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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 107 116
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 8 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.62% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 0.59% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £349 - £534
25th Percentile £386 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.11%
75th Percentile £516 - £667
90th Percentile £524 - £698
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 276 340 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.40% 21.08% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 225 158
10th Percentile £324 £384 £307
25th Percentile £413 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £639 £656 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £42.20 £35.70
25th Percentile - £57.89 £54.94
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £72.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% -14.78% +5.33%
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - £68.23 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £58.59
% change year-on-year -24.53% +13.07% -9.86%

.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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 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
Wokingham -12 3 £508 -
Reading - 3 £471 - 2
.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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure API Management
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Functions
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Storage
4 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Table
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (12.50%) PaaS
6 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Billing
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
3 3 (37.50%) OAuth
3 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (37.50%) OpenID
3 3 (37.50%) SAML
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) SOAP
4 2 (25.00%) Swagger
4 2 (25.00%) WSDL
4 2 (25.00%) XSLT
5 1 (12.50%) ADO
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) B2C
2 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) Log Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) MLOps
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) RBAC
2 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (37.50%) PHP
5 2 (25.00%) Java
6 1 (12.50%) Bicep
6 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft