C# Contract Job Trends in Reading

C#
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 57 55
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing C# 11 39 31
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.85% 3.57% 2.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.55% 13.83% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 34 23
10th Percentile - £436 £505
25th Percentile £358 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -1.64% +16.19%
75th Percentile £530 £608 £615
90th Percentile £599 £650 £660
Berkshire median daily rate £383 £585 £610
% change year-on-year -34.62% -4.10% +17.87%

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 168 282 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 28.24% 25.82% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 191 208
10th Percentile £374 £400 £371
25th Percentile £475 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £626 £663 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.31 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £58.49 £52.15
% change year-on-year -66.66% +12.17% -34.82%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

C# job vacancy trend in Reading

C#
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing C#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Reading over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Reading

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing C#

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Drupal
2 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
2 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) NUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Ada Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Assembler Developer
2 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
2 2 (18.18%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) CSS
2 4 (36.36%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) Playwright
4 2 (18.18%) ADO
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
5 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth
5 1 (9.09%) React
5 1 (9.09%) Spring
5 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) API Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Load Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) API Design
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Insight
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
5 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Ada
3 2 (18.18%) Assembly Language
3 2 (18.18%) C
3 2 (18.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft