Software Engineer Contracts in Reading

Software Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Reading is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 77 98
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 17 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.43% 0.66% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 0.70% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile £412 £384 -
25th Percentile £525 £429 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £405
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +29.63% -
75th Percentile £650 £584 £500
90th Percentile £658 £589 £553
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £488 £415
% change year-on-year +23.08% +17.47% -17.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,113 1,007 1,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.63% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 669 877
10th Percentile £213 £363 £185
25th Percentile £411 £453 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 7
10th Percentile £33.52 £18.03 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £48.40 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £75.83 £74.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.00 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +170.88% -2.33%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Reading

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Reading

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineer in Reading

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (41.18%) Terraform
3 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 7 (41.18%) Ansible
3 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Selenium
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
3 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 7 (41.18%) Java
3 7 (41.18%) Configuration Management
4 6 (35.29%) Java EE
4 6 (35.29%) JIRA
4 6 (35.29%) Docker
4 6 (35.29%) Software Architecture
4 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
4 6 (35.29%) REST
4 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (35.29%) GitLab
4 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
4 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making

Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Link 16
1 3 (17.65%) Tactical Data Link
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) Selenium
3 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
3 6 (35.29%) GitLab
3 6 (35.29%) JIRA
4 5 (29.41%) REST Assured
4 5 (29.41%) SonarQube
5 3 (17.65%) Git
6 1 (5.88%) Appium
6 1 (5.88%) CMake
6 1 (5.88%) MSTest
6 1 (5.88%) NUnit
6 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
6 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Law
4 4 (23.53%) Billing
4 4 (23.53%) Police
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
1 6 (35.29%) Java EE
1 6 (35.29%) REST
2 4 (23.53%) Node.js
2 4 (23.53%) React
2 4 (23.53%) React Native
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) CNTK
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) OpenVINO
4 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) Symfony
4 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) Configuration Management
3 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
4 6 (35.29%) Software Architecture
4 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) CRM
6 1 (5.88%) Agile
6 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
6 1 (5.88%) OO
6 1 (5.88%) OOP
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) Ada
3 3 (17.65%) Ada 95
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Ansible
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (29.41%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (29.41%) Podman
4 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Google