Electronics Contracts in Reading

Electronics
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronics 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 28 85 85
Rank change year-on-year +57 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Electronics 33 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.53% 0.50% 0.19%
As % of the General category 8.17% 0.83% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 1 2
10th Percentile £588 - £478
25th Percentile £600 £456 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £463 £581
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% -20.43% +40.06%
75th Percentile £700 £469 £661
90th Percentile - - £699
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +40.54% +8.82% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £14.30 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.22% - -

All General Skills
Reading

Electronics falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 404 722 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 67.67% 60.57% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 341 397
10th Percentile £319 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 41 9
10th Percentile - £42.00 £39.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £52.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% -4.75% +130.98%
75th Percentile - £76.99 £66.21
90th Percentile - £87.53 £70.80
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in Reading

Electronics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Electronics in Reading

Electronics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Electronics in Reading

Electronics
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.03%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (3.03%) Junos
1 1 (3.03%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
1 4 (12.12%) Selenium
2 3 (9.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 33 (100.00%) Finance
1 33 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 33 (100.00%) Marketing
1 33 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 33 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Architect
2 21 (63.64%) Active Directory Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Tester
6 2 (6.06%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Data Centre Technician
7 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Gherkin
1 3 (9.09%) PySpark
2 2 (6.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) CMDB
1 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (75.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 33 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 33 (100.00%) Programme Management
2 24 (72.73%) Agile
2 24 (72.73%) Test Automation
3 21 (63.64%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (9.09%) Data-Driven Testing
6 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.06%) Analytics
7 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.06%) Data Integration
7 2 (6.06%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (6.06%) Data Validation
7 2 (6.06%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (6.06%) Process Improvement
7 2 (6.06%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (75.76%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (84.85%) Security Cleared
2 23 (69.70%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 21 (63.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco
3 1 (3.03%) Citrix
3 1 (3.03%) Dell
3 1 (3.03%) F5
3 1 (3.03%) HP
3 1 (3.03%) IBM
3 1 (3.03%) Juniper