C# Developer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

C# Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median C# Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £365, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 122 138
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 +34
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.31% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £331 £408 -
25th Percentile £348 £419 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.13% -18.75% +21.52%
75th Percentile £409 £556 £625
90th Percentile £474 £568 £656
South East median daily rate £517 £488 £588
% change year-on-year +6.05% -17.02% +6.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,473 2,031 2,624
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 91.53% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 1,148 1,770
10th Percentile £250 £256 £250
25th Percentile £387 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +0.90% -
75th Percentile £589 £608 £615
90th Percentile £650 £678 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 98 95
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.38 £20.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.43 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -56.96% +17.50% +176.82%
75th Percentile £56.88 £70.34 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.43 £91.13 £74.92
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.43 £51.42
% change year-on-year -56.20% +11.68% +114.25%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured C# Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the Thames Valley

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the Thames Valley

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

C# Developer
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# Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Berkshire +23 5 £365 -8.75%
C# Developer
South East

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Assembly Language
3 2 (40.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) Ada
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services

C# Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) Blazor
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Ada
2 2 (40.00%) Assembly Language
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft