Degree Contracts in Reading

Academic Degree
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +13
Contract jobs citing Degree 80 112 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.27% 9.83% 9.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.35% 26.79% 35.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 67 51
10th Percentile £172 £205 £333
25th Percentile £348 £331 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% -9.09% +12.81%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £581
90th Percentile £613 £639 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 461 418 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 41.91% 36.70% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 262 230
10th Percentile £360 £213 £312
25th Percentile £525 £402 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +6.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £624 £591
90th Percentile £765 £688 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £582 £525 £502
% change year-on-year +10.90% +4.58% +5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 0
10th Percentile £49.39 £57.63 -
25th Percentile £60.07 £62.55 -
Median hourly rate £71.31 £70.63 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 £75.06 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £76.82 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £64.52 £21.03
% change year-on-year -4.52% +206.85% -0.12%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Reading over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Reading

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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 15 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
Applications
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (13.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 34 (42.50%) Azure
2 15 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
2 15 (18.75%) Azure Storage
2 15 (18.75%) Entra ID
2 15 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (12.50%) OCI
4 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.50%) IaaS
6 2 (2.50%) PaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.25%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (40.00%) DNS
2 27 (33.75%) Firewall
3 25 (31.25%) DHCP
4 10 (12.50%) SAN
5 8 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (8.75%) LTE
7 6 (7.50%) 3G
7 6 (7.50%) 4G
7 6 (7.50%) 5G
7 6 (7.50%) Diameter Protocol
7 6 (7.50%) GGSN
7 6 (7.50%) RANAP
7 6 (7.50%) SGSN
7 6 (7.50%) VoLTE
7 6 (7.50%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.25%) ADSL
8 1 (1.25%) DSL
8 1 (1.25%) GSM
8 1 (1.25%) SSL
8 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
1 2 (2.50%) Power BI
1 2 (2.50%) Tableau
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (1.25%) CMake
2 1 (1.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (77.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Telecoms
4 8 (10.00%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Multimedia
6 5 (6.25%) Electronics
6 5 (6.25%) Marketing
7 4 (5.00%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (3.75%) Korean Language
8 3 (3.75%) Legal
8 3 (3.75%) Local Government
9 2 (2.50%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.50%) Law
9 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Games
10 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) Active Directory Support
2 12 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Active Directory Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Support Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Active Directory Specialist
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Specialist
7 4 (5.00%) Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Support Specialist
8 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Trainer
9 2 (2.50%) Configuration Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Management Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.50%) PySpark
3 1 (1.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.25%) CNTK
3 1 (1.25%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) OpenVINO
3 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.25%) XML
3 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (18.75%) PKI
3 12 (15.00%) Management Information System
4 10 (12.50%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.75%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.75%) Solar Power
7 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.25%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.25%) PlayStation
8 1 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (35.00%) Windows
2 26 (32.50%) Linux
3 25 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 25 (31.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 25 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 7 (8.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (8.75%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) ITIL
2 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (28.75%) Agile
4 22 (27.50%) Analytics
5 21 (26.25%) DevOps
6 20 (25.00%) Service Management
7 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
7 18 (22.50%) Release Management
8 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (20.00%) Project Management
9 16 (20.00%) RBAC
10 15 (18.75%) Computer Science
10 15 (18.75%) Identity Management
10 15 (18.75%) Log Analytics
10 15 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (18.75%) Privileged Identity Management
11 11 (13.75%) Statistics
12 10 (12.50%) Converged Infrastructure
12 10 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
12 10 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 16 (20.00%) C#
3 15 (18.75%) Bicep
3 15 (18.75%) VB
3 15 (18.75%) VBScript
4 5 (6.25%) Python
4 5 (6.25%) SQL
5 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.25%) C++
6 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) DV Cleared
1 25 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 11 (13.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (12.50%) CCNA
4 10 (12.50%) CCNP
4 10 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.00%) ACCA
5 4 (5.00%) CIMA
5 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.75%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.50%) CIPFA
7 2 (2.50%) ICAEW
7 2 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.25%) MBA
8 1 (1.25%) OCP
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.75%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) GRC
2 2 (2.50%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 15 (18.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 10 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (31.25%) SCCM
1 25 (31.25%) SCOM
1 25 (31.25%) WSUS
2 15 (18.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
3 10 (12.50%) NetBackup
3 10 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.25%) Juniper
3 12 (15.00%) Oracle
4 11 (13.75%) Palo Alto
5 10 (12.50%) 3PAR
5 10 (12.50%) Cisco
5 10 (12.50%) Dell
5 10 (12.50%) EMC
5 10 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
5 10 (12.50%) HP
5 10 (12.50%) Symantec
5 10 (12.50%) VMware
6 7 (8.75%) Veeam
7 6 (7.50%) Empirix
7 6 (7.50%) NetScout
8 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.75%) Workday
9 2 (2.50%) Databricks
9 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.25%) Remedy