.NET Contracts in Reading

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 69 61
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 -28
Contract jobs citing .NET 14 22 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.35% 1.85% 2.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.29% 11.00% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 25
10th Percentile £517 £323 £405
25th Percentile £525 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile - £619 £719
90th Percentile - - £784
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

.NET 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in Reading.

Daily rate trend for .NET in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Umbraco
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Automation Developer
4 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Applications Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (14.29%) React Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Sitecore Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
6 1 (7.14%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Digital Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) CSS
1 9 (64.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) ADO
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) Blazor
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
1 1 (7.14%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (42.86%) Integration Testing
2 6 (42.86%) LLM
2 6 (42.86%) SDLC
2 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 6 (42.86%) System Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Channel Management
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 2 (14.29%) IT Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C#
1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 6 (42.86%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) OpenAI
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Sitecore
2 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media
3 1 (7.14%) Infor