Senior Contract Job Trends in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior daily rate in Reading is £594, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 79 58 110
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 7.59% 9.42% 9.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.04% 9.97% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 16 48
10th Percentile £236 £545 £421
25th Percentile £431 £568 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £610 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% +14.45% +6.60%
75th Percentile £700 £630 £631
90th Percentile £713 £663 £679
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £588 £513
% change year-on-year +2.13% +14.63% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £35.00 - £55.50
25th Percentile £43.75 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £74.30 £77.19 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% +32.40% -11.67%
75th Percentile £78.85 - £59.95
90th Percentile £83.00 - £64.68
Berkshire median hourly rate £73.60 £62.62 £58.30
% change year-on-year +17.53% +7.41% -10.31%

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 983 582 1,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 94.48% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 354 644
10th Percentile £310 £333 £213
25th Percentile £425 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £615
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £505 £501
% change year-on-year -0.99% +0.80% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 4 49
10th Percentile £35.00 - £20.17
25th Percentile £80.75 - £51.52
Median hourly rate £84.00 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -4.99%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.80 £72.33
90th Percentile £105.15 £75.03 £87.47
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £63.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +31.75% +8.06% +4.21%

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 12 April 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 12 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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 34 (43.04%) Security Cleared
2 27 (34.18%) Azure
3 26 (32.91%) Python
4 23 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (26.58%) PowerShell
6 18 (22.78%) SC Cleared
7 17 (21.52%) SIEM
8 16 (20.25%) DevOps
9 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
10 14 (17.72%) Agile
10 14 (17.72%) Firewall
11 13 (16.46%) Juniper
12 12 (15.19%) Data Analysis
12 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
12 12 (15.19%) SOAR
13 11 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (12.66%) Terraform
15 9 (11.39%) Bash
15 9 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
15 9 (11.39%) DHCP
15 9 (11.39%) DNS
15 9 (11.39%) Identity Access Management
15 9 (11.39%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (11.39%) Windows
16 8 (10.13%) Analytics
16 8 (10.13%) AWS
16 8 (10.13%) DevSecOps
16 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 8 (10.13%) Junos

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 2 (2.53%) Appian
1 2 (2.53%) Confluence
1 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.27%) CMS
2 1 (1.27%) IIS
2 1 (1.27%) JBoss
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) CATIA
2 1 (1.27%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) Azure
2 11 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.13%) AWS
4 7 (8.86%) GitHub
5 6 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.59%) Serverless
6 5 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (6.33%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.53%) Azure API Management
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.53%) SaaS
9 1 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.72%) Firewall
2 9 (11.39%) DHCP
2 9 (11.39%) DNS
3 8 (10.13%) Junos
4 7 (8.86%) LAN
4 7 (8.86%) WAN
5 6 (7.59%) BGP
5 6 (7.59%) BIG-IP
5 6 (7.59%) OSPF
5 6 (7.59%) VXLAN
6 5 (6.33%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (6.33%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.53%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.53%) SSL
9 1 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.27%) DMVPN
9 1 (1.27%) HSRP
9 1 (1.27%) MPLS
9 1 (1.27%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.06%) Power BI
2 2 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.27%) GIS
3 1 (1.27%) MS Access
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.80%) Git
3 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.53%) JIRA
3 2 (2.53%) Selenium
General
1 9 (11.39%) Finance
2 8 (10.13%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.86%) Aerospace
4 5 (6.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Billing
6 3 (3.80%) Police
7 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Retail
8 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.27%) Marketing
8 1 (1.27%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) .NET
1 6 (7.59%) 802.1X
2 5 (6.33%) REST
3 4 (5.06%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.06%) ADO
3 4 (5.06%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.53%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.53%) OpenID
4 2 (2.53%) SAML
4 2 (2.53%) YAML
5 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.27%) Node.js
5 1 (1.27%) React
5 1 (1.27%) SOAP
5 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) Onboarding
2 9 (11.39%) PKI
3 7 (8.86%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.33%) Clustering
5 4 (5.06%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.27%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.27%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Windows
2 4 (5.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (21.52%) SIEM
3 16 (20.25%) DevOps
4 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
5 14 (17.72%) Agile
6 12 (15.19%) Data Analysis
6 12 (15.19%) SOAR
7 9 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (11.39%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (10.13%) Analytics
8 8 (10.13%) DevSecOps
8 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (10.13%) Observability
9 7 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (7.59%) Containerisation
10 6 (7.59%) Digital Engineering
10 6 (7.59%) PLM
11 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (6.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.91%) Python
2 21 (26.58%) PowerShell
3 9 (11.39%) Bash
3 9 (11.39%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (7.59%) C#
4 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.06%) PHP
5 4 (5.06%) SQL
6 1 (1.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 34 (43.04%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.33%) JNCIA
4 5 (6.33%) JNCIP
4 5 (6.33%) JNCIS
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.53%) PMP
8 1 (1.27%) ACCA
8 1 (1.27%) CCNP
8 1 (1.27%) ICAEW
8 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) PMO
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.80%) NIST
3 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.27%) IFRS
5 1 (1.27%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) Active Directory
1 6 (7.59%) Docker
2 5 (6.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Terraform
2 6 (7.59%) FortiGate
2 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.06%) Ansible
4 3 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (16.46%) Juniper
2 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) Cisco
3 7 (8.86%) Splunk
4 6 (7.59%) F5
5 5 (6.33%) Extreme Networks
5 5 (6.33%) SolarWinds
5 5 (6.33%) VMware
6 4 (5.06%) LogRhythm
6 4 (5.06%) Oracle
7 3 (3.80%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.53%) Databricks
8 2 (2.53%) SAP
9 1 (1.27%) Adobe
9 1 (1.27%) Avaya
9 1 (1.27%) Ekahau
9 1 (1.27%) ESRI
9 1 (1.27%) IBM
9 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow