Developer Contracts in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer daily rate in Reading is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 134 129 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 11.37% 12.56% 11.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.23% 13.15% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 104 136
10th Percentile £375 £354 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -0.52%
75th Percentile £669 £581 £550
90th Percentile £688 £697 £613
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.31 - -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% - -
75th Percentile £60.31 - -
90th Percentile £65.38 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £48.75 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -30.36% +6.87% +9.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,096 981 1,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.52% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 663 879
10th Percentile £213 £363 £185
25th Percentile £413 £456 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £656 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -0.24%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Reading

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 Reading region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 59 (44.03%) DevOps
2 47 (35.07%) Azure
3 36 (26.87%) AWS
3 36 (26.87%) SQL
4 35 (26.12%) Security Cleared
5 34 (25.37%) SC Cleared
5 34 (25.37%) Full Stack Development
6 32 (23.88%) Git
7 31 (23.13%) Python
7 31 (23.13%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (23.13%) Agile
8 28 (20.90%) Unit Testing
8 28 (20.90%) Microservices
9 25 (18.66%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (18.66%) CI/CD
9 25 (18.66%) Serverless
10 23 (17.16%) React
11 22 (16.42%) Software Engineering
11 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
12 21 (15.67%) Java
12 21 (15.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
14 19 (14.18%) NoSQL
14 19 (14.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 18 (13.43%) Power Platform
15 18 (13.43%) C#
16 17 (12.69%) Oracle
16 17 (12.69%) Jenkins
16 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (12.69%) Azure Functions

Developer Skill Set
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 9 (6.72%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.22%) SAS
3 6 (4.48%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.24%) WordPress
5 2 (1.49%) Jadu
6 1 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) CMS
6 1 (0.75%) Drupal
6 1 (0.75%) JBoss
6 1 (0.75%) Moodle
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) 3ds Max
2 1 (0.75%) Blender
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.07%) Azure
2 36 (26.87%) AWS
3 25 (18.66%) Azure Monitor
3 25 (18.66%) Serverless
4 21 (15.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (14.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 18 (13.43%) Power Platform
7 17 (12.69%) Azure Functions
8 16 (11.94%) Entra ID
9 15 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (10.45%) Power Automate
11 7 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (5.22%) Azure AKS
11 7 (5.22%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.73%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.99%) Azure API Management
13 4 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.99%) PaaS
14 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (23.13%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (14.18%) NoSQL
3 15 (11.19%) Oracle Database
3 15 (11.19%) Oracle Database 11g
4 9 (6.72%) Power BI
4 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.22%) Crystal Reports
5 7 (5.22%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.99%) GIS
6 4 (2.99%) Redis
7 2 (1.49%) Power Query
7 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.49%) Tableau
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.75%) MySQL
8 1 (0.75%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (23.88%) Git
2 17 (12.69%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.21%) Visual Studio
4 7 (5.22%) JIRA
4 7 (5.22%) Selenium
5 5 (3.73%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.73%) JUnit
5 5 (3.73%) REST Assured
5 5 (3.73%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.99%) GitLab
7 1 (0.75%) JMeter
7 1 (0.75%) Mockito
7 1 (0.75%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 20 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (10.45%) Finance
3 10 (7.46%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.97%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.73%) Local Government
7 5 (3.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.99%) Law
8 4 (2.99%) Police
9 2 (1.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.75%) Electronics
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.16%) React
2 16 (11.94%) AngularJS
3 14 (10.45%) .NET
3 14 (10.45%) REST
4 11 (8.21%) Spring
4 11 (8.21%) Spring Boot
5 10 (7.46%) Node.js
6 9 (6.72%) CSS
6 9 (6.72%) HTML
7 8 (5.97%) ARM Templates
7 8 (5.97%) ASP.NET
7 8 (5.97%) Web Services
8 7 (5.22%) SOAP
9 6 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.48%) Kafka
9 6 (4.48%) RESTful
9 6 (4.48%) Symfony
10 5 (3.73%) Django
10 5 (3.73%) Java EE
11 4 (2.99%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.19%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.49%) Animation
5 2 (1.49%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (0.75%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.03%) DevOps
2 34 (25.37%) Full Stack Development
3 31 (23.13%) Agile
4 28 (20.90%) Microservices
4 28 (20.90%) Unit Testing
5 25 (18.66%) CI/CD
6 22 (16.42%) Software Engineering
7 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (11.94%) Architectural Design
8 16 (11.94%) Migration
8 16 (11.94%) Scrum
8 16 (11.94%) SDLC
9 15 (11.19%) Clean Code
9 15 (11.19%) Data Migration
9 15 (11.19%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (11.19%) Secure Coding
9 15 (11.19%) Software Testing
10 14 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.70%) Product Backlog
11 13 (9.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (26.87%) SQL
2 31 (23.13%) Python
3 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.67%) Java
5 18 (13.43%) C#
6 16 (11.94%) PL/SQL
7 9 (6.72%) PHP
7 9 (6.72%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.24%) Ruby
9 3 (2.24%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.49%) C
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 34 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.97%) Degree
4 3 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.49%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) PMO
2 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (10.45%) Ansible
1 14 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.99%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (2.99%) Podman
2 4 (2.99%) Terraform
3 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.69%) Oracle
2 15 (11.19%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.22%) IFS
4 3 (2.24%) Adobe
4 3 (2.24%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.75%) Avaloq
5 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.75%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.75%) SAP
5 1 (0.75%) Splunk