C# Contracts in the Thames Valley

C#
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 75 56
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 0
Contract jobs citing C# 73 77 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.77% 2.70% 3.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.98% 11.11% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 56 114
10th Percentile £400 £363 £366
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £551
90th Percentile £619 £675 £584
South East median daily rate £500 £524 £495
% change year-on-year -4.53% +5.81% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.10% +57.14% -23.91%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 522 693 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.81% 24.34% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 512 573
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £585
90th Percentile £670 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 4
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £26.10
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £49.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -21.55% +93.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.93
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.22% +57.14% -17.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for C# in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +5 57 £569 +16.67% 34
Buckinghamshire +9 15 £450 -25.00% 17
Oxfordshire +6 1 £550 +100.00% 37
C#
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (21.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Jadu
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 46 (63.01%) Azure
2 24 (32.88%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (26.03%) Entra ID
4 18 (24.66%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (21.92%) Azure Storage
5 16 (21.92%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (15.07%) AWS
7 10 (13.70%) PaaS
8 8 (10.96%) Azure API Management
8 8 (10.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (8.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (6.85%) Azure Functions
10 5 (6.85%) Serverless
11 4 (5.48%) SaaS
12 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
12 3 (4.11%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (4.11%) IaaS
13 2 (2.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.92%) DHCP
1 16 (21.92%) DNS
1 16 (21.92%) Firewall
2 4 (5.48%) RS-232
3 3 (4.11%) Network Security
3 3 (4.11%) VPN
4 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (6.85%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.74%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Power BI
5 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (27.40%) Visual Studio
2 14 (19.18%) Git
3 8 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) JIRA
5 4 (5.48%) Subversion
6 3 (4.11%) JMeter
6 3 (4.11%) Postman
6 3 (4.11%) SpecFlow
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (2.74%) Selenium
8 1 (1.37%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.37%) Appium
8 1 (1.37%) MSTest
8 1 (1.37%) NUnit
8 1 (1.37%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.37%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.37%) Xcode
General
1 24 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.74%) Finance
4 1 (1.37%) Back Office
4 1 (1.37%) Electronics
4 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.37%) Marketing
4 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (46.58%) Developer
2 16 (21.92%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (19.18%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (19.18%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (19.18%) Support Specialist
4 12 (16.44%) C# Developer
5 9 (12.33%) .NET Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Lead
6 5 (6.85%) Software Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Tester
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (4.11%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Performance Tester
8 3 (4.11%) Senior
8 3 (4.11%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (46.58%) .NET
2 20 (27.40%) ARM Templates
3 11 (15.07%) ASP.NET
4 6 (8.22%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.85%) .NET Framework
5 5 (6.85%) REST
5 5 (6.85%) XML
6 4 (5.48%) HTML
6 4 (5.48%) JSON
6 4 (5.48%) SOAP
7 3 (4.11%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.11%) CSS
7 3 (4.11%) OAuth
7 3 (4.11%) OpenID
7 3 (4.11%) RESTful
7 3 (4.11%) Web Services
8 2 (2.74%) 802.1X
8 2 (2.74%) OpenAPI
8 2 (2.74%) React
8 2 (2.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (21.92%) PKI
3 9 (12.33%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.74%) IoT
7 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.51%) Windows
2 22 (30.14%) Linux
3 19 (26.03%) Windows Server
4 16 (21.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (21.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (5.48%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.16%) DevOps
2 29 (39.73%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.99%) Agile
4 20 (27.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (26.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 16 (21.92%) Analytics
6 16 (21.92%) Identity Management
6 16 (21.92%) ITIL
6 16 (21.92%) Log Analytics
6 16 (21.92%) Privileged Identity Management
6 16 (21.92%) RBAC
6 16 (21.92%) Release Management
6 16 (21.92%) Service Management
7 13 (17.81%) Data Protection
8 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.07%) OO
9 11 (15.07%) TDD
10 10 (13.70%) Scrum
10 10 (13.70%) Test Automation
11 9 (12.33%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.99%) PowerShell
2 17 (23.29%) Bicep
3 16 (21.92%) SQL
3 16 (21.92%) VB
3 16 (21.92%) VBScript
4 7 (9.59%) Python
5 6 (8.22%) C
6 4 (5.48%) Java
6 4 (5.48%) PHP
7 3 (4.11%) C++
7 3 (4.11%) F#
7 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.11%) Ruby
7 3 (4.11%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 28 (38.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (27.40%) Degree
4 16 (21.92%) DV Cleared
4 16 (21.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) QA
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Active Directory
1 19 (26.03%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (21.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (8.22%) Docker
4 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 16 (21.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (21.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (21.92%) SCCM
2 16 (21.92%) SCOM
2 16 (21.92%) WSUS
3 8 (10.96%) Ansible
4 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.37%) Puppet
5 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (45.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.11%) VMware
3 2 (2.74%) Atmel
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle
4 1 (1.37%) Google
4 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.37%) SAP