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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 69 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing C# 39 72 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.63% 2.70% 2.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.58% 13.38% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 60 51
10th Percentile £311 £411 £363
25th Percentile £325 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% +10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £625
90th Percentile £556 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £469 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.44% +5.13%
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% -78.86%
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% +57.14%

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 407 538 646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.41% 20.19% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 373 465
10th Percentile £350 £350 £343
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £694 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £501 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 19
10th Percentile £23.67 £33.94 £25.19
25th Percentile £27.90 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £42.00 £58.40 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.08% -0.60% -20.26%
75th Percentile £59.61 £65.00 £77.47
90th Percentile £70.16 £67.63 £79.63
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £62.25 £56.99
% change year-on-year -11.75% +9.24% +31.26%

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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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -8 26 £500 -17.36% 548
Buckinghamshire +14 12 £325 -27.78% 233
Oxfordshire +3 1 - - 191
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 (5.13%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 25 (64.10%) Azure
2 19 (48.72%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (17.95%) Azure AKS
5 6 (15.38%) AWS
5 6 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 6 (15.38%) Serverless
6 5 (12.82%) Azure API Management
6 5 (12.82%) Azure Storage
6 5 (12.82%) SaaS
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Event Grid
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (10.26%) PaaS
7 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Table
8 3 (7.69%) GitHub
8 3 (7.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DHCP
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.69%) Power BI
4 2 (5.13%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Parquet
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Git
1 7 (17.95%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) Selenium
3 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.13%) Postman
3 2 (5.13%) QARun
3 2 (5.13%) SpecFlow
3 2 (5.13%) WinRunner
4 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.56%) NUnit
4 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Games
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Retail
4 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) .NET Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Test Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Applications Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) C# Developer
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Integration Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Integration Test Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.13%) React Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) .NET
2 9 (23.08%) .NET Core
3 7 (17.95%) .NET Framework
3 7 (17.95%) CSS
3 7 (17.95%) HTML
4 6 (15.38%) React
5 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
5 5 (12.82%) ARM Templates
5 5 (12.82%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (12.82%) REST
6 4 (10.26%) ADO
6 4 (10.26%) Blazor
6 4 (10.26%) OAuth
7 3 (7.69%) Apache Axis
7 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 3 (7.69%) Entity Framework
7 3 (7.69%) OpenID
7 3 (7.69%) RESTful
7 3 (7.69%) SAML
7 3 (7.69%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (5.13%) N-Tier
1 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.56%) FPGA
2 1 (2.56%) PKI
2 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.56%) VHDL
2 1 (2.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.56%) Linux
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) DevOps
2 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 13 (33.33%) Agile
4 13 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.51%) Migration
6 6 (15.38%) SDLC
6 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 6 (15.38%) Software Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Analytics
7 5 (12.82%) Data Migration
7 5 (12.82%) Defect Management
7 5 (12.82%) Identity Management
7 5 (12.82%) Integration Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Logistics
7 5 (12.82%) Scrum
7 5 (12.82%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (12.82%) TDD
7 5 (12.82%) Test Planning
7 5 (12.82%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) SQL
2 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 9 (23.08%) Python
4 7 (17.95%) Java
5 6 (15.38%) Bicep
5 6 (15.38%) VB
6 5 (12.82%) Bash
7 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.56%) C
8 1 (2.56%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
1 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.13%) CISSP
3 2 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Terraform
2 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.56%) SCCM
6 1 (2.56%) SCOM
6 1 (2.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Intel
2 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.56%) Siemens
2 1 (2.56%) Snow