SIAM Contract Job Trends in Reading

Service Integration and Management (SIAM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SIAM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 63 86
Rank change year-on-year -26 +23 -1
Contract jobs citing SIAM 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.44% 0.34% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.37% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £509 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 - £647
90th Percentile £606 - £650
Berkshire median daily rate £475 - £613
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

SIAM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 946 542 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.57% 92.18% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 344 528
10th Percentile £351 £350 £331
25th Percentile £454 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £731 £700 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £518 £505 £540
% change year-on-year +2.48% -6.48% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 17 40
10th Percentile £56.15 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £52.55
Median hourly rate £85.00 £20.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +309.64% -66.31% -5.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £85.16
90th Percentile £106.90 £60.50 £87.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £84.00 £37.28 £61.60
% change year-on-year +125.32% -39.48% +2.67%

SIAM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

SIAM job vacancy trend in Reading

SIAM
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SIAM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SIAM

SIAM
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Head of Technical Services
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Commercial Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Transition Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Epics
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow