Degree Contracts in Reading

Academic Degree
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 20 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 130 83 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 11.21% 8.21% 9.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.74% 26.95% 38.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 38 62
10th Percentile - £358 £279
25th Percentile £205 £403 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £528 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +17.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £564
90th Percentile - £675 £640
Berkshire median daily rate £506 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £22.34 £71.14 -
25th Percentile £29.45 £72.84 £9.75
Median hourly rate £41.30 £75.69 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.43% +656.85% -13.27%
75th Percentile £53.15 £78.53 £10.25
90th Percentile £60.26 £80.23 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £41.50 £64.38 £53.00
% change year-on-year -35.53% +21.46% +24.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 505 308 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 43.53% 30.46% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 188 217
10th Percentile £205 £363 £313
25th Percentile £432 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £560 £495
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% +13.13% +4.21%
75th Percentile £660 £641 £600
90th Percentile £719 £721 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £490
% change year-on-year - +12.24% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 14 1
10th Percentile £42.00 £63.14 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £63.60 £9.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +580.00% -77.01%
75th Percentile £85.65 £78.09 £10.25
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £21.03
% change year-on-year -5.23% +209.16% -0.12%

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 21 May 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Reading over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.38%) SAS
3 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.31%) Confluence
5 2 (1.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.77%) Moodle
Applications
1 33 (25.38%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (16.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.54%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.77%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.77%) Blender
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.85%) Azure
2 19 (14.62%) Entra ID
2 19 (14.62%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (13.85%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (13.85%) Azure Storage
4 16 (12.31%) Snowflake
5 14 (10.77%) OCI
6 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.31%) AWS
8 2 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.77%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.77%) IaaS
9 1 (0.77%) NuGet
9 1 (0.77%) PaaS
9 1 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (30.00%) DNS
2 36 (27.69%) Firewall
3 32 (24.62%) DHCP
4 16 (12.31%) LAN
5 14 (10.77%) SAN
6 7 (5.38%) 3G
6 7 (5.38%) 4G
6 7 (5.38%) Radio Access Network
7 6 (4.62%) 5G
7 6 (4.62%) Diameter Protocol
7 6 (4.62%) GGSN
7 6 (4.62%) LTE
7 6 (4.62%) RANAP
7 6 (4.62%) SGSN
7 6 (4.62%) VoLTE
7 6 (4.62%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.54%) Intranet
8 2 (1.54%) Network Security
9 1 (0.77%) Internet
9 1 (0.77%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.08%) Tableau
2 7 (5.38%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (1.54%) Power BI
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) JIRA
2 2 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (0.77%) CMake
3 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (68.46%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.46%) Telecoms
3 24 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (18.46%) Finance
4 20 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (10.77%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (10.00%) Mandarin Language
7 12 (9.23%) Legal
8 7 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.38%) Marketing
9 6 (4.62%) Multimedia
10 4 (3.08%) Electronics
11 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.77%) French Language
13 1 (0.77%) Games
13 1 (0.77%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.77%) German Language
13 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (19.23%) Analyst
2 18 (13.85%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (11.54%) Hardware Engineer
3 15 (11.54%) Lead
4 14 (10.77%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (10.77%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (10.77%) Support Specialist
5 10 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Developer
7 7 (5.38%) IFS Developer
7 7 (5.38%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) HR Assistant
9 5 (3.85%) Break Fix Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) QA Analyst
10 4 (3.08%) QA Test Analyst
10 4 (3.08%) Report Developer
10 4 (3.08%) Server Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.62%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.54%) Flash
2 2 (1.54%) HTML
2 2 (1.54%) XML
2 2 (1.54%) YAML
3 1 (0.77%) CNTK
3 1 (0.77%) CSS
3 1 (0.77%) JSON
3 1 (0.77%) OpenVINO
3 1 (0.77%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.77%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (13.85%) PKI
3 15 (11.54%) Driving Licence
4 14 (10.77%) Data Centre
5 10 (7.69%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.31%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.31%) Solar Power
7 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.54%) Social Media
8 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.77%) Animation
8 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.77%) NHS
8 1 (0.77%) PlayStation
8 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.77%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.77%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 54 (41.54%) Windows
2 35 (26.92%) Linux
2 35 (26.92%) Windows Server
3 32 (24.62%) Windows Server 2016
3 32 (24.62%) Windows Server 2019
4 29 (22.31%) Windows 10
5 15 (11.54%) Windows 7
6 14 (10.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (10.77%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.77%) Android
7 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (43.85%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (37.69%) ITIL
3 42 (32.31%) Analytics
4 29 (22.31%) Agile
5 28 (21.54%) Project Management
6 25 (19.23%) DevOps
7 21 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 19 (14.62%) Decision-Making
9 19 (14.62%) RBAC
9 19 (14.62%) Service Management
10 18 (13.85%) Customer Service
10 18 (13.85%) Identity Management
10 18 (13.85%) Log Analytics
10 18 (13.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 18 (13.85%) Privileged Identity Management
10 18 (13.85%) Release Management
11 17 (13.08%) Actionable Insight
12 16 (12.31%) Service Delivery
13 15 (11.54%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 19 (14.62%) C#
3 18 (13.85%) Bicep
3 18 (13.85%) VB
3 18 (13.85%) VBScript
4 11 (8.46%) SQL
5 4 (3.08%) Python
6 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.77%) C++
7 1 (0.77%) F#
7 1 (0.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 49 (37.69%) Security Cleared
2 48 (36.92%) DV Cleared
3 32 (24.62%) SC Cleared
4 18 (13.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 16 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (10.77%) CCNA
6 14 (10.77%) CCNP
7 12 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.85%) CIPD
9 3 (2.31%) ACCA
9 3 (2.31%) CIMA
9 3 (2.31%) CISSP
9 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.31%) PMP
10 2 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.54%) CISA
10 2 (1.54%) CISM
10 2 (1.54%) CISMP
10 2 (1.54%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) QA
2 2 (1.54%) COBIT
2 2 (1.54%) GRC
2 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.54%) NIST
2 2 (1.54%) PMO
3 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (26.15%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 18 (13.85%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (11.54%) Firmware
3 15 (11.54%) Hyper-V
3 15 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (10.77%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (36.92%) SCCM
2 33 (25.38%) SCOM
3 32 (24.62%) WSUS
4 19 (14.62%) Kubernetes
5 18 (13.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (13.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (11.54%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (10.77%) NetBackup
7 14 (10.77%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.54%) Terraform
9 1 (0.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 60 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 29 (22.31%) HP
3 19 (14.62%) Oracle
4 18 (13.85%) Juniper
5 16 (12.31%) Alteryx
5 16 (12.31%) VMware
6 15 (11.54%) Cisco
6 15 (11.54%) EMC
6 15 (11.54%) Palo Alto
7 14 (10.77%) 3PAR
7 14 (10.77%) Dell
7 14 (10.77%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (10.77%) Symantec
7 14 (10.77%) Veeam
8 7 (5.38%) IFS
9 6 (4.62%) Empirix
9 6 (4.62%) NetScout
10 2 (1.54%) Remedy
10 2 (1.54%) SAP
10 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow