C# Developer Contracts in England

C# Developer
UK > England

The median C# Developer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 179 206
Rank change year-on-year -54 +27 -7
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 377 742 1,025
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.47% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.55% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 627 863
10th Percentile £400 £400 £381
25th Percentile £505 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £738 £752 £775
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £58.00 £39.75 £51.50
25th Percentile £60.63 £45.38 £54.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -2.98% +44.17%
75th Percentile £71.88 £65.00 £61.93
90th Percentile £73.75 - £62.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +41.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured C# Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
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# Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 -14 322 £650 -3.70% 81
South East -2 14 £450 -25.00% 38
North of England +2 13 £488 +5.41% 41
Midlands +17 9 £488 +37.32% 39
North West -1 8 £500 +11.11% 25
West Midlands +28 7 £438 +12.90% 20
South West +2 7 £338 -28.95% 15
East of England +2 4 £433 -8.95% 13
North East +19 3 - - 9
Yorkshire +19 2 £400 -20.00% 9
East Midlands +14 2 £550 +57.14% 19
C# Developer
UK

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 377 (100.00%) C#
2 234 (62.07%) .NET
3 170 (45.09%) SQL
4 147 (38.99%) Finance
5 134 (35.54%) Azure
6 127 (33.69%) SQL Server
7 98 (25.99%) Agile
8 96 (25.46%) Front Office
9 85 (22.55%) Social Skills
10 82 (21.75%) DevOps
11 73 (19.36%) .NET Core
12 72 (19.10%) .NET Framework
13 67 (17.77%) Banking
14 65 (17.24%) JavaScript
15 64 (16.98%) AngularJS
16 62 (16.45%) Software Engineering
16 62 (16.45%) Full Stack Development
17 56 (14.85%) React
18 55 (14.59%) Microsoft
19 54 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
20 52 (13.79%) WPF
21 51 (13.53%) Oracle
21 51 (13.53%) CI/CD
22 48 (12.73%) TDD
23 46 (12.20%) Microservices
24 45 (11.94%) Git
25 44 (11.67%) ASP.NET
26 40 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
27 39 (10.34%) Electronic Trading
27 39 (10.34%) Analytical Skills

C# Developer Skill Set
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 9 (2.39%) IIS
2 6 (1.59%) CMS
3 4 (1.06%) Apache
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) Jadu
6 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 40 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 134 (35.54%) Azure
2 54 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (9.02%) AWS
4 23 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (3.71%) Serverless
6 13 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 13 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (3.45%) PaaS
7 11 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.65%) GCP
9 8 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.12%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.86%) GitHub
10 7 (1.86%) npm
11 6 (1.59%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.59%) Azure API Management
11 6 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.12%) Internet
2 5 (1.33%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.53%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) CTI
4 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (33.69%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.43%) Oracle Database
3 26 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 25 (6.63%) NoSQL
5 22 (5.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (5.31%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.59%) MySQL
11 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.80%) Power BI
12 3 (0.80%) Redis
13 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.53%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.27%) Big Data
14 1 (0.27%) OLTP
14 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (11.94%) Git
2 30 (7.96%) TeamCity
3 19 (5.04%) NUnit
4 18 (4.77%) Visual Studio
5 17 (4.51%) Moq
6 15 (3.98%) Octopus Deploy
6 15 (3.98%) SpecFlow
7 13 (3.45%) JIRA
8 12 (3.18%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.92%) Selenium
10 8 (2.12%) Jenkins
11 7 (1.86%) webpack
12 6 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (1.06%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.80%) GitLab
14 3 (0.80%) Jasmine
15 2 (0.53%) MSTest
15 2 (0.53%) Postman
16 1 (0.27%) Mercurial
16 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 147 (38.99%) Finance
2 96 (25.46%) Front Office
3 85 (22.55%) Social Skills
4 67 (17.77%) Banking
5 39 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (9.02%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.24%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.45%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.12%) Law
11 8 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.86%) Electronics
12 7 (1.86%) Marketing
13 4 (1.06%) Back Office
13 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Local Government
15 2 (0.53%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.53%) Retail
15 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (62.07%) .NET
2 73 (19.36%) .NET Core
3 72 (19.10%) .NET Framework
4 64 (16.98%) AngularJS
5 56 (14.85%) React
6 52 (13.79%) WPF
7 44 (11.67%) ASP.NET
8 23 (6.10%) REST
8 23 (6.10%) WCF
9 21 (5.57%) ASP.NET Web API
10 20 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (5.31%) RESTful
11 19 (5.04%) Entity Framework
11 19 (5.04%) HTML
12 17 (4.51%) CSS
12 17 (4.51%) Middleware
12 17 (4.51%) XML
13 16 (4.24%) Web Services
14 15 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
15 12 (3.18%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.81%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (8.75%) Fixed Income
3 28 (7.43%) Derivative
4 21 (5.57%) Equities
5 17 (4.51%) Equity Derivative
6 14 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.71%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.45%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.92%) Hedge funds
9 9 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.12%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.59%) Reinsurance
12 4 (1.06%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.06%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 4 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.53%) IoT
14 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.77%) Windows
2 11 (2.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (25.99%) Agile
2 82 (21.75%) DevOps
3 62 (16.45%) Full Stack Development
3 62 (16.45%) Software Engineering
4 51 (13.53%) CI/CD
5 48 (12.73%) TDD
6 46 (12.20%) Microservices
7 39 (10.34%) Electronic Trading
8 38 (10.08%) Scrum
9 37 (9.81%) Continuous Integration
10 35 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (9.28%) Test Automation
11 33 (8.75%) Unit Testing
12 32 (8.49%) MVC
12 32 (8.49%) OO
13 27 (7.16%) Design Patterns
14 25 (6.63%) Multithreading
15 24 (6.37%) Front End Development
16 23 (6.10%) Analytics
16 23 (6.10%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 377 (100.00%) C#
2 170 (45.09%) SQL
3 65 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.55%) PL/SQL
5 34 (9.02%) T-SQL
6 32 (8.49%) Python
7 29 (7.69%) VBA
8 26 (6.90%) VB
9 22 (5.84%) PowerShell
9 22 (5.84%) TypeScript
10 19 (5.04%) Java
10 19 (5.04%) VB.NET
11 8 (2.12%) Bicep
12 7 (1.86%) C++
13 4 (1.06%) PHP
14 3 (0.80%) C
15 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.53%) Ruby
16 1 (0.27%) Groovy
16 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (5.84%) Degree
2 15 (3.98%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.71%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (1.33%) MiFID
3 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.06%) SEPA
3 4 (1.06%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (4.77%) Docker
2 12 (3.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (3.71%) Terraform
2 10 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.53%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 51 (13.53%) Oracle
3 23 (6.10%) Citrix
4 12 (3.18%) TIBCO
5 7 (1.86%) SAP
6 5 (1.33%) Okta
6 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.80%) Google
8 2 (0.53%) IBM
8 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.53%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.53%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.27%) OpenLink