Developer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer daily rate in Reading is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -39 +2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 37 62 123
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.44% 11.33% 10.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.70% 12.06% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 100
10th Percentile £476 £388 £331
25th Percentile £525 £466 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £641
90th Percentile £613 £638 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +7.69%
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 1,000 514 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 93.97% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 324 600
10th Percentile £312 £325 £261
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £726 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.79% -4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 15 65
10th Percentile £30.00 £14.75 £37.80
25th Percentile £72.20 £17.56 £52.90
Median hourly rate £83.58 £45.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +85.72% -26.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.38 £87.46
90th Percentile £107.00 £70.00 £99.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £59.50 £60.60
% change year-on-year +39.50% -1.82% +4.81%

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 July 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 July 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 15 (40.54%) Oracle
2 11 (29.73%) SQL
3 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (21.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 8 (21.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (21.62%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (16.22%) AI
6 6 (16.22%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 6 (16.22%) Oracle CX
7 5 (13.51%) React
7 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
8 4 (10.81%) Agile
8 4 (10.81%) Azure
8 4 (10.81%) GAP Analysis
8 4 (10.81%) Python
8 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
8 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
9 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
9 3 (8.11%) DevOps
9 3 (8.11%) Git
9 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
9 3 (8.11%) Node.js
9 3 (8.11%) PHP
9 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.11%) 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 2 (5.41%) IIS
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Appian
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) JBoss
2 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle CX
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) GIS
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) Android Studio
3 1 (2.70%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.70%) Mockito
3 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Police
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Marketing
3 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (13.51%) React
3 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 3 (8.11%) REST
4 2 (5.41%) .NET
4 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.41%) NestJS
4 2 (5.41%) OAuth
4 2 (5.41%) OpenID
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
4 2 (5.41%) Web Services
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.70%) Jest
5 1 (2.70%) MERN Stack
5 1 (2.70%) Next.js
5 1 (2.70%) React Native
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.70%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (16.22%) AI
3 6 (16.22%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
5 4 (10.81%) Agile
5 4 (10.81%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.11%) DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.11%) TDD
7 2 (5.41%) Code Quality
7 2 (5.41%) Front End Development
7 2 (5.41%) Information Security
7 2 (5.41%) Information Security Management
7 2 (5.41%) Microservices
7 2 (5.41%) Scrum
7 2 (5.41%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) Python
5 3 (8.11%) PHP
6 2 (5.41%) Java
7 1 (2.70%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) COBIT
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.70%) Coverity
4 1 (2.70%) ESRI
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Thales