Assortment Planning Contract Job Trends in Reading

Assortment Planning
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Assortment Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Assortment Planning 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £614 - -
25th Percentile £617 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 - -
75th Percentile £642 - -
90th Percentile £643 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £631 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Assortment Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 862 647 1,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.96% 94.59% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 376 616
10th Percentile £310 £303 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £678
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 4 37
10th Percentile £57.60 £27.08 £19.10
25th Percentile £80.63 £28.31 £52.90
Median hourly rate £84.00 £45.38 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +85.10% -26.33% -12.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £106.00 £72.56 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +34.97% +5.48% -9.86%

Assortment Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) RFID
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Zachman Framework
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle