Senior Contracts in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior daily rate in Reading is £533 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 24 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 123 83 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 10.41% 7.92% 5.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.26% 8.30% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 54 46
10th Percentile £415 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £620
90th Percentile £673 £639 £731
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 0
10th Percentile £55.83 £65.60 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £66.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% - -
75th Percentile £60.23 £75.89 -
90th Percentile £61.55 £78.74 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.49 £69.20 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.47% +6.46% -

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 1,092 1,000 1,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 95.42% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 652 881
10th Percentile £213 £363 £176
25th Percentile £413 £460 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +11.90% +3.47%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £592
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 23 8
10th Percentile £42.00 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £55.75 £58.32 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +135.71% -13.85%
75th Percentile £87.46 £75.38 £33.10
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.19 £34.92
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.06 £64.68 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.59% +207.98% -2.33%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Reading over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Reading

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Reading over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 50 (40.65%) Security Cleared
2 32 (26.02%) Microsoft
3 31 (25.20%) DV Cleared
4 27 (21.95%) Azure
5 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (20.33%) Social Skills
7 22 (17.89%) Agile
8 21 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (17.07%) DevOps
8 21 (17.07%) Public Sector
9 18 (14.63%) Decision-Making
10 16 (13.01%) Cisco
10 16 (13.01%) Finance
11 15 (12.20%) Telecoms
11 15 (12.20%) Migration
11 15 (12.20%) SC Cleared
12 14 (11.38%) Roadmaps
13 13 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (10.57%) Windows
14 12 (9.76%) Project Management
15 11 (8.94%) Configuration Management
15 11 (8.94%) Java
15 11 (8.94%) AWS
15 11 (8.94%) Test Automation
15 11 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
15 11 (8.94%) Kubernetes
16 10 (8.13%) Cucumber
16 10 (8.13%) Portfolio Management
16 10 (8.13%) Selenium
16 10 (8.13%) Software Engineering

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Primavera
2 2 (1.63%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.95%) Azure
2 11 (8.94%) AWS
3 7 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.44%) SaaS
6 2 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.63%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.63%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.81%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.32%) DMZ
1 9 (7.32%) Firewall
2 7 (5.69%) LAN
2 7 (5.69%) WAN
3 5 (4.07%) 3G
3 5 (4.07%) 4G
3 5 (4.07%) 5G
3 5 (4.07%) Network Security
3 5 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.63%) Broadband
4 2 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.44%) Power BI
2 2 (1.63%) GIS
3 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Cucumber
1 10 (8.13%) Selenium
2 8 (6.50%) GitLab
2 8 (6.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.50%) JIRA
2 8 (6.50%) REST Assured
2 8 (6.50%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.25%) JMeter
4 2 (1.63%) Git
4 2 (1.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) CMake
5 1 (0.81%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.81%) MSI
General
1 25 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.01%) Finance
4 15 (12.20%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.32%) Banking
6 9 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.69%) Law
7 7 (5.69%) Police
8 3 (2.44%) Aviation
8 3 (2.44%) Local Government
9 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.50%) ARM Templates
1 8 (6.50%) Java EE
1 8 (6.50%) REST
2 7 (5.69%) Itk
3 2 (1.63%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.81%) CNTK
4 1 (0.81%) JSON
4 1 (0.81%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.81%) Kafka
4 1 (0.81%) NumPy
4 1 (0.81%) OpenVINO
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.81%) Pandas
4 1 (0.81%) PySpark
4 1 (0.81%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.81%) Symfony
4 1 (0.81%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.81%) XML
4 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.63%) NHS
3 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.81%) Cybercrime
3 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.81%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.57%) Windows
2 8 (6.50%) Linux
3 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.81%) Android
5 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.81%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (17.89%) Agile
3 21 (17.07%) DevOps
3 21 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (14.63%) Decision-Making
5 15 (12.20%) Migration
6 14 (11.38%) Roadmaps
7 13 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (9.76%) Project Management
9 11 (8.94%) Configuration Management
9 11 (8.94%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.13%) PLM
10 10 (8.13%) Portfolio Management
10 10 (8.13%) Software Engineering
11 9 (7.32%) B2B
11 9 (7.32%) Change Management
11 9 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (7.32%) Project Delivery
11 9 (7.32%) Software Architecture
12 8 (6.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.94%) Java
2 6 (4.88%) Python
3 5 (4.07%) C
4 3 (2.44%) C#
4 3 (2.44%) SQL
5 2 (1.63%) C++
5 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.63%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (40.65%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.20%) DV Cleared
3 15 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.63%) ACCA
6 2 (1.63%) CIMA
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) Degree
7 1 (0.81%) ISACA
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.44%) PMO
2 2 (1.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) COBIT
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (6.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 11 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.50%) Ansible
2 8 (6.50%) Docker Swarm
2 8 (6.50%) Podman
2 8 (6.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) Istio
3 1 (0.81%) Nagios
3 1 (0.81%) Nessus
Vendors
1 32 (26.02%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.01%) Cisco
3 9 (7.32%) Arista
3 9 (7.32%) CheckPoint
4 7 (5.69%) Juniper
4 7 (5.69%) Splunk
5 1 (0.81%) Citrix
5 1 (0.81%) Databricks
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle
5 1 (0.81%) Qualys
5 1 (0.81%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.81%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.81%) VMware