Senior Manager Contracts in Reading

Senior Manager
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Manager daily rate in Reading is £598, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 69 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 -13
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 6 20 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.02% 1.80% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 2.02% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 5
10th Percentile £495 £574 £457
25th Percentile £528 £607 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £615 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +13.89% -9.24%
75th Percentile £605 £675 -
90th Percentile £613 - £546
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £615 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.06 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £61.06 -

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 550 991 1,043
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 89.28% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 556 692
10th Percentile £350 £333 £321
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £548
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.85% +9.50%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £716 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 41 19
10th Percentile - £48.18 £41.70
25th Percentile £14.75 £57.50 £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 £32.31 £61.65 £57.82
% change year-on-year -47.59% +6.63% +122.38%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in Reading

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in Reading over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in Reading

Senior Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Senior Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) Business Case
2 3 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Case Management
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle CX
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Broadband
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) PMI
4 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Remedy
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Migration

Senior Manager 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle CX
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Broadband
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PMI
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Case
2 3 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Case Management
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow