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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 81 101
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 +14
Contract jobs citing B2C 10 30 21
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.76% 1.87% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 2.10% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 16
10th Percentile - £538 £538
25th Percentile £406 £614 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -29.04% - +7.26%
75th Percentile £515 £651 £678
90th Percentile £524 £654 £693
South East median daily rate £515 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -17.60% -3.85% +8.33%

All Process and 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 1,179 1,427 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.39% 88.80% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 766 972
10th Percentile £325 £325 £240
25th Percentile £420 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.34% +0.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 55 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.93 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.72 £41.88 £45.21
Median hourly rate £27.50 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -52.98% -5.34% +23.58%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.42 £72.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.19 £77.55
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

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
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 November 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 +1 6 £413 -36.54% 2
Slough - 1 £520 - 42
Bracknell - 1 - -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Azure API Management
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Release Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Manager
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Release Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (30.00%) OpenID
2 3 (30.00%) SAML
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (10.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) API Management
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) CRM
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) MLOps
3 3 (30.00%) RBAC
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) PHP
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce