Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Senior Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Berkshire is £565, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 82 110
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 9 29 9
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.61% 1.96% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 2.17% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 4
10th Percentile £348 - £474
25th Percentile £466 £390 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 - £600
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £487 £456 £523
% change year-on-year +6.63% -12.68% -5.00%

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 1,346 1,334 1,615
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 90.20% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 762 992
10th Percentile £303 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £404 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £611
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £506 £501
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.15% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 33 72
10th Percentile £14.75 £20.70 £24.26
25th Percentile £18.97 £42.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £43.96 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% -3.98% +96.63%
75th Percentile £87.94 £63.43 £67.75
90th Percentile £96.75 £65.62 £76.06
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £54.44
% change year-on-year -40.82% -21.94% +53.71%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies 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 21 December 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 +1 7 £565 +2.73% 4
Senior Developer
South East

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Databricks
2 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) CQRS
3 3 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Virgin Media
3 3 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) Android
4 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
4 2 (22.22%) Git
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
1 1 (11.11%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) GIS
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) jQuery
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) NumPy
3 1 (11.11%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) Plotly
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Android
1 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) CQRS
3 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Data Development
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (11.11%) ETL Development
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Magik
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
2 3 (33.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft