Project Planning Contracts in Reading

Project Planning
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning 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 56 70 70
Rank change year-on-year +14 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 4 21 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 1.76% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.95% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £316 £575
25th Percentile £456 £321 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £680
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% -19.12% +36.00%
75th Percentile £469 £701 £690
90th Percentile - £759 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £350 £648
% change year-on-year +32.14% -45.95% +32.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Project Planning 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 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in Reading

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in Reading

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in Reading

Project Planning
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) OSS Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) COBIT
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cramer
1 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy