Developer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer daily rate in Reading is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -36 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 38 59 139
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.77% 9.93% 11.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.02% 10.55% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 115
10th Percentile - £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% -1.44%
75th Percentile £594 £619 £663
90th Percentile £613 £638 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% -4.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £37.13
25th Percentile - - £40.31
Median hourly rate - £77.19 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - +58.34% -30.36%
75th Percentile - - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £65.38
Berkshire median hourly rate - £77.19 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +58.34% -30.36%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 945 559 1,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 94.11% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 337 632
10th Percentile £306 £319 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £504 £513
% change year-on-year -0.70% -1.76% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 4 51
10th Percentile £35.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £80.75 - £52.90
Median hourly rate £84.00 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -5.23%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.80 £74.66
90th Percentile £105.50 £75.03 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £63.37 £59.00
% change year-on-year +30.97% +7.41% +3.72%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Reading

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Reading

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Reading

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2026, 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 Reading region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 14 (36.84%) Oracle
2 11 (28.95%) SQL
3 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
4 9 (23.68%) Android
4 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
5 8 (21.05%) Android Development
5 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 8 (21.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 8 (21.05%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (21.05%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
7 6 (15.79%) React
8 5 (13.16%) Agile
8 5 (13.16%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
8 5 (13.16%) Oracle CX
9 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
9 4 (10.53%) Code Quality
9 4 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (10.53%) Java
9 4 (10.53%) Mobile Application Development
9 4 (10.53%) Node.js
9 4 (10.53%) Python
9 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
9 4 (10.53%) REST
9 4 (10.53%) Secure Coding

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) Appian
3 1 (2.63%) JBoss
3 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Oracle CX
2 3 (7.89%) AWS
2 3 (7.89%) Azure
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.63%) GitHub
3 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.63%) GIS
4 1 (2.63%) MySQL
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.89%) Android Studio
3 3 (7.89%) Git
3 3 (7.89%) Subversion
4 1 (2.63%) Gradle
4 1 (2.63%) JUnit
4 1 (2.63%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (2.63%) Mockito
General
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Marketing
3 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (15.79%) React
3 4 (10.53%) Node.js
3 4 (10.53%) REST
4 2 (5.26%) CSS
4 2 (5.26%) OAuth
4 2 (5.26%) OpenID
4 2 (5.26%) React Native
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) Spring
4 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.26%) Web Services
5 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (2.63%) Jest
5 1 (2.63%) JSP
5 1 (2.63%) LAMP
5 1 (2.63%) Next.js
5 1 (2.63%) SOAP
5 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Android
2 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
2 8 (21.05%) Android Development
2 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 7 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (13.16%) Agile
4 5 (13.16%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 4 (10.53%) Code Quality
5 4 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (10.53%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (10.53%) Secure Coding
6 3 (7.89%) DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (7.89%) Microservices
6 3 (7.89%) Scrum
6 3 (7.89%) Situational Awareness
6 3 (7.89%) TDD
6 3 (7.89%) Validation
6 3 (7.89%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.53%) Java
3 4 (10.53%) Python
4 3 (7.89%) PHP
4 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.63%) Jython
5 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.63%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) COBIT
1 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.89%) Coverity
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Thales
3 1 (2.63%) ESRI
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) Virgin Media