Self-Motivation Contract Job Trends 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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 52 63
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 8 37 23
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.21% 3.39% 2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.48% 10.54% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 16
10th Percentile £357 £325 £456
25th Percentile £383 £456 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% -0.82% +32.61%
75th Percentile £488 £608 £615
90th Percentile £518 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £603 £610
% change year-on-year -25.31% -1.23% +52.50%

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 230 351 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 34.69% 32.11% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 171 208
10th Percentile £339 £315 £205
25th Percentile £422 £409 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £495
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +15.66% -5.71%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 7
10th Percentile £55.15 £35.98 £61.38
25th Percentile £58.00 £52.81 £62.52
Median hourly rate £80.00 £59.05 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -6.70% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.22 £65.84
90th Percentile £102.20 £71.24 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.75 £57.50 £63.15
% change year-on-year +2.17% -8.94% +14.81%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Self-Motivation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend in Reading

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Self-Motivation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in Reading over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Self-Motivation in Reading

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Self-Motivation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) SNMP
1 1 (12.50%) TACACS
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IP Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Procurement Officer
2 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) NETCONF
1 1 (12.50%) OpenConfig
1 1 (12.50%) RESTCONF
1 1 (12.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Insider Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Change Control
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Conflict Resolution
2 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Network Management
4 1 (12.50%) OSINT
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) JNCIE
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Remedy
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Intel
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper