Secure Coding Contracts in Reading

Secure Code Development
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 73 85
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 10 18 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 1.51% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.67% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 2
10th Percentile £623 £588 £529
25th Percentile £625 £631 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +20.00% +5.14%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £584
90th Percentile £679 - £586
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -3.70% +17.39% +7.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Secure Coding falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in Reading

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in Reading

Secure Coding
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) SSDT
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) YAML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 6 (60.00%) CRUD
2 6 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) B2B
4 3 (30.00%) B2C
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) RBAC
4 3 (30.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) UiPath
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft