45 engineering jobs found in Reading

Salary: £500 - 550 per day Reference: COR7630/AP148 Principal Software Developer, AI Integration, C#, £550 day rate, Outside IR35, Reading, COR7630 We're looking for an experienced Principal Software Developer to join a long-term contract with an initial 3-month term and a strong likelihood of extension up to 18 months. This role is based in Reading, with three days per week onsite, and offers a day rate of up to £550, outside IR35. As a Principal Software Developer, you'll play a key role in driving the adoption of AI within a software engineering team. Working closely with developers, you'll help integrate AI-powered tools and agentic technologies into the development lifecycle, improving productivity and modernising engineering practices. What's required of the Principal Software Developer? Strong commercial experience developing software with C# and .NET Experience leading or supporting the adoption of AI within a software development team...

Salary: £400 - 450 per day Reference: COR7631/AP148 AI Engineer / Software Developer, C# .NET, Reading, £450 day rate, Outside IR35, COR7631 We're looking for an experienced AI Engineer / Software Developer to join a long-term contract with an initial 3-month term and a strong likelihood of extension up to 18 months. This role is based in Reading, with three days per week onsite, and offers a day rate of up to £450, outside IR35. As an AI Engineer / Software Developer, you'll be responsible for developing software using C# and .NET while leveraging AI-powered tools throughout the software development lifecycle. You'll be someone who naturally incorporates AI into day-to-day development, using it to improve code quality, productivity, and delivery within a modern engineering environment. What's required of the AI Engineer / Software Developer? Strong commercial experience developing applications with C# and .NET Proven experience using AI tools throughout...

Salary: £500 - 550 per day Reference: COR7630/AP148 Principal Software Developer, AI Integration, C#, £550 day rate, Outside IR35, Reading, COR7630 We're looking for an experienced Principal Software Developer to join a long-term contract with an initial 3-month term and a strong likelihood of extension up to 18 months. This role is based in Reading, with three days per week onsite, and offers a day rate of up to £550, outside IR35. As a Principal Software Developer, you'll play a key role in driving the adoption of AI within a software engineering team. Working closely with developers, you'll help integrate AI-powered tools and agentic technologies into the development lifecycle, improving productivity and modernising engineering practices. What's required of the Principal Software Developer? Strong commercial experience developing software with C# and .NET Experience leading or supporting the adoption of AI within a software development...

Salary: £400 - 450 per day Reference: COR7631/AP148 AI Engineer / Software Developer, C# .NET, Reading, £450 day rate, Outside IR35, COR7631 We're looking for an experienced AI Engineer / Software Developer to join a long-term contract with an initial 3-month term and a strong likelihood of extension up to 18 months. This role is based in Reading, with three days per week onsite, and offers a day rate of up to £450, outside IR35. As an AI Engineer / Software Developer, you'll be responsible for developing software using C# and .NET while leveraging AI-powered tools throughout the software development lifecycle. You'll be someone who naturally incorporates AI into day-to-day development, using it to improve code quality, productivity, and delivery within a modern engineering environment. What's required of the AI Engineer / Software Developer? Strong commercial experience developing applications with C# and .NET Proven experience using AI...

Technical Delivery Manager Location: Central London (4 days on-site / 1 day remote) Rate: £500 - £550 per day - Outside IR35 Employment Type: Contract Clearance Requirement: Active DV Clearance (Sole UK Nationals only) About the Role We are seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to join a pioneering team working on one of the UK's most significant AI initiatives within the Defence sector. In this role, you will be pivotal in driving the delivery of mission-critical systems built on a cutting-edge technical stack. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, product managers, and key stakeholders, you will ensure complex, high-stakes software solutions are delivered predictably, securely, and at pace. Key Responsibilities Technical Delivery & Agile Leadership: Lead agile delivery across multiple engineering workstreams, driving sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives. Architecture & Engineering...

Salary: £300 - 450 per day Reference: COR7651/AP148 UX Designer, Figma, Content-Heavy Platforms, to £420 per day outside IR35 A UX Designer opportunity has arisen with an established UK-based medical publishing business, working on a significant platform rebuild project across a suite of specialist digital products. Could this be the contract role where your UX expertise genuinely shapes how clinical professionals access and engage with education content? The Role The UX Designer will take ownership of translating a detailed internal requirements brief into a structured, evidence-led digital experience, determining what should be prioritised for launch, what follows in later phases, and what should be deprioritised altogether. You will plan user flows and site maps, conduct and synthesise user research, and produce wireframes and prototypes to developer-handover standard in Figma. The UX Designer will work collaboratively alongside an in-house...

2x Data Engineering Positions - Lead/Senior/Mid Outside IR35: £450 - £525 per day ASAP Start: 6 months initial contract Primarily remote: at maximum once a month travel to London We're supporting a key client in a major CRM migration programme that's looking to share the future of their growing data function. As part of this, we're looking to engage 2x Data Engineers, 1 Lead/Senior and 1 Senior/Mid level. You'll be joining at a genuinely exciting stage: the business is investing heavily in new technology and modernizing its data platform from the ground up. Rather than inheriting years of technical debt, you'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, standards, and ways of working from the beginning. Tech Stack: * Snowflake * dbt * Python * AWS * PowerBI Responsibilities: * Designing, developing, and evolving scalable Data Warehouse and ELT solutions * Driving modern DataOps practices including CI/CD, GitOps, testing, and automation * Implementing robust, observable,...

AWS Security & Cloud Architect London 6 month contract+ Up to £450pd OUTSIDE IR35 We are seeking an experienced AWS Security & Cloud Platform Consultant to lead the technical execution of a large-scale Defensive AI and Bot Mitigation Proof of Value for a high-volume enterprise digital platform. The consultant will design, build, and deploy cloud-native security controls, observability solutions, traffic analytics, automation frameworks, and AI-assisted operational capabilities using AWS services and Infrastructure as Code. The role requires deep expertise in AWS networking, CloudFront, WAF, security automation, observability, large-scale log analytics, and cloud-native delivery practices. Required Skills AWS Expertise AWS WAF Amazon CloudFront AWS Shield Advanced Amazon Athena Amazon S3 Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Kinesis Firehose AWS Lambda API Security Cost Optimisation Cloud Engineering AWS CDK...

Software Developer - AWS / TypeScript We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to join a multidisciplinary Agile team, building, testing, deploying and supporting secure, cloud-native digital services at scale. You will work primarily with AWS, TypeScript and Node.js, following modern engineering practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair programming and continuous delivery. Rate: £465 per day IR35: Outside IR35 Contract: Initial contract until the end of the year Location: Hybrid - 1 day per week in London Start: ASAP What You'll Be Doing Developing and maintaining serverless applications using AWS, TypeScript and Node.js Writing comprehensive automated tests and delivering high-quality code using TDD Building and managing infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation and SAM Supporting live services, investigating production issues and driving continuous improvement Contributing to CI/CD pipelines, code reviews and technical design...

Job Information Date Opened 25/08/2026 Job Type Contract Industry IT Services Work Experience 5+ years Salary £400 - £425 Outside IR35 City London Province Greater London Country United Kingdom Postal Code E14 Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly make a difference. Role Purpose We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure server-side services and APIs, while contributing to the adoption of Agentic AI capabilities within our engineering platform. The role sits at SFIA...

Technical Delivery Manager Location: Central London (4 days on-site/1 day remote) Rate: £500 - £550 per day - Outside IR35 Employment Type: Contract Clearance Requirement: Active DV Clearance (Sole UK Nationals only) About the Role We are seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to join a pioneering team working on one of the UK's most significant AI initiatives within the Defence sector. In this role, you will be pivotal in driving the delivery of mission-critical systems built on a cutting-edge technical stack. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, product managers, and key stakeholders, you will ensure complex, high-stakes software solutions are delivered predictably, securely, and at pace. Key Responsibilities Technical Delivery & Agile Leadership: Lead agile delivery across multiple engineering workstreams, driving sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives. Architecture & Engineering...

Forward Deployed AI Engineer London, 2 Days On Site Part time - 3 days Per Week 12 Months Long Outside IR35 £450 - £550 Per Day The Company They are a specialist investment-focused organisation with a portfolio of businesses across multiple sectors. They are actively exploring how AI can enhance operations, improve workflows, and unlock efficiencies across their portfolio. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, they are looking for an experienced contractor who can influence strategy while remaining hands-on with delivery. The Role and Deliverables Assess existing business processes and identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and optimisation. Design and build AI solutions using technologies such as LLMs, agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Create practical roadmaps for AI adoption, including prioritised implementation plans. Engage with business stakeholders to communicate opportunities,...

Outside IR35 3-6 months initial Fully remote £450-£500 per day ASAP Start We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join a growing data engineering team delivering modern cloud data platforms and solutions for enterprise clients. You'll work alongside Data Engineers and Architects to design and build scalable data pipelines, transformation frameworks and cloud-native data platforms across AWS, dbt, Snowflake . This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone with at least 3 years' commercial Data Engineering experience who has delivered production-grade data solutions. Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines . Develop transformation models and data modelling frameworks using dbt . Build and optimise enterprise data solutions using Snowflake and/or Databricks . Design cloud-native data lake solutions using Amazon S3 . Develop production data pipelines using AWS...

Initial 6 months - Outside IR35 Contract Rate: Up to £400/day Hybrid: 3-day onsite a week Security Operations Engineer | Microsoft Security Technologies | Contract Outside IR35 Hybrid: 3-day onsite (Bank Station) OR Liverpool office Rate: £350-£400/day (Outside IR35) Contract Duration: Initial 6 months with a potential extension Industry: Highly Regulated Environment Job Summary: Seeking for a Security Operations Engineer to join one of our highly regulated client on a contract basis. you'll be responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats across Microsoft and hybrid environments. you'll play a key role in safeguarding critical business systems through proactive threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, and operational support of core security programmes. Key responsibilities: Investigate and respond to escalated security incidents and events Perform event-based and policy-based threat...

Analytics Engineer l DBT Core l DBT Cloud l Bigquery l Data modelling l data warehouse l SQL l End-to-end l 6-Month Contract | £500- £520 per day | Outside IR35 l Hybrid London We 're working with a fast-moving, product-led business looking for an Analytics Engineer to support their data team on an initial 6-month contract. This is a hands-on role sitting between data engineering and analytics - building clean, reliable data models that power reporting and decision-making across the business with a strong emphasis on DBT You 'll be working closely with BI and engineering teams both onshore and offshore, owning dbt models end-to-end and helping improve data quality, performance, and overall usability. What you 'll be doing: Owning and resolving pipeline failures Building new data marts for the BI team Improving our existing data layer 's performance for BI analysis Migrating existing business semantic logic from Tableau into our dbt project...

AI Technical Lead | Generative AI & Machine Learning 12-Month Contract | £500 - £700 per day | Outside IR35 | London 167 Solutions is working with an organisation looking to appoint an experienced AI Technical Lead to lead the design and delivery of production-ready Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate across AI strategy, architecture and engineering , while still being comfortable getting involved in the technology. The Role You will take technical ownership of AI initiatives from initial concept through to production, working with engineering, product and business stakeholders to build scalable AI solutions. Key responsibilities will include: Leading the technical design and delivery of Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions Designing enterprise-grade LLM, RAG and AI agent architectures Building and integrating conversational,...

Forward Deployed AI Engineer London, 2 Days On Site Part time - 3 days Per Week 12 Months Long Outside IR35 £450 - £550 Per Day The Company They are a specialist investment-focused organisation with a portfolio of businesses across multiple sectors. They are actively exploring how AI can enhance operations, improve workflows, and unlock efficiencies across their portfolio. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, they are looking for an experienced contractor who can influence strategy while remaining hands-on with delivery. The Role and Deliverables Assess existing business processes and identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and optimisation. Design and build AI solutions using technologies such as LLMs, agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Create practical roadmaps for AI adoption, including prioritised implementation plans. Engage with business stakeholders to communicate opportunities, risks and...

Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & Terraform (Fintech) £350-500/day Outside IR35 - 8 Weeks duration. You'll be working as a Platform Engineer to modernise and automate its Kubernetes estate for a Fintech that works with Asset Managers, Hedgefunds and Investment Banks. This is a high-impact contract focused on replacing manual infrastructure management with Infrastructure as Code, improving platform security, and upgrading cluster networking. You'll own: Terraform modules for clusters, DNS and RBAC GitLab CI/CD automation Gateway API implementation and NGINX retirement Cluster observability and monitoring Kubernetes networking, routing and access controls Platform documentation and architecture standards Key skills: Kubernetes Terraform module development GitLab CI/CD Gateway API / Ingress Cloud networking (VPC, DNS, subnets) Platform engineering in production environments Why join? OUTSIDE IR35 Immediate start Drive critical...

AWS/TypeScript Integration Engineer Location: London (1-2 day per week onsite) Day Rate: £595 per day Outside IR35 Duration: 6 months - initial We are currently supporting a leading FTSE 100 Wealth & Asset Management organisation in their search for an experienced AWS/TypeScript Integration Engineer to join a key integration and transformation programme. This role is suited to a technically strong engineer with proven experience designing and delivering enterprise integrations within cloud-native environments. You will work closely with business stakeholders, third-party vendors, architects, and engineering teams to develop scalable, secure, and robust integration solutions. Key Responsibilities Gather and analyse integration requirements from business and third-party stakeholders. Collaborate with stakeholders to define and agree integration patterns and approaches. Design end-to-end integration solutions across multiple systems and platforms. Work alongside the...

AWS / TypeScript Integration Engineer Location: London (1-2 day per week onsite) Day Rate: £595 per day Outside IR35 Duration: 6 Months - initial We are currently supporting a leading FTSE 100 Wealth & Asset Management organisation in their search for an experienced AWS / TypeScript Integration Engineer to join a key integration and transformation programme. This role is suited to a technically strong engineer with proven experience designing and delivering enterprise integrations within cloud-native environments. You will work closely with business stakeholders, third-party vendors, architects, and engineering teams to develop scalable, secure, and robust integration solutions. Key Responsibilities Gather and analyse integration requirements from business and third-party stakeholders. Collaborate with stakeholders to define and agree integration patterns and approaches. Design end-to-end integration solutions across multiple...