Software Delivery Contracts in Reading

Software Delivery
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery 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 55 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.50%
75th Percentile £600 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -36.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Software Delivery 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%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Reading

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Reading

Software Delivery
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
1 3 (60.00%) Tricentis Tosca
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Product Owner
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (40.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Infor