Senior Developer Contracts in Reading

Senior Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Reading is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 84 99
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.51% 0.48% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.51% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £450 £428 £420
25th Percentile £463 £475 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +15.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £530 £531
90th Percentile - £557 £565
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% +2.56%

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 1,096 988 1,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 668 882
10th Percentile £213 £363 £177
25th Percentile £413 £460 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £657 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £491
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.92% +9.11%
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%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Reading

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Reading

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Reading

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Law
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Java EE
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Docker Swarm

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
1 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Police
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (50.00%) Java EE
1 3 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Qualitative Research
2 2 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Podman
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform