.NET Core Contracts in Reading

.NET Core
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring .NET Core skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Core 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 58 90 83
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.084% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 0.50% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile - £525 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +3.29% +1.43%
75th Percentile - £575 £569
90th Percentile - - £582
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -18.18% +3.29% +1.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

.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 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 Core
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in Reading

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in Reading

.NET Core
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 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft