Developer Contracts in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer daily rate in Reading is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 132 121 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 10.92% 11.56% 10.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.80% 12.15% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 95 126
10th Percentile £359 £363 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £650 £600 £550
90th Percentile £688 £706 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.31 - -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% - -
75th Percentile £60.31 - -
90th Percentile £65.38 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £48.75 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -30.36% +13.82% +1.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,119 996 1,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 95.13% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 643 858
10th Percentile £214 £363 £176
25th Percentile £413 £456 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +11.96% +3.42%
75th Percentile £634 £661 £592
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 8
10th Percentile £38.50 £45.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £55.91 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +142.86% -26.32%
75th Percentile £87.46 £75.56 £33.10
90th Percentile £98.75 £79.19 £34.92
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.80 £64.68 £19.75
% change year-on-year -5.99% +227.47% -8.14%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Reading

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Reading

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 16 June 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 58 (43.94%) DevOps
2 54 (40.91%) Azure
3 41 (31.06%) Python
4 37 (28.03%) Agile
4 37 (28.03%) Full Stack Development
5 35 (26.52%) SQL
5 35 (26.52%) Git
6 32 (24.24%) Unit Testing
7 31 (23.48%) Security Cleared
8 30 (22.73%) Microservices
9 29 (21.97%) React
9 29 (21.97%) SC Cleared
9 29 (21.97%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (21.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 27 (20.45%) CI/CD
10 27 (20.45%) AWS
11 26 (19.70%) Java
11 26 (19.70%) Serverless
12 25 (18.94%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (16.67%) Azure Functions
15 21 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
15 21 (15.91%) NoSQL
16 20 (15.15%) SDLC
16 20 (15.15%) Entra ID
16 20 (15.15%) Oracle
16 20 (15.15%) Active Directory
17 19 (14.39%) JavaScript
18 18 (13.64%) Software Engineering
18 18 (13.64%) C#

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.30%) SAS
3 4 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.27%) WordPress
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) Jadu
5 1 (0.76%) JBoss
5 1 (0.76%) Moodle
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) 3ds Max
2 1 (0.76%) Blender
2 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 54 (40.91%) Azure
2 29 (21.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 29 (21.97%) Azure Monitor
3 27 (20.45%) AWS
4 26 (19.70%) Serverless
5 24 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (16.67%) Azure Functions
7 20 (15.15%) Entra ID
8 16 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (11.36%) Power Platform
10 13 (9.85%) Power Automate
11 7 (5.30%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (3.79%) Azure AKS
12 5 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.03%) Azure Storage
13 4 (3.03%) OCI
13 4 (3.03%) PowerApps
13 4 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.94%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.91%) NoSQL
3 11 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 11 (8.33%) Oracle Database 11g
4 8 (6.06%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.30%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.55%) Power BI
7 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.03%) GIS
8 4 (3.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (3.03%) Oracle Discoverer
8 4 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (3.03%) Redis
8 4 (3.03%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.27%) MySQL
9 3 (2.27%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.52%) Tableau
11 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.76%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 35 (26.52%) Git
2 14 (10.61%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.61%) Selenium
3 8 (6.06%) Visual Studio
4 7 (5.30%) JIRA
5 5 (3.79%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.79%) REST Assured
5 5 (3.79%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.03%) GitLab
6 4 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.52%) JUnit
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.76%) JMeter
8 1 (0.76%) Mockito
General
1 21 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (9.85%) Finance
3 10 (7.58%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.58%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.79%) Local Government
5 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.03%) Law
6 4 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.03%) Police
7 3 (2.27%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Electronics
8 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.97%) React
2 16 (12.12%) .NET
3 14 (10.61%) REST
4 13 (9.85%) AngularJS
5 10 (7.58%) Node.js
6 9 (6.82%) HTML
7 8 (6.06%) Django
7 8 (6.06%) Spring
7 8 (6.06%) Spring Boot
8 7 (5.30%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.30%) CSS
8 7 (5.30%) XML
9 6 (4.55%) ARM Templates
9 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.55%) Kafka
10 5 (3.79%) Java EE
10 5 (3.79%) Symfony
11 4 (3.03%) Celery
11 4 (3.03%) PostGIS
11 4 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.88%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.52%) Animation
4 2 (1.52%) Graphic Design
4 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.52%) NHS
4 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.76%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.94%) DevOps
2 37 (28.03%) Agile
2 37 (28.03%) Full Stack Development
3 32 (24.24%) Unit Testing
4 30 (22.73%) Microservices
5 27 (20.45%) CI/CD
6 20 (15.15%) SDLC
7 18 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 18 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (11.36%) Product Backlog
10 14 (10.61%) Scrum
11 13 (9.85%) Change Management
12 12 (9.09%) Architectural Design
13 11 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (8.33%) Clean Code
13 11 (8.33%) Migration
13 11 (8.33%) Secure Coding
13 11 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (31.06%) Python
2 35 (26.52%) SQL
3 26 (19.70%) Java
4 19 (14.39%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.64%) C#
6 16 (12.12%) PL/SQL
7 7 (5.30%) PHP
7 7 (5.30%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.27%) C
9 3 (2.27%) Ruby
9 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.52%) QA
2 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.76%) PMO
2 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.33%) Ansible
3 4 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (3.03%) Podman
3 4 (3.03%) Terraform
4 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (15.15%) Oracle
2 9 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.30%) IFS
4 4 (3.03%) Google
5 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.27%) SAP
6 2 (1.52%) Adobe
6 2 (1.52%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.76%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Splunk