Developer Contracts in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer daily rate in Berkshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 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 173 166 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.98% 9.30% 9.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.62% 9.81% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 130 169
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 £588 £549
90th Percentile £688 £629 £613
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +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% -11.21%

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 1,798 1,693 2,282
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 94.90% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 929 1,055 1,469
10th Percentile £243 £325 £213
25th Percentile £390 £417 £395
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 £701 £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 £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -4 131 £550 - 19
Newbury +8 13 £525 +40.00% 1
Windsor 0 12 £675 +50.00% 6
Maidenhead -4 7 £375 +20.00% 1
Slough +6 4 £375 -11.76% 2
Wokingham 0 2 £623 +15.81% 1
Bracknell -6 2 £469 - 9
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 73 (42.20%) DevOps
2 53 (30.64%) Azure
3 52 (30.06%) Agile
4 46 (26.59%) Python
5 39 (22.54%) Full Stack Development
6 37 (21.39%) Git
6 37 (21.39%) Security Cleared
7 36 (20.81%) SC Cleared
8 35 (20.23%) React
9 33 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (19.08%) SQL
10 31 (17.92%) Microservices
11 30 (17.34%) CI/CD
12 29 (16.76%) Unit Testing
12 29 (16.76%) Java
13 28 (16.18%) AWS
13 28 (16.18%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (15.61%) Serverless
15 26 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
15 26 (15.03%) JavaScript
15 26 (15.03%) PostgreSQL
16 25 (14.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 25 (14.45%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (13.29%) Azure Functions
17 23 (13.29%) NoSQL
18 22 (12.72%) Software Engineering
19 21 (12.14%) C#
20 20 (11.56%) Active Directory
20 20 (11.56%) Test Automation
20 20 (11.56%) SDLC

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 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.05%) SAS
3 3 (1.73%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.73%) WordPress
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) Jadu
5 1 (0.58%) Drupal
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss
5 1 (0.58%) Moodle
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.73%) Sketch
4 1 (0.58%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.58%) Blender
4 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 53 (30.64%) Azure
2 28 (16.18%) AWS
2 28 (16.18%) Azure Monitor
3 27 (15.61%) Serverless
4 25 (14.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 25 (14.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (13.29%) Azure Functions
6 20 (11.56%) Entra ID
7 19 (10.98%) Power Platform
8 15 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (8.09%) Power Automate
10 7 (4.05%) Azure AKS
10 7 (4.05%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.31%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.31%) PaaS
11 4 (2.31%) SaaS
12 3 (1.73%) Figma
12 3 (1.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.03%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (13.29%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.94%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.94%) Oracle Database 11g
4 10 (5.78%) Power BI
5 8 (4.62%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.05%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (3.47%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.31%) GIS
8 4 (2.31%) MySQL
8 4 (2.31%) Redis
9 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.73%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.16%) Power Query
10 2 (1.16%) Tableau
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.58%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 37 (21.39%) Git
2 14 (8.09%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.09%) Selenium
3 10 (5.78%) JIRA
4 9 (5.20%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.89%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.89%) REST Assured
5 5 (2.89%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.31%) GitLab
7 2 (1.16%) JUnit
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.58%) JMeter
8 1 (0.58%) Mockito
General
1 26 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (8.09%) Finance
3 11 (6.36%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.36%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.05%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.89%) Local Government
6 5 (2.89%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.31%) Law
7 4 (2.31%) Police
8 2 (1.16%) Marketing
9 1 (0.58%) Electronics
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.23%) React
2 15 (8.67%) .NET
2 15 (8.67%) HTML
3 14 (8.09%) AngularJS
4 13 (7.51%) CSS
5 12 (6.94%) REST
6 11 (6.36%) Node.js
7 9 (5.20%) ASP.NET
8 8 (4.62%) Django
8 8 (4.62%) Spring
8 8 (4.62%) Spring Boot
9 7 (4.05%) ARM Templates
10 6 (3.47%) Kafka
10 6 (3.47%) Symfony
11 5 (2.89%) Java EE
11 5 (2.89%) Web Services
11 5 (2.89%) XML
12 4 (2.31%) Celery
12 4 (2.31%) PostGIS
12 4 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.83%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.94%) Robotics
3 7 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.73%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.16%) Animation
6 2 (1.16%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.16%) IoT
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.16%) NHS
6 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.58%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (42.20%) DevOps
2 52 (30.06%) Agile
3 39 (22.54%) Full Stack Development
4 33 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (17.92%) Microservices
6 30 (17.34%) CI/CD
7 29 (16.76%) Unit Testing
8 22 (12.72%) Software Engineering
9 20 (11.56%) SDLC
9 20 (11.56%) Test Automation
10 18 (10.40%) Scrum
10 18 (10.40%) User Experience
11 17 (9.83%) Architectural Design
12 16 (9.25%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (8.67%) Analytics
13 15 (8.67%) Product Backlog
14 14 (8.09%) Software Testing
15 13 (7.51%) Change Management
15 13 (7.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (26.59%) Python
2 33 (19.08%) SQL
3 29 (16.76%) Java
4 26 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 21 (12.14%) C#
6 13 (7.51%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.62%) PHP
7 8 (4.62%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.89%) C
9 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.73%) Ruby
10 3 (1.73%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.58%) ABAP
11 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.20%) Degree
4 3 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.31%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.31%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.58%) PMO
2 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (11.56%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.36%) Ansible
3 4 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (2.31%) Podman
3 4 (2.31%) Terraform
4 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (9.83%) Oracle
2 14 (8.09%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.20%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.05%) IFS
5 4 (2.31%) Google
5 4 (2.31%) Informatica
5 4 (2.31%) SAP
6 3 (1.73%) Adobe
6 3 (1.73%) Remedy
7 2 (1.16%) Atmel
7 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.16%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.58%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.58%) Splunk