.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 108 113
Rank change year-on-year +21 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.59% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.61% 0.92% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £361 - £369
25th Percentile £414 £525 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £667
90th Percentile £526 - £698
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -2.44%

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 268 326 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.64% 19.11% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 220 166
10th Percentile £325 £363 £313
25th Percentile £410 £450 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £653 £704
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £50.87 £28.16
25th Percentile - - £45.13
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £55.31
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +11.37% -19.40%
75th Percentile - - £61.84
90th Percentile - £64.25 £72.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.25%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -5 5 £508 - 1
Reading +31 1 £530 -3.64% 3
.NET Core
South East

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Storage
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Table
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) Power Automate
3 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Site Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) ADO
2 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 2 (28.57%) SOAP
3 2 (28.57%) Swagger
3 2 (28.57%) WSDL
3 2 (28.57%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) API Design
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) OOP
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Bicep
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft