Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Software Engineering
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 29 14
Rank change year-on-year -32 -15 +3
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 3 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.67% 0.64% 9.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.69% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £352 - £478
25th Percentile £358 £420 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -12.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £388 £460 £626
90th Percentile £392 - £768
Berkshire median daily rate £438 £500 £640
% change year-on-year -12.50% -21.88% +28.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wokingham

Software Engineering 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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 378 145 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 84.56% 92.95% 96.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 84 61
10th Percentile £268 £350 £310
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +1.90% -6.54%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £623
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) Parquet
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Django
1 2 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 2 (66.67%) Flask
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) pytest
1 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) Jinja
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes