Software Engineering Contracts in Reading

Software Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 75 76
Rank change year-on-year +42 +1 -32
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 62 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.24% 1.15% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.81% 1.28% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 9 15
10th Percentile £463 £325 £393
25th Percentile £578 £405 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +6.80% +7.85%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £631
90th Percentile - £607 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £645 £550 £515
% change year-on-year +17.27% +6.80% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 -
% change year-on-year +8.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Reading

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Reading

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Reading

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Reading

Software Engineering
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:

Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.77%) AWS
2 15 (24.19%) Azure
3 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
4 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Link 16
1 3 (4.84%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (29.03%) Oracle Database
1 18 (29.03%) Oracle Database 11g
1 18 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (38.71%) Jenkins
2 23 (37.10%) Selenium
3 22 (35.48%) Cucumber
4 21 (33.87%) REST Assured
4 21 (33.87%) SonarQube
5 12 (19.35%) JIRA
6 10 (16.13%) GitLab
7 4 (6.45%) Git
8 1 (1.61%) Appium
8 1 (1.61%) CMake
8 1 (1.61%) MSTest
8 1 (1.61%) NUnit
8 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (32.26%) Law
4 13 (20.97%) Police
5 7 (11.29%) Billing
6 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.23%) Local Government
7 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (35.48%) Developer
2 17 (27.42%) Java Engineer
2 17 (27.42%) Software Engineer
3 15 (24.19%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Senior
5 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Lead
6 7 (11.29%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Java Developer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (6.45%) Web Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Web Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Ada Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (35.48%) Java EE
1 22 (35.48%) REST
2 11 (17.74%) ARM Templates
3 7 (11.29%) Node.js
3 7 (11.29%) React
3 7 (11.29%) React Native
4 2 (3.23%) .NET
5 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.61%) CNTK
5 1 (1.61%) Kafka
5 1 (1.61%) OpenVINO
5 1 (1.61%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.61%) Symfony
5 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
1 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Android
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (69.35%) DevOps
2 24 (38.71%) Continuous Integration
2 24 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (38.71%) Test Automation
3 22 (35.48%) Decision-Making
3 22 (35.48%) Software Architecture
3 22 (35.48%) Technical Leadership
4 19 (30.65%) Unit Testing
5 18 (29.03%) Data Migration
5 18 (29.03%) Migration
5 18 (29.03%) Performance Tuning
5 18 (29.03%) Secure Coding
6 17 (27.42%) Architectural Design
6 17 (27.42%) Clean Code
6 17 (27.42%) Software Testing
7 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (17.74%) Configuration Management
9 10 (16.13%) Containerisation
10 9 (14.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (11.29%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) Java
2 18 (29.03%) PL/SQL
2 18 (29.03%) SQL
3 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.84%) Ada
4 3 (4.84%) Ada 95
4 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.84%) Python
5 2 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) Bicep
6 1 (1.61%) C++
6 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (67.74%) SC Cleared
1 42 (67.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (37.10%) Ansible
2 12 (19.35%) Terraform
3 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
4 9 (14.52%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (14.52%) Podman
5 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (32.26%) Oracle
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.61%) BMC
3 1 (1.61%) Databricks
3 1 (1.61%) Google
3 1 (1.61%) Remedy
3 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.61%) Sparx