Rakuten Contracts in Reading

Rakuten
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring knowledge or experience of Rakuten products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rakuten over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Rakuten (DC Storm).

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rakuten 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% - 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
Berkshire median daily rate £500 - £431

All Vendors
Reading

Rakuten falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 322 575 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 53.94% 48.24% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 358 369
10th Percentile £350 £213 £372
25th Percentile £456 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -4.35% +11.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £685
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 15
10th Percentile £33.82 £52.90 £29.10
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.38 £47.95
Median hourly rate £53.10 £60.14 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -7.01% +115.58%
75th Percentile £65.14 £62.03 £66.21
90th Percentile £72.37 £64.66 £73.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

Rakuten
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Rakuten in Reading

Rakuten
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 2 (100.00%) Appian
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Prism
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Nokia