Developer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer daily rate in Reading is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 9 22
Rank change year-on-year -29 +13 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 38 119 100
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 4.64% 15.22% 8.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.97% 16.76% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 82 81
10th Percentile £359 £383 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% +2.30%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £478 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £77.19 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +120.54% -53.80%
Berkshire median hourly rate - £77.19 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +120.54% -53.80%

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 765 710 1,059
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 90.79% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 393 657
10th Percentile £307 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £615
90th Percentile £668 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 37
10th Percentile £24.25 £63.58 £29.07
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.60 £52.90
Median hourly rate £90.00 £73.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% +18.90% -4.99%
75th Percentile £97.50 £76.03 £66.00
90th Percentile £107.00 £76.73 £86.40
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +21.96% +5.48% -9.86%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 13 (34.21%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (34.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 13 (34.21%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
4 11 (28.95%) Android
4 11 (28.95%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
5 10 (26.32%) SQL
6 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
7 8 (21.05%) Android Development
7 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
7 8 (21.05%) Java
7 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
8 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
9 6 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (13.16%) Node.js
10 5 (13.16%) OCI
10 5 (13.16%) React
10 5 (13.16%) REST
10 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (10.53%) Agile
11 4 (10.53%) Apple iOS
11 4 (10.53%) AWS
11 4 (10.53%) Azure
11 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
11 4 (10.53%) Mobile Application Development
11 4 (10.53%) Secure Coding
11 4 (10.53%) Web Services

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 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Appian
2 1 (2.63%) IIS
2 1 (2.63%) JBoss
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.63%) Smallworld
2 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Maximo
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) OCI
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 11 (28.95%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (5.26%) GIS
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) MySQL
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 3 (7.89%) Android Studio
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) Subversion
3 2 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.63%) Gradle
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.63%) Marketing
3 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (13.16%) Node.js
2 5 (13.16%) React
2 5 (13.16%) REST
3 4 (10.53%) Web Services
4 3 (7.89%) SOAP
5 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.26%) CSS
5 2 (5.26%) HTML
5 2 (5.26%) jQuery
5 2 (5.26%) React Native
6 1 (2.63%) Flutter
6 1 (2.63%) Jest
6 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.63%) MERN Stack
6 1 (2.63%) Next.js
6 1 (2.63%) Sass
6 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.63%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Structures
1 5 (13.16%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Android
2 4 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 3 (7.89%) Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
3 8 (21.05%) Android Development
3 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.53%) Agile
7 4 (10.53%) Mobile Application Development
7 4 (10.53%) Secure Coding
8 3 (7.89%) Code Quality
8 3 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
8 3 (7.89%) Data Protection
8 3 (7.89%) SDLC
8 3 (7.89%) Situational Awareness
8 3 (7.89%) Validation
8 3 (7.89%) Verification and Validation
9 2 (5.26%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) SQL
2 8 (21.05%) Java
2 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.26%) Ada
3 2 (5.26%) Assembly Language
3 2 (5.26%) C
3 2 (5.26%) C#
3 2 (5.26%) Jython
3 2 (5.26%) MATLAB
3 2 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.63%) Magik
4 1 (2.63%) Objective-C
4 1 (2.63%) Perl
4 1 (2.63%) PHP
4 1 (2.63%) Swift
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) COBIT
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
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%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.89%) Thales
3 1 (2.63%) ESRI
3 1 (2.63%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Siemens