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 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 185 205
Rank change year-on-year -52 +20 -16
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 365 694 1,016
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.00% 1.41% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.49% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 590 866
10th Percentile £400 £400 £381
25th Percentile £503 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £775
90th Percentile £825 £807 £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 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 7 May 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 7 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
London -21 311 £650 -3.70% 98
South East 0 15 £463 -22.92% 23
North of England -1 12 £488 +10.17% 40
Midlands +22 9 £488 +30.00% 44
North West 0 8 £500 +12.99% 26
West Midlands +21 7 £438 +12.90% 22
South West +6 7 £338 -25.00% 13
East of England -3 4 £433 -8.95% 4
Yorkshire +24 2 £400 -11.11% 6
East Midlands +15 2 £550 +57.14% 22
North East +14 2 - - 9
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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.

1 365 (100.00%) C#
2 221 (60.55%) .NET
3 159 (43.56%) SQL
4 138 (37.81%) Finance
5 133 (36.44%) Azure
6 124 (33.97%) SQL Server
7 97 (26.58%) Agile
8 93 (25.48%) Front Office
9 85 (23.29%) DevOps
10 80 (21.92%) Social Skills
11 70 (19.18%) .NET Framework
12 69 (18.90%) .NET Core
13 64 (17.53%) AngularJS
13 64 (17.53%) Software Engineering
14 63 (17.26%) Banking
14 63 (17.26%) JavaScript
15 61 (16.71%) Full Stack Development
16 58 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
17 57 (15.62%) Microsoft
18 56 (15.34%) React
19 52 (14.25%) CI/CD
20 51 (13.97%) WPF
21 47 (12.88%) TDD
22 46 (12.60%) Git
22 46 (12.60%) Oracle
23 44 (12.05%) ASP.NET
24 41 (11.23%) Microservices
25 39 (10.68%) Scrum
26 38 (10.41%) Electronic Trading
27 37 (10.14%) 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 (2.47%) IIS
2 6 (1.64%) CMS
3 4 (1.10%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) Jadu
6 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
Applications
1 35 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.27%) Endur
2 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 133 (36.44%) Azure
2 58 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (9.32%) AWS
4 26 (7.12%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (3.84%) PaaS
5 14 (3.84%) Serverless
6 13 (3.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (3.56%) Azure Functions
7 12 (3.29%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.47%) GCP
9 8 (2.19%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.92%) GitHub
10 7 (1.92%) npm
11 6 (1.64%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.64%) Azure API Management
11 6 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.19%) Internet
2 5 (1.37%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.55%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (33.97%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.58%) NoSQL
2 24 (6.58%) Oracle Database
3 23 (6.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 20 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.74%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.64%) MySQL
10 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.82%) Power BI
11 3 (0.82%) Redis
12 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.27%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.27%) OLTP
13 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 46 (12.60%) Git
2 26 (7.12%) TeamCity
3 19 (5.21%) Visual Studio
4 17 (4.66%) NUnit
5 16 (4.38%) Moq
6 14 (3.84%) SpecFlow
7 13 (3.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 12 (3.29%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.29%) JIRA
9 11 (3.01%) Selenium
10 8 (2.19%) Jenkins
11 7 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (1.92%) webpack
12 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.10%) GitLab
13 3 (0.82%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.55%) MSTest
14 2 (0.55%) Postman
15 1 (0.27%) Mercurial
15 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 138 (37.81%) Finance
2 93 (25.48%) Front Office
3 80 (21.92%) Social Skills
4 63 (17.26%) Banking
5 37 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (9.04%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.11%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.19%) Law
12 6 (1.64%) Electronics
12 6 (1.64%) Marketing
12 6 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.37%) Back Office
14 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.82%) Local Government
16 2 (0.55%) Retail
16 2 (0.55%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.27%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (60.55%) .NET
2 70 (19.18%) .NET Framework
3 69 (18.90%) .NET Core
4 64 (17.53%) AngularJS
5 56 (15.34%) React
6 51 (13.97%) WPF
7 44 (12.05%) ASP.NET
8 23 (6.30%) WCF
9 21 (5.75%) HTML
10 20 (5.48%) Entity Framework
10 20 (5.48%) REST
11 19 (5.21%) ASP.NET Web API
11 19 (5.21%) RESTful
11 19 (5.21%) XML
12 18 (4.93%) CSS
12 18 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (4.38%) Middleware
13 16 (4.38%) Web Services
14 12 (3.29%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.86%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (8.77%) Fixed Income
3 25 (6.85%) Derivative
4 20 (5.48%) Equities
5 16 (4.38%) Equity Derivative
6 15 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.56%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.47%) Hedge funds
10 8 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.19%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.64%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.10%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.10%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 2 (0.55%) Market Risk
14 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.48%) Windows
2 12 (3.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (26.58%) Agile
2 85 (23.29%) DevOps
3 64 (17.53%) Software Engineering
4 61 (16.71%) Full Stack Development
5 52 (14.25%) CI/CD
6 47 (12.88%) TDD
7 41 (11.23%) Microservices
8 39 (10.68%) Scrum
9 38 (10.41%) Electronic Trading
10 35 (9.59%) Test Automation
10 35 (9.59%) Unit Testing
11 34 (9.32%) OO
12 32 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (8.77%) MVC
12 32 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (7.40%) Design Patterns
14 23 (6.30%) Analytics
14 23 (6.30%) Front End Development
14 23 (6.30%) Multithreading
15 19 (5.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 365 (100.00%) C#
2 159 (43.56%) SQL
3 63 (17.26%) JavaScript
4 31 (8.49%) Python
5 29 (7.95%) PL/SQL
5 29 (7.95%) T-SQL
6 25 (6.85%) VBA
7 24 (6.58%) PowerShell
8 23 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 22 (6.03%) VB
10 16 (4.38%) Java
11 15 (4.11%) VB.NET
12 11 (3.01%) Bicep
13 6 (1.64%) C++
14 4 (1.10%) PHP
15 3 (0.82%) C
16 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.55%) Ruby
17 1 (0.27%) Groovy
17 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (6.30%) Degree
2 15 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.85%) QA
2 5 (1.37%) MiFID
3 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.10%) SEPA
3 4 (1.10%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (4.93%) Docker
2 14 (3.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.56%) Terraform
2 10 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 46 (12.60%) Oracle
3 19 (5.21%) Citrix
4 11 (3.01%) TIBCO
5 6 (1.64%) SAP
6 5 (1.37%) Okta
7 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.82%) Google
9 2 (0.55%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.55%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.55%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.27%) OpenLink