Software Engineering Contracts in Berkshire

Software Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 87 104
Rank change year-on-year +42 +17 -27
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 80 25 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.15% 1.41% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 1.57% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 17 21
10th Percentile £463 £363 £388
25th Percentile £500 £405 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £588
90th Percentile - £629 £763
South East median daily rate £550 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £20.61 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £32.03 £60.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.10 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% -15.28% +29.47%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.58 £62.25
90th Percentile - £66.63 -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +8.70% +7.48% +16.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,594 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.91% 89.75% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 998 1,333
10th Percentile £235 £348 £264
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +35 60 £650 +30.00% 25
Wokingham +10 12 £493 -32.00%
Bracknell -1 6 £500 - 3
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
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 1 (1.25%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.75%) AWS
2 17 (21.25%) Azure
3 12 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.25%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Link 16
1 3 (3.75%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.50%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (15.00%) Oracle Database
2 12 (15.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 10 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 23 (28.75%) Selenium
3 22 (27.50%) Cucumber
4 21 (26.25%) REST Assured
4 21 (26.25%) SonarQube
5 12 (15.00%) JIRA
6 10 (12.50%) GitLab
7 5 (6.25%) Git
8 1 (1.25%) Appium
8 1 (1.25%) CMake
8 1 (1.25%) MSTest
8 1 (1.25%) NUnit
8 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (25.00%) Law
4 13 (16.25%) Police
5 7 (8.75%) Billing
6 4 (5.00%) Automotive
6 4 (5.00%) Electronics
7 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Local Government
8 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Developer
2 17 (21.25%) Java Engineer
2 17 (21.25%) Software Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Senior
4 10 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Lead
6 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Author
10 4 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Technical Author
10 4 (5.00%) Web Applications Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) Java EE
1 22 (27.50%) REST
2 11 (13.75%) ARM Templates
2 11 (13.75%) Kafka
3 8 (10.00%) Node.js
3 8 (10.00%) React
4 7 (8.75%) React Native
5 2 (2.50%) .NET
5 2 (2.50%) ATL
5 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.50%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.25%) CSS
6 1 (1.25%) HTML
6 1 (1.25%) jQuery
6 1 (1.25%) OpenVINO
6 1 (1.25%) Symfony
6 1 (1.25%) XML
6 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Android
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (70.00%) DevOps
2 26 (32.50%) Test Automation
3 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 23 (28.75%) Software Architecture
6 22 (27.50%) Containerisation
6 22 (27.50%) Decision-Making
6 22 (27.50%) Performance Tuning
6 22 (27.50%) Technical Leadership
7 17 (21.25%) Agile
8 14 (17.50%) Software Testing
9 13 (16.25%) Microservices
9 13 (16.25%) Secure Coding
9 13 (16.25%) Unit Testing
10 12 (15.00%) Architectural Design
10 12 (15.00%) Clean Code
10 12 (15.00%) Data Migration
10 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (15.00%) Migration
11 11 (13.75%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.25%) Java
2 12 (15.00%) PL/SQL
2 12 (15.00%) SQL
3 8 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.75%) Python
5 5 (6.25%) C#
6 4 (5.00%) C++
7 3 (3.75%) Ada
7 3 (3.75%) Ada 95
7 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.25%) Bash
8 1 (1.25%) Bicep
8 1 (1.25%) C
8 1 (1.25%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (57.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) Degree
3 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (28.75%) Ansible
3 12 (15.00%) Terraform
4 10 (12.50%) Argo
4 10 (12.50%) Grafana
4 10 (12.50%) Istio
4 10 (12.50%) Kibana
4 10 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 9 (11.25%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (11.25%) Podman
6 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Oracle
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.25%) BMC
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.25%) Google
4 1 (1.25%) Remedy
4 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.25%) Sparx