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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 184 203
Rank change year-on-year -49 +19 -12
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 371 693 1,013
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.01% 1.41% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.49% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 589 863
10th Percentile £385 £398 £381
25th Percentile £500 £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 £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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
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 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +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 9 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 9 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 -25 317 £650 -3.70% 84
South East +5 15 £463 -22.92% 24
North of England +3 12 £488 +10.17% 44
Midlands +24 9 £488 +30.00% 36
North West -8 8 £500 +12.99% 25
West Midlands +18 7 £438 +12.90% 16
South West +5 7 £338 -25.00% 13
East of England -1 4 £433 -6.49% 4
East Midlands +19 2 £550 +57.14% 20
Yorkshire +17 2 £400 -11.11% 10
North East +12 2 - - 10
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 371 (100.00%) C#
2 226 (60.92%) .NET
3 162 (43.67%) SQL
4 140 (37.74%) Finance
5 135 (36.39%) Azure
6 128 (34.50%) SQL Server
7 98 (26.42%) Agile
8 94 (25.34%) Front Office
9 86 (23.18%) DevOps
10 83 (22.37%) Social Skills
11 73 (19.68%) .NET Framework
12 69 (18.60%) .NET Core
13 65 (17.52%) AngularJS
13 65 (17.52%) Software Engineering
14 63 (16.98%) Banking
14 63 (16.98%) JavaScript
15 62 (16.71%) Full Stack Development
16 58 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
17 57 (15.36%) React
17 57 (15.36%) Microsoft
18 53 (14.29%) CI/CD
19 52 (14.02%) WPF
20 49 (13.21%) Oracle
21 47 (12.67%) Git
21 47 (12.67%) TDD
22 44 (11.86%) ASP.NET
23 41 (11.05%) Microservices
24 40 (10.78%) Scrum
25 38 (10.24%) Electronic Trading
26 37 (9.97%) 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 10 (2.70%) IIS
2 6 (1.62%) CMS
3 4 (1.08%) Apache
4 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.54%) Jadu
6 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
Applications
1 37 (9.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.27%) Endur
2 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 135 (36.39%) Azure
2 58 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (9.43%) AWS
4 27 (7.28%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (3.77%) PaaS
5 14 (3.77%) Serverless
6 13 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (3.50%) Azure Functions
7 12 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.70%) GCP
9 8 (2.16%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.89%) GitHub
10 7 (1.89%) npm
11 6 (1.62%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.62%) Azure API Management
11 6 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.43%) Internet
2 5 (1.35%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.54%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (34.50%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.28%) Oracle Database
3 25 (6.74%) NoSQL
4 23 (6.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 19 (5.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.70%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.62%) MySQL
11 5 (1.35%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.08%) Redis
13 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.81%) Power BI
13 3 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
15 1 (0.27%) Big Data
15 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.27%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 47 (12.67%) Git
2 26 (7.01%) TeamCity
3 19 (5.12%) Visual Studio
4 17 (4.58%) NUnit
5 16 (4.31%) Moq
6 14 (3.77%) SpecFlow
7 13 (3.50%) Octopus Deploy
8 12 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.23%) JIRA
9 11 (2.96%) Selenium
10 9 (2.43%) Jenkins
11 7 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (1.89%) webpack
12 4 (1.08%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.08%) GitLab
13 3 (0.81%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.54%) MSTest
14 2 (0.54%) Postman
15 1 (0.27%) Mercurial
15 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 140 (37.74%) Finance
2 94 (25.34%) Front Office
3 83 (22.37%) Social Skills
4 63 (16.98%) Banking
5 37 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (8.89%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.31%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.04%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.16%) Law
12 6 (1.62%) Electronics
12 6 (1.62%) Marketing
12 6 (1.62%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.35%) Back Office
13 5 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Local Government
15 2 (0.54%) Retail
15 2 (0.54%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.27%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (60.92%) .NET
2 73 (19.68%) .NET Framework
3 69 (18.60%) .NET Core
4 65 (17.52%) AngularJS
5 57 (15.36%) React
6 52 (14.02%) WPF
7 44 (11.86%) ASP.NET
8 24 (6.47%) WCF
9 21 (5.66%) Entity Framework
9 21 (5.66%) HTML
9 21 (5.66%) REST
10 19 (5.12%) ASP.NET Web API
10 19 (5.12%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (5.12%) RESTful
10 19 (5.12%) XML
11 18 (4.85%) CSS
12 16 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
12 16 (4.31%) Middleware
12 16 (4.31%) Web Services
13 12 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.70%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (8.63%) Fixed Income
3 25 (6.74%) Derivative
4 20 (5.39%) Equities
5 16 (4.31%) Equity Derivative
5 16 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.50%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (2.43%) Hedge funds
10 8 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.62%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 3 (0.81%) Solar Panel
15 2 (0.54%) Market Risk
15 2 (0.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.93%) Windows
2 12 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (26.42%) Agile
2 86 (23.18%) DevOps
3 65 (17.52%) Software Engineering
4 62 (16.71%) Full Stack Development
5 53 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 47 (12.67%) TDD
7 41 (11.05%) Microservices
8 40 (10.78%) Scrum
9 38 (10.24%) Electronic Trading
10 36 (9.70%) Test Automation
11 35 (9.43%) OO
11 35 (9.43%) Unit Testing
12 32 (8.63%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (8.63%) MVC
12 32 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (7.55%) Design Patterns
14 23 (6.20%) Analytics
14 23 (6.20%) Front End Development
14 23 (6.20%) Multithreading
15 21 (5.66%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 371 (100.00%) C#
2 162 (43.67%) SQL
3 63 (16.98%) JavaScript
4 32 (8.63%) PL/SQL
5 31 (8.36%) Python
5 31 (8.36%) T-SQL
6 27 (7.28%) VBA
7 24 (6.47%) PowerShell
7 24 (6.47%) VB
8 23 (6.20%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.31%) Java
9 16 (4.31%) VB.NET
10 11 (2.96%) Bicep
11 6 (1.62%) C++
12 4 (1.08%) PHP
13 3 (0.81%) C
14 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.54%) Ruby
15 1 (0.27%) Groovy
15 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (6.47%) Degree
2 15 (4.04%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.01%) QA
2 5 (1.35%) MiFID
3 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.08%) SEPA
3 4 (1.08%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (4.85%) Docker
2 14 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.50%) Terraform
2 10 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 49 (13.21%) Oracle
3 21 (5.66%) Citrix
4 11 (2.96%) TIBCO
5 6 (1.62%) SAP
6 5 (1.35%) Okta
7 4 (1.08%) Google
7 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.54%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.54%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.54%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.27%) OpenLink