C# Contracts in Reading

C#
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 44 47 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -23
Contract jobs citing C# 16 45 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.68% 3.78% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.70% 15.57% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 41 18
10th Percentile £479 £400 £363
25th Percentile £525 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £605 £508
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +19.21% -2.40%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £584
90th Percentile - £619 £631
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £505
% change year-on-year -14.89% +16.34% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £31.50 £62.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -49.60% +380.77% -

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 289 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 24.24% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 202 216
10th Percentile £406 £363 £369
25th Percentile £500 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £54.13 £63.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £72.63
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -25.22% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Reading

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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

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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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Headless CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) HBase
2 1 (6.25%) HDInsight
2 1 (6.25%) Impala
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) C# Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Automation Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) CSS
1 11 (68.75%) HTML
2 9 (56.25%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (6.25%) ADO
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Axis
4 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) Blazor
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) PySpark
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
1 1 (6.25%) IoT
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
1 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 9 (56.25%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (50.00%) LLM
4 7 (43.75%) Software Testing
5 6 (37.50%) Integration Testing
5 6 (37.50%) SDLC
5 6 (37.50%) System Testing
5 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
6 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Channel Management
8 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
8 3 (18.75%) Scrum
8 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
9 2 (12.50%) API Testing
9 2 (12.50%) BDD
9 2 (12.50%) ETL
9 2 (12.50%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Python
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Flume
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) StreamSets