Senior Contracts in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior daily rate in Reading is £533 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 23 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 111 80 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 9.37% 7.74% 5.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.02% 8.09% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 49 48
10th Percentile £421 £400 £423
25th Percentile £498 £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -0.95% +23.82%
75th Percentile £631 £588 £625
90th Percentile £679 £638 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 0
10th Percentile £55.50 £65.00 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £65.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - -
75th Percentile £59.95 £74.40 -
90th Percentile £64.68 £77.42 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.95 £66.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -9.17% +1.54% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,108 989 1,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.65% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 657 881
10th Percentile £213 £363 £176
25th Percentile £413 £455 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £595
90th Percentile £688 £721 £651
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 24 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.45 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £51.48 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.20 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Reading

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Reading

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 46 (41.44%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 27 (24.32%) DV Cleared
4 21 (18.92%) Azure
4 21 (18.92%) Microsoft
5 19 (17.12%) Agile
5 19 (17.12%) Public Sector
6 18 (16.22%) DevOps
7 17 (15.32%) Decision-Making
8 16 (14.41%) Cisco
8 16 (14.41%) Finance
9 15 (13.51%) Migration
9 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (12.61%) Windows
10 14 (12.61%) Project Management
10 14 (12.61%) Telecoms
10 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
11 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (9.91%) Project Delivery
12 11 (9.91%) Kubernetes
12 11 (9.91%) Configuration Management
13 10 (9.01%) Linux
13 10 (9.01%) Software Engineering
13 10 (9.01%) Portfolio Management
13 10 (9.01%) Conflict Resolution
13 10 (9.01%) Acceptance Criteria
14 9 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (8.11%) Test Automation

Senior 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 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Primavera
2 2 (1.80%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.80%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.90%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.90%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.90%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.92%) Azure
2 8 (7.21%) AWS
3 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.70%) SaaS
5 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.90%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.11%) DMZ
1 9 (8.11%) Firewall
2 7 (6.31%) LAN
2 7 (6.31%) Network Security
2 7 (6.31%) WAN
3 5 (4.50%) 3G
3 5 (4.50%) 4G
3 5 (4.50%) 5G
3 5 (4.50%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (2.70%) Broadband
5 2 (1.80%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.90%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.80%) Power BI
2 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.90%) GIS
2 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) JIRA
2 8 (7.21%) Cucumber
2 8 (7.21%) GitLab
2 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.21%) REST Assured
2 8 (7.21%) Selenium
2 8 (7.21%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.80%) Git
3 2 (1.80%) JMeter
4 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.90%) CMake
General
1 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Public Sector
3 16 (14.41%) Finance
4 14 (12.61%) Telecoms
5 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (8.11%) Banking
7 7 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.31%) Law
7 7 (6.31%) Police
8 3 (2.70%) Aviation
8 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Local Government
9 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Advertising
10 1 (0.90%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) ARM Templates
1 8 (7.21%) Java EE
1 8 (7.21%) REST
2 7 (6.31%) Itk
3 1 (0.90%) CNTK
3 1 (0.90%) JSON
3 1 (0.90%) JSON Schema
3 1 (0.90%) Kafka
3 1 (0.90%) NumPy
3 1 (0.90%) OpenVINO
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.90%) Pandas
3 1 (0.90%) PySpark
3 1 (0.90%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.90%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.90%) Symfony
3 1 (0.90%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.90%) XML
3 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
1 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
1 2 (1.80%) NHS
2 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
2 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (0.90%) Housing Association
2 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.61%) Windows
2 10 (9.01%) Linux
3 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.80%) Android
6 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (17.12%) Agile
3 18 (16.22%) DevOps
4 17 (15.32%) Decision-Making
5 15 (13.51%) Migration
5 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (12.61%) Project Management
7 13 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (9.91%) Configuration Management
8 11 (9.91%) Project Delivery
9 10 (9.01%) Acceptance Criteria
9 10 (9.01%) Conflict Resolution
9 10 (9.01%) Portfolio Management
9 10 (9.01%) Software Engineering
10 9 (8.11%) B2B
10 9 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (8.11%) PLM
10 9 (8.11%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.21%) Business Analysis
11 8 (7.21%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.11%) Java
2 5 (4.50%) C
3 4 (3.60%) Python
4 3 (2.70%) C#
4 3 (2.70%) SQL
5 2 (1.80%) C++
6 1 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (41.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.32%) DV Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.80%) ACCA
6 2 (1.80%) CIMA
6 2 (1.80%) ISACA
7 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) Degree
7 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) PMO
2 3 (2.70%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) COBIT
3 2 (1.80%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 11 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.21%) Ansible
2 8 (7.21%) Docker Swarm
2 8 (7.21%) Podman
2 8 (7.21%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.90%) Grafana
3 1 (0.90%) Istio
3 1 (0.90%) SCCM
3 1 (0.90%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.41%) Cisco
3 9 (8.11%) Arista
3 9 (8.11%) CheckPoint
4 8 (7.21%) Splunk
5 7 (6.31%) Juniper
6 3 (2.70%) SAP
7 2 (1.80%) Citrix
7 2 (1.80%) VMware
8 1 (0.90%) Databricks
8 1 (0.90%) EMC
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle
8 1 (0.90%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow