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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 92 93
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing B2C 13 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.67% 0.33% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.36% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile £500 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £555
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -8.11% -14.62%
75th Percentile £655 - £578
90th Percentile £690 - £640
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.20% -21.15%

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 1,614 1,108 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.73% 92.41% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 683 795
10th Percentile £335 £350 £321
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £727 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 40 78
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £15.55
25th Percentile £71.00 £16.66 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.50 £32.18 £60.83
Median % change year-on-year +159.48% -47.10% +6.94%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £70.39
90th Percentile £104.20 £87.64 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.43 £57.35
% change year-on-year +156.65% -62.63% +14.70%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -18 8 £655 +28.43% 3
Wokingham - 5 £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 6 (46.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure AKS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure App Service
1 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Key Vault
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Monitor
1 6 (46.15%) Entra ID
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Storage
3 4 (30.77%) IaaS
3 4 (30.77%) PaaS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (46.15%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Parquet
2 2 (15.38%) Tableau
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Marketing
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Developer
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Campaign Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) React Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) .NET
1 6 (46.15%) .NET Core
1 6 (46.15%) .NET Framework
1 6 (46.15%) Entity Framework
1 6 (46.15%) OAuth
1 6 (46.15%) OpenID
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) SAML
2 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) JSON
4 2 (15.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Analytics
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Code Coverage
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (46.15%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (46.15%) Log Analytics
2 6 (46.15%) RBAC
2 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
3 4 (30.77%) MLOps
4 3 (23.08%) API Management
4 3 (23.08%) Data Management
4 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
5 2 (15.38%) Marketing Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) A/B Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (7.69%) Campaign Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Bicep
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow