Backend Developer Contracts in Reading

Backend Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Reading is £409, 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 57 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% - 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £333
25th Percentile - - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 - £700
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - £760
Berkshire median daily rate £409 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +30.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Reading

Backend Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Backend Developer in Reading

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

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

1 3 (100.00%) Redis
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Prisma
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Prisma
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft