Project Management Contracts in Reading

Project Management
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 17 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Project Management 96 96 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 8.12% 9.29% 13.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 10.28% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 63 136
10th Percentile £316 £363 £316
25th Percentile £416 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £608 £593 £575
90th Percentile - £676 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £475 £456
% change year-on-year +10.53% +4.11% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £53.67 - -
25th Percentile £60.67 - -
Median hourly rate £72.33 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -35.29% +6.25% +190.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,064 934 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.02% 90.42% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 631 818
10th Percentile £213 £369 £246
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £671 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -21.13%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.48% +170.24% -

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Reading

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Reading

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Reading over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Reading

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Reading over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in Reading

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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 5 (5.21%) SAS
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.71%) Azure
2 14 (14.58%) OCI
3 2 (2.08%) SaaS
4 1 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.04%) AWS
4 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.71%) Firewall
2 14 (14.58%) DHCP
2 14 (14.58%) DNS
2 14 (14.58%) SAN
3 6 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.08%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.08%) WAN
5 1 (1.04%) LAN
5 1 (1.04%) MPLS
5 1 (1.04%) Network Security
5 1 (1.04%) SDH
5 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.04%) SMS
5 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.04%) MySQL
2 1 (1.04%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 38 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 30 (31.25%) Telecoms
3 16 (16.67%) Finance
4 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Mandarin Language
4 9 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.25%) Legal
7 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.17%) Marketing
9 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Retail
11 1 (1.04%) Billing
11 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Project Manager
2 18 (18.75%) Analyst
3 14 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (14.58%) Senior
4 10 (10.42%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (7.29%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Lead
6 7 (7.29%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Senior Manager
6 7 (7.29%) Senior Project Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Developer
7 5 (5.21%) IFS Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Assistant Project Manager
8 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared Project Manager
8 4 (4.17%) PMO Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Report Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.04%) ADO
1 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.79%) Windows
2 15 (15.63%) Linux
3 14 (14.58%) Windows 10
3 14 (14.58%) Windows Server
3 14 (14.58%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (14.58%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (14.58%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (14.58%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 17 (17.71%) ITIL
4 15 (15.63%) Collaborative Working
4 15 (15.63%) Proactive Monitoring
5 14 (14.58%) Break/Fix
5 14 (14.58%) Converged Infrastructure
5 14 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (14.58%) Performance Monitoring
5 14 (14.58%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (14.58%) Server Management
5 14 (14.58%) Storage Management
6 12 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 11 (11.46%) Agile
7 11 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (10.42%) Acceptance Criteria
8 10 (10.42%) Business Analysis
8 10 (10.42%) Change Management
8 10 (10.42%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.58%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (30.21%) Degree
2 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
3 23 (23.96%) DV Cleared
4 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 14 (14.58%) CCNA
5 14 (14.58%) CCNP
5 14 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.33%) PMP
7 6 (6.25%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.04%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.83%) PMO
2 7 (7.29%) QA
3 3 (3.13%) SLA
4 1 (1.04%) ITGC
4 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Active Directory
1 14 (14.58%) Hyper-V
1 14 (14.58%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (15.63%) SCCM
2 14 (14.58%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (14.58%) NetBackup
2 14 (14.58%) SCOM
2 14 (14.58%) vCenter Server
2 14 (14.58%) WSUS
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) Grafana
3 1 (1.04%) Graylog
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.04%) Nagios
3 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.67%) Cisco
3 15 (15.63%) EMC
4 14 (14.58%) 3PAR
4 14 (14.58%) Dell
4 14 (14.58%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (14.58%) HP
4 14 (14.58%) Juniper
4 14 (14.58%) Oracle
4 14 (14.58%) Palo Alto
4 14 (14.58%) Symantec
4 14 (14.58%) Veeam
4 14 (14.58%) VMware
5 5 (5.21%) IFS
6 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.04%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.04%) Isilon
6 1 (1.04%) Nokia
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) Splunk