B2C Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring B2C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 91 96
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing B2C 10 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.55% 0.43% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.46% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 £510 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +0.49% -21.15%
75th Percentile £655 £525 £559
90th Percentile £690 £528 £584
South East median daily rate £563 £550 £414
% change year-on-year +2.27% +32.93% -36.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

B2C falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,476 1,076 1,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 81.68% 91.50% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 666 781
10th Percentile £350 £345 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -6.59% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £667 £693
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 40 74
10th Percentile £17.25 £14.75 £19.32
25th Percentile £41.69 £16.66 £44.41
Median hourly rate £82.00 £32.18 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +154.82% -47.76% +2.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.62 £72.18
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.28 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.46 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +139.55% -61.81% +10.80%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing B2C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

B2C job vacancy trend in Berkshire

B2C
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing B2C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing B2C

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in Berkshire

B2C
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing B2C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing B2C

B2C
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 B2C within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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 -23 6 £655 +28.43% 4
Wokingham - 4 £500 -
B2C
South East

B2C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure App Service
1 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Azure API Management
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (30.00%) IaaS
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 5 (50.00%) Consultant
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 5 (50.00%) OAuth
1 5 (50.00%) OpenID
1 5 (50.00%) REST
1 5 (50.00%) SAML
2 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Code Coverage
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) RBAC
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) API Management
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (30.00%) MLOps
2 3 (30.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Bicep
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle