Portfolio Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Portfolio Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Portfolio Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 53 84
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 -6
Contract jobs citing Portfolio Management 5 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.49% 0.96% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.03% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £481 - £455
25th Percentile £509 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - £460
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.57%
75th Percentile £619 - £467
90th Percentile - - £468
Berkshire median daily rate £613 £713 £461
% change year-on-year -14.04% +54.47% -24.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Portfolio Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 858 484 1,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.87% 92.54% 87.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 310 538
10th Percentile £318 £348 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.76% -2.68%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £501 £509
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.67% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 5 54
10th Percentile £42.73 £19.55 £15.40
25th Percentile £80.75 £26.75 £51.86
Median hourly rate £84.00 £67.50 £60.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% +10.96% -10.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £75.83
90th Percentile £107.60 £73.81 £87.51
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.58 £61.50 £60.53
% change year-on-year +35.91% +1.60% -0.57%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Portfolio Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Portfolio Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Portfolio Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Portfolio Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Portfolio Management

Portfolio Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Portfolio Management in Reading over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Portfolio Management in Reading

Portfolio Management
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 (20.00%) Appian
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) iPaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Service Manager
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow Manager
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Project Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Source to Pay
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Network Planning
4 1 (20.00%) RAD
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow