Software Developer Contracts in Berkshire

Software Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Software Developer daily rate in Berkshire is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 111 128
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.15% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - £415 £415
25th Percentile £313 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% -10.87% +37.72%
75th Percentile £338 £588 £588
90th Percentile - £589 £640
South East median daily rate £413 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.70% +8.82%

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 1,868 1,723 2,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 94.88% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 1,107 1,468
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% +7.09% +8.94%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.42% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 56 42
10th Percentile £18.75 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.44 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -1.29%
75th Percentile £70.42 £73.69 £34.38
90th Percentile £86.32 £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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Berkshire

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in Berkshire

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in Berkshire

Software 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 Software Developer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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 -4 2 £325 -34.34% 2
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Software Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOD
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Atmel
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) YAGNI
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps

Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) OOD
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) YAGNI
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atmel