Consultant Contracts in Reading

Consultant
Berkshire > Reading

The median Consultant daily rate in Reading is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 7 41
Rank change year-on-year -6 +34 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 129 135 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 10.90% 12.97% 4.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.65% 13.55% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 100 34
10th Percentile £400 £475 £346
25th Percentile £563 £566 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £668 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +24.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £709 £721 £638
90th Percentile £765 £728 £695
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £605 £550
% change year-on-year +3.31% +10.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £52.90 £56.39 -
25th Percentile £54.88 £60.73 £27.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +115.58% -51.61%
75th Percentile £62.25 £66.21 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.29 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £85.00
% change year-on-year -4.75% -23.91% +37.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,107 996 1,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.68% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 664 875
10th Percentile £213 £363 £182
25th Percentile £413 £453 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £622 £651 £596
90th Percentile £688 £721 £652
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 24 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.45 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £51.48 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.20 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Reading

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Reading

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Reading

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 59 (45.74%) SAP
2 52 (40.31%) Security Cleared
3 34 (26.36%) SC Cleared
4 28 (21.71%) DV Cleared
5 27 (20.93%) Oracle
6 26 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
7 24 (18.60%) SAP QM
8 18 (13.95%) PLM
9 17 (13.18%) Agile
10 16 (12.40%) Oracle EBS R12
10 16 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (11.63%) Workshop Facilitation
11 15 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (11.63%) GAP Analysis
12 14 (10.85%) Telecoms
12 14 (10.85%) Regulatory Compliance
12 14 (10.85%) Business Strategy
12 14 (10.85%) SAP EWM
13 13 (10.08%) Integration Testing
14 12 (9.30%) E-business
14 12 (9.30%) Radio Access Network
14 12 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (9.30%) NIST
14 12 (9.30%) Roadmaps
15 11 (8.53%) Procure-to-Pay
15 11 (8.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 11 (8.53%) Azure
15 11 (8.53%) COBIT
16 9 (6.98%) Public Sector

Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 24 (18.60%) SAP QM
2 16 (12.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 14 (10.85%) SAP EWM
4 11 (8.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (6.98%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (5.43%) Maximo
7 4 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (2.33%) SAP PLM
9 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (1.55%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.53%) Azure
2 8 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.55%) AWS
3 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.78%) GCP
4 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.30%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (4.65%) 3G
2 6 (4.65%) 4G
2 6 (4.65%) 5G
3 5 (3.88%) Network Security
4 4 (3.10%) Firewall
5 2 (1.55%) FTP
6 1 (0.78%) Broadband
6 1 (0.78%) Internet
6 1 (0.78%) IPsec
6 1 (0.78%) SNMP
6 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.20%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.10%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.78%) MySQL
5 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.85%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.20%) Finance
6 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.10%) French Language
7 4 (3.10%) German Language
8 2 (1.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) SAP Basis
2 4 (3.10%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.78%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.20%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (5.43%) Operational Technology
3 5 (3.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.55%) iPad
4 2 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.78%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.78%) IoT
5 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.33%) Unix
2 2 (1.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (13.95%) PLM
3 17 (13.18%) Agile
4 15 (11.63%) GAP Analysis
4 15 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
4 15 (11.63%) Workshop Facilitation
5 14 (10.85%) Business Strategy
5 14 (10.85%) Regulatory Compliance
6 13 (10.08%) Integration Testing
7 12 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (9.30%) E-business
7 12 (9.30%) Roadmaps
8 11 (8.53%) Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (6.98%) Conflict Resolution
9 9 (6.98%) Risk Management
10 8 (6.20%) Decision-Making
10 8 (6.20%) DevOps
10 8 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (5.43%) OWASP
11 7 (5.43%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.88%) SQL
2 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.78%) Groovy
3 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (40.31%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 28 (21.71%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (4.65%) CISA
4 6 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (4.65%) CISM
4 6 (4.65%) CISMP
4 6 (4.65%) CISSP
4 6 (4.65%) CRISC
5 3 (2.33%) Degree
5 3 (2.33%) ISACA
6 1 (0.78%) ACCA
6 1 (0.78%) CCSP
6 1 (0.78%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.30%) NIST
2 11 (8.53%) COBIT
3 6 (4.65%) GRC
3 6 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.88%) GDPR
5 2 (1.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.78%) Ansible
1 1 (0.78%) Grafana
1 1 (0.78%) Graylog
1 1 (0.78%) Nagios
1 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (45.74%) SAP
2 27 (20.93%) Oracle
3 4 (3.10%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.55%) Informatica
5 1 (0.78%) BMC
5 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.78%) IBM
5 1 (0.78%) Kenna
5 1 (0.78%) Okta
5 1 (0.78%) Remedy
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) Splunk
5 1 (0.78%) Workday