Senior Software Engineer Contracts in Reading

Senior Software Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in Reading is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 83 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.60% 0.099% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £463 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £410 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.44% - -
75th Percentile £650 £415 -
90th Percentile £669 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +52.44% -3.53% -22.73%

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 1,079 971 1,268
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 95.95% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 655 857
10th Percentile £213 £363 £186
25th Percentile £413 £460 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +11.11% +4.21%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £594
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £489
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.42% +8.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 23 7
10th Percentile £35.70 £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% -26.76%
75th Percentile £73.50 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.15 £56.89 £19.25
% change year-on-year +3.98% +195.51% -8.55%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Reading

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in Reading

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Senior Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) JIRA
3 5 (71.43%) Selenium
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
3 5 (71.43%) REST
3 5 (71.43%) Java EE
3 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
3 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) Docker
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making

Senior Software Engineer 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 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
1 5 (71.43%) REST Assured
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
1 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) CMake
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Law
3 4 (57.14%) Police
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
1 5 (71.43%) Java EE
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) CNTK
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) OpenVINO
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Symfony
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (71.43%) Podman
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
4 Senior Software Engineer jobs in Berkshire