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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 66 113
Rank change year-on-year -49 +47 -21
Contract jobs citing B2C 8 33 16
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.44% 2.82% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 3.02% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 9
10th Percentile - £568 £500
25th Percentile £406 £621 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% +18.18% -5.38%
75th Percentile £419 £675 £575
90th Percentile - £683 £680
South East median daily rate £650 £650 £550
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%

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 1,572 1,093 1,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.47% 93.50% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,029 629 988
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £630 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 31 97
10th Percentile £20.08 £26.00 £18.95
25th Percentile £57.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +5.48% -9.86%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.50 £86.08 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% +3.33% -16.67%

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 12 March 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 -42 5 £413 -36.54% 6
Wokingham - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (37.50%) Azure API Management
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Tableau
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Parquet
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Billing
2 3 (37.50%) Marketing
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Campaign Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth
1 4 (50.00%) OpenID
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) SAML
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
4 1 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) MLOps
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) RBAC
3 4 (50.00%) User Experience
4 3 (37.50%) AI
4 3 (37.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (37.50%) API Management
4 3 (37.50%) CRM
4 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow