Senior Consultant Contract Job Trends in Reading

Senior Consultant
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Consultant daily rate in Reading is £763, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 85 84
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Consultant 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.41% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £729 - £490
25th Percentile £734 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +32.61% -6.12% -17.37%
75th Percentile £784 £588 £716
90th Percentile £786 - £766
Berkshire median daily rate £586 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +1.96% -6.12% -11.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 546 985 1,078
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 88.90% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 538 713
10th Percentile £350 £347 £313
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £638
90th Percentile £670 £721 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 41 19
10th Percentile - £49.00 £41.70
25th Percentile £14.75 £58.49 £56.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £69.38 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.64% +5.11% +153.85%
75th Percentile £58.44 £87.46 £74.40
90th Percentile £70.00 £100.00 £75.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.80 £61.75 £57.82
% change year-on-year -43.65% +6.80% +122.38%

Senior Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Senior Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Consultant in Reading

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Consultant job vacancies in Reading

Senior Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Senior Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Senior Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GCFA
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 2 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) GREM
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) GCFE
1 2 (100.00%) FTK
1 2 (100.00%) EnCase
1 2 (100.00%) Darktrace

Senior Consultant Skill Set
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%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GCFA
1 2 (100.00%) GCFE
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GREM
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) EnCase
1 2 (100.00%) FTK
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft