Technical Leadership Contracts in Reading

Technical Leadership
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 42 75
Rank change year-on-year +1 +33 -3
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 19 50 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.18% 4.19% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 4.65% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 8
10th Percentile £300 £553 £438
25th Percentile £313 £594 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £650 £544
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +19.54% +3.57%
75th Percentile - £688 £697
90th Percentile £425 £719 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -23.00% +15.56% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Technical Leadership 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 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in Reading

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in Reading

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Reading

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in Reading

Technical Leadership
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 (5.26%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
1 2 (10.53%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) NetScaler
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Cucumber
1 10 (52.63%) GitLab
1 10 (52.63%) Jenkins
1 10 (52.63%) JIRA
1 10 (52.63%) REST Assured
1 10 (52.63%) Selenium
2 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Law
4 4 (21.05%) Billing
4 4 (21.05%) Police
4 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Java Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Software Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Designer
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Architecture
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Security
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Strategy
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) REST
2 10 (52.63%) Java EE
3 6 (31.58%) ARM Templates
4 4 (21.05%) JSON
4 4 (21.05%) Web Services
5 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Frameworx
1 4 (21.05%) TM Forum
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Configuration Management
1 10 (52.63%) Continuous Integration
1 10 (52.63%) DevOps
1 10 (52.63%) Software Architecture
1 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
1 10 (52.63%) Test Automation
2 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
2 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
4 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) CRM
4 4 (21.05%) Customer Experience
4 4 (21.05%) Data Mapping
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (21.05%) UML
5 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCDA
3 1 (5.26%) CCDP
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) COBIT
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.26%) XenApp
2 1 (5.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 6 (31.58%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Salesforce
1 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) Citrix
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle