Senior Contract Job Trends in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior daily rate in Reading is £619, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 87 51 130
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 8.06% 9.41% 10.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.67% 10.02% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 17 59
10th Percentile £356 £468 £435
25th Percentile £475 £570 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £600 £533
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +12.57% -1.30%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £693 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £600 £525
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £35.00 - £55.83
25th Percentile £53.40 £66.25 £56.50
Median hourly rate £78.37 £67.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% +15.78% -21.63%
75th Percentile £85.88 £72.97 £60.23
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.50 £61.55
Berkshire median hourly rate £73.60 £77.19 £58.49
% change year-on-year -4.65% +31.97% -19.21%

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 1,003 509 1,125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.91% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 319 596
10th Percentile £310 £324 £263
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £727 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 14 65
10th Percentile £30.00 £14.75 £37.80
25th Percentile £72.20 £21.97 £52.90
Median hourly rate £83.58 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +67.15% -18.83% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.69 £87.46
90th Percentile £107.00 £70.00 £99.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.60
% change year-on-year +34.97% +1.48% +4.81%

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 30 June 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 30 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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 (50.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (25.29%) SC Cleared
4 21 (24.14%) Azure
5 19 (21.84%) Agile
5 19 (21.84%) Python
6 16 (18.39%) DevOps
6 16 (18.39%) Oracle
7 13 (14.94%) Juniper
8 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (12.64%) DV Cleared
10 10 (11.49%) SQL
11 9 (10.34%) BGP
11 9 (10.34%) CI/CD
11 9 (10.34%) Data Analysis
11 9 (10.34%) Firewall
11 9 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (10.34%) VXLAN
12 8 (9.20%) AWS
12 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (9.20%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (9.20%) Junos
12 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
12 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (9.20%) SIEM
12 8 (9.20%) SOAR
12 8 (9.20%) Validation
13 7 (8.05%) Analytics
13 7 (8.05%) Cisco
13 7 (8.05%) Data Science

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 3 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.30%) Appian
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.15%) CMS
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
3 1 (1.15%) JBoss
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) CATIA
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.15%) Primavera
2 1 (1.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.14%) Azure
2 8 (9.20%) AWS
2 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (4.60%) GCP
4 3 (3.45%) GitHub
4 3 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.45%) SaaS
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.30%) IaaS
5 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.30%) Serverless
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.15%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.15%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) BGP
1 9 (10.34%) Firewall
1 9 (10.34%) VXLAN
2 8 (9.20%) Ethernet VPN
2 8 (9.20%) Junos
3 7 (8.05%) LAN
3 7 (8.05%) WAN
4 6 (6.90%) BIG-IP
4 6 (6.90%) OSPF
5 5 (5.75%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (5.75%) DHCP
5 5 (5.75%) DNS
6 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.15%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.15%) HSRP
7 1 (1.15%) Multicast
7 1 (1.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (3.45%) Big Data
2 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.30%) Power BI
4 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) GIS
4 1 (1.15%) MS Access
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Git
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Postman
3 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.15%) GitLab
3 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (14.94%) Finance
2 10 (11.49%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Aerospace
4 8 (9.20%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Police
7 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Military
8 1 (1.15%) Billing
8 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.45%) ADO
3 2 (2.30%) .NET
3 2 (2.30%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.30%) REST
4 1 (1.15%) JSON
4 1 (1.15%) Middleware
4 1 (1.15%) Playwright
4 1 (1.15%) React
4 1 (1.15%) RESTful
4 1 (1.15%) SOAP
4 1 (1.15%) Web Services
4 1 (1.15%) XML
4 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.05%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.75%) Clustering
3 5 (5.75%) PKI
4 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.15%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (21.84%) Agile
3 16 (18.39%) DevOps
4 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 9 (10.34%) Data Analysis
5 9 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.20%) SIEM
6 8 (9.20%) SOAR
6 8 (9.20%) Validation
7 7 (8.05%) Analytics
7 7 (8.05%) Data Science
7 7 (8.05%) ITSM
7 7 (8.05%) Machine Learning
7 7 (8.05%) Service Management
8 6 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (6.90%) Digital Engineering
8 6 (6.90%) Migration
8 6 (6.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.84%) Python
2 10 (11.49%) SQL
3 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.05%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (3.45%) Java
6 2 (2.30%) C#
7 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.15%) Bicep
7 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (50.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.64%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.75%) JNCIA
5 5 (5.75%) JNCIP
5 5 (5.75%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) CCNP
6 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.15%) PMP
6 1 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) PMO
2 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
3 3 (3.45%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.15%) GRC
4 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (6.90%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.75%) Ansible
2 5 (5.75%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (18.39%) Oracle
2 13 (14.94%) Juniper
3 7 (8.05%) Cisco
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) Splunk
4 6 (6.90%) F5
5 5 (5.75%) Extreme Networks
5 5 (5.75%) SAP
5 5 (5.75%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.45%) Arista
8 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.30%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.15%) Adobe
9 1 (1.15%) Ariba
9 1 (1.15%) Avaya
9 1 (1.15%) Ceridian
9 1 (1.15%) IBM
9 1 (1.15%) NGA Human Resources
9 1 (1.15%) Salesforce