Senior Contracts in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior daily rate in Reading is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 March 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
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 21 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 81 97 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 11.10% 8.48% 7.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.89% 9.09% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 53
10th Percentile £443 £405 £407
25th Percentile £546 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £620 £588 £613
90th Percentile £630 £650 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £558 £513 £520
% change year-on-year +8.88% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - £55.00 -
25th Percentile - £56.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -10.31% -
75th Percentile - £59.95 £73.19
90th Percentile - £60.45 £78.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.48% -10.31% +34.02%

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 681 1,067 1,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 93.27% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 644 696
10th Percentile £300 £213 £363
25th Percentile £424 £381 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 40 18
10th Percentile - £19.91 £36.82
25th Percentile - £48.94 £55.16
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -12.27% +107.69%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £75.75
90th Percentile - £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £58.00 £64.68
% change year-on-year +6.03% -10.32% +169.48%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Reading over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Reading

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 6 March 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 38 (46.91%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.16%) DV Cleared
3 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
4 15 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 15 (18.52%) Azure
5 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (17.28%) Telecoms
5 14 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
6 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
7 12 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (12.35%) Information Security
8 10 (12.35%) SQL
8 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (11.11%) Finance
9 9 (11.11%) CISM
10 8 (9.88%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 8 (9.88%) SharePoint
10 8 (9.88%) Analytics
10 8 (9.88%) Power BI
10 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
10 8 (9.88%) Product Ownership
11 7 (8.64%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Excel
11 7 (8.64%) Agile
12 6 (7.41%) Retail
12 6 (7.41%) Workflow
12 6 (7.41%) Python
12 6 (7.41%) OO

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 8 (9.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.23%) Primavera
1 1 (1.23%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.52%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.41%) AWS
3 6 (7.41%) GCP
4 3 (3.70%) SaaS
4 3 (3.70%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.23%) Collibra
6 1 (1.23%) dbt
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) BGP
1 5 (6.17%) MPLS
2 4 (4.94%) Ethernet VPN
2 4 (4.94%) VPN
3 2 (2.47%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.23%) Firewall
4 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.23%) LAN
4 1 (1.23%) Network Security
4 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.23%) Skype
4 1 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) Power BI
2 4 (4.94%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.47%) Power Query
3 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) JIRA
2 3 (3.70%) InstallShield
2 3 (3.70%) MSI
3 2 (2.47%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.23%) Git
4 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Telecoms
3 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.11%) Finance
5 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.41%) Marketing
5 6 (7.41%) Retail
6 5 (6.17%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.94%) Electronics
8 2 (2.47%) Billing
8 2 (2.47%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) .NET
1 4 (4.94%) Kafka
1 4 (4.94%) NETCONF
1 4 (4.94%) REST
1 4 (4.94%) RESTCONF
1 4 (4.94%) SOAP
1 4 (4.94%) YANG
2 3 (3.70%) SwiftUI
2 3 (3.70%) Web Services
3 2 (2.47%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.47%) PySpark
4 1 (1.23%) ADO
4 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.23%) CORBA
4 1 (1.23%) CSS
4 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.64%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) CentOS
1 4 (4.94%) Linux
1 4 (4.94%) Unix
2 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (12.35%) Information Security
3 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (9.88%) Analytics
4 8 (9.88%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (8.64%) Agile
6 6 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (7.41%) OO
6 6 (7.41%) Project Delivery
6 6 (7.41%) Test Automation
6 6 (7.41%) Validation
6 6 (7.41%) Workflow
7 5 (6.17%) CI/CD
7 5 (6.17%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (6.17%) Process Improvement
7 5 (6.17%) Project Management
7 5 (6.17%) Roadmaps
7 5 (6.17%) Security Architecture
7 5 (6.17%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) SQL
2 6 (7.41%) Python
3 5 (6.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.70%) Swift
5 2 (2.47%) VBA
6 1 (1.23%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.23%) C#
6 1 (1.23%) Java
6 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.23%) Perl
6 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (46.91%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.16%) DV Cleared
3 15 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.11%) CISM
5 2 (2.47%) ACCA
5 2 (2.47%) CISSP
5 2 (2.47%) ISEB
6 1 (1.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.41%) PMO
3 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.47%) IFRS
4 2 (2.47%) QA
5 1 (1.23%) GRC
5 1 (1.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) Ansible
1 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.23%) Netcool
1 1 (1.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 1 (1.23%) SCCM
1 1 (1.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) SAP
3 4 (4.94%) Oracle
4 3 (3.70%) Databricks
5 2 (2.47%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.47%) Splunk
6 1 (1.23%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.23%) IBM
6 1 (1.23%) Infor
6 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.23%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.23%) VMware