Secure Coding Contracts in Berkshire

Secure Code Development
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 106 112
Rank change year-on-year +23 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 10 18 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.85% 0.91% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.02% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 3
10th Percentile £623 £588 £533
25th Percentile £625 £631 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +17.39% +7.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £588
90th Percentile £679 - -
South East median daily rate £650 £675 £568
% change year-on-year -3.70% +18.94% +6.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Secure Coding falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in Berkshire

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in Berkshire

Secure Coding
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Secure Coding within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +23 10 £650 -3.70% 1
Secure Coding
South East

Secure Coding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) SSDT
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) YAML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 6 (60.00%) CRUD
2 6 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) B2B
4 3 (30.00%) B2C
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) RBAC
4 3 (30.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) UiPath
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft