Decision-Making Contracts in Reading

Decision-Making
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making 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 31 28 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +21
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 29 70 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.86% 5.87% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.23% 6.51% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 18
10th Percentile £240 £525 £373
25th Percentile £363 £575 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +26.83% -12.77%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £616
90th Percentile £855 £713 £652
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £575 £489
% change year-on-year -12.96% +17.65% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £46.50
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £70.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year +44.69% -22.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Decision-Making 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%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Reading

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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 2 (6.90%) Appian
2 1 (3.45%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) 3G
1 2 (6.90%) 3GPP
1 2 (6.90%) 4G
1 2 (6.90%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
1 2 (6.90%) LTE
1 2 (6.90%) MVNO
2 1 (3.45%) DMS-100
2 1 (3.45%) ISUP
2 1 (3.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.45%) GIS
1 1 (3.45%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) Cucumber
2 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 6 (20.69%) REST Assured
2 6 (20.69%) Selenium
3 3 (10.34%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.45%) DbUnit
4 1 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) jMock
4 1 (3.45%) JUnit
4 1 (3.45%) Maven
4 1 (3.45%) Mockito
General
1 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Legal
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Java Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Product Owner
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Security Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Security Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Design Authority
6 1 (3.45%) GIS Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Information Security Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) PMO Manager
6 1 (3.45%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Voice Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) REST
2 6 (20.69%) Java EE
3 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (3.45%) ADO
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) Bootstrap
4 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.45%) JPA
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) PowerMock
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Batch
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Integration
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
1 7 (24.14%) DevOps
2 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
2 6 (20.69%) Software Architecture
2 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
2 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
3 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
3 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
3 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (13.79%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) Project Management
4 4 (13.79%) Use Case
5 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (10.34%) Information Assurance
5 3 (10.34%) Information Security
5 3 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (10.34%) Scrum
5 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) CISM
4 2 (6.90%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) ISEB
5 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.45%) MCSE
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Postfix
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (6.90%) Podman
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) VMware
2 2 (6.90%) Blue Prism
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco
2 2 (6.90%) Nokia
2 2 (6.90%) OpenAI
2 2 (6.90%) Rakuten
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) ESRI
3 1 (3.45%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft