Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in Reading

Enterprise Application Software
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 93 84
Rank change year-on-year +34 -9 -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 6 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.03% 0.090% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.97% 0.31% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £360 - £457
25th Percentile £525 £613 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £594
90th Percentile £725 - £659
Berkshire median daily rate £563 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.35
25th Percentile - - £63.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.63
75th Percentile - - £67.13
90th Percentile - - £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £65.63

All Generic Skills
Reading

Enterprise Software falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 202 323 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 34.77% 28.94% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 159 231
10th Percentile £350 £337 £213
25th Percentile £445 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +5.45% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £664 £702 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £541 £520
% change year-on-year -7.62% +4.09% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile £31.44 £42.05 £40.13
25th Percentile £45.63 £56.25 £62.27
Median hourly rate £56.50 £60.60 £66.44
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -8.79% -
75th Percentile £58.00 £65.37 £72.44
90th Percentile - £71.76 £76.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £52.37 £64.31
% change year-on-year +10.75% -18.57% -24.34%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in Reading

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in Reading over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in Reading

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) NestJS
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CCSP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (50.00%) PSD2
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft