Public Sector Contracts in Reading

Public Sector
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 25 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +33
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 53 79 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 8.95% 6.84% 9.14%
As % of the General category 13.77% 11.22% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 71
10th Percentile £463 £413 £400
25th Percentile £588 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £683
90th Percentile - £744 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +35.87% -12.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 32 1
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.23% -
Berkshire median hourly rate £73.25 £61.60 £47.00
% change year-on-year +18.91% +31.06% -

All General Skills
Reading

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 385 704 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 65.03% 60.95% 61.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 337 377
10th Percentile £302 £205 £363
25th Percentile £426 £390 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 45 8
10th Percentile £30.35 £17.54 £37.05
25th Percentile £32.38 £51.25 £58.60
Median hourly rate £37.00 £61.06 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -5.59% +130.98%
75th Percentile £42.88 £72.33 £67.16
90th Percentile £45.65 £87.50 £71.20
Berkshire median hourly rate £53.50 £58.30 £52.10
% change year-on-year -8.23% +11.90% +148.10%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Reading

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Reading

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Reading over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Reading

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Reading

Public Sector
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 (1.89%) ArcGIS
1 1 (1.89%) CMS
1 1 (1.89%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.89%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.98%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) AWS
3 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.77%) Serverless
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.89%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.89%) Junos
1 1 (1.89%) LAN
1 1 (1.89%) WAN
1 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) GIS
1 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.89%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (1.89%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
2 4 (7.55%) Selenium
3 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.66%) JUnit
3 3 (5.66%) Mockito
3 3 (5.66%) SpecFlow
4 2 (3.77%) JMeter
5 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.89%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.89%) jMock
5 1 (1.89%) Maven
5 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (69.81%) Telecoms
2 33 (62.26%) Electronics
2 33 (62.26%) Finance
2 33 (62.26%) Manufacturing
2 33 (62.26%) Marketing
3 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Local Government
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Military
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (49.06%) Architect
2 21 (39.62%) Active Directory Architect
3 9 (16.98%) Senior
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Developer
5 4 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Automation Tester
7 2 (3.77%) Consultant
7 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Information Specialist
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Automation Tester
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Information Security Specialist
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Tester
7 2 (3.77%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (5.66%) Gherkin
1 3 (5.66%) Hibernate
1 3 (5.66%) HTML
1 3 (5.66%) PySpark
1 3 (5.66%) REST
1 3 (5.66%) Spring
1 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
1 3 (5.66%) Web Services
2 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Camel
2 2 (3.77%) jQuery
2 2 (3.77%) JSON
2 2 (3.77%) RESTful
2 2 (3.77%) SOAP
2 2 (3.77%) WireMock
2 2 (3.77%) XML
2 2 (3.77%) YAML
3 1 (1.89%) JPA
3 1 (1.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.89%) CMDB
2 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.89%) Replication
2 1 (1.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (49.06%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (62.26%) Business Intelligence
1 33 (62.26%) Digital Marketing
1 33 (62.26%) Programme Management
2 28 (52.83%) Agile
3 24 (45.28%) Test Automation
4 21 (39.62%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (15.09%) DevOps
6 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
7 5 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (7.55%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (5.66%) BDD
9 3 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (5.66%) Data-Driven Testing
9 3 (5.66%) Microservices
9 3 (5.66%) System Testing
9 3 (5.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.21%) Python
3 5 (9.43%) SQL
4 4 (7.55%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) Java
5 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.77%) Bicep
6 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.89%) C#
7 1 (1.89%) Perl
7 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (75.47%) Security Cleared
2 28 (52.83%) DV Cleared
3 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) CISM
4 2 (3.77%) CISSP
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (39.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.66%) Docker
3 1 (1.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Kibana
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (64.15%) SAP
2 3 (5.66%) Cisco
2 3 (5.66%) Databricks
3 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.77%) HP
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.89%) Citrix
4 1 (1.89%) Dell
4 1 (1.89%) ESRI
4 1 (1.89%) F5
4 1 (1.89%) IBM
4 1 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.89%) Juniper
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow