Senior Developer Contracts in Reading

Senior Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Reading is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 85 82
Rank change year-on-year +34 -3 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 9 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 0.54% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £590 £450 £428
25th Percentile £594 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +10.58% +15.56%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £530
90th Percentile £650 - £557
Berkshire median daily rate £585 £575 £535
% change year-on-year +1.74% +7.48% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 - -

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 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Reading

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Reading

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Workflow
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Data Management
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (33.33%) Data Reconciliation
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) VBA
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Docker
3 3 (33.33%) Power BI
3 3 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
3 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (33.33%) Power Query

Senior 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 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
1 3 (33.33%) Power Query
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JMeter
1 2 (22.22%) JUnit
1 2 (22.22%) Mockito
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Camel
2 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
2 2 (22.22%) jQuery
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) WireMock
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
3 1 (11.11%) Next.js
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Workflow
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
2 3 (33.33%) Data Reconciliation
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) IT Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Process Management
3 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 1 (11.11%) API Development
4 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) VBA
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Infor
34 Senior Developer jobs in Berkshire