Lead Contracts in Reading

Leader
Berkshire > Reading

The median Leader daily rate in Reading is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 27 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 39 71 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 6.53% 5.96% 4.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.93% 6.38% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 33 40
10th Percentile £450 £461 £469
25th Percentile £574 £481 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.36% +8.18%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £680
90th Percentile £688 - £735
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £87.58 £68.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +27.55% +24.85% -31.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Reading

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Reading

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Reading

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Reading

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Oracle
3 10 (25.64%) Project Management
3 10 (25.64%) Agile
4 9 (23.08%) Legal
5 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (17.95%) Release Management
5 7 (17.95%) Project Delivery
6 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.38%) Programme Governance
6 6 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (15.38%) ERP
6 6 (15.38%) OCI
7 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
7 5 (12.82%) CRM
7 5 (12.82%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (12.82%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (12.82%) Azure
7 5 (12.82%) Waterfall
7 5 (12.82%) DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.26%) Scrum
9 3 (7.69%) Finance
9 3 (7.69%) ETL
9 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (7.69%) Project Governance
9 3 (7.69%) OAuth
9 3 (7.69%) Degree

Lead Skill Set
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 1 (2.56%) Apache
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.56%) Primavera
3 1 (2.56%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) OCI
2 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle CX
4 2 (5.13%) Azure API Management
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
1 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Legal
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Finance
6 2 (5.13%) Billing
6 2 (5.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) ADO
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.56%) SAPUI5
3 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Podcast
1 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.13%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
1 2 (5.13%) Social Media
2 1 (2.56%) IoT
2 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Agile
1 10 (25.64%) Project Management
2 7 (17.95%) Project Delivery
2 7 (17.95%) Release Management
2 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (15.38%) ERP
3 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.38%) Programme Governance
4 5 (12.82%) CRM
4 5 (12.82%) DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
4 5 (12.82%) Waterfall
5 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.26%) Scrum
6 3 (7.69%) Analytics
6 3 (7.69%) ETL
6 3 (7.69%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 3 (7.69%) Project Governance
6 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
1 2 (5.13%) SQL
2 1 (2.56%) ABAP
2 1 (2.56%) Java
2 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.56%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.56%) PMP
3 1 (2.56%) SAP Certification
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.13%) SAP