Technology Strategy Contract Job Trends in Reading

Technology Strategy
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Technology Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 71 76
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +19
Contract jobs citing Technology Strategy 5 18 10
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.75% 1.65% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.86% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £474 £535 -
25th Percentile £509 £583 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £665 £725
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -8.31% +45.00%
75th Percentile £622 £799 £775
90th Percentile £631 £809 £778
Berkshire median daily rate £544 £601 £725
% change year-on-year -9.53% -17.10% +15.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Technology Strategy 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 605 969 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.25% 88.66% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 532 616
10th Percentile £325 £350 £213
25th Percentile £450 £458 £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 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 17 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.05 £41.24
25th Percentile £17.40 £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 £96.00 £79.92 £75.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £60.46 £61.79
% change year-on-year -33.12% -2.16% +23.58%

Technology Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Technology Strategy job vacancy trend in Reading

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technology Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technology Strategy

Technology Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Strategy in Reading over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Strategy in Reading

Technology Strategy
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%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Procurement Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Feasibility Study
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Data Design
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Service Design
4 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Workday