Contract Negotiation Contracts in Reading

Contract Negotiation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Contract Negotiation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contract Negotiation 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 54 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Contract Negotiation 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.01% - 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.60%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £650 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -26.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Contract Negotiation 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%

Contract Negotiation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Contract Negotiation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Contract Negotiation in Reading

Contract Negotiation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Contract Negotiation in Reading

Contract Negotiation
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
General
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Commercial Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Commercial Project Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Head of Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Head of Security
2 2 (33.33%) Head of Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Application Security
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) OWASP
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) COBIT
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) NIST