Consultant Contracts in Reading

Consultant
Berkshire > Reading

The median Consultant daily rate in Reading is £654 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 +34 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 128 109 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 11.06% 10.77% 4.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.96% 11.27% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 80 35
10th Percentile £400 £462 £385
25th Percentile £563 £550 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +22.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £716 £721 £650
90th Percentile £765 £750 £693
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £605 £550
% change year-on-year +3.31% +10.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile - £56.39 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £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 - £66.21 £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.75% +12.48% -7.26%

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 1,070 967 1,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 95.55% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 648 873
10th Percentile £213 £363 £185
25th Percentile £420 £459 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +11.11% +4.21%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £594
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £491
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.87% +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 22 7
10th Percentile £32.03 £45.25 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £55.91 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +151.92% -5.45%
75th Percentile £76.99 £74.59 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £57.82 £19.25
% change year-on-year +0.83% +200.35% -8.55%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 (46.09%) SAP
2 50 (39.06%) Security Cleared
3 31 (24.22%) SC Cleared
4 28 (21.88%) Oracle
5 27 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
6 25 (19.53%) SAP QM
7 24 (18.75%) DV Cleared
8 16 (12.50%) Agile
8 16 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
8 16 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
8 16 (12.50%) SAP EWM
8 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
9 14 (10.94%) Telecoms
9 14 (10.94%) Integration Testing
10 13 (10.16%) PLM
11 12 (9.38%) E-business
11 12 (9.38%) Roadmaps
11 12 (9.38%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (8.59%) Azure
12 11 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (8.59%) Procure-to-Pay
12 11 (8.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 11 (8.59%) NIST
13 10 (7.81%) COBIT
14 9 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (7.03%) Oracle EBS
14 9 (7.03%) Oracle Forms

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 25 (19.53%) SAP QM
2 16 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 16 (12.50%) SAP EWM
3 11 (8.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (7.03%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (5.47%) Maximo
6 6 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (2.34%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (2.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (1.56%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (1.56%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.78%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.78%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.78%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.59%) Azure
2 8 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.56%) AWS
3 2 (1.56%) 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 (9.38%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (4.69%) 3G
2 6 (4.69%) 4G
2 6 (4.69%) 5G
3 4 (3.13%) Firewall
3 4 (3.13%) Network Security
4 2 (1.56%) FTP
5 1 (0.78%) Broadband
5 1 (0.78%) Internet
5 1 (0.78%) IPsec
5 1 (0.78%) SNMP
5 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) Oracle Database
2 5 (3.91%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.56%) 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 (7.03%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.34%) JIRA
General
1 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.94%) Telecoms
4 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.25%) Finance
6 4 (3.13%) French Language
6 4 (3.13%) German Language
7 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.47%) SAP Basis
2 5 (3.91%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.78%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.47%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.56%) iPad
5 2 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.34%) Unix
2 2 (1.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (12.50%) Agile
2 16 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
2 16 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 16 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 14 (10.94%) Integration Testing
4 13 (10.16%) PLM
5 12 (9.38%) E-business
5 12 (9.38%) Roadmaps
6 11 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (8.59%) Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (7.03%) Business Strategy
7 9 (7.03%) Regulatory Compliance
7 9 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (6.25%) Conflict Resolution
8 8 (6.25%) Decision-Making
8 8 (6.25%) DevOps
8 8 (6.25%) Risk Management
9 7 (5.47%) Project Delivery
10 6 (4.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.91%) SQL
2 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.78%) Groovy
3 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 24 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (4.69%) CISA
4 6 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (4.69%) CISM
4 6 (4.69%) CISMP
4 6 (4.69%) CISSP
4 6 (4.69%) CRISC
5 3 (2.34%) Degree
6 2 (1.56%) ISACA
7 1 (0.78%) ACCA
7 1 (0.78%) CCSP
7 1 (0.78%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.59%) NIST
2 10 (7.81%) COBIT
3 6 (4.69%) GRC
3 6 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.13%) GDPR
5 2 (1.56%) 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 (46.09%) SAP
2 28 (21.88%) Oracle
3 4 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.56%) 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