Senior Software Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Senior Software Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 112 131
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 7 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.36% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £392 £401 £395
25th Percentile £463 £403 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +52.44% -8.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £650 £445 £475
90th Percentile £669 £463 -
South East median daily rate £543 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +5.00% +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,801 1,681 2,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 94.86% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,047 1,457
10th Percentile £243 £325 £213
25th Percentile £388 £419 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 59 37
10th Percentile £19.23 £17.42 £13.00
25th Percentile £42.00 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.06 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +207.98% -2.33%
75th Percentile £76.12 £74.90 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.40 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Berkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in Berkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Berkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in Berkshire

Senior Software Engineer
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 Senior Software Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 -7 7 £625 +52.44%
Senior Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 Berkshire region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) JIRA
3 5 (71.43%) Selenium
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
3 5 (71.43%) REST
3 5 (71.43%) Java EE
3 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
3 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) Docker
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making

Senior Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
1 5 (71.43%) REST Assured
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
1 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) CMake
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Law
3 4 (57.14%) Police
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
1 5 (71.43%) Java EE
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) CNTK
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) OpenVINO
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Symfony
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Software Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (71.43%) Podman
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform