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 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 82 47 123
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 8.12% 8.58% 10.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.71% 9.14% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 14 53
10th Percentile £326 £524 £415
25th Percentile £475 £571 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £613 £533
Median % change year-on-year - +14.92% +1.52%
75th Percentile £697 £656 £625
90th Percentile £714 £715 £673
Berkshire median daily rate £606 £588 £513
% change year-on-year +3.19% +14.63% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £67.34 £55.83
25th Percentile £44.20 £68.99 £56.50
Median hourly rate £75.99 £72.35 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +24.09% -21.22%
75th Percentile £82.83 £75.08 £60.23
90th Percentile £85.88 £76.35 £61.55
Berkshire median hourly rate £73.60 £63.75 £58.49
% change year-on-year +15.46% +8.98% -15.47%

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 941 514 1,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 93.80% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 335 599
10th Percentile £310 £335 £213
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
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 140 6 60
10th Percentile £30.34 £54.38 £41.30
25th Percentile £79.94 £67.19 £55.04
Median hourly rate £83.58 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.39% +13.64% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 - £87.46
90th Percentile £107.00 £73.60 £97.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £63.75 £61.03
% change year-on-year +30.21% +4.45% -5.64%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 40 (48.78%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (26.83%) Azure
3 22 (26.83%) SC Cleared
4 18 (21.95%) Python
5 15 (18.29%) DevOps
6 14 (17.07%) Agile
7 13 (15.85%) Juniper
8 12 (14.63%) Oracle
9 11 (13.41%) Data Analysis
9 11 (13.41%) SIEM
9 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (12.20%) Firewall
10 10 (12.20%) PowerShell
10 10 (12.20%) SOAR
11 9 (10.98%) AWS
11 9 (10.98%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (10.98%) SQL
12 8 (9.76%) DV Cleared
12 8 (9.76%) Junos
12 8 (9.76%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
12 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (8.54%) CI/CD
13 7 (8.54%) Cisco
13 7 (8.54%) ITSM
13 7 (8.54%) LAN
13 7 (8.54%) Machine Learning
13 7 (8.54%) PMO

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 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.44%) Appian
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) IIS
3 1 (1.22%) JBoss
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) CATIA
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.22%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) Azure
2 9 (10.98%) AWS
3 7 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.88%) GCP
4 4 (4.88%) GitHub
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.44%) IaaS
6 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.44%) SaaS
6 2 (2.44%) Serverless
7 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.22%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.20%) Firewall
2 8 (9.76%) Junos
3 7 (8.54%) LAN
3 7 (8.54%) WAN
4 6 (7.32%) BGP
4 6 (7.32%) BIG-IP
4 6 (7.32%) OSPF
4 6 (7.32%) VXLAN
5 5 (6.10%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (6.10%) DHCP
5 5 (6.10%) DNS
5 5 (6.10%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.22%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.22%) HSRP
7 1 (1.22%) Multicast
7 1 (1.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (3.66%) Big Data
1 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.66%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.44%) Power BI
3 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.22%) GIS
3 1 (1.22%) MS Access
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Git
1 2 (2.44%) Postman
2 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.22%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) REST Assured
General
1 14 (17.07%) Finance
2 10 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Aerospace
4 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.66%) Police
8 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Military
9 1 (1.22%) Billing
9 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.66%) ADO
3 2 (2.44%) .NET
3 2 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.44%) React
3 2 (2.44%) REST
4 1 (1.22%) JSON
4 1 (1.22%) Middleware
4 1 (1.22%) Node.js
4 1 (1.22%) Playwright
4 1 (1.22%) RESTful
4 1 (1.22%) SOAP
4 1 (1.22%) Web Services
4 1 (1.22%) XML
4 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.54%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.10%) Clustering
3 5 (6.10%) PKI
4 3 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.66%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.22%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (18.29%) DevOps
3 14 (17.07%) Agile
4 11 (13.41%) Data Analysis
4 11 (13.41%) SIEM
4 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (12.20%) SOAR
6 9 (10.98%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (8.54%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.54%) ITSM
8 7 (8.54%) Machine Learning
8 7 (8.54%) Service Management
9 6 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (7.32%) Data Science
9 6 (7.32%) Digital Engineering
9 6 (7.32%) Migration
9 6 (7.32%) Observability
9 6 (7.32%) PLM
10 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.95%) Python
2 10 (12.20%) PowerShell
3 9 (10.98%) SQL
4 8 (9.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (3.66%) Java
6 2 (2.44%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
7 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (48.78%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.10%) JNCIA
5 5 (6.10%) JNCIP
5 5 (6.10%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.22%) ACCA
6 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) CCNP
6 1 (1.22%) ICAEW
6 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PMP
6 1 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) PMO
2 4 (4.88%) GDPR
3 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.66%) NIST
3 3 (3.66%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.22%) IFRS
5 1 (1.22%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) FortiGate
1 6 (7.32%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Juniper
2 12 (14.63%) Oracle
3 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.54%) Cisco
4 7 (8.54%) Splunk
5 6 (7.32%) F5
6 5 (6.10%) Extreme Networks
6 5 (6.10%) SAP
6 5 (6.10%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.66%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.66%) LogRhythm
7 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.22%) Adobe
8 1 (1.22%) Ariba
8 1 (1.22%) Avaya
8 1 (1.22%) Ceridian
8 1 (1.22%) IBM
8 1 (1.22%) NGA Human Resources
8 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.22%) VMware