.NET Contract Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring .NET skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 60 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -15
Contract jobs citing .NET 8 28 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.35% 2.54% 3.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.67% 11.62% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 28
10th Percentile £407 £455 £350
25th Percentile £417 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £520 £645 £613
90th Percentile £526 £733 £679
Berkshire median daily rate £454 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -15.58% +2.38% -

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 141 241 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 23.78% 21.87% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 166 114
10th Percentile £350 £384 £350
25th Percentile £402 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £650 £670 £706
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £23.08
25th Percentile - - £32.43
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year - +27.63% -36.28%
75th Percentile - - £63.85
90th Percentile - £69.56 £73.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £55.31
% change year-on-year -47.55% +11.37% -19.40%

.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

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing .NET

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing .NET

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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 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Umbraco Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ADO
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) Blazor
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Insight
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle