Chartered Engineer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Chartered Engineer (CEng)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Chartered Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chartered Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.25% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - £388
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

Chartered Engineer 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 298 250 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 37.39% 31.09% 43.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 116 297
10th Percentile £255 £273 £205
25th Percentile £343 £429 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £619
90th Percentile £636 £688 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £447 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -14.86% +2.44% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 28
10th Percentile £65.00 £61.63 £42.00
25th Percentile £81.00 £61.71 £55.60
Median hourly rate £90.00 £68.20 £60.87
Median % change year-on-year +31.97% +12.04% -6.12%
75th Percentile £97.50 £75.45 £74.91
90th Percentile £113.51 £76.49 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £61.63 £61.60
% change year-on-year +21.70% +0.04% -4.75%

Chartered Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chartered Engineer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Chartered Engineer job vacancy trend in Reading

Chartered Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Chartered Engineer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Chartered Engineer

Chartered Engineer
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) MODAF
1 2 (100.00%) SFIA
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification