Developer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer daily rate in Reading is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 9 20
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 38 129 90
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 5.23% 14.05% 9.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% 15.75% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 92 73
10th Percentile £360 £385 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £573 £638 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% -2.50%

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 683 819 910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 89.22% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 473 608
10th Percentile £325 £307 £213
25th Percentile £425 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £508
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +12.32% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £645 £615
90th Percentile £663 £675 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 17
10th Percentile £14.65 £46.63 £55.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £52.81 £60.82
Median hourly rate £82.00 £60.33 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +35.93% -4.68% -2.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.26 £66.00
90th Percentile £105.70 £71.82 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.25 £59.00 £61.13
% change year-on-year +5.51% -3.48% +11.14%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 10 (26.32%) Android
3 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 10 (26.32%) Oracle
3 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 9 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (23.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 9 (23.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (21.05%) Android Development
5 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 8 (21.05%) Java
6 7 (18.42%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (18.42%) SQL
7 5 (13.16%) AWS
7 5 (13.16%) Azure
7 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
7 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
7 5 (13.16%) OCI
7 5 (13.16%) REST
7 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (10.53%) C#
8 4 (10.53%) Degree
8 4 (10.53%) DevOps
8 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (10.53%) HTML
8 4 (10.53%) Node.js
8 4 (10.53%) Python
8 4 (10.53%) RESTful
8 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%) nginx
2 2 (5.26%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.63%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Gunicorn
3 1 (2.63%) Smallworld
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%) AWS
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
1 5 (13.16%) OCI
2 3 (7.89%) GCP
2 3 (7.89%) GitHub
3 2 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (18.42%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (5.26%) GIS
4 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) MySQL
5 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Android Studio
1 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
1 3 (7.89%) Git
1 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.89%) Subversion
2 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.63%) Gradle
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (13.16%) REST
3 4 (10.53%) HTML
3 4 (10.53%) Node.js
3 4 (10.53%) RESTful
3 4 (10.53%) Web Services
4 3 (7.89%) .NET
4 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.89%) jQuery
4 3 (7.89%) React
4 3 (7.89%) SOAP
5 2 (5.26%) CSS
5 2 (5.26%) JSON
5 2 (5.26%) Middleware
6 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.63%) Django
6 1 (2.63%) JSP
6 1 (2.63%) OAuth
6 1 (2.63%) Spring
6 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Android
2 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.89%) Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
1 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
2 9 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (21.05%) Android Development
3 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
4 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (10.53%) DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (10.53%) Secure Coding
6 3 (7.89%) Agile
6 3 (7.89%) Code Quality
6 3 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (7.89%) Data Protection
6 3 (7.89%) Microservices
6 3 (7.89%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (7.89%) SDLC
6 3 (7.89%) Situational Awareness
6 3 (7.89%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) Java
2 7 (18.42%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.53%) C#
4 4 (10.53%) Python
5 2 (5.26%) Ada
5 2 (5.26%) Assembly Language
5 2 (5.26%) C
5 2 (5.26%) Jython
5 2 (5.26%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.63%) Magik
6 1 (2.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) 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
2 3 (7.89%) Virgin Media
3 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) ESRI
4 1 (2.63%) Pega
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Siemens