Senior Contracts in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior daily rate in Reading is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 27 22
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 118 72 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 10.78% 6.70% 6.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.96% 7.21% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 47 61
10th Percentile £425 £400 £375
25th Percentile £525 £488 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £639 £625
90th Percentile £730 £738 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £56.57 £60.93 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £64.19 -
Median hourly rate £59.78 £69.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.30% - -
75th Percentile £61.98 £75.69 -
90th Percentile £63.63 £76.47 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.49 £68.63 -
% change year-on-year -14.77% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 987 998 1,369
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 92.92% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 661 866
10th Percentile £339 £238 £308
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £525 £502
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% +4.69% +2.87%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 10
10th Percentile £48.18 £58.98 £17.26
25th Percentile £56.25 £61.04 £24.66
Median hourly rate £63.15 £64.31 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +21.34% +13.37%
75th Percentile £100.00 £69.56 £71.19
90th Percentile - £75.23 £75.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.79 £41.20
% change year-on-year -0.48% +49.99% -11.88%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Reading over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Reading

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Reading

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 14 November 2024, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 46 (38.98%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.27%) DV Cleared
3 24 (20.34%) Microsoft
4 23 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (18.64%) Social Skills
6 18 (15.25%) Telecoms
7 17 (14.41%) Azure
7 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
8 16 (13.56%) Roadmaps
9 15 (12.71%) Product Ownership
9 15 (12.71%) AWS
9 15 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
11 13 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (11.02%) GCP
11 13 (11.02%) Agile
12 12 (10.17%) Strategic Roadmap
13 11 (9.32%) SQL
13 11 (9.32%) Python
13 11 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (8.47%) JIRA
14 10 (8.47%) Finance
14 10 (8.47%) Power Platform
14 10 (8.47%) Power BI
15 9 (7.63%) CI/CD
15 9 (7.63%) Project Management
15 9 (7.63%) MPLS
15 9 (7.63%) BGP
15 9 (7.63%) OO
15 9 (7.63%) Analytical Skills

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 8 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.85%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.39%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (2.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.69%) Sketch
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.41%) Azure
2 15 (12.71%) AWS
3 13 (11.02%) GCP
3 13 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.24%) OCI
7 3 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.54%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.85%) dbt
8 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.63%) BGP
1 9 (7.63%) MPLS
2 7 (5.93%) Ethernet VPN
2 7 (5.93%) VPN
3 2 (1.69%) Broadband
3 2 (1.69%) Internet
3 2 (1.69%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.85%) IPv6
4 1 (0.85%) LAN
4 1 (0.85%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) OSPF
4 1 (0.85%) Skype
4 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.47%) Power BI
2 7 (5.93%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.69%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.85%) GIS
5 1 (0.85%) MySQL
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) JIRA
2 4 (3.39%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) InstallShield
2 4 (3.39%) MSI
3 3 (2.54%) Selenium
4 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.69%) JMeter
4 2 (1.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.25%) Telecoms
3 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.47%) Finance
5 9 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.93%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.93%) Marketing
7 5 (4.24%) Electronics
8 3 (2.54%) Legal
9 2 (1.69%) Law
9 2 (1.69%) Military
9 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) Kafka
1 7 (5.93%) NETCONF
1 7 (5.93%) REST
1 7 (5.93%) RESTCONF
1 7 (5.93%) SOAP
1 7 (5.93%) YANG
2 4 (3.39%) .NET
3 3 (2.54%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.54%) Entity Framework
3 3 (2.54%) GraphQL
3 3 (2.54%) SwiftUI
4 2 (1.69%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.85%) ADO
5 1 (0.85%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.85%) CORBA
5 1 (0.85%) CSS
5 1 (0.85%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) Node.js
5 1 (0.85%) RESTful
5 1 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.85%) Animation
5 1 (0.85%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.85%) Cybercrime
5 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.85%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.93%) CentOS
1 7 (5.93%) Linux
1 7 (5.93%) Unix
2 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.54%) Windows
3 2 (1.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.85%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (13.56%) Roadmaps
3 15 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (11.02%) Agile
5 12 (10.17%) Strategic Roadmap
6 11 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (7.63%) Analytics
7 9 (7.63%) CI/CD
7 9 (7.63%) DevOps
7 9 (7.63%) OO
7 9 (7.63%) Project Management
8 7 (5.93%) API Design
8 7 (5.93%) Business Analysis
8 7 (5.93%) Change Management
8 7 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (5.93%) Customer Requirements
8 7 (5.93%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (5.93%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (5.93%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.32%) Python
1 11 (9.32%) SQL
2 6 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.39%) C#
5 3 (2.54%) Java
5 3 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.54%) Swift
6 1 (0.85%) Perl
6 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (38.98%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.27%) DV Cleared
3 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) CISM
5 2 (1.69%) Degree
6 1 (0.85%) CCIE
6 1 (0.85%) CCIE Service Provider
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) PMO
2 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) GRC
3 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Ansible
2 1 (0.85%) Nagios
2 1 (0.85%) Nessus
2 1 (0.85%) Netcool
2 1 (0.85%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (0.85%) SCCM
2 1 (0.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.63%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.08%) Adobe
3 6 (5.08%) Oracle
3 6 (5.08%) SAP
4 2 (1.69%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.85%) IBM
5 1 (0.85%) Qualys
5 1 (0.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.85%) Splunk
5 1 (0.85%) VMware