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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 78 51 113
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 7.75% 8.46% 9.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.32% 9.09% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 11 53
10th Percentile £242 £575 £428
25th Percentile £475 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +17.26% +1.52%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £625
90th Percentile £718 £738 £673
Berkshire median daily rate £613 £600 £513
% change year-on-year +2.08% +17.07% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile - - £55.50
25th Percentile £35.00 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £73.60 £77.19 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +32.40% -11.67%
75th Percentile £80.06 - £59.95
90th Percentile £82.27 - £64.68
Berkshire median hourly rate £73.60 £63.75 £59.95
% change year-on-year +15.46% +6.33% -8.47%

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 937 561 1,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 93.03% 92.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 350 618
10th Percentile £310 £313 £213
25th Percentile £443 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £547
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.83% -0.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £624
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £504 £513
% change year-on-year -0.70% -1.76% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 5 49
10th Percentile £30.15 £53.50 £32.03
25th Percentile £80.50 - £52.90
Median hourly rate £83.50 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% +13.64% -5.95%
75th Percentile £88.00 - £76.99
90th Percentile £104.00 £74.31 £87.47
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £63.37 £58.30
% change year-on-year +30.97% +8.70% +0.83%

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 19 May 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 19 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 39 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.49%) Azure
2 23 (29.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (28.21%) SC Cleared
4 21 (26.92%) Python
5 16 (20.51%) DevOps
6 15 (19.23%) Agile
7 13 (16.67%) Juniper
7 13 (16.67%) PowerShell
8 11 (14.10%) SIEM
8 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (12.82%) Data Analysis
9 10 (12.82%) Firewall
9 10 (12.82%) SOAR
10 9 (11.54%) CI/CD
10 9 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (10.26%) AWS
11 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (10.26%) Junos
11 8 (10.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (10.26%) SQL
12 7 (8.97%) Cisco
12 7 (8.97%) DV Cleared
12 7 (8.97%) LAN
12 7 (8.97%) Machine Learning
12 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
12 7 (8.97%) Observability
12 7 (8.97%) Oracle
12 7 (8.97%) Splunk
12 7 (8.97%) Terraform

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 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.56%) Appian
1 2 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.28%) CMS
2 1 (1.28%) IIS
2 1 (1.28%) JBoss
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.28%) CATIA
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.49%) Azure
2 8 (10.26%) AWS
2 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.41%) GitHub
4 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (5.13%) Serverless
5 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 3 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.85%) GCP
5 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.56%) IaaS
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.28%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.82%) Firewall
2 8 (10.26%) Junos
3 7 (8.97%) LAN
3 7 (8.97%) WAN
4 6 (7.69%) BGP
4 6 (7.69%) BIG-IP
4 6 (7.69%) OSPF
4 6 (7.69%) VXLAN
5 5 (6.41%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (6.41%) DHCP
5 5 (6.41%) DNS
5 5 (6.41%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (2.56%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.28%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.28%) HSRP
7 1 (1.28%) Multicast
7 1 (1.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.85%) Power BI
2 2 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.56%) Big Data
2 2 (2.56%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.28%) GIS
3 1 (1.28%) MS Access
3 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Git
2 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.56%) JIRA
2 2 (2.56%) Postman
3 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.28%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (11.54%) Aerospace
1 9 (11.54%) Finance
1 9 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.41%) Public Sector
2 5 (6.41%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.85%) Police
4 2 (2.56%) Military
5 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Billing
5 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.28%) Marketing
5 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 4 (5.13%) .NET
2 4 (5.13%) ADO
3 3 (3.85%) REST
4 2 (2.56%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.56%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.56%) React
4 2 (2.56%) YAML
5 1 (1.28%) JSON
5 1 (1.28%) Middleware
5 1 (1.28%) Node.js
5 1 (1.28%) Playwright
5 1 (1.28%) RESTful
5 1 (1.28%) SOAP
5 1 (1.28%) Web Services
5 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.97%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.41%) Clustering
3 5 (6.41%) PKI
4 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.28%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (20.51%) DevOps
3 15 (19.23%) Agile
4 11 (14.10%) SIEM
4 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (12.82%) Data Analysis
5 10 (12.82%) SOAR
6 9 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 9 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (8.97%) Machine Learning
7 7 (8.97%) Observability
8 6 (7.69%) Analytics
8 6 (7.69%) Data Science
8 6 (7.69%) Digital Engineering
8 6 (7.69%) ITSM
8 6 (7.69%) PLM
8 6 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.69%) Service Management
9 5 (6.41%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.92%) Python
2 13 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.26%) Kusto Query Language
3 8 (10.26%) SQL
4 4 (5.13%) C#
5 3 (3.85%) Bash
5 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.56%) Java
6 2 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (1.28%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.28%) Bicep
7 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.41%) JNCIA
5 5 (6.41%) JNCIP
5 5 (6.41%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.56%) PMP
7 1 (1.28%) ACCA
7 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.28%) CCNP
7 1 (1.28%) ICAEW
7 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) PMO
2 4 (5.13%) GDPR
3 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.85%) NIST
3 3 (3.85%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.56%) Ansible
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Juniper
2 7 (8.97%) Cisco
2 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Oracle
2 7 (8.97%) Splunk
3 6 (7.69%) F5
4 5 (6.41%) Extreme Networks
4 5 (6.41%) SAP
4 5 (6.41%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.85%) Fortinet
5 3 (3.85%) LogRhythm
6 2 (2.56%) Databricks
6 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.28%) Adobe
7 1 (1.28%) Concur
7 1 (1.28%) Conga
7 1 (1.28%) Ekahau
7 1 (1.28%) GoCardless
7 1 (1.28%) IBM
7 1 (1.28%) Palo Alto