Senior Contracts in Reading

Senior
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior daily rate in Reading is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 54 112 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 9.05% 9.40% 7.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.59% 10.07% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 49 48
10th Percentile £571 £423 £400
25th Percentile £584 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £533 £523
Median % change year-on-year +17.26% +2.01% -0.48%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £589
90th Percentile £730 £678 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £513 £520
% change year-on-year +17.07% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £55.50 £65.00
25th Percentile - £56.50 £65.50
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -11.67% -
75th Percentile - £59.95 £74.40
90th Percentile - £64.68 £77.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.62 £59.95 £66.00
% change year-on-year +4.45% -9.17% +1.54%

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 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

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 1 May 2025.

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 22 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (29.63%) Telecoms
4 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (24.07%) CISM
6 12 (22.22%) Information Security
7 11 (20.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
7 11 (20.37%) DV Cleared
7 11 (20.37%) Azure
8 10 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (16.67%) Agile
9 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
10 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.81%) Security Architecture
10 8 (14.81%) Finance
10 8 (14.81%) Validation
11 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (12.96%) Threat Modelling
12 6 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 6 (11.11%) Retail
12 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
12 6 (11.11%) SQL
12 6 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (9.26%) Workflow
13 5 (9.26%) Web Services
13 5 (9.26%) CISSP
13 5 (9.26%) Marketing
13 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 4 (7.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.85%) Primavera
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.37%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) AWS
2 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.56%) SaaS
3 3 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.70%) GCP
4 2 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.85%) Collibra
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.85%) npm
5 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) 802.11
1 3 (5.56%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (5.56%) VLAN
1 3 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (5.56%) Wireless
2 2 (3.70%) 5G
2 2 (3.70%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (3.70%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (3.70%) SMS
2 2 (3.70%) SS7
2 2 (3.70%) VoLTE
2 2 (3.70%) VoWiFi
2 2 (3.70%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.85%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) Power BI
2 3 (5.56%) Power Query
3 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) Big Data
4 1 (1.85%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
1 2 (3.70%) JMeter
1 2 (3.70%) JUnit
1 2 (3.70%) Mockito
1 2 (3.70%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.63%) Telecoms
3 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 8 (14.81%) Finance
6 6 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (11.11%) Retail
7 5 (9.26%) Marketing
8 3 (5.56%) Electronics
8 3 (5.56%) Legal
8 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.70%) Billing
9 2 (3.70%) General Ledger
9 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) Web Services
2 3 (5.56%) .NET
2 3 (5.56%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.56%) HTML
3 2 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Camel
3 2 (3.70%) Gherkin
3 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.70%) jQuery
3 2 (3.70%) JSON
3 2 (3.70%) PySpark
3 2 (3.70%) REST
3 2 (3.70%) Spring
3 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.70%) WireMock
3 2 (3.70%) XML
4 1 (1.85%) CSS
4 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.85%) Node.js
4 1 (1.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.22%) Information Security
2 11 (20.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 9 (16.67%) Agile
4 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (14.81%) Security Architecture
4 8 (14.81%) Validation
5 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (12.96%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 5 (9.26%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (9.26%) Workflow
8 4 (7.41%) Data Management
8 4 (7.41%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (7.41%) Process Improvement
8 4 (7.41%) Risk Management
8 4 (7.41%) Roadmaps
9 3 (5.56%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) SQL
2 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.56%) Python
2 3 (5.56%) VBA
3 2 (3.70%) Java
3 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.85%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.85%) Scala
4 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.07%) CISM
3 11 (20.37%) DV Cleared
3 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) CISSP
5 3 (5.56%) ACCA
5 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.56%) Degree
6 2 (3.70%) ISEB
7 1 (1.85%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.70%) IFRS
3 2 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) NCSC
4 1 (1.85%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Databricks
2 4 (7.41%) Dynatrace
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle
2 4 (7.41%) SAP
2 4 (7.41%) Splunk
3 3 (5.56%) AirMagnet
3 3 (5.56%) Aruba
3 3 (5.56%) Cisco
3 3 (5.56%) Ekahau
3 3 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (5.56%) Juniper
3 3 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (1.85%) Darktrace
4 1 (1.85%) IFS
4 1 (1.85%) Infor
4 1 (1.85%) Virgin Media