Software Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Software Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Software Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £510 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 132 137 152
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 12 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.45% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.51% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 13
10th Percentile £313 £363 £338
25th Percentile £359 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +25.71% +8.02%
75th Percentile £533 - £588
90th Percentile £542 £588 £615
South East median daily rate £413 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile £52.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.95 £61.80 £50.60
% change year-on-year -7.84% +22.12% +0.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,507 2,770 3,351
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 94.31% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 1,919 2,283
10th Percentile £206 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.42% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 76 103
10th Percentile £15.78 £17.31 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +166.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.57 £79.19 £64.48
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the Thames Valley

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in the Thames Valley

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in the Thames Valley

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in the Thames Valley

Software Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +28 8 £521 -5.23% 3
Berkshire -12 3 £325 -36.59% 7
Oxfordshire 0 1 - - 2
Software Developer
South East

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) C
3 5 (41.67%) C#
4 4 (33.33%) .NET
4 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (33.33%) LabWindows
4 4 (33.33%) Subversion
4 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 4 (33.33%) RS-232
4 4 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Debian
5 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 3 (25.00%) OO
5 3 (25.00%) SAN
5 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (16.67%) CSS
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) RS-232
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Subversion
1 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 3 (25.00%) Debian
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) OOD
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 2 (16.67%) Statistics
5 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) SOLID
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
5 1 (8.33%) YAGNI
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C
1 5 (41.67%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Atmel
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy