Technical Leader Contracts in Reading

Technical Lead
Berkshire > Reading

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Reading is £588, 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 58 89 85
Rank change year-on-year +31 -4 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £406 £482 £381
25th Percentile £472 £483 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £494 £536
Median % change year-on-year +18.99% -7.87% +41.85%
75th Percentile £697 £508 £642
90th Percentile £759 £511 £692
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +30.00% - +16.28%

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%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in Reading

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in Reading

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Reading

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in Reading

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical Leader 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 Technical Leader in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SAP EWM
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (50.00%) SAPUI5
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making

Technical Leader 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP EWM
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (50.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP