.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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 77 70
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing .NET 23 35 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.94% 2.09% 2.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.75% 11.95% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 33
10th Percentile £325 £478 £330
25th Percentile £375 £506 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £481 £619 £600
90th Percentile £517 £673 £685
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 263 293 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.21% 17.49% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 198 176
10th Percentile £338 £363 £313
25th Percentile £410 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £670 £709
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 4
10th Percentile £30.66 £53.76 £14.15
25th Percentile £31.28 - £15.88
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £36.70
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +67.85% +4.86%
75th Percentile £62.63 - £61.84
90th Percentile £80.55 £62.93 £72.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £59.30
% change year-on-year -18.83% +3.89% -1.18%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -5 11 £450 -2.70% 1
Reading +9 7 £423 -30.94% 9
Windsor -2 2 £454 - 5
Bracknell - 1 - - 8
.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 2 (8.70%) CMS
1 2 (8.70%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.35%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) Azure
2 13 (56.52%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
4 6 (26.09%) Azure AKS
5 5 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (17.39%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Storage
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Table
7 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
8 2 (8.70%) AWS
8 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (4.35%) dbt
9 1 (4.35%) GCP
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub
9 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
9 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (17.39%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Power Query
4 1 (4.35%) Sisense
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
1 2 (8.70%) NUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Postman
2 1 (4.35%) Selenium
2 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) French Language
2 1 (4.35%) Italian Language
2 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.35%) Marketing
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Spanish Language
2 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) .NET Developer
3 4 (17.39%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (17.39%) C# Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Site Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) .NET Core
2 5 (21.74%) ADO
2 5 (21.74%) CSS
2 5 (21.74%) HTML
3 4 (17.39%) RESTful
4 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
4 3 (13.04%) ARM Templates
4 3 (13.04%) React
4 3 (13.04%) Web Services
5 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
5 2 (8.70%) REST
6 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (4.35%) Blazor
6 1 (4.35%) MDX
6 1 (4.35%) Next.js
6 1 (4.35%) Node.js
6 1 (4.35%) OAuth
6 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (17.39%) Identity Management
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) Agile
4 3 (13.04%) Analytics
4 3 (13.04%) API Development
4 3 (13.04%) ERP
4 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.70%) SDLC
5 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) C#
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Bicep
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) X++
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.04%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Snow