C# Contracts

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 39 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing C# 2,051 2,902 5,262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.73% 5.22% 6.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.72% 15.31% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 2,186 4,090
10th Percentile £363 £388 £387
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £467
% change year-on-year - +1.77% +12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 99 73
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.44 £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 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

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 13,047 18,952 31,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.12% 34.11% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,199 13,649 23,126
10th Percentile £350 £381 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 440 496
10th Percentile £31.95 £29.71 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
Median % change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.31
90th Percentile £76.63 £78.12 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
England -2 1,866 £575 -4.17% 1,560
London +2 1,244 £625 -3.85% 458
Work from Home +7 882 £575 +4.55% 1,054
UK excluding London -1 647 £475 - 1,201
North of England -3 164 £475 - 341
South East -6 149 £525 +3.45% 221
South West -15 99 £450 -13.46% 134
North West -5 95 £475 -9.52% 200
Midlands -8 87 £489 +17.83% 264
East of England 0 79 £475 - 110
Scotland +2 50 £423 -11.05% 91
West Midlands -12 50 £525 +5.00% 161
Yorkshire 0 43 £463 -2.63% 91
East Midlands -2 39 £425 +13.33% 102
North East +24 26 £415 -7.78% 55
Wales +8 14 £394 -14.86% 35
Northern Ireland +2 6 £575 +43.75% 29

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 36 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.71%) CMS
3 25 (1.22%) IIS
4 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.88%) Apache
6 17 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.49%) Confluence
9 8 (0.39%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.34%) SAS
11 4 (0.20%) Luigi
12 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.15%) Jadu
12 3 (0.15%) nginx
13 2 (0.098%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.098%) Kentico
13 2 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.049%) Ethereum
14 1 (0.049%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.049%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 121 (5.90%) Chatbot
2 52 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.049%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.049%) Blender
7 1 (0.049%) InDesign
7 1 (0.049%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.049%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 54 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.22%) Endur
3 12 (0.59%) ION Anvil
4 10 (0.49%) Maximo
5 8 (0.39%) ION MarketView
6 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 4 (0.20%) LabWindows
7 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.098%) Shopify
10 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.049%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 860 (41.93%) Azure
2 387 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
3 216 (10.53%) AWS
4 134 (6.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 126 (6.14%) Power Platform
6 102 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
7 99 (4.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 98 (4.78%) Entra ID
9 85 (4.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 77 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
11 75 (3.66%) Serverless
12 71 (3.46%) PowerApps
13 65 (3.17%) Power Automate
14 57 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
15 55 (2.68%) Azure Functions
16 52 (2.54%) GCP
17 47 (2.29%) Azure API Management
18 43 (2.10%) PaaS
19 37 (1.80%) Azure Storage
20 32 (1.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.80%) RS-485
2 36 (1.76%) Modbus
3 35 (1.71%) DNS
4 34 (1.66%) RS-422
5 32 (1.56%) DHCP
6 29 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.37%) Firewall
8 27 (1.32%) Internet
9 14 (0.68%) Ethernet
10 12 (0.59%) FTP
11 10 (0.49%) HTTP
12 7 (0.34%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.29%) VPN
14 5 (0.24%) Intranet
14 5 (0.24%) Network Security
14 5 (0.24%) RS-232
14 5 (0.24%) Wireless
15 3 (0.15%) RTSP
15 3 (0.15%) SSH
16 2 (0.098%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 538 (26.23%) SQL Server
2 75 (3.66%) Relational Database
3 72 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 62 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 60 (2.93%) Power BI
6 59 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 56 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 51 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
9 41 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (1.71%) Oracle Database
11 34 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 31 (1.51%) Redis
13 28 (1.37%) MySQL
14 18 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.78%) Big Data
16 14 (0.68%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.49%) DynamoDB
17 10 (0.49%) KDB
18 8 (0.39%) RDBMS
19 7 (0.34%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 220 (10.73%) Git
2 122 (5.95%) Visual Studio
3 100 (4.88%) Selenium
4 83 (4.05%) SpecFlow
5 73 (3.56%) Jenkins
6 70 (3.41%) JIRA
7 64 (3.12%) TeamCity
8 38 (1.85%) WebDriver
9 35 (1.71%) GitLab
10 32 (1.56%) Cucumber
11 28 (1.37%) Postman
12 26 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 26 (1.27%) NUnit
13 21 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (0.93%) webpack
15 18 (0.88%) Appium
15 18 (0.88%) Subversion
16 17 (0.83%) JUnit
16 17 (0.83%) Moq
17 16 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 412 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 409 (19.94%) Finance
3 207 (10.09%) Front Office
4 205 (10.00%) Banking
5 140 (6.83%) Public Sector
6 128 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
7 87 (4.24%) Back Office
8 80 (3.90%) Investment Banking
9 48 (2.34%) Electronics
10 25 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 25 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 20 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (0.98%) Local Government
12 20 (0.98%) Marketing
13 18 (0.88%) Retail
14 14 (0.68%) Games
15 13 (0.63%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.59%) Military
17 11 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,199 (58.46%) Developer
2 374 (18.24%) C# Developer
3 332 (16.19%) .NET Developer
4 308 (15.02%) Senior
5 236 (11.51%) Software Developer
6 222 (10.82%) Software Engineer
7 194 (9.46%) Senior Developer
8 160 (7.80%) Full Stack Developer
9 139 (6.78%) Lead
10 106 (5.17%) C# .NET Developer
11 87 (4.24%) Azure Developer
12 85 (4.14%) Analyst
13 69 (3.36%) Architect
14 67 (3.27%) Angular Developer
14 67 (3.27%) C# Software Engineer
15 59 (2.88%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 59 (2.88%) React Developer
16 56 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
17 54 (2.63%) .NET Software Engineer
18 51 (2.49%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,133 (55.24%) .NET
2 301 (14.68%) HTML
3 282 (13.75%) .NET Core
3 282 (13.75%) .NET Framework
4 247 (12.04%) React
5 222 (10.82%) AngularJS
6 218 (10.63%) ASP.NET
7 167 (8.14%) XML
8 165 (8.04%) CSS
9 114 (5.56%) REST
10 93 (4.53%) Web Services
11 88 (4.29%) WPF
12 81 (3.95%) Entity Framework
13 75 (3.66%) RESTful
14 69 (3.36%) WCF
15 65 (3.17%) ASP.NET Core
16 56 (2.73%) JSON
17 55 (2.68%) Kafka
18 54 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
18 54 (2.63%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 94 (4.58%) Derivative
2 83 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 81 (3.95%) Hedge funds
4 80 (3.90%) Fixed Income
5 77 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 72 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
7 58 (2.83%) Equities
8 44 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 31 (1.51%) Mobile App
11 29 (1.41%) Algorithms
12 26 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.07%) PKI
14 20 (0.98%) Cloud Native
15 19 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 19 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
16 17 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
18 15 (0.73%) Equity Derivative
19 14 (0.68%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 177 (8.63%) Windows
2 131 (6.39%) Linux
3 50 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.71%) Unix
5 20 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (0.78%) Android
7 9 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (32.67%) Agile
2 666 (32.47%) DevOps
3 511 (24.91%) Software Engineering
4 322 (15.70%) CI/CD
5 255 (12.43%) Full Stack Development
6 240 (11.70%) TDD
7 226 (11.02%) Test Automation
8 224 (10.92%) Scrum
9 204 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
10 184 (8.97%) OO
11 179 (8.73%) Microservices
12 164 (8.00%) Code Quality
13 162 (7.90%) Artificial Intelligence
14 156 (7.61%) Continuous Integration
15 141 (6.87%) MVC
16 136 (6.63%) Unit Testing
17 127 (6.19%) Design Patterns
18 126 (6.14%) SDLC
19 121 (5.90%) Conversational UI
20 104 (5.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 756 (36.86%) SQL
2 540 (26.33%) JavaScript
3 371 (18.09%) Python
4 265 (12.92%) Java
5 253 (12.34%) PowerShell
6 170 (8.29%) C++
6 170 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 127 (6.19%) Bicep
8 94 (4.58%) T-SQL
9 74 (3.61%) C
10 69 (3.36%) PL/SQL
11 61 (2.97%) VB
12 53 (2.58%) VBA
13 49 (2.39%) VB.NET
14 27 (1.32%) VBScript
15 19 (0.93%) Bash
16 18 (0.88%) PHP
17 17 (0.83%) R
18 14 (0.68%) Go
19 12 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 298 (14.53%) Degree
2 196 (9.56%) Security Cleared
3 138 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 75 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 20 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 13 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.39%) PhD
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.20%) ISEB
13 3 (0.15%) HNC
13 3 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.098%) CHECK Team Leader
14 2 (0.098%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.098%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (7.85%) QA
2 35 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.27%) WCAG
4 18 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.78%) MiFID
6 13 (0.63%) NIST
7 9 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.34%) CDISC
9 7 (0.34%) GDPR
10 6 (0.29%) EMIR
10 6 (0.29%) SLA
11 5 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.20%) SEPA
13 3 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.15%) GxP
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 2 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 136 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.32%) Docker
3 25 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.15%) NFS
8 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.098%) vSphere
10 1 (0.049%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 109 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 85 (4.14%) Terraform
3 45 (2.19%) Ansible
4 30 (1.46%) SCCM
5 23 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (1.07%) SCOM
7 21 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (1.02%) WSUS
8 15 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.44%) BladeLogic
9 9 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.34%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.15%) Puppet
13 2 (0.098%) Grafana
13 2 (0.098%) Kibana
13 2 (0.098%) logstash
13 2 (0.098%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.098%) SCOrch
14 1 (0.049%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 437 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 143 (6.97%) Oracle
3 121 (5.90%) PayPal
4 32 (1.56%) Citrix
5 26 (1.27%) SAP
6 24 (1.17%) OpenLink
7 19 (0.93%) Xamarin
8 18 (0.88%) Databricks
9 16 (0.78%) VMware
10 14 (0.68%) AVEVA
11 13 (0.63%) ION Trading
12 12 (0.59%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.54%) Informatica
14 10 (0.49%) TIBCO
15 9 (0.44%) Altiris
15 9 (0.44%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.44%) Google
16 8 (0.39%) IBM
16 8 (0.39%) MuleSoft
17 7 (0.34%) Okta