 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (10.23%) VXLAN
12 8 (9.09%) Analytics
12 8 (9.09%) Data Analysis
12 8 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (9.09%) Data Science
12 8 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (9.09%) Junos
12 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
12 8 (9.09%) PMO

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.27%) Primavera
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.27%) Azure
2 9 (10.23%) AWS
2 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.68%) GCP
3 5 (5.68%) GitHub
4 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.41%) SaaS
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.27%) IaaS
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Serverless
6 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.36%) Firewall
2 9 (10.23%) BGP
2 9 (10.23%) VXLAN
3 8 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
3 8 (9.09%) Junos
4 7 (7.95%) LAN
4 7 (7.95%) WAN
5 6 (6.82%) BIG-IP
5 6 (6.82%) DHCP
5 6 (6.82%) DNS
5 6 (6.82%) OSPF
6 5 (5.68%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.27%) Network Security
7 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.27%) VPN
8 1 (1.14%) MPLS
8 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.14%) SSL
8 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.55%) Big Data
3 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.27%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.27%) Power BI
4 2 (2.27%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.14%) MS Access
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Git
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) REST Assured
General
1 14 (15.91%) Finance
1 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.23%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.41%) Military
4 3 (3.41%) Police
5 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Advertising
6 1 (1.14%) Billing
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.41%) ADO
2 3 (3.41%) Middleware
2 3 (3.41%) REST
3 2 (2.27%) .NET
3 2 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (2.27%) PySpark
3 2 (2.27%) SOAP
4 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.14%) JSON
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.14%) Playwright
4 1 (1.14%) React
4 1 (1.14%) RESTful
4 1 (1.14%) XML
4 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.95%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.68%) Clustering
3 5 (5.68%) PKI
4 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.00%) Agile
2 21 (23.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (19.32%) DevOps
4 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
5 10 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (11.36%) Validation
6 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (9.09%) Analytics
7 8 (9.09%) Data Analysis
7 8 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (9.09%) Data Science
8 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (7.95%) ITSM
8 7 (7.95%) Machine Learning
8 7 (7.95%) Migration
8 7 (7.95%) Service Management
8 7 (7.95%) SIEM
8 7 (7.95%) SOAR
8 7 (7.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.86%) Python
2 12 (13.64%) SQL
3 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.95%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (4.55%) Java
6 3 (3.41%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.27%) Bicep
7 2 (2.27%) C#
8 1 (1.14%) Bash
8 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 25 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.68%) JNCIA
5 5 (5.68%) JNCIP
5 5 (5.68%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CCNP
6 1 (1.14%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
6 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) PMO
2 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.55%) GDPR
3 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.55%) QA
4 3 (3.41%) NIST
4 3 (3.41%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Ansible
1 6 (6.82%) FortiGate
1 6 (6.82%) Terraform
2 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Oracle
2 13 (14.77%) Juniper
3 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.95%) Cisco
4 7 (7.95%) Splunk
5 6 (6.82%) F5
6 5 (5.68%) Extreme Networks
6 5 (5.68%) SAP
6 5 (5.68%) SolarWinds
7 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.41%) Arista
8 3 (3.41%) Databricks
8 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.27%) LogRhythm
9 2 (2.27%) VMware
10 1 (1.14%) Ariba
10 1 (1.14%) Ceridian
10 1 (1.14%) NGA Human Resources
10 1 (1.14%) Red Hat