NLPG Contract Job Trends in Reading

National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NLPG in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NLPG over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NLPG 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.10% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

NLPG 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 320 203 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 32.52% 29.90% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 103 218
10th Percentile £300 £300 £205
25th Percentile £400 £409 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +11.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £608
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £504 £493
% change year-on-year -5.66% +2.13% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 1 9
10th Percentile £77.00 - £45.84
25th Percentile £80.75 - £52.90
Median hourly rate £88.00 £29.00 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year +203.45% -52.96% -8.45%
75th Percentile - - £63.29
90th Percentile £95.75 - £67.51
Berkshire median hourly rate £84.00 £61.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +36.60% +20.45% -7.17%

NLPG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) QGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) LLPG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) BS7666
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
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