.NET Core Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

.NET Core
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring .NET Core skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 81 128
Rank change year-on-year -34 +47 -21
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 8 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.43% 0.61% 0.049%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.36% 2.87% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £409 £355 -
25th Percentile £413 £400 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -28.00% +11.71%
75th Percentile £600 £469 £638
90th Percentile £660 - -
South East median daily rate £488 £400 £470
% change year-on-year +21.88% -14.89% -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

.NET Core 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 339 244 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.39% 21.13% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 171 166
10th Percentile £375 £367 £320
25th Percentile £418 £423 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.02% -5.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £611
90th Percentile £648 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £509 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -2.72% +4.60% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 15
10th Percentile £56.01 £39.64 £56.56
25th Percentile £73.25 £53.72 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £77.19 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +25.31% -21.53%
75th Percentile - £84.85 £62.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £89.44 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% -5.23%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend in Berkshire

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in Berkshire

.NET Core
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 .NET Core within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 24 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 -16 4 £425 +30.77% 4
Wokingham -30 2 £700 +64.71% 1
Slough - 1 £600 -
.NET Core
South East

.NET Core
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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Functions
3 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (62.50%) Serverless
4 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (37.50%) Azure API Management
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Storage
6 2 (25.00%) PaaS
6 2 (25.00%) SaaS
7 1 (12.50%) AWS
7 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
7 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) React Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) REST
3 5 (62.50%) GraphQL
3 5 (62.50%) OAuth
3 5 (62.50%) OpenID
3 5 (62.50%) SAML
4 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (50.00%) ARM Templates
5 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
6 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (25.00%) React
7 1 (12.50%) JSON
7 1 (12.50%) RESTful
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) AI
3 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) RBAC
4 4 (50.00%) Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) B2C
4 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) MLOps
4 4 (50.00%) User Experience
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) API Integration
5 3 (37.50%) API Management
5 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) Bash
3 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) PHP
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow