Developer Contracts 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 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 62 123 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 11.33% 10.04% 11.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.06% 10.88% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 100 100
10th Percentile £388 £331 £363
25th Percentile £466 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £706
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £77.19 £48.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.34% -30.36% -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £48.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +58.34% -30.36% +13.82%

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 514 1,131 1,052
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 92.33% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 600 686
10th Percentile £325 £261 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.10% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 65 21
10th Percentile £14.75 £37.80 £45.00
25th Percentile £17.56 £52.90 £53.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.95% -6.67% +153.85%
75th Percentile £69.38 £87.46 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £99.00 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.50 £60.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.81% +175.32%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Reading

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Reading

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 25 (40.32%) Azure
2 16 (25.81%) DevOps
2 16 (25.81%) React
2 16 (25.81%) Python
3 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
4 12 (19.35%) CSS
4 12 (19.35%) HTML
4 12 (19.35%) SQL
4 12 (19.35%) Oracle
4 12 (19.35%) Virgin Media
5 11 (17.74%) TypeScript
5 11 (17.74%) REST
5 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
5 11 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (16.13%) Telecoms
6 10 (16.13%) Docker
6 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
6 10 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
7 9 (14.52%) Agile
7 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
8 8 (12.90%) Java
8 8 (12.90%) .NET
8 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (12.90%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (12.90%) Front End Development
8 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (12.90%) Design Patterns
9 7 (11.29%) Containerisation
9 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.06%) Umbraco
2 3 (4.84%) CMS
2 3 (4.84%) Headless CMS
2 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.61%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.61%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Azure
2 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (11.29%) AWS
4 5 (8.06%) Serverless
5 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.45%) Figma
5 4 (6.45%) GCP
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.84%) GitHub
6 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.84%) SaaS
6 3 (4.84%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.23%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (3.23%) VPN
3 1 (1.61%) BGP
3 1 (1.61%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.61%) Firewall
3 1 (1.61%) MPLS
3 1 (1.61%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.84%) Power BI
4 3 (4.84%) Power Query
4 3 (4.84%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.61%) Redis
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.45%) Vite
3 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 3 (4.84%) JUnit
3 3 (4.84%) Mockito
3 3 (4.84%) Selenium
4 2 (3.23%) GitLab
4 2 (3.23%) JMeter
4 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.61%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.61%) jMock
5 1 (1.61%) Maven
5 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.61%) Subversion
5 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (16.13%) Telecoms
2 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Finance
4 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Law
5 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.81%) React
2 12 (19.35%) CSS
2 12 (19.35%) HTML
3 11 (17.74%) REST
4 8 (12.90%) .NET
4 8 (12.90%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (11.29%) Node.js
6 6 (9.68%) FastAPI
6 6 (9.68%) RESTful
7 5 (8.06%) Next.js
7 5 (8.06%) Web Services
8 4 (6.45%) Framer.js
8 4 (6.45%) SOAP
9 3 (4.84%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (4.84%) ADO
9 3 (4.84%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.84%) JSON
9 3 (4.84%) Material-UI
9 3 (4.84%) Spring
9 3 (4.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) CMDB
1 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
1 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (3.23%) Legacy Code
2 2 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.61%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.61%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Unix
2 2 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) CentOS
3 1 (1.61%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.61%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.81%) DevOps
2 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
3 11 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (14.52%) Agile
6 8 (12.90%) Design Patterns
6 8 (12.90%) Front End Development
6 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.29%) Containerisation
7 7 (11.29%) Microservices
7 7 (11.29%) Migration
7 7 (11.29%) Test Automation
7 7 (11.29%) Workflow
8 6 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.06%) GAP Analysis
9 5 (8.06%) Generative AI
9 5 (8.06%) Information Security
9 5 (8.06%) Information Security Management
9 5 (8.06%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Python
2 12 (19.35%) SQL
3 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
3 11 (17.74%) TypeScript
4 8 (12.90%) Java
5 3 (4.84%) C#
5 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.84%) VBA
6 1 (1.61%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.61%) Bicep
6 1 (1.61%) C++
6 1 (1.61%) Fortran
6 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.23%) CEH
2 2 (3.23%) ECSA
2 2 (3.23%) GCFA
2 2 (3.23%) GCIA
2 2 (3.23%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) COBIT
1 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (8.06%) NIST
2 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) HL7
3 1 (1.61%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Kibana
2 2 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Podman
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Oracle
1 12 (19.35%) Virgin Media
2 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.06%) Databricks
3 5 (8.06%) Splunk
4 4 (6.45%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.23%) Cognos
5 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.23%) IBM
5 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) Spotify
6 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.61%) BMC
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) Infor
6 1 (1.61%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.61%) Remedy
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce