Self-Motivation Contracts in Reading

Self-Motivation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation 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 49 70 76
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 11 21 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.84% 1.76% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.67% 6.67% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 8
10th Percentile - - £306
25th Percentile - £603 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.35% +21.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile - £608 £642
90th Percentile - - £666
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -25.62% +0.83% +39.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 - £19.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

All Generic Skills
Reading

Self-Motivation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 315 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 26.43% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 190 223
10th Percentile £300 £205 £347
25th Percentile £419 £213 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £608 £654
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £42.31 £45.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.89 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -13.01% +169.23%
75th Percentile - £63.29 £79.19
90th Percentile - £69.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Self-Motivation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in Reading

Self-Motivation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Self-Motivation in Reading

Self-Motivation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Self-Motivation in Reading

Self-Motivation
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 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) BGP
1 5 (45.45%) MPLS
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
1 5 (45.45%) VLAN
2 3 (27.27%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (18.18%) Broadband
4 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
1 3 (27.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (90.91%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Automation Tester
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (45.45%) Tester
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Report Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Agile Scrum Master
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum Master
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
1 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
2 4 (36.36%) Workflow
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (27.27%) Data Management
3 3 (27.27%) Data Reconciliation
4 2 (18.18%) Backlog Management
4 2 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (18.18%) Burndown Charts
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
4 2 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft