Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Software Delivery
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 106 92
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 +29
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 4 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.35% 0.36% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.41% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 23
10th Percentile £456 - £613
25th Percentile £465 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £544 - £744
90th Percentile £583 - £775
South East median daily rate £528 £596 £725
% change year-on-year -11.53% -17.76% +18.37%

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 1,060 1,466 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.46% 87.05% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 756 1,016
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £695 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 72 62
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.51 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.66 £48.28 £47.73
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +3.75% +44.13%
75th Percentile £59.44 £71.89 £72.25
90th Percentile £87.28 £87.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.75 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.82% +9.24% +61.54%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Software Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Software Delivery

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 16 September 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 +28 4 £480 - 3
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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Contentstack
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Web Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PMI
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle