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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 17 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 88 55 113
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 7.73% 9.48% 9.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.26% 10.07% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 24 51
10th Percentile £361 £400 £450
25th Percentile £475 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £630 £675
90th Percentile £700 £663 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £590 £568
% change year-on-year +1.69% +3.87% -1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £35.00 - £54.48
25th Percentile £53.40 £66.25 £56.31
Median hourly rate £78.37 £67.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% +15.78% -20.68%
75th Percentile £85.88 £68.75 £60.23
90th Percentile £88.00 - £65.84
Berkshire median hourly rate £73.60 £77.00 £58.49
% change year-on-year -4.42% +31.65% -15.47%

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 1,065 546 1,077
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 94.14% 91.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 345 587
10th Percentile £353 £350 £313
25th Percentile £467 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £644 £613 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £705
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £508 £539
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.80% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 20 55
10th Percentile £30.00 - £42.00
25th Percentile £73.00 £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 £106.50 £70.00 £100.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £48.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +72.92% -22.08% +4.85%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 44 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 23 (26.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (23.86%) Azure
5 20 (22.73%) Agile
5 20 (22.73%) Python
6 15 (17.05%) DevOps
6 15 (17.05%) Oracle
7 13 (14.77%) Juniper
7 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (13.64%) DV Cleared
9 11 (12.50%) SQL
10 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
10 10 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (10.23%) AWS
11 9 (10.23%) BGP
11 9 (10.23%) Data Analysis
11 9 (10.23%) Firewall
11 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
11 9 (10.23%) Validation
11 9 (10.23%) VXLAN
12 8 (9.09%) Analytics
12 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
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
12 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (9.09%) SIEM

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%) CATIA
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (6.82%) 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 21 (23.86%) Azure
2 9 (10.23%) AWS
3 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.68%) GCP
4 5 (5.68%) GitHub
5 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.41%) SaaS
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.27%) IaaS
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Serverless
7 1 (1.14%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) BGP
1 9 (10.23%) Firewall
1 9 (10.23%) VXLAN
2 8 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
2 8 (9.09%) Junos
3 7 (7.95%) LAN
3 7 (7.95%) WAN
4 6 (6.82%) BIG-IP
4 6 (6.82%) OSPF
5 5 (5.68%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (5.68%) DHCP
5 5 (5.68%) DNS
6 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.14%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.14%) MPLS
7 1 (1.14%) SSL
7 1 (1.14%) TETRA
7 1 (1.14%) VPN
7 1 (1.14%) VRRP
7 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
5 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.14%) MS Access
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.14%) Spark SQL
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 13 (14.77%) Finance
2 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.41%) Police
6 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Military
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
7 1 (1.14%) Billing
7 1 (1.14%) Legal
7 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 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%) SOAP
4 1 (1.14%) JSON
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.14%) Playwright
4 1 (1.14%) PySpark
4 1 (1.14%) React
4 1 (1.14%) RESTful
4 1 (1.14%) XML
4 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.95%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.68%) Clustering
3 5 (5.68%) PKI
4 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
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
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (22.73%) Agile
3 15 (17.05%) DevOps
4 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
5 10 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (10.23%) Data Analysis
6 9 (10.23%) Validation
7 8 (9.09%) Analytics
7 8 (9.09%) Data Science
7 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (9.09%) SIEM
7 8 (9.09%) SOAR
8 7 (7.95%) Data Pipeline
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%) Test Automation
9 6 (6.82%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.73%) Python
2 11 (12.50%) 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%) C#
8 1 (1.14%) Bicep
8 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (50.00%) 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%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) PMO
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.55%) GDPR
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.55%) QA
3 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 3 (3.41%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.14%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.68%) Ansible
2 5 (5.68%) Terraform
3 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
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%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.27%) Databricks
9 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.27%) LogRhythm
10 1 (1.14%) Ariba
10 1 (1.14%) Avaya
10 1 (1.14%) Ceridian
10 1 (1.14%) IBM
10 1 (1.14%) NGA Human Resources