.NET Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 91 62
Rank change year-on-year +27 -29 -17
Contract jobs citing .NET 31 31 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.64% 1.56% 2.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.81% 10.51% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 34
10th Percentile £410 £325 £373
25th Percentile £456 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -7.95% +7.06%
75th Percentile £597 £611 £684
90th Percentile £600 £619 £760
South East median daily rate £494 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.25% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
South East median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year +31.04% +7.10% +57.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

.NET 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 242 295 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.58% 14.89% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 180 234
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £630
90th Percentile £655 £675 £705
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 8
10th Percentile £39.64 £56.56 £52.90
25th Percentile £53.72 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £84.85 - £80.25
90th Percentile £89.44 £61.84 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.69% -5.23% +44.44%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Berkshire

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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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +29 14 £600 +20.00% 30
Wokingham -4 9 £450 -2.70%
Windsor - 4 £500 -
Bracknell - 1 - - 5
.NET
South East

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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 3 (9.68%) Umbraco
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) CMS
3 1 (3.23%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.23%) SAS
3 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.23%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (83.87%) Azure
2 13 (41.94%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) SaaS
4 6 (19.35%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (16.13%) AWS
6 4 (12.90%) Azure AKS
6 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
6 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
6 4 (12.90%) Serverless
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.68%) Azure API Management
7 3 (9.68%) Azure Storage
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (9.68%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Table
8 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
8 2 (6.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.68%) Power BI
4 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.23%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Parquet
5 1 (3.23%) Power Query
5 1 (3.23%) Sisense
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Postman
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) NUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) French Language
3 1 (3.23%) Italian Language
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Spanish Language
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (67.74%) Developer
2 10 (32.26%) .NET Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Automation Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (12.90%) React Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Developer
4 3 (9.68%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) CSS
1 11 (35.48%) HTML
2 9 (29.03%) .NET Core
3 8 (25.81%) .NET Framework
4 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
5 3 (9.68%) ADO
5 3 (9.68%) ARM Templates
5 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (9.68%) Entity Framework
5 3 (9.68%) React
5 3 (9.68%) REST
5 3 (9.68%) RESTful
6 2 (6.45%) Ember.js
6 2 (6.45%) Node.js
7 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (3.23%) Blazor
7 1 (3.23%) Next.js
7 1 (3.23%) OpenID
7 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
1 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.23%) N-Tier
1 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) DevOps
2 10 (32.26%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (22.58%) SDLC
5 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
5 7 (22.58%) Unit Testing
6 6 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (19.35%) Integration Testing
6 6 (19.35%) LLM
6 6 (19.35%) Software Testing
6 6 (19.35%) System Testing
7 4 (12.90%) Analytics
7 4 (12.90%) Channel Management
7 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Software Delivery
7 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.68%) API Development
8 3 (9.68%) Identity Management
8 3 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) C#
2 18 (58.06%) SQL
3 12 (38.71%) JavaScript
4 9 (29.03%) Python
5 4 (12.90%) Bicep
6 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.45%) Bash
7 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
8 1 (3.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
1 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) OpenAI
3 3 (9.68%) Virgin Media
4 2 (6.45%) Sitecore
5 1 (3.23%) Infor
5 1 (3.23%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Snow