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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -35 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 37 61 107
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.20% 10.15% 9.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.43% 10.76% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 85
10th Percentile £516 £372 £375
25th Percentile £525 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £638
90th Percentile £613 £625 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.71%

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 1,078 567 1,022
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.34% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 362 571
10th Percentile £362 £350 £319
25th Percentile £478 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.46% +6.91%
75th Percentile £644 £613 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 20 43
10th Percentile £30.00 - £48.34
25th Percentile £73.93 £14.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £84.00 £28.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -55.20% -5.30%
75th Percentile £88.00 £58.44 £87.48
90th Percentile £104.50 £70.00 £100.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £48.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +72.92% -22.08% +9.08%

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 August 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 August 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 (37.84%) Oracle
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
3 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (21.62%) AI
4 8 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (21.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 8 (21.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (21.62%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (16.22%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 6 (16.22%) Oracle CX
7 5 (13.51%) Agile
7 5 (13.51%) Azure
7 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (13.51%) Python
7 5 (13.51%) REST
7 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
8 4 (10.81%) GAP Analysis
8 4 (10.81%) Git
8 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
8 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
9 3 (8.11%) .NET
9 3 (8.11%) AWS
9 3 (8.11%) DevOps
9 3 (8.11%) OAuth
9 3 (8.11%) OpenID
9 3 (8.11%) PHP
9 3 (8.11%) QA

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 1 (2.70%) Apache
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) IIS
1 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle CX
2 5 (13.51%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
4 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.41%) GitHub
4 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) Big Data
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.70%) Mockito
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Police
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (13.51%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) .NET
3 3 (8.11%) OAuth
3 3 (8.11%) OpenID
3 3 (8.11%) React
4 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.41%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (5.41%) Middleware
4 2 (5.41%) NestJS
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
4 2 (5.41%) SOAP
5 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.70%) MERN Stack
5 1 (2.70%) PySpark
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) AI Agents
1 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (21.62%) AI
2 8 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (16.22%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 5 (13.51%) Agile
5 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.81%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.11%) DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) Scrum
8 2 (5.41%) Analytics
8 2 (5.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (5.41%) Information Security
8 2 (5.41%) Information Security Management
8 2 (5.41%) Microservices
8 2 (5.41%) Migration
8 2 (5.41%) Release Management
8 2 (5.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.51%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.11%) PHP
5 2 (5.41%) Apex Code
5 2 (5.41%) Java
6 1 (2.70%) Bicep
6 1 (2.70%) C#
6 1 (2.70%) Perl
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) COBIT
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.41%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) SAP