Degree Contracts in Reading

Academic Degree
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 29 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Degree 32 129 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.36% 10.82% 7.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.58% 24.43% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 67 33
10th Percentile £330 - £352
25th Percentile £400 £205 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.27%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £638
90th Percentile £638 - £675
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.00% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £27.08 £71.14
25th Percentile - £41.30 £72.84
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £75.69
Median % change year-on-year - -14.12% +656.85%
75th Percentile - £81.51 £78.53
90th Percentile - £91.42 £80.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £42.50 £64.38
% change year-on-year +0.65% -33.98% +21.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 182 528 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.49% 44.30% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 271 211
10th Percentile £394 £205 £363
25th Percentile £481 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £680
90th Percentile - £716 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 44 15
10th Percentile - £44.10 £56.76
25th Percentile - £55.41 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.07 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -5.95% +560.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £86.10 £76.99
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Reading

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree 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 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Camunda
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Stack
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) IaaS
3 1 (3.13%) OCI
3 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.13%) PaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) 3G
1 6 (18.75%) 4G
1 6 (18.75%) 5G
1 6 (18.75%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (15.63%) Network Security
3 4 (12.50%) 2G
3 4 (12.50%) Ethernet
3 4 (12.50%) MPLS
3 4 (12.50%) VLAN
4 3 (9.38%) 802.11
4 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (9.38%) Wireless
5 2 (6.25%) Broadband
5 2 (6.25%) Diameter Protocol
5 2 (6.25%) DNS
5 2 (6.25%) GGSN
5 2 (6.25%) RANAP
5 2 (6.25%) SGSN
5 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.25%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Burp Suite
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.13%) CMake
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 21 (65.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Telecoms
3 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Marketing
5 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Law
6 2 (6.25%) Legal
6 2 (6.25%) Multimedia
7 1 (3.13%) Military
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (9.38%) Architect
1 3 (9.38%) Designer
1 3 (9.38%) IP Designer
1 3 (9.38%) Lead
1 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
1 3 (9.38%) Scrum Master
1 3 (9.38%) Senior
1 3 (9.38%) Wireless Engineer
2 2 (6.25%) Agile Scrum Master
2 2 (6.25%) Analyst
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Officer
2 2 (6.25%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
2 2 (6.25%) Tester
3 1 (3.13%) Data Architect
3 1 (3.13%) Developer
3 1 (3.13%) Project Planner
3 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
3 1 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) 802.1X
1 3 (9.38%) Web Services
2 2 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) CNTK
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.13%) OpenVINO
3 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) SOAP
3 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) Podcast
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.25%) Social Media
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Android
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Computer Science
2 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) Network Design
4 6 (18.75%) Network Architecture
5 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
6 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (12.50%) Information Security
6 4 (12.50%) Product Backlog
6 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.50%) Statistics
7 3 (9.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (9.38%) Cloud Security
7 3 (9.38%) Data Collection
7 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
7 3 (9.38%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (9.38%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) C++
3 2 (6.25%) C
3 2 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) Ruby
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (15.63%) Master's Degree
3 4 (12.50%) ISEB
4 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) CISM
5 2 (6.25%) CISSP
5 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) GPEN
5 2 (6.25%) GWAPT
5 2 (6.25%) OSCE
5 2 (6.25%) OSCP
6 1 (3.13%) CCDA
6 1 (3.13%) CCDP
6 1 (3.13%) CCNA
6 1 (3.13%) CCNP
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) HIPAA
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco
3 3 (9.38%) AirMagnet
3 3 (9.38%) Aruba
3 3 (9.38%) Ekahau
3 3 (9.38%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (9.38%) Juniper
3 3 (9.38%) Meraki
4 2 (6.25%) Empirix
4 2 (6.25%) NetScout
5 1 (3.13%) Facebook
5 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow