Senior Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 46 115 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.92% 10.30% 7.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.58% 11.62% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 49 56
10th Percentile £395 £446 £405
25th Percentile £458 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +1.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £638
90th Percentile £741 £718 £738
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £552 £577
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.33% +9.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile - £56.85 £63.83
25th Percentile £66.25 £58.49 £66.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.06 £69.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -12.46% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.73 £74.91
90th Percentile - £72.08 £75.77
Berkshire median hourly rate £86.50 £61.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +40.66% -6.83% -

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 536 990 1,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 88.71% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 541 708
10th Percentile £343 £334 £312
25th Percentile £423 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +5.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 40 18
10th Percentile - £48.92 £38.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £58.24 £54.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £70.27 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +6.47% +89.17%
75th Percentile £55.00 £87.47 £74.59
90th Percentile £69.00 £100.00 £75.77
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.18 £61.75 £56.89
% change year-on-year -47.89% +8.55% +63.04%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 15 (32.61%) Agile
3 12 (26.09%) Azure
4 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
5 10 (21.74%) Python
6 9 (19.57%) AWS
6 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
6 9 (19.57%) DevOps
7 8 (17.39%) Waterfall
7 8 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (15.22%) Information Security
8 7 (15.22%) GCP
9 6 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
9 6 (13.04%) CISM
9 6 (13.04%) Scrum
9 6 (13.04%) Databricks
10 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
10 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
10 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.87%) Cisco
10 5 (10.87%) Java
10 5 (10.87%) JIRA
10 5 (10.87%) Process Improvement
10 5 (10.87%) GitHub
10 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
11 4 (8.70%) SDLC
11 4 (8.70%) CQRS

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 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (15.22%) GCP
5 5 (10.87%) GitHub
5 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle CX
6 2 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) Contentstack
7 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.17%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) 802.11
1 3 (6.52%) VLAN
1 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (6.52%) Wireless
2 2 (4.35%) 5G
2 2 (4.35%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (4.35%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (4.35%) SMS
2 2 (4.35%) SS7
2 2 (4.35%) VoLTE
2 2 (4.35%) VoWiFi
2 2 (4.35%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.17%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Big Data
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
1 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) JMeter
2 2 (4.35%) JUnit
2 2 (4.35%) Mockito
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.35%) Law
4 2 (4.35%) Local Government
5 1 (2.17%) Billing
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) FastAPI
1 4 (8.70%) HTML
1 4 (8.70%) RESTful
1 4 (8.70%) Web Services
2 3 (6.52%) 802.1X
2 3 (6.52%) jQuery
2 3 (6.52%) JSON
2 3 (6.52%) React
2 3 (6.52%) REST
2 3 (6.52%) XML
3 2 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (4.35%) Apache Camel
3 2 (4.35%) CSS
3 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.35%) Node.js
3 2 (4.35%) Spring
3 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.35%) WireMock
4 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) IoT
2 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.17%) FlexPod
3 1 (2.17%) PMI
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Unix
3 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
4 1 (2.17%) Android
4 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
3 9 (19.57%) DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) Waterfall
5 7 (15.22%) Information Security
6 6 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (13.04%) Scrum
7 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
7 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.87%) Process Improvement
7 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (8.70%) Business Analysis
8 4 (8.70%) CQRS
8 4 (8.70%) Design Patterns
8 4 (8.70%) Generative AI
8 4 (8.70%) SDLC
8 4 (8.70%) Validation
8 4 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 4 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) Java
3 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Scala
5 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) CISM
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) CISSP
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.52%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.35%) CCSP
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) GCFA
5 2 (4.35%) GCFE
5 2 (4.35%) GCIH
5 2 (4.35%) GREM
6 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) EnCase
2 2 (4.35%) FTK
2 2 (4.35%) Kibana
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (2.17%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Databricks
2 5 (10.87%) Cisco
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Virgin Media
4 3 (6.52%) AirMagnet
4 3 (6.52%) Aruba
4 3 (6.52%) Darktrace
4 3 (6.52%) Ekahau
4 3 (6.52%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (6.52%) Juniper
4 3 (6.52%) Meraki
5 2 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) Splunk
6 1 (2.17%) Commvault
6 1 (2.17%) NetApp
6 1 (2.17%) Remedy
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.17%) SAP