C# Contracts in the Thames Valley

C#
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 71 58
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 -5
Contract jobs citing C# 71 77 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.69% 2.69% 3.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.50% 11.70% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 57 105
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £549
90th Percentile £619 £675 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £60.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% -78.86% +40.57%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £62.25
90th Percentile £60.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.10% +57.14% -21.18%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 526 658 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.95% 22.99% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 478 570
10th Percentile £331 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £606 £587
90th Percentile £650 £682 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -18.24%

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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 31 May 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 31 May 2024. 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 57 £605 +42.35% 36
Buckinghamshire +8 13 £450 -23.40% 25
Oxfordshire +4 1 £550 +100.00% 26
C#
South East

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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 20 (28.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Jadu
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.41%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 46 (64.79%) Azure
2 26 (36.62%) Azure Monitor
3 23 (32.39%) Entra ID
4 20 (28.17%) Azure Storage
4 20 (28.17%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (11.27%) AWS
6 8 (11.27%) PaaS
7 5 (7.04%) Azure API Management
7 5 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (7.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.23%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (4.23%) IaaS
8 3 (4.23%) SaaS
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.82%) GCP
9 2 (2.82%) GitHub
9 2 (2.82%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.17%) DHCP
1 20 (28.17%) DNS
1 20 (28.17%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) RS-232
3 3 (4.23%) Network Security
3 3 (4.23%) VPN
4 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.82%) MySQL
3 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.41%) Power BI
3 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (23.94%) Visual Studio
2 13 (18.31%) Git
3 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.63%) JIRA
4 4 (5.63%) Subversion
5 3 (4.23%) JMeter
5 3 (4.23%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (2.82%) Postman
6 2 (2.82%) Selenium
7 1 (1.41%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.41%) Appium
7 1 (1.41%) MSTest
7 1 (1.41%) NUnit
7 1 (1.41%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.41%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.41%) Xcode
General
1 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.41%) Back Office
4 1 (1.41%) Electronics
4 1 (1.41%) Finance
4 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.41%) Marketing
4 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (43.66%) Developer
2 20 (28.17%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (19.72%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (19.72%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (19.72%) Support Specialist
4 10 (14.08%) C# Developer
5 8 (11.27%) .NET Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Active Directory Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Support Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Lead
7 5 (7.04%) Software Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Tester
8 4 (5.63%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (4.23%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Performance Tester
9 3 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (40.85%) .NET
2 22 (30.99%) ARM Templates
3 11 (15.49%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.63%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.63%) HTML
6 3 (4.23%) CSS
6 3 (4.23%) RESTful
6 3 (4.23%) Web Services
6 3 (4.23%) XML
7 2 (2.82%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.82%) 802.1X
7 2 (2.82%) JSON
7 2 (2.82%) SOAP
8 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.41%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.41%) Playwright
8 1 (1.41%) React
8 1 (1.41%) Swagger
8 1 (1.41%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.58%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (28.17%) PKI
3 9 (12.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (38.03%) Windows
2 26 (36.62%) Linux
3 23 (32.39%) Windows Server
4 20 (28.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (28.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (5.63%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (57.75%) DevOps
2 30 (42.25%) CI/CD
3 28 (39.44%) Agile
4 23 (32.39%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 22 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (28.17%) Analytics
6 20 (28.17%) Identity Management
6 20 (28.17%) ITIL
6 20 (28.17%) Log Analytics
6 20 (28.17%) Privileged Identity Management
6 20 (28.17%) RBAC
6 20 (28.17%) Release Management
6 20 (28.17%) Service Management
7 12 (16.90%) Data Protection
8 11 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (12.68%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
10 8 (11.27%) OO
10 8 (11.27%) Scrum
10 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) PowerShell
2 21 (29.58%) Bicep
3 20 (28.17%) VB
3 20 (28.17%) VBScript
4 11 (15.49%) SQL
5 7 (9.86%) Python
6 6 (8.45%) C
7 4 (5.63%) Java
7 4 (5.63%) PHP
8 3 (4.23%) C++
8 3 (4.23%) F#
8 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.23%) Ruby
8 3 (4.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (49.30%) Security Cleared
2 32 (45.07%) SC Cleared
3 24 (33.80%) Degree
4 20 (28.17%) DV Cleared
4 20 (28.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) QA
System Software
1 23 (32.39%) Active Directory
1 23 (32.39%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (28.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (7.04%) Docker
4 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (39.44%) Kubernetes
2 20 (28.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (28.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (28.17%) SCCM
2 20 (28.17%) SCOM
2 20 (28.17%) WSUS
3 8 (11.27%) Ansible
4 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.41%) Puppet
5 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (49.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.23%) VMware
3 2 (2.82%) Atmel
4 1 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle
4 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.41%) SAP