Virgin Media Contracts in Reading

Virgin Media
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring knowledge or experience of Virgin Media products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virgin Media over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Virgin Media.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 83 81
Rank change year-on-year +51 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing Virgin Media 28 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.69% 0.67% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 8.70% 1.39% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 4 6
10th Percentile £350 £569 £450
25th Percentile £513 £589 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £556
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.36% +36.73%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £592
90th Percentile £635 - £613
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +35.19%

All Vendors
Reading

Virgin Media falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 322 575 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 53.94% 48.24% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 358 369
10th Percentile £350 £213 £372
25th Percentile £456 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -4.35% +11.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £685
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 15
10th Percentile £33.82 £52.90 £29.10
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.38 £47.95
Median hourly rate £53.10 £60.14 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -7.01% +115.58%
75th Percentile £65.14 £62.03 £66.21
90th Percentile £72.37 £64.66 £73.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

Virgin Media
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Virgin Media as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Virgin Media in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virgin Media in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Virgin Media in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Virgin Media in Reading

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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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (28.57%) Umbraco
2 6 (21.43%) CMS
3 4 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (7.14%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Collibra
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Big Data
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 12 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.71%) Publishing
3 2 (7.14%) Billing
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Analyst
1 5 (17.86%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
1 5 (17.86%) Developer
1 5 (17.86%) React Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Content Editor
2 4 (14.29%) Web Content Editor
2 4 (14.29%) Web Editor
3 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Gen AI Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Gen AI Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Python Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Transformation Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) Next.js
3 1 (3.57%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) SCADA
3 1 (3.57%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Migration
2 4 (14.29%) Agile
2 4 (14.29%) Analytics
2 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 4 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (10.71%) CQRS
3 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
3 3 (10.71%) Generative AI
3 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
4 2 (7.14%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (7.14%) Data Integration
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL
4 2 (7.14%) Logistics
4 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (7.14%) User Stories
4 2 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Databricks
2 6 (21.43%) Sitecore
3 3 (10.71%) BT
3 3 (10.71%) Openreach
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft