Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Reading

Technical Leadership
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 72 84
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 6 19 5
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.90% 1.76% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.99% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £576 £250 £437
25th Percentile £588 £310 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.64% +7.45% -14.85%
75th Percentile £635 £772 £566
90th Percentile £641 £800 £684
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £80.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 - £88.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.32%

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 605 955 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.25% 88.51% 91.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 522 620
10th Percentile £346 £350 £213
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £648 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 17 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.05 £41.24
25th Percentile £17.35 £56.25 £60.82
Median hourly rate £58.00 £60.60 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.25% +15.07%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.73 £66.44
90th Percentile £96.25 £79.92 £75.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £60.46 £61.72
% change year-on-year -33.12% -2.05% +23.44%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Reading

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Drupal
1 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Backup Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) NETCONF
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTCONF
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Vue
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
1 1 (16.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Feasibility Study
4 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) 3PAR
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas