Strategic Planning Contract Job Trends in Reading

Strategic Planning
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Strategic Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 70 91
Rank change year-on-year -15 +21 -9
Contract jobs citing Strategic Planning 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.51% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £483
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.89%
75th Percentile - - £493
90th Percentile - - £494
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £61.76 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.82% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £68.63 £63.75 £59.27
% change year-on-year +7.66% +7.56% +4.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Strategic Planning 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 862 647 1,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.96% 94.59% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 376 616
10th Percentile £310 £303 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £678
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 4 37
10th Percentile £57.60 £27.08 £19.10
25th Percentile £80.63 £28.31 £52.90
Median hourly rate £84.00 £45.38 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +85.10% -26.33% -12.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £106.00 £72.56 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +34.97% +5.48% -9.86%

Strategic Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Strategic Planning job vacancy trend in Reading

Strategic Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Strategic Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (60.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Head of Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) Head of IT
1 3 (60.00%) Head of IT Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (60.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Presales
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft