.NET Framework Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft .NET Framework
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 99 104
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 4 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.70% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 3.68% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 10
10th Percentile £336 £456 £496
25th Percentile £360 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £456 £583 £538
90th Percentile £489 £588 £563
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +0.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

.NET Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 268 326 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.64% 19.11% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 220 166
10th Percentile £325 £363 £313
25th Percentile £410 £450 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £653 £704
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £50.87 £28.16
25th Percentile - - £45.13
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £55.31
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +11.37% -19.40%
75th Percentile - - £61.84
90th Percentile - £64.25 £72.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.25%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in Berkshire

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in Berkshire

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
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 .NET Framework within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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 +24 1 £400 -23.81%
Wokingham -8 1 £508 - 1
Bracknell - 1 - - 1
.NET Framework
South East

.NET Framework
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 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) Sisense
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (25.00%) French Language
1 1 (25.00%) Italian Language
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (25.00%) MDX
4 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) Swagger
4 1 (25.00%) WSDL
4 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MicroStrategy
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle