Senior Developer Contracts in Berkshire

Senior Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Berkshire is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 117 101
Rank change year-on-year +38 -16 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 14 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.19% 0.35% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.38% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 10
10th Percentile £410 £450 £467
25th Percentile £453 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +7.48% +7.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £594
90th Percentile £625 - £600
South East median daily rate £530 £524 £525
% change year-on-year +1.19% -0.24% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
South East median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 -
% change year-on-year +31.04% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Berkshire

Senior Developer
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 Senior Developer 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 +34 9 £600 +4.35% 16
Wokingham -10 1 £350 -
Slough - 1 £585 - 14
Windsor - 1 £450 -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (35.71%) Workflow
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
3 4 (28.57%) .NET
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Power Query
3 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 4 (28.57%) Tricentis Tosca
3 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (28.57%) Power BI
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (21.43%) Data Reconciliation
4 3 (21.43%) Docker
4 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Data Management
4 3 (21.43%) SaaS

Senior Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 4 (28.57%) Tricentis Tosca
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
1 4 (28.57%) Power Query
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
1 2 (14.29%) JUnit
1 2 (14.29%) Mockito
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
1 4 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Camel
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 2 (14.29%) jQuery
2 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (14.29%) WireMock
2 2 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) Ember.js
3 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
1 5 (35.71%) Workflow
2 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (21.43%) Data Management
3 3 (21.43%) Data Reconciliation
3 3 (21.43%) Microservices
3 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) API Development
4 2 (14.29%) BDD
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 2 (14.29%) IT Governance
4 2 (14.29%) Process Management
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) VBA
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.14%) DataWeave
4 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.14%) R
4 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Infor
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft