C# Contracts in England

C#
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 33 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing C# 1,857 2,618 4,467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.03% 5.51% 6.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.69% 16.02% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,991 3,494
10th Percentile £375 £400 £385
25th Percentile £454 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 67
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.70 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.41 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.30 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,129 16,345 25,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.16% 34.43% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,036 11,979 19,056
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 395 437
10th Percentile £35.50 £26.48 £20.14
25th Percentile £48.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for C# in England

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in England.

Daily rate trend for C# in England

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in England

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in England.

Hourly rate trend for C# in England

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in England

C#
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +3 1,238 £625 -3.85% 507
North of England +3 166 £475 - 316
South East -12 147 £500 -4.76% 237
North West -4 97 £475 -9.52% 187
South West -18 94 £450 -14.29% 135
Midlands -8 87 £489 +15.06% 267
East of England 0 79 £475 - 103
West Midlands -11 50 £525 +5.00% 165
Yorkshire +7 43 £475 - 87
East Midlands -4 39 £425 +11.84% 100
North East +24 26 £415 +7.10% 46
C#
UK

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 34 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.78%) CMS
3 24 (1.29%) IIS
4 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.81%) Apache
5 15 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.38%) Confluence
8 4 (0.22%) Luigi
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.16%) Jadu
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.054%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.054%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.054%) Site Server
11 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.054%) WordPress
Applications
1 110 (5.92%) Chatbot
2 54 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.054%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.054%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.054%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.29%) Endur
3 12 (0.65%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.43%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.27%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.22%) LabWindows
6 4 (0.22%) Maximo
6 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.054%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.054%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 749 (40.33%) Azure
2 354 (19.06%) Azure DevOps
3 200 (10.77%) AWS
4 129 (6.95%) Azure Service Bus
5 110 (5.92%) Power Platform
6 95 (5.12%) Entra ID
7 92 (4.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 78 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
8 78 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
8 78 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (3.61%) Serverless
10 61 (3.28%) PowerApps
11 60 (3.23%) Power Automate
12 55 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
13 49 (2.64%) Azure Functions
13 49 (2.64%) GCP
14 47 (2.53%) Azure API Management
15 36 (1.94%) Azure Storage
15 36 (1.94%) PaaS
16 29 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.94%) Modbus
1 36 (1.94%) RS-485
2 35 (1.88%) DNS
2 35 (1.88%) RS-422
3 32 (1.72%) DHCP
4 29 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.51%) Firewall
6 26 (1.40%) Internet
7 14 (0.75%) Ethernet
8 12 (0.65%) FTP
9 10 (0.54%) HTTP
10 7 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.38%) VPN
11 6 (0.32%) Network Security
12 5 (0.27%) RS-232
12 5 (0.27%) Wireless
13 4 (0.22%) Intranet
14 3 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
14 3 (0.16%) RTSP
14 3 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (26.23%) SQL Server
2 66 (3.55%) NoSQL
3 62 (3.34%) Relational Database
4 58 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 52 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 49 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 49 (2.64%) Power BI
7 45 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
9 32 (1.72%) Oracle Database
10 30 (1.62%) Redis
11 26 (1.40%) MongoDB
12 23 (1.24%) MySQL
13 19 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.92%) Big Data
15 13 (0.70%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.59%) KDB
17 10 (0.54%) DynamoDB
18 7 (0.38%) OLTP
18 7 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 197 (10.61%) Git
2 106 (5.71%) Visual Studio
3 83 (4.47%) Selenium
4 78 (4.20%) SpecFlow
5 68 (3.66%) Jenkins
6 60 (3.23%) JIRA
7 59 (3.18%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.62%) WebDriver
9 29 (1.56%) GitLab
10 27 (1.45%) Postman
11 24 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 24 (1.29%) NUnit
12 23 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.02%) Moq
13 19 (1.02%) webpack
14 17 (0.92%) Appium
14 17 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
15 16 (0.86%) Artifactory
16 15 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
16 15 (0.81%) SoapUI
General
1 401 (21.59%) Finance
2 367 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 214 (11.52%) Front Office
4 203 (10.93%) Banking
5 120 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 89 (4.79%) Back Office
8 80 (4.31%) Investment Banking
9 47 (2.53%) Electronics
10 23 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 21 (1.13%) Local Government
11 21 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 18 (0.97%) Marketing
14 16 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.86%) Retail
15 12 (0.65%) Military
15 12 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.54%) Games
16 10 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,097 (59.07%) Developer
2 356 (19.17%) C# Developer
3 294 (15.83%) .NET Developer
4 288 (15.51%) Senior
5 221 (11.90%) Software Developer
6 211 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 180 (9.69%) Senior Developer
8 139 (7.49%) Full Stack Developer
9 124 (6.68%) Lead
10 101 (5.44%) C# .NET Developer
11 85 (4.58%) Analyst
12 80 (4.31%) Azure Developer
13 65 (3.50%) Angular Developer
14 61 (3.28%) C# Software Engineer
15 57 (3.07%) Architect
16 55 (2.96%) .NET Software Engineer
17 54 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
18 52 (2.80%) Full-Stack C# Developer
19 49 (2.64%) Backend Developer
19 49 (2.64%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,013 (54.55%) .NET
2 262 (14.11%) HTML
3 261 (14.05%) .NET Core
4 242 (13.03%) .NET Framework
5 220 (11.85%) React
6 202 (10.88%) AngularJS
7 194 (10.45%) ASP.NET
8 160 (8.62%) XML
9 141 (7.59%) CSS
10 103 (5.55%) REST
11 86 (4.63%) Web Services
12 76 (4.09%) WPF
13 68 (3.66%) Entity Framework
13 68 (3.66%) RESTful
14 58 (3.12%) WCF
15 57 (3.07%) ASP.NET Core
16 52 (2.80%) Kafka
17 50 (2.69%) JSON
18 49 (2.64%) Blazor
18 49 (2.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.49%) Derivative
2 88 (4.74%) Hedge funds
3 80 (4.31%) Fixed Income
4 77 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 69 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 66 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
7 60 (3.23%) Equities
8 42 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
9 41 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.24%) PKI
12 21 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.08%) Cloud Native
14 17 (0.92%) Equity Derivative
15 16 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
17 14 (0.75%) Market Risk
18 13 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
18 13 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 162 (8.72%) Windows
2 128 (6.89%) Linux
3 50 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.94%) Unix
5 20 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (0.59%) Android
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (33.76%) Agile
2 607 (32.69%) DevOps
3 483 (26.01%) Software Engineering
4 293 (15.78%) CI/CD
5 237 (12.76%) TDD
6 223 (12.01%) Full Stack Development
7 206 (11.09%) Scrum
8 195 (10.50%) Test Automation
9 172 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
10 168 (9.05%) OO
11 167 (8.99%) Microservices
12 144 (7.75%) Continuous Integration
13 141 (7.59%) Code Quality
14 140 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence
15 117 (6.30%) Unit Testing
16 116 (6.25%) Design Patterns
17 114 (6.14%) MVC
18 110 (5.92%) Conversational UI
19 109 (5.87%) SDLC
20 103 (5.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 685 (36.89%) SQL
2 483 (26.01%) JavaScript
3 343 (18.47%) Python
4 251 (13.52%) Java
5 239 (12.87%) PowerShell
6 163 (8.78%) C++
7 153 (8.24%) TypeScript
8 125 (6.73%) Bicep
9 81 (4.36%) T-SQL
10 74 (3.98%) C
11 65 (3.50%) PL/SQL
12 48 (2.58%) VBA
13 45 (2.42%) VB
14 38 (2.05%) VB.NET
15 24 (1.29%) VBScript
16 19 (1.02%) Bash
17 17 (0.92%) PHP
18 13 (0.70%) Perl
19 12 (0.65%) F#
19 12 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 271 (14.59%) Degree
2 169 (9.10%) Security Cleared
3 126 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (0.43%) PhD
11 6 (0.32%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.16%) HNC
12 3 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.11%) CCNP
13 2 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.11%) GIAC
13 2 (0.11%) HND
13 2 (0.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (7.11%) QA
2 31 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.29%) WCAG
4 17 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.86%) MiFID
6 13 (0.70%) NIST
7 12 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.43%) GDPR
9 8 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.32%) EMIR
10 6 (0.32%) SLA
11 5 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.22%) SEPA
13 3 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.054%) GRC
System Software
1 134 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.61%) Docker
3 24 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) NFS
8 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.11%) vSphere
10 1 (0.054%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 102 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 69 (3.72%) Terraform
3 42 (2.26%) Ansible
4 30 (1.62%) SCCM
5 21 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.13%) WSUS
6 20 (1.08%) SCOM
7 13 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.48%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.38%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.11%) Grafana
12 2 (0.11%) Kibana
12 2 (0.11%) logstash
12 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.11%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.054%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 399 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 132 (7.11%) Oracle
3 110 (5.92%) PayPal
4 31 (1.67%) Citrix
5 23 (1.24%) OpenLink
5 23 (1.24%) SAP
6 17 (0.92%) Databricks
7 16 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 15 (0.81%) VMware
9 13 (0.70%) ION Trading
10 12 (0.65%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.59%) Informatica
12 10 (0.54%) TIBCO
13 9 (0.48%) Altiris
13 9 (0.48%) AVEVA
13 9 (0.48%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.48%) Google
14 8 (0.43%) IBM
14 8 (0.43%) MuleSoft
15 7 (0.38%) Veeam