C#
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing C# 2,081 3,094 5,368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.89% 5.43% 6.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.36% 15.70% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 2,333 4,156
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £686
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +12.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 106 79
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.63 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.41 £46.67
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year - +23.68% +16.79%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,717 19,709 31,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 34.61% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,044 14,221 23,079
10th Percentile £350 £389 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 440 503
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.05 £19.60
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +23.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £72.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England -1 1,885 £575 -4.17% 1,898
London 0 1,263 £625 -3.85% 671
Work from Home +3 911 £575 +4.55% 1,432
UK excluding London -8 643 £475 - 1,445
North of England +7 167 £475 - 383
South East -3 148 £506 -3.57% 347
North West +1 102 £475 -9.52% 216
South West -20 94 £450 -13.46% 146
Midlands -4 85 £489 +15.06% 306
East of England -1 81 £475 +5.56% 109
Scotland -10 51 £419 -11.84% 99
West Midlands +1 49 £525 +5.00% 195
Yorkshire -2 39 £470 -1.05% 119
East Midlands -2 38 £425 +11.84% 110
North East +23 26 £415 -0.90% 52
Wales -3 13 £394 -12.50% 58
Northern Ireland +3 5 £575 +43.75% 21

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.68%) CMS
3 24 (1.15%) IIS
4 18 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.72%) Apache
6 14 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.48%) Confluence
8 8 (0.38%) Umbraco
9 7 (0.34%) SAS
10 4 (0.19%) Luigi
11 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.14%) Jadu
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.096%) Kentico
12 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.048%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.048%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 121 (5.81%) Chatbot
2 54 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.048%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.048%) Blender
7 1 (0.048%) InDesign
7 1 (0.048%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.048%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 42 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.15%) Endur
3 12 (0.58%) ION Anvil
4 10 (0.48%) Maximo
5 8 (0.38%) ION MarketView
6 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 4 (0.19%) LabWindows
7 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.096%) SAP GTS
9 2 (0.096%) Shopify
10 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.048%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 845 (40.61%) Azure
2 393 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
3 222 (10.67%) AWS
4 141 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
5 125 (6.01%) Power Platform
6 102 (4.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 92 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
7 92 (4.42%) Entra ID
8 90 (4.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 84 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
10 82 (3.94%) Serverless
11 63 (3.03%) Power Automate
12 61 (2.93%) PowerApps
13 60 (2.88%) Azure Functions
14 53 (2.55%) GCP
15 52 (2.50%) Azure API Management
16 51 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
17 47 (2.26%) PaaS
18 37 (1.78%) Azure Storage
19 35 (1.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.78%) Modbus
1 37 (1.78%) RS-485
2 36 (1.73%) RS-422
3 35 (1.68%) DNS
4 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.39%) DHCP
6 25 (1.20%) Firewall
7 24 (1.15%) Internet
8 14 (0.67%) Ethernet
9 12 (0.58%) FTP
9 12 (0.58%) HTTP
10 10 (0.48%) VPN
11 8 (0.38%) Wireless
12 7 (0.34%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.29%) Intranet
14 5 (0.24%) Network Security
14 5 (0.24%) RS-232
15 4 (0.19%) SSH
16 3 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
16 3 (0.14%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 517 (24.84%) SQL Server
2 81 (3.89%) Relational Database
3 71 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 68 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 60 (2.88%) Power BI
6 59 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 55 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
9 42 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (1.44%) MongoDB
11 28 (1.35%) Redis
12 27 (1.30%) MySQL
13 25 (1.20%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.82%) Big Data
16 15 (0.72%) KDB
17 14 (0.67%) Data Lake
17 14 (0.67%) DynamoDB
18 10 (0.48%) Kdb+
19 8 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 225 (10.81%) Git
2 117 (5.62%) Visual Studio
3 97 (4.66%) Selenium
4 80 (3.84%) SpecFlow
5 76 (3.65%) Jenkins
6 74 (3.56%) JIRA
7 69 (3.32%) TeamCity
8 39 (1.87%) WebDriver
9 34 (1.63%) Cucumber
10 33 (1.59%) GitLab
11 30 (1.44%) Postman
12 29 (1.39%) NUnit
13 26 (1.25%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
15 19 (0.91%) Moq
15 19 (0.91%) Subversion
15 19 (0.91%) webpack
16 18 (0.86%) Appium
17 17 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
17 17 (0.82%) TestNG
General
1 431 (20.71%) Finance
2 401 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 236 (11.34%) Front Office
4 227 (10.91%) Banking
5 144 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 134 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 102 (4.90%) Back Office
8 88 (4.23%) Investment Banking
9 49 (2.35%) Electronics
10 26 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.06%) Local Government
12 22 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 20 (0.96%) Marketing
15 18 (0.86%) Retail
16 14 (0.67%) Games
17 13 (0.62%) Military
17 13 (0.62%) Telecoms
18 11 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,216 (58.43%) Developer
2 390 (18.74%) C# Developer
3 339 (16.29%) .NET Developer
4 316 (15.19%) Senior
5 240 (11.53%) Software Developer
6 214 (10.28%) Software Engineer
7 192 (9.23%) Senior Developer
8 159 (7.64%) Full Stack Developer
9 134 (6.44%) Lead
10 112 (5.38%) C# .NET Developer
11 96 (4.61%) Analyst
11 96 (4.61%) Azure Developer
12 68 (3.27%) Angular Developer
12 68 (3.27%) Architect
13 65 (3.12%) C# Software Engineer
14 60 (2.88%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 56 (2.69%) .NET Software Engineer
16 53 (2.55%) React Developer
16 53 (2.55%) Senior Software Developer
17 52 (2.50%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,116 (53.63%) .NET
2 290 (13.94%) HTML
3 283 (13.60%) .NET Core
4 260 (12.49%) .NET Framework
5 247 (11.87%) React
6 227 (10.91%) AngularJS
7 214 (10.28%) ASP.NET
8 166 (7.98%) XML
9 160 (7.69%) CSS
10 120 (5.77%) REST
11 94 (4.52%) Web Services
12 91 (4.37%) WPF
13 75 (3.60%) Entity Framework
14 70 (3.36%) ASP.NET Core
15 68 (3.27%) RESTful
16 62 (2.98%) WCF
17 61 (2.93%) JSON
18 57 (2.74%) Node.js
19 53 (2.55%) ASP.NET Web API
20 52 (2.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 114 (5.48%) Derivative
2 101 (4.85%) Hedge funds
3 86 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.04%) Fixed Income
5 68 (3.27%) Equities
5 68 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
5 68 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 35 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 31 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 24 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.01%) Cloud Native
12 20 (0.96%) Equity Derivative
12 20 (0.96%) PKI
13 19 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (0.91%) Market Risk
14 18 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 18 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 168 (8.07%) Windows
2 132 (6.34%) Linux
3 47 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.87%) Unix
5 17 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (0.67%) Android
7 9 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (32.58%) DevOps
2 676 (32.48%) Agile
3 508 (24.41%) Software Engineering
4 316 (15.19%) CI/CD
5 260 (12.49%) Full Stack Development
6 251 (12.06%) TDD
7 236 (11.34%) Test Automation
8 222 (10.67%) Scrum
9 207 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
10 188 (9.03%) OO
11 180 (8.65%) Microservices
12 159 (7.64%) Continuous Integration
13 158 (7.59%) Code Quality
14 156 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence
15 137 (6.58%) MVC
16 131 (6.30%) Unit Testing
17 125 (6.01%) Design Patterns
18 122 (5.86%) SDLC
19 121 (5.81%) Conversational UI
20 108 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 786 (37.77%) SQL
2 534 (25.66%) JavaScript
3 401 (19.27%) Python
4 282 (13.55%) Java
5 251 (12.06%) PowerShell
6 173 (8.31%) C++
7 171 (8.22%) TypeScript
8 130 (6.25%) Bicep
9 81 (3.89%) T-SQL
10 75 (3.60%) C
11 66 (3.17%) PL/SQL
12 50 (2.40%) VB
13 47 (2.26%) VBA
14 39 (1.87%) VB.NET
15 23 (1.11%) VBScript
16 18 (0.86%) Bash
16 18 (0.86%) PHP
17 16 (0.77%) R
18 14 (0.67%) F#
19 13 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 295 (14.18%) Degree
2 202 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 146 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.32%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 16 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.43%) PhD
12 8 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
13 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.24%) ISEB
15 3 (0.14%) CHECK Team Leader
15 3 (0.14%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.14%) GIAC
15 3 (0.14%) HNC
15 3 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (7.69%) QA
2 39 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.30%) WCAG
4 18 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.77%) MiFID
6 14 (0.67%) NIST
7 9 (0.43%) GDPR
7 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.34%) CDISC
10 6 (0.29%) EMIR
10 6 (0.29%) SLA
11 5 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.19%) SEPA
13 3 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.14%) GxP
13 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 134 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.27%) Docker
3 22 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.19%) NFS
10 3 (0.14%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.096%) vSphere
12 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 94 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 79 (3.80%) Terraform
3 43 (2.07%) Ansible
4 27 (1.30%) SCCM
5 19 (0.91%) SCOM
6 18 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.86%) WSUS
7 14 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.34%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.14%) Puppet
12 2 (0.096%) Grafana
12 2 (0.096%) Kibana
12 2 (0.096%) logstash
12 2 (0.096%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.096%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.048%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 437 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.63%) Oracle
3 121 (5.81%) PayPal
4 29 (1.39%) SAP
5 27 (1.30%) Citrix
6 23 (1.11%) OpenLink
6 23 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.96%) Databricks
8 17 (0.82%) Xamarin
9 15 (0.72%) VMware
10 14 (0.67%) AVEVA
11 13 (0.62%) ION Trading
12 11 (0.53%) Informatica
13 10 (0.48%) TIBCO
14 9 (0.43%) Altiris
14 9 (0.43%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.43%) Google
15 8 (0.38%) IBM
16 7 (0.34%) MuleSoft
16 7 (0.34%) Okta