Developer Contracts in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer daily rate in Berkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 175 160 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.94% 8.99% 9.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.57% 9.49% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 124 161
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £650 £593 £538
90th Percentile £688 £692 £613
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.31 - £60.75
Median hourly rate £48.75 £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +13.82% +1.65%
75th Percentile £60.31 - £62.25
90th Percentile £65.38 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £70.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -15.85% +35.92% -8.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,829 1,686 2,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 94.77% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 1,049 1,428
10th Percentile £259 £325 £220
25th Percentile £400 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 57 38
10th Percentile £20.05 £17.34 £13.00
25th Percentile £42.13 £24.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £64.68 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +227.47% -8.14%
75th Percentile £75.24 £75.00 £34.29
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.61 £71.89
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -3 132 £525 -4.55% 24
Newbury +10 13 £525 +55.56% 4
Windsor -1 12 £675 +50.00% 2
Maidenhead -5 8 £375 +5.26% 1
Slough +7 4 £375 -11.76% 4
Bracknell -3 2 £469 - 11
Wokingham -5 2 £623 +15.81% 1
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 Berkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 75 (42.86%) DevOps
2 57 (32.57%) Azure
3 56 (32.00%) Agile
4 47 (26.86%) Python
5 40 (22.86%) Full Stack Development
6 39 (22.29%) Security Cleared
7 37 (21.14%) SC Cleared
7 37 (21.14%) Git
7 37 (21.14%) React
8 36 (20.57%) SQL
9 34 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (18.86%) Unit Testing
11 32 (18.29%) Microservices
12 29 (16.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 29 (16.57%) Azure Monitor
12 29 (16.57%) CI/CD
13 28 (16.00%) AWS
13 28 (16.00%) Java
14 26 (14.86%) JavaScript
14 26 (14.86%) Serverless
14 26 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
15 25 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (13.71%) Azure Data Factory
17 22 (12.57%) Azure Functions
17 22 (12.57%) C#
18 21 (12.00%) Software Engineering
18 21 (12.00%) NoSQL
19 20 (11.43%) Test Automation
19 20 (11.43%) Oracle
19 20 (11.43%) Active Directory

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 9 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.00%) SAS
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.71%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.71%) WordPress
5 2 (1.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.57%) Drupal
6 1 (0.57%) Jadu
6 1 (0.57%) JBoss
6 1 (0.57%) Moodle
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.29%) Sketch
4 1 (0.57%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.57%) Blender
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.29%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (2.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.71%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 57 (32.57%) Azure
2 29 (16.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 29 (16.57%) Azure Monitor
3 28 (16.00%) AWS
4 26 (14.86%) Serverless
5 24 (13.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (12.57%) Azure Functions
7 20 (11.43%) Entra ID
8 18 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (9.14%) Power Platform
10 13 (7.43%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.86%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.29%) Azure Storage
13 4 (2.29%) Figma
13 4 (2.29%) OCI
13 4 (2.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.29%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.29%) Oracle Database 11g
4 8 (4.57%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.00%) Crystal Reports
5 7 (4.00%) Power BI
6 6 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.29%) GIS
8 4 (2.29%) MySQL
8 4 (2.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (2.29%) Oracle Discoverer
8 4 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (2.29%) Redis
8 4 (2.29%) SQLPlus
9 3 (1.71%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.14%) Tableau
11 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (21.14%) Git
2 14 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.00%) Selenium
3 11 (6.29%) JIRA
4 8 (4.57%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.86%) REST Assured
5 5 (2.86%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.29%) GitLab
6 4 (2.29%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.57%) JMeter
8 1 (0.57%) Mockito
General
1 26 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (8.00%) Finance
3 12 (6.86%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.29%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.86%) Local Government
7 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.29%) Law
8 4 (2.29%) Police
9 3 (1.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.14%) React
2 18 (10.29%) .NET
3 16 (9.14%) HTML
4 15 (8.57%) AngularJS
4 15 (8.57%) REST
5 14 (8.00%) CSS
6 12 (6.86%) Node.js
7 9 (5.14%) ASP.NET
8 8 (4.57%) Django
8 8 (4.57%) Spring
8 8 (4.57%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.57%) XML
9 6 (3.43%) ARM Templates
9 6 (3.43%) GraphQL
9 6 (3.43%) Kafka
10 5 (2.86%) Java EE
10 5 (2.86%) Symfony
11 4 (2.29%) PostGIS
11 4 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.86%) Robotics
3 5 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.29%) Biopharmaceutical
4 4 (2.29%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.14%) Animation
5 2 (1.14%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.14%) IoT
5 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.14%) NHS
5 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.57%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (42.86%) DevOps
2 56 (32.00%) Agile
3 40 (22.86%) Full Stack Development
4 34 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (18.86%) Unit Testing
6 32 (18.29%) Microservices
7 29 (16.57%) CI/CD
8 21 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 20 (11.43%) SDLC
9 20 (11.43%) Test Automation
10 19 (10.86%) User Experience
11 16 (9.14%) Architectural Design
11 16 (9.14%) Scrum
12 15 (8.57%) Analytics
12 15 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (8.57%) Product Backlog
13 13 (7.43%) Change Management
13 13 (7.43%) Software Testing
14 12 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.86%) Python
2 36 (20.57%) SQL
3 28 (16.00%) Java
4 26 (14.86%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.57%) C#
6 16 (9.14%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.00%) PHP
7 7 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.86%) C
9 4 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.29%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.71%) Ruby
11 1 (0.57%) ABAP
11 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (22.29%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.14%) Degree
4 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.29%) QA
2 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.57%) PMO
2 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.29%) Ansible
3 4 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (2.29%) Podman
3 4 (2.29%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (11.43%) Oracle
2 9 (5.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.14%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.00%) IFS
4 4 (2.29%) Google
4 4 (2.29%) Informatica
4 4 (2.29%) SAP
5 3 (1.71%) Adobe
5 3 (1.71%) Remedy
5 3 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.14%) Atmel
6 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.14%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.57%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Splunk