Senior Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Senior
Berkshire > Wokingham

The median Senior daily rate in Wokingham is £485, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 24 15
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 6 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 1.93% 4.96% 7.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 5.13% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £460 £625 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +36.84% -25.78%
75th Percentile £558 £675 £488
90th Percentile £628 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £577
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.68% +15.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wokingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wokingham. 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 Wokingham with a recognized job title 250 117 70
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.39% 96.69% 98.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 80 36
10th Percentile £270 £245 £309
25th Percentile £345 £330 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £369 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.80% -22.37% +8.20%
75th Percentile £533 £541 £606
90th Percentile £650 £600 £806
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £58.38 £61.65
% change year-on-year -30.73% -5.30% +29.78%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Senior job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Wokingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Wokingham

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Wokingham over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Wokingham

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham

For the 6 months to 12 December 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wokingham region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Argo
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Kustomize
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Loki
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) vSphere
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) PQQ
4 1 (16.67%) Presales
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Argo
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft