C# Contracts in Berkshire

C#
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# 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 56 67 76
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing C# 37 57 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.15% 2.87% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.14% 15.28% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 49 24
10th Percentile £420 £410 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £505
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +16.34% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £570
90th Percentile £600 £619 £617
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £528
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.21% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £31.50 £62.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.60% +380.77% -
75th Percentile £32.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £31.50 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year -46.52% +7.10% +50.68%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 332 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.30% 18.80% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 320
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 14
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.20 £22.99
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £53.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68.51 £64.55 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.25 £80.72
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Berkshire

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Berkshire

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Berkshire

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Berkshire

C#
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +3 16 £588 -2.89% 45
Wokingham -2 10 £450 -15.49% 2
Windsor - 5 £500 -
Bracknell +16 2 £513 +2.50% 8
C#
South East

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (5.41%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) Azure
2 18 (48.65%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (18.92%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (18.92%) Serverless
4 6 (16.22%) Azure AKS
5 5 (13.51%) AWS
5 5 (13.51%) Azure API Management
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Storage
5 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.51%) SaaS
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Event Grid
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (10.81%) PaaS
6 4 (10.81%) Power Automate
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (8.11%) IaaS
7 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DHCP
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.11%) Power BI
4 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.70%) Big Data
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.70%) HBase
5 1 (2.70%) HDInsight
5 1 (2.70%) Impala
5 1 (2.70%) Metadata
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Parquet
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Postman
2 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.70%) NUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Selenium
3 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Finance
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Games
3 1 (2.70%) Retail
3 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) .NET Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) C# Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Applications Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.41%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (59.46%) .NET
2 14 (37.84%) CSS
2 14 (37.84%) HTML
3 8 (21.62%) .NET Core
4 7 (18.92%) .NET Framework
5 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
5 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
6 3 (8.11%) ADO
6 3 (8.11%) Apache Axis
6 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (8.11%) Entity Framework
6 3 (8.11%) OAuth
6 3 (8.11%) OpenID
6 3 (8.11%) React
6 3 (8.11%) REST
6 3 (8.11%) RESTful
6 3 (8.11%) SAML
7 2 (5.41%) Blazor
7 2 (5.41%) Ember.js
7 2 (5.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) IoT
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.70%) PKI
2 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.41%) Linux
5 1 (2.70%) Unix
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) DevOps
2 16 (43.24%) Agile
3 13 (35.14%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (24.32%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (21.62%) LLM
6 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
7 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
7 7 (18.92%) Software Testing
7 7 (18.92%) Unit Testing
8 6 (16.22%) Integration Testing
8 6 (16.22%) SDLC
8 6 (16.22%) System Testing
9 5 (13.51%) Analytics
9 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
9 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (13.51%) Scrum
10 4 (10.81%) API Management
10 4 (10.81%) Identity Management
10 4 (10.81%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) SQL
2 17 (45.95%) JavaScript
3 16 (43.24%) Python
4 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.51%) Bicep
5 5 (13.51%) Java
6 4 (10.81%) Bash
7 2 (5.41%) Ruby
7 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.70%) Perl
8 1 (2.70%) VB
8 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) CISSP
3 2 (5.41%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.41%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.70%) SCCM
5 1 (2.70%) SCOM
5 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.41%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Snow
4 1 (2.70%) StreamSets