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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Degree 32 130 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.53% 11.21% 8.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.20% 25.74% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 67 38
10th Percentile £335 - £358
25th Percentile £400 £205 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £513 £528
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% -2.84% +17.22%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £638
90th Percentile £638 - £675
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -6.17% -3.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £22.34 £71.14
25th Percentile - £29.45 £72.84
Median hourly rate - £41.30 £75.69
Median % change year-on-year - -45.43% +656.85%
75th Percentile - £53.15 £78.53
90th Percentile - £60.26 £80.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £41.50 £64.38
% change year-on-year +3.07% -35.53% +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 186 505 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 32.12% 43.53% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 258 188
10th Percentile £365 £205 £363
25th Percentile £470 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £560
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +8.04% +13.13%
75th Percentile £700 £660 £641
90th Percentile - £719 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 41 14
10th Percentile - £42.00 £63.14
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.60
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -9.41% +580.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £85.65 £78.09
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +209.16%

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

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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 22 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
1 1 (3.13%) Teamcenter
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%) Diameter Protocol
5 2 (6.25%) DNS
5 2 (6.25%) GGSN
5 2 (6.25%) LTE
5 2 (6.25%) RANAP
5 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.25%) VoLTE
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
2 1 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Telecoms
3 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Marketing
5 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Multimedia
7 1 (3.13%) Law
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
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%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
2 2 (6.25%) Tester
3 1 (3.13%) Developer
3 1 (3.13%) IP Design Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile Designer
3 1 (3.13%) Principal IP Design Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Principal Network Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Project Planner
3 1 (3.13%) Strategy Architect
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 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.38%) 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%) Roadmaps
5 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (12.50%) Information Security
6 4 (12.50%) Product Backlog
6 4 (12.50%) Statistics
7 3 (9.38%) Integration Testing
7 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
7 3 (9.38%) Network Management
7 3 (9.38%) Project Management
7 3 (9.38%) Scrum
7 3 (9.38%) SOA
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%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) ISEB
5 2 (6.25%) CISM
5 2 (6.25%) CISSP
5 2 (6.25%) GPEN
5 2 (6.25%) GWAPT
5 2 (6.25%) OSCE
5 2 (6.25%) OSCP
5 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
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
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%) IBM
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