C# Contracts in Reading

C#
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for C# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C# over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 63 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 -19
Contract jobs citing C# 44 22 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.75% 2.13% 3.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.38% 8.33% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 40
10th Percentile £400 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £388 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% -12.20% +8.47%
75th Percentile £608 £578 £538
90th Percentile £619 £609 £554
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +42.35% -15.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.50 £13.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +380.77% -78.86% +53.75%

All Programming Languages
Reading

C# is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 286 264 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.38% 25.61% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 206 229
10th Percentile £330 £363 £353
25th Percentile £425 £456 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £606
90th Percentile £688 £709 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £52.00 £72.63 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.24 -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £67.75 £80.28 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.45% +81.25%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Reading

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Reading

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Reading over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Reading

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Reading

C#
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 18 (40.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Jadu
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (70.45%) Azure
2 23 (52.27%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (40.91%) Azure Storage
3 18 (40.91%) Entra ID
3 18 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.09%) PaaS
6 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.27%) AWS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.27%) GCP
7 1 (2.27%) NuGet
7 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (40.91%) DHCP
1 18 (40.91%) DNS
1 18 (40.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.27%) MySQL
2 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) Git
2 10 (22.73%) Visual Studio
3 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.82%) JMeter
5 2 (4.55%) JIRA
5 2 (4.55%) Selenium
5 2 (4.55%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.27%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.27%) Appium
6 1 (2.27%) MSTest
6 1 (2.27%) NUnit
6 1 (2.27%) Postman
6 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.27%) Xcode
General
1 20 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Electronics
3 1 (2.27%) Finance
3 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.27%) Marketing
3 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (38.64%) Developer
3 14 (31.82%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (31.82%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (31.82%) Support Specialist
4 8 (18.18%) C# Developer
5 4 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Tester
6 3 (6.82%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Performance Tester
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Performance Tester
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (45.45%) ARM Templates
2 15 (34.09%) .NET
3 7 (15.91%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.82%) RESTful
5 2 (4.55%) JSON
5 2 (4.55%) SOAP
5 2 (4.55%) XML
6 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.27%) HTML
6 1 (2.27%) LAMP
6 1 (2.27%) OAuth
6 1 (2.27%) OpenID
6 1 (2.27%) REST
6 1 (2.27%) Symfony
6 1 (2.27%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) PKI
1 18 (40.91%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (11.36%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (54.55%) Linux
2 19 (43.18%) Windows
2 19 (43.18%) Windows Server
3 18 (40.91%) Windows Server 2016
3 18 (40.91%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) DevOps
2 22 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (45.45%) Agile
3 20 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (40.91%) Analytics
4 18 (40.91%) Identity Management
4 18 (40.91%) ITIL
4 18 (40.91%) Log Analytics
4 18 (40.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 18 (40.91%) Privileged Identity Management
4 18 (40.91%) RBAC
4 18 (40.91%) Release Management
4 18 (40.91%) Service Management
5 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 5 (11.36%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.36%) Performance Testing
8 5 (11.36%) Scrum
9 3 (6.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (61.36%) PowerShell
2 18 (40.91%) Bicep
2 18 (40.91%) VB
2 18 (40.91%) VBScript
3 7 (15.91%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) F#
5 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 29 (65.91%) SC Cleared
3 19 (43.18%) Degree
4 18 (40.91%) DV Cleared
4 18 (40.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Active Directory
1 18 (40.91%) Virtual Desktop
1 18 (40.91%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (47.73%) Kubernetes
2 18 (40.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 18 (40.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (40.91%) SCCM
2 18 (40.91%) SCOM
2 18 (40.91%) WSUS
3 8 (18.18%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (56.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Google
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle
2 1 (2.27%) SAP