Technical Leadership Contracts in Reading

Technical Leadership
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Technical Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 75 70
Rank change year-on-year +33 -5 -26
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 50 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.22% 1.15% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 1.28% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 21
10th Percentile £553 £438 £444
25th Percentile £594 £482 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% +3.57% +11.70%
75th Percentile £688 £697 £538
90th Percentile £719 £725 £556
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +15.56% +7.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Technical Leadership 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 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Reading

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Reading

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Reading

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in Reading

Technical Leadership
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) GCP
3 7 (14.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.00%) PaaS
4 1 (2.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Radio Access Network
2 7 (14.00%) 5G
2 7 (14.00%) VSAN
3 6 (12.00%) 3G
3 6 (12.00%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 25 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 25 (50.00%) Selenium
2 24 (48.00%) REST Assured
2 24 (48.00%) SonarQube
3 13 (26.00%) GitLab
3 13 (26.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (78.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (40.00%) Law
4 13 (26.00%) Police
5 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Java Engineer
2 13 (26.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) Performance Specialist
3 7 (14.00%) VMware Expert
4 6 (12.00%) Consultant
4 6 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Performance Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Performance Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Architect
6 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (52.00%) REST
2 25 (50.00%) Java EE
3 13 (26.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.00%) .NET
4 1 (2.00%) JSON
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) OpenID
4 1 (2.00%) SOAP
4 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (80.00%) DevOps
2 31 (62.00%) Decision-Making
2 31 (62.00%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (50.00%) Software Architecture
4 25 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 22 (44.00%) Software Engineering
6 19 (38.00%) Containerisation
7 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 15 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 14 (28.00%) Collaborative Working
8 14 (28.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 14 (28.00%) Time Management
9 13 (26.00%) Configuration Management
10 10 (20.00%) Roadmaps
11 9 (18.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 8 (16.00%) Capacity Planning
13 6 (12.00%) Performance Management
14 5 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (2.00%) C#
2 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (54.00%) SC Cleared
1 27 (54.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Docker
2 7 (14.00%) vCloud
2 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (14.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (48.00%) Ansible
3 20 (40.00%) Terraform
4 12 (24.00%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (24.00%) Podman
5 7 (14.00%) Istio
5 7 (14.00%) Rancher
5 7 (14.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Google
1 7 (14.00%) VMware
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft