Consultant Contracts in Reading

Consultant
Berkshire > Reading

The median Consultant daily rate in Reading is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 52 130 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 8.71% 10.91% 12.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.24% 11.69% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 79 100
10th Percentile £516 £400 £475
25th Percentile £558 £563 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £668
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.73% +27.29%
75th Percentile £638 £716 £721
90th Percentile £650 £765 £728
Berkshire median daily rate £590 £634 £605
% change year-on-year -6.98% +4.83% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
10th Percentile - £52.90 £56.39
25th Percentile - £54.88 £60.73
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year - -4.75% +115.58%
75th Percentile - £62.25 £66.21
90th Percentile - £63.29 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £61.60 £64.68
% change year-on-year - -4.75% -23.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Reading

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Reading

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consultant in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consultant in Reading

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 29 (55.77%) Oracle
2 27 (51.92%) Oracle EBS
3 25 (48.08%) Social Skills
4 24 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (46.15%) Oracle EBS R12
5 22 (42.31%) Project Delivery
6 21 (40.38%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (26.92%) E-business
8 13 (25.00%) Finance
8 13 (25.00%) Maximo
8 13 (25.00%) Oracle ASCP
9 9 (17.31%) Logistics
10 8 (15.38%) SQL
11 7 (13.46%) PL/SQL
11 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
12 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
13 5 (9.62%) SCADA
13 5 (9.62%) Perl
13 5 (9.62%) SOAP
13 5 (9.62%) GIS
13 5 (9.62%) Operational Technology
14 4 (7.69%) Migration
14 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 4 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
14 4 (7.69%) Windows
14 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
14 4 (7.69%) Project Management
14 4 (7.69%) Data Migration
14 4 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
14 4 (7.69%) Azure

Consultant 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 1 (1.92%) Apache
1 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 27 (51.92%) Oracle EBS
2 24 (46.15%) Oracle EBS R12
3 13 (25.00%) Maximo
3 13 (25.00%) Oracle ASCP
4 4 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (3.85%) SAP EWM
5 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (1.92%) Primavera
6 1 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (1.92%) SAP GTS
6 1 (1.92%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
2 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Broadband
1 1 (1.92%) Network Security
1 1 (1.92%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.92%) WAN
1 1 (1.92%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) GIS
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
1 1 (1.92%) Maven
1 1 (1.92%) Toad
General
1 25 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 21 (40.38%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Billing
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) SOAP
2 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.92%) SAP TM
2 1 (1.92%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.92%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Operational Technology
1 5 (9.62%) SCADA
2 2 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Android
2 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (42.31%) Project Delivery
3 14 (26.92%) E-business
4 9 (17.31%) Logistics
5 4 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 4 (7.69%) Migration
5 4 (7.69%) Project Management
5 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (5.77%) CI/CD
6 3 (5.77%) Validation
7 2 (3.85%) Budgeting
7 2 (3.85%) Cartography
7 2 (3.85%) Containerisation
7 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (3.85%) DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (3.85%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (3.85%) User Stories
7 2 (3.85%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) SQL
2 7 (13.46%) PL/SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Perl
4 2 (3.85%) ABAP
4 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (1.92%) Bicep
5 1 (1.92%) R
5 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) CEH
3 1 (1.92%) CISA
3 1 (1.92%) CISM
3 1 (1.92%) CISSP
3 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) GDPR
1 2 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.92%) COBIT
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.92%) NCSC
2 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.92%) SCCM
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (55.77%) Oracle
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) SAP
4 1 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco
4 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) HP
4 1 (1.92%) Remedy
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk