Customer Requirements Contract Job Trends in Reading

Customer Requirements
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 69 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +28
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 6 20 23
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.90% 1.83% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.06% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £569 £325 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £350 £210
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% +66.67% -39.07%
75th Percentile £606 £388 £215
90th Percentile - £395 -
Berkshire median daily rate £606 £375 £210
% change year-on-year +61.67% +78.57% -47.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.72 - £55.31
% change year-on-year - - +95.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Customer Requirements 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 605 969 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.25% 88.66% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 532 616
10th Percentile £325 £350 £213
25th Percentile £450 £458 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £648 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 17 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.05 £41.24
25th Percentile £17.40 £56.25 £60.82
Median hourly rate £58.00 £60.60 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.25% +15.07%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.73 £66.44
90th Percentile £96.00 £79.92 £75.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £60.46 £61.79
% change year-on-year -33.12% -2.16% +23.58%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in Reading

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) DWDM
2 2 (33.33%) SDH
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Automation Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) NETCONF
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTCONF
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
1 1 (16.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Boundary Protection
3 2 (33.33%) BPMN
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) Nokia
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto