Software Delivery Contracts in Berkshire

Software Delivery
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery 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 87 119 104
Rank change year-on-year +32 -15 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 6 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.25% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.28% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.17%
75th Percentile £600 - £550
90th Percentile - - £614
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
South East median hourly rate £77.19 £65.00 £68.86
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.60% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Software Delivery 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%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Berkshire

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Berkshire

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Berkshire

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in Berkshire

Software Delivery
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 Software Delivery 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 - 5 £575 - 14
Wokingham - 1 £400 - 1
Software Delivery
South East

Software Delivery
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Azure App Service
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Product Owner
3 2 (33.33%) Applications Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Automation Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Product Owner
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Developer
4 1 (16.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (33.33%) IT Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) API Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) MLOps
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Infor