Developer Contracts in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer daily rate in Berkshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 17 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 179 172 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.04% 9.47% 8.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.59% 9.98% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 134 167
10th Percentile £375 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £432 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +1.27%
75th Percentile £656 £580 £538
90th Percentile £688 £620 £606
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +13.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.31 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £48.75 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +6.87% +9.17%
75th Percentile £60.31 - £66.25
90th Percentile £65.38 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +32.08% -1.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,866 1,723 2,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 94.88% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 1,107 1,469
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £381 £415 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 56 42
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.69 £34.38
90th Percentile £86.19 £79.72 £79.18
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -1 139 £513 -1.44% 23
Newbury +10 14 £525 +40.00% 1
Windsor 0 12 £675 +50.00% 6
Maidenhead -5 5 £450 -27.42% 1
Slough +5 3 £375 -22.68% 2
Wokingham -3 3 £623 +15.81% 1
Bracknell -12 1 £500 - 11
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 76 (42.46%) DevOps
2 55 (30.73%) Azure
3 46 (25.70%) Agile
4 44 (24.58%) Security Cleared
5 43 (24.02%) SC Cleared
6 37 (20.67%) SQL
6 37 (20.67%) Full Stack Development
7 36 (20.11%) Python
7 36 (20.11%) AWS
8 35 (19.55%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (18.99%) Git
9 34 (18.99%) Microservices
10 29 (16.20%) Unit Testing
11 28 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (15.64%) JavaScript
12 27 (15.08%) React
13 26 (14.53%) CI/CD
14 25 (13.97%) Azure Monitor
14 25 (13.97%) Serverless
14 25 (13.97%) Software Engineering
15 23 (12.85%) C#
16 22 (12.29%) Java
16 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
17 21 (11.73%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (11.17%) Architectural Design
19 19 (10.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 19 (10.61%) Power Platform
19 19 (10.61%) NoSQL
19 19 (10.61%) Performance Tuning
20 18 (10.06%) User Experience

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 9 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.91%) SAS
3 6 (3.35%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.68%) WordPress
5 2 (1.12%) Apache
5 2 (1.12%) Jadu
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) Drupal
6 1 (0.56%) JBoss
6 1 (0.56%) Moodle
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.56%) Blender
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.73%) Azure
2 36 (20.11%) AWS
3 25 (13.97%) Azure Monitor
3 25 (13.97%) Serverless
4 21 (11.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (10.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 19 (10.61%) Power Platform
6 17 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.50%) Azure Functions
7 16 (8.94%) Entra ID
8 14 (7.82%) Power Automate
9 11 (6.15%) Azure AKS
10 7 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.91%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.79%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.23%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.23%) PaaS
13 3 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.55%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.61%) NoSQL
3 15 (8.38%) Oracle Database
3 15 (8.38%) Oracle Database 11g
4 10 (5.59%) Power BI
4 10 (5.59%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.47%) Redis
6 7 (3.91%) Crystal Reports
6 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.23%) GIS
8 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.12%) MySQL
8 2 (1.12%) Power Query
8 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.12%) Tableau
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (18.99%) Git
2 17 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.15%) Visual Studio
4 8 (4.47%) JIRA
5 7 (3.91%) Selenium
6 5 (2.79%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.79%) JUnit
6 5 (2.79%) REST Assured
6 5 (2.79%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.23%) GitLab
8 1 (0.56%) JMeter
8 1 (0.56%) Mockito
8 1 (0.56%) rollup.js
8 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (7.82%) Finance
3 11 (6.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.15%) Telecoms
4 7 (3.91%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (2.79%) Local Government
7 4 (2.23%) Law
7 4 (2.23%) Police
8 2 (1.12%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.08%) React
2 18 (10.06%) AngularJS
3 17 (9.50%) .NET
4 16 (8.94%) Node.js
5 15 (8.38%) HTML
5 15 (8.38%) REST
6 14 (7.82%) CSS
7 11 (6.15%) ASP.NET
7 11 (6.15%) Spring
7 11 (6.15%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.47%) ARM Templates
8 8 (4.47%) Web Services
9 7 (3.91%) SOAP
10 6 (3.35%) Django
10 6 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.35%) Kafka
10 6 (3.35%) RESTful
10 6 (3.35%) Symfony
11 5 (2.79%) Java EE
12 4 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.38%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.70%) Robotics
3 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) Animation
6 2 (1.12%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.12%) IoT
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
7 1 (0.56%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.91%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Android
2 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (42.46%) DevOps
2 46 (25.70%) Agile
3 37 (20.67%) Full Stack Development
4 34 (18.99%) Microservices
5 29 (16.20%) Unit Testing
6 28 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (14.53%) CI/CD
8 25 (13.97%) Software Engineering
9 20 (11.17%) Architectural Design
10 19 (10.61%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (10.06%) User Experience
12 17 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (9.50%) Scrum
12 17 (9.50%) Software Testing
13 16 (8.94%) Migration
13 16 (8.94%) SDLC
14 15 (8.38%) Clean Code
14 15 (8.38%) Data Migration
14 15 (8.38%) Secure Coding
14 15 (8.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.67%) SQL
2 36 (20.11%) Python
3 28 (15.64%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.85%) C#
5 22 (12.29%) Java
6 16 (8.94%) PL/SQL
7 10 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.03%) PHP
8 9 (5.03%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.23%) C
10 3 (1.68%) Ruby
10 3 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) ABAP
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.59%) Degree
4 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) PMO
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (8.94%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.82%) Ansible
3 4 (2.23%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (2.23%) Podman
3 4 (2.23%) Terraform
4 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (10.06%) Oracle
2 16 (8.94%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.03%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.91%) IFS
5 4 (2.23%) Adobe
5 4 (2.23%) Informatica
6 3 (1.68%) Remedy
6 3 (1.68%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.12%) Atmel
7 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.12%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.56%) Google
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) Splunk