Project Management Contracts in Reading

Project Management
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 18 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +20
Contract jobs citing Project Management 93 100 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 8.04% 9.79% 14.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.95% 11.00% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 66 144
10th Percentile £350 £363 £323
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +4.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £618 £578
90th Percentile - £676 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £475 £471
% change year-on-year +10.53% +0.96% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £53.67 - -
25th Percentile £60.67 - -
Median hourly rate £72.33 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £55.00 £68.55 £80.00
% change year-on-year -19.77% -14.31% +190.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,039 909 1,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.88% 89.03% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 602 809
10th Percentile £213 £363 £250
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 8
10th Percentile £16.60 £45.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.55 £55.91 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +133.93% +1.82%
75th Percentile £78.84 £74.59 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.48 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.80 £57.82 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.16% +175.32% -0.24%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Reading

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Reading

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Reading over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Reading

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Reading over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management 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 5 (5.38%) SAS
2 4 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.08%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (16.13%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (15.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (10.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.28%) Azure
2 14 (15.05%) OCI
3 2 (2.15%) SaaS
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.08%) AWS
4 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.20%) Firewall
2 14 (15.05%) DHCP
2 14 (15.05%) DNS
2 14 (15.05%) SAN
3 6 (6.45%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.15%) WAN
5 1 (1.08%) LAN
5 1 (1.08%) MPLS
5 1 (1.08%) SDH
5 1 (1.08%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.08%) SMS
5 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.08%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.08%) MySQL
2 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) JIRA
General
1 40 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.11%) Telecoms
3 15 (16.13%) Finance
4 10 (10.75%) Mandarin Language
5 9 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.45%) Legal
8 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.30%) Marketing
10 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Retail
12 1 (1.08%) Billing
12 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Project Manager
2 18 (19.35%) Analyst
3 14 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (15.05%) Senior
4 10 (10.75%) Storage Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.53%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (7.53%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (7.53%) Senior Manager
5 7 (7.53%) Senior Project Manager
6 5 (5.38%) Developer
6 5 (5.38%) IFS Developer
6 5 (5.38%) Lead
7 4 (4.30%) Assistant Project Manager
7 4 (4.30%) Coordinator
7 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared Project Manager
7 4 (4.30%) PMO Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) Report Developer
7 4 (4.30%) Server Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.08%) ADO
1 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.30%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.43%) Windows
2 15 (16.13%) Linux
3 14 (15.05%) Windows 10
3 14 (15.05%) Windows Server
3 14 (15.05%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (15.05%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (15.05%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (15.05%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (32.26%) Project Delivery
3 17 (18.28%) ITIL
4 15 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
5 14 (15.05%) Break/Fix
5 14 (15.05%) Converged Infrastructure
5 14 (15.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (15.05%) Performance Monitoring
5 14 (15.05%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (15.05%) Proactive Monitoring
5 14 (15.05%) Server Management
5 14 (15.05%) Storage Management
6 12 (12.90%) Change Management
7 11 (11.83%) Agile
7 11 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (11.83%) Time Management
8 10 (10.75%) Acceptance Criteria
8 10 (10.75%) Business Analysis
8 10 (10.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.05%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (30.11%) Degree
2 26 (27.96%) Security Cleared
3 23 (24.73%) DV Cleared
4 17 (18.28%) SC Cleared
5 14 (15.05%) CCNA
5 14 (15.05%) CCNP
5 14 (15.05%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.38%) PMP
7 3 (3.23%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.35%) PMO
2 7 (7.53%) QA
3 3 (3.23%) SLA
4 1 (1.08%) ITGC
4 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (15.05%) Active Directory
1 14 (15.05%) Hyper-V
1 14 (15.05%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (15.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (16.13%) SCCM
2 14 (15.05%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (15.05%) NetBackup
2 14 (15.05%) SCOM
2 14 (15.05%) vCenter Server
2 14 (15.05%) WSUS
3 1 (1.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
3 1 (1.08%) Graylog
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.08%) Nagios
3 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.20%) Cisco
3 15 (16.13%) EMC
4 14 (15.05%) 3PAR
4 14 (15.05%) Dell
4 14 (15.05%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (15.05%) HP
4 14 (15.05%) Juniper
4 14 (15.05%) Oracle
4 14 (15.05%) Palo Alto
4 14 (15.05%) Symantec
4 14 (15.05%) Veeam
4 14 (15.05%) VMware
5 5 (5.38%) IFS
6 1 (1.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.08%) Citrix
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Isilon
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) Splunk