Collaborative Working Contracts in Reading

Collaborative Working
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 42 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 -10
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 18 50 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.02% 4.19% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 4.65% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £160 £356
25th Percentile £500 £244 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £392 £488
Median % change year-on-year +59.44% -19.59% -23.83%
75th Percentile £638 £544 £516
90th Percentile - £630 £529
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £484 £506
% change year-on-year +3.41% -4.49% -11.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Collaborative Working 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 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in Reading

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in Reading

Collaborative Working
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 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
1 3 (16.67%) Power Query
General
1 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Telecoms
3 4 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Security Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Report Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Business Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Change Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Telecoms Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Change Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Incident Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Project Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Project Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) Podcast
2 2 (11.11%) Social Media
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (27.78%) Information Security
2 5 (27.78%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Security Architecture
2 5 (27.78%) SOA
2 5 (27.78%) Validation
3 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Backlog Management
4 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Data Management
4 3 (16.67%) Data Reconciliation
4 3 (16.67%) Escalation Management
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 3 (16.67%) Workflow
5 2 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) CISM
1 5 (27.78%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) BMC
2 4 (22.22%) BT
2 4 (22.22%) Remedy