Developer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer daily rate in Reading is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -37 +3 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 40 97 124
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.99% 14.67% 10.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.24% 15.50% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 66 98
10th Percentile £383 £375 £375
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £675
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -6.82% +15.79% -3.06%
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 944 626 1,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 94.70% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 375 648
10th Percentile £303 £311 £213
25th Percentile £417 £428 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £509
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.98% -7.45%
75th Percentile £624 £641 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 3 45
10th Percentile £56.23 - £20.17
25th Percentile £80.75 - £51.52
Median hourly rate £84.00 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -5.23%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.60 £68.75
90th Percentile £104.95 £75.75 £86.78
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.79 £58.30
% change year-on-year +34.33% +5.99% -5.53%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 18 (45.00%) Oracle
2 17 (42.50%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (42.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 17 (42.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (35.00%) SQL
5 10 (25.00%) Android
5 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 9 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
6 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
6 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (20.00%) Android Development
7 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 8 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (15.00%) Java
8 6 (15.00%) React
9 5 (12.50%) Agile
9 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
9 5 (12.50%) Node.js
9 5 (12.50%) OCI
9 5 (12.50%) REST
9 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (10.00%) AWS
10 4 (10.00%) Azure
10 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
10 4 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
10 4 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
10 4 (10.00%) Relational Database

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 (7.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Appian
3 1 (2.50%) JBoss
3 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.50%) Smallworld
3 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Maximo
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) OCI
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.50%) GCP
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (42.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 15 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (5.00%) GIS
5 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.50%) Android Studio
3 3 (7.50%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) Subversion
4 1 (2.50%) Gradle
4 1 (2.50%) JUnit
4 1 (2.50%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (2.50%) Mockito
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Marketing
3 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (42.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (15.00%) React
3 5 (12.50%) Node.js
3 5 (12.50%) REST
4 3 (7.50%) Web Services
5 2 (5.00%) CSS
5 2 (5.00%) HTML
5 2 (5.00%) React Native
5 2 (5.00%) SOAP
5 2 (5.00%) Spring
5 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.50%) Flutter
6 1 (2.50%) Jest
6 1 (2.50%) jQuery
6 1 (2.50%) JSON
6 1 (2.50%) MERN Stack
6 1 (2.50%) Next.js
6 1 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.50%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 5 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Android
2 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
2 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (20.00%) Android Development
3 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (12.50%) Agile
4 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (10.00%) Secure Coding
6 3 (7.50%) Code Quality
6 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Microservices
6 3 (7.50%) Situational Awareness
6 3 (7.50%) TDD
6 3 (7.50%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) SQL
2 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) Jython
4 2 (5.00%) Python
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.50%) Magik
5 1 (2.50%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.50%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) PHP
5 1 (2.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) COBIT
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.50%) Coverity
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Thales
3 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) ESRI
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow