C# Contracts in the Thames Valley

C#
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 74 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 +3 -21
Contract jobs citing C# 46 72 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.04% 2.68% 2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.59% 13.51% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 60 58
10th Percentile £325 £397 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £625
90th Percentile £600 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £528
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.21% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £31.50 £47.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% +265.38% -
75th Percentile £32.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - £60.75 -
South East median hourly rate £31.50 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year -46.52% +7.10% +50.68%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 533 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.27% 19.84% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 364 521
10th Percentile £350 £352 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £700 £668 £680
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 20
10th Percentile £26.49 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.30 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +2.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for C# in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for C# in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the Thames Valley

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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# within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +11 37 £500 -14.89% 91
Buckinghamshire +8 7 £325 -27.78% 64
Oxfordshire - 2 £195 - 53
C#
South East

C#
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.35%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 21 (45.65%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (15.22%) Serverless
4 6 (13.04%) Azure AKS
5 5 (10.87%) Azure API Management
5 5 (10.87%) Azure Storage
5 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.87%) SaaS
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Event Grid
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (8.70%) PaaS
6 4 (8.70%) Power Automate
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.52%) IaaS
7 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) DHCP
1 1 (2.17%) DNS
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.52%) Power BI
4 2 (4.35%) DocumentDB
4 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.17%) Big Data
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.17%) HBase
5 1 (2.17%) HDInsight
5 1 (2.17%) Impala
5 1 (2.17%) Metadata
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Parquet
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Postman
2 2 (4.35%) QARun
2 2 (4.35%) SpecFlow
2 2 (4.35%) WinRunner
3 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.17%) NUnit
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
3 1 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.17%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) .NET Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) C# Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Applications Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (58.70%) .NET
2 14 (30.43%) CSS
2 14 (30.43%) HTML
3 11 (23.91%) .NET Core
4 9 (19.57%) .NET Framework
5 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
5 5 (10.87%) ARM Templates
5 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (10.87%) Entity Framework
5 5 (10.87%) React
5 5 (10.87%) REST
6 4 (8.70%) Blazor
7 3 (6.52%) ADO
7 3 (6.52%) Apache Axis
7 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.52%) OAuth
7 3 (6.52%) OpenID
7 3 (6.52%) RESTful
7 3 (6.52%) SAML
8 2 (4.35%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
1 2 (4.35%) N-Tier
1 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.17%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.17%) FPGA
2 1 (2.17%) IoT
2 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.17%) PKI
2 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.17%) VHDL
2 1 (2.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.35%) Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) DevOps
2 22 (47.83%) Agile
3 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
4 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 9 (19.57%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
6 9 (19.57%) Software Testing
7 8 (17.39%) Integration Testing
7 8 (17.39%) LLM
7 8 (17.39%) SDLC
8 7 (15.22%) Scrum
8 7 (15.22%) Unit Testing
9 6 (13.04%) Migration
9 6 (13.04%) System Testing
10 5 (10.87%) Analytics
10 5 (10.87%) Design Patterns
10 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (10.87%) TDD
11 4 (8.70%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) SQL
2 18 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 16 (34.78%) Python
4 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.87%) Bicep
5 5 (10.87%) Java
6 4 (8.70%) Bash
7 3 (6.52%) VB
8 2 (4.35%) Ruby
8 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.17%) C
9 1 (2.17%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.17%) Perl
9 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) CISSP
4 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.52%) Docker
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Flume
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
5 1 (2.17%) SCOM
5 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.35%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Intel
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Siemens
4 1 (2.17%) Snow
4 1 (2.17%) StreamSets