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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 66 51
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 -21
Contract jobs citing C# 46 22 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.87% 2.11% 3.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.97% 8.46% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 16 39
10th Percentile £401 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £388 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% -14.29% +11.05%
75th Percentile £608 £578 £538
90th Percentile £619 £609 £558
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +42.35% -15.00% +5.82%
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 288 260 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.24% 24.98% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 202 230
10th Percentile £330 £363 £352
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 £638 £606
90th Percentile £688 £712 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £540 £500
% change year-on-year +1.80% +8.05% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £72.63 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.24 -
Median hourly rate £58.40 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.26% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.28 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.45% +52.63%

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 29 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 20 (43.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Jadu
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) Azure
2 25 (54.35%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (43.48%) Azure Storage
3 20 (43.48%) Entra ID
3 20 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) PaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.17%) AWS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.17%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) NuGet
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (43.48%) DHCP
1 20 (43.48%) DNS
1 20 (43.48%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Git
2 10 (21.74%) Visual Studio
3 8 (17.39%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.52%) JMeter
5 2 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
5 2 (4.35%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.17%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.17%) Appium
6 1 (2.17%) MSTest
6 1 (2.17%) NUnit
6 1 (2.17%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.17%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.17%) Xcode
General
1 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.17%) Electronics
3 1 (2.17%) Finance
3 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.17%) Marketing
3 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (36.96%) Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (30.43%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (30.43%) Support Specialist
4 8 (17.39%) C# Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Active Directory Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) .NET Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Tester
7 3 (6.52%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Performance Tester
7 3 (6.52%) Senior
8 2 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Performance Tester
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (47.83%) ARM Templates
2 15 (32.61%) .NET
3 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.52%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.52%) RESTful
5 2 (4.35%) JSON
5 2 (4.35%) SOAP
5 2 (4.35%) XML
6 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.17%) HTML
6 1 (2.17%) LAMP
6 1 (2.17%) OAuth
6 1 (2.17%) OpenID
6 1 (2.17%) REST
6 1 (2.17%) Symfony
6 1 (2.17%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 20 (43.48%) PKI
1 20 (43.48%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (10.87%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Linux
2 21 (45.65%) Windows
2 21 (45.65%) Windows Server
3 20 (43.48%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (43.48%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) DevOps
2 24 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 22 (47.83%) Agile
3 22 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (43.48%) Analytics
4 20 (43.48%) Identity Management
4 20 (43.48%) ITIL
4 20 (43.48%) Log Analytics
4 20 (43.48%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 20 (43.48%) Privileged Identity Management
4 20 (43.48%) RBAC
4 20 (43.48%) Release Management
4 20 (43.48%) Service Management
5 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.22%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
8 5 (10.87%) Performance Testing
8 5 (10.87%) Scrum
9 3 (6.52%) OO
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) PowerShell
2 20 (43.48%) Bicep
2 20 (43.48%) VB
2 20 (43.48%) VBScript
3 7 (15.22%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.17%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) F#
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 31 (67.39%) SC Cleared
3 21 (45.65%) Degree
4 20 (43.48%) DV Cleared
4 20 (43.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 20 (43.48%) Active Directory
1 20 (43.48%) Virtual Desktop
1 20 (43.48%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (43.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (43.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (43.48%) SCCM
2 20 (43.48%) SCOM
2 20 (43.48%) WSUS
3 8 (17.39%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.17%) Puppet
4 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (58.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) Google
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle
2 1 (2.17%) SAP