C# Contracts in England

C#
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 32 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing C# 1,889 2,979 4,582
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.11% 5.89% 6.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.46% 16.67% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,361 2,232 3,547
10th Percentile £377 £400 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 114 79
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.93 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.48 £44.57
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%
75th Percentile - £67.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.63 £72.10 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.66
% change year-on-year - +25.82% +14.81%

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in England

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# in England

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in England

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in England

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in England

C#
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# within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 -2 1,270 £625 -3.85% 538
North of England +9 173 £463 -2.63% 335
South East -18 150 £500 -9.09% 283
North West -3 99 £488 +2.63% 199
South West -24 92 £450 -14.29% 162
Midlands -13 83 £490 +15.18% 270
East of England +5 78 £458 +0.27% 127
West Midlands +1 46 £525 +5.00% 162
Yorkshire +9 45 £425 -10.53% 93
East Midlands -1 37 £419 +10.26% 108
North East +25 29 £415 -7.78% 47
C#
UK

C#
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 37 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.69%) CMS
3 23 (1.22%) IIS
4 18 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.64%) Apache
6 12 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.53%) Confluence
8 6 (0.32%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.21%) Luigi
10 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.16%) Jadu
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.053%) Site Server
12 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 112 (5.93%) Chatbot
2 61 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.053%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.06%) Endur
3 12 (0.64%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.42%) ION MarketView
5 4 (0.21%) LabWindows
5 4 (0.21%) Maximo
6 3 (0.16%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.11%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.053%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 712 (37.69%) Azure
2 341 (18.05%) Azure DevOps
3 195 (10.32%) AWS
4 118 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 105 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 87 (4.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 83 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 81 (4.29%) Serverless
9 79 (4.18%) Entra ID
10 75 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
11 73 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (3.18%) Azure Functions
13 55 (2.91%) Power Automate
14 52 (2.75%) GCP
14 52 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
15 50 (2.65%) Azure API Management
16 48 (2.54%) PowerApps
17 40 (2.12%) PaaS
18 38 (2.01%) Azure Storage
19 37 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.01%) Modbus
2 37 (1.96%) RS-422
3 36 (1.91%) RS-485
4 34 (1.80%) DNS
5 28 (1.48%) DHCP
6 26 (1.38%) TCP/IP
7 24 (1.27%) Firewall
8 23 (1.22%) Internet
9 15 (0.79%) HTTP
10 14 (0.74%) FTP
11 12 (0.64%) Wireless
12 10 (0.53%) VPN
13 9 (0.48%) Ethernet
14 7 (0.37%) Intranet
14 7 (0.37%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.26%) Network Security
15 5 (0.26%) RS-232
16 4 (0.21%) Cisco Firepower
16 4 (0.21%) SSH
17 3 (0.16%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (24.99%) SQL Server
2 72 (3.81%) Relational Database
3 70 (3.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 63 (3.34%) NoSQL
5 57 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 47 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (2.12%) Power BI
8 39 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (1.69%) Oracle Database
11 23 (1.22%) MongoDB
12 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.90%) MySQL
13 17 (0.90%) Redis
14 16 (0.85%) Big Data
14 16 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.79%) KDB
16 12 (0.64%) DynamoDB
17 10 (0.53%) Kdb+
18 7 (0.37%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 201 (10.64%) Git
2 93 (4.92%) Visual Studio
3 84 (4.45%) Selenium
4 75 (3.97%) SpecFlow
5 73 (3.86%) TeamCity
6 72 (3.81%) Jenkins
7 69 (3.65%) JIRA
8 31 (1.64%) NUnit
9 28 (1.48%) GitLab
10 27 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 27 (1.43%) Postman
10 27 (1.43%) WebDriver
11 21 (1.11%) Moq
12 20 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
13 19 (1.01%) webpack
14 18 (0.95%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.90%) Appium
16 16 (0.85%) Artifactory
16 16 (0.85%) SoapUI
16 16 (0.85%) TestNG
General
1 443 (23.45%) Finance
2 360 (19.06%) Social Skills
3 238 (12.60%) Front Office
4 232 (12.28%) Banking
5 125 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 119 (6.30%) Public Sector
7 100 (5.29%) Back Office
8 90 (4.76%) Investment Banking
9 52 (2.75%) Electronics
10 23 (1.22%) Local Government
11 22 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.16%) Marketing
12 21 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 18 (0.95%) Retail
14 16 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.64%) Law
17 10 (0.53%) Legal
17 10 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,105 (58.50%) Developer
2 377 (19.96%) C# Developer
3 320 (16.94%) .NET Developer
4 287 (15.19%) Senior
5 218 (11.54%) Software Developer
6 199 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 175 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 129 (6.83%) Full Stack Developer
9 118 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
10 114 (6.03%) Lead
11 89 (4.71%) Analyst
12 80 (4.24%) Azure Developer
13 61 (3.23%) Angular Developer
14 57 (3.02%) .NET Software Engineer
15 52 (2.75%) Architect
15 52 (2.75%) C# Software Engineer
16 50 (2.65%) Senior Software Developer
17 49 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
18 48 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
19 47 (2.49%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,011 (53.52%) .NET
2 265 (14.03%) .NET Core
3 246 (13.02%) HTML
4 231 (12.23%) .NET Framework
5 213 (11.28%) React
6 207 (10.96%) AngularJS
7 199 (10.53%) ASP.NET
8 150 (7.94%) XML
9 130 (6.88%) CSS
10 123 (6.51%) REST
11 84 (4.45%) WPF
12 76 (4.02%) Web Services
13 67 (3.55%) JSON
14 66 (3.49%) RESTful
15 65 (3.44%) Entity Framework
16 57 (3.02%) ASP.NET Core
16 57 (3.02%) WCF
17 53 (2.81%) Redux
18 47 (2.49%) ASP.NET Web API
18 47 (2.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.25%) Derivative
2 104 (5.51%) Hedge funds
3 90 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 71 (3.76%) Equities
5 70 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 65 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
7 60 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 46 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
10 37 (1.96%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.32%) Cloud Native
12 23 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.16%) PKI
14 21 (1.11%) Equity Derivative
15 19 (1.01%) Market Risk
16 18 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
17 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
18 16 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
19 13 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
20 12 (0.64%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 152 (8.05%) Windows
2 124 (6.56%) Linux
3 44 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.06%) Unix
5 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.48%) Android
7 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (33.03%) Agile
2 600 (31.76%) DevOps
3 477 (25.25%) Software Engineering
4 284 (15.03%) CI/CD
5 247 (13.08%) TDD
6 228 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
7 209 (11.06%) Scrum
8 206 (10.91%) Test Automation
9 183 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
10 180 (9.53%) OO
11 172 (9.11%) Microservices
12 158 (8.36%) Continuous Integration
13 142 (7.52%) Code Quality
14 136 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence
15 126 (6.67%) MVC
16 120 (6.35%) Design Patterns
17 118 (6.25%) Unit Testing
18 112 (5.93%) Conversational UI
18 112 (5.93%) SDLC
19 111 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 720 (38.12%) SQL
2 474 (25.09%) JavaScript
3 386 (20.43%) Python
4 277 (14.66%) Java
5 223 (11.81%) PowerShell
6 161 (8.52%) C++
7 138 (7.31%) TypeScript
8 108 (5.72%) Bicep
9 78 (4.13%) T-SQL
10 76 (4.02%) C
11 71 (3.76%) PL/SQL
12 50 (2.65%) VB.NET
13 49 (2.59%) VBA
14 44 (2.33%) VB
15 20 (1.06%) VBScript
16 19 (1.01%) PHP
17 18 (0.95%) Bash
18 16 (0.85%) Go
19 14 (0.74%) Ruby
20 13 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 267 (14.13%) Degree
2 178 (9.42%) Security Cleared
3 132 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 11 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.53%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.32%) CHECK Team Leader
12 6 (0.32%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.32%) GIAC
12 6 (0.32%) OSCP
12 6 (0.32%) PhD
13 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.16%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.16%) HNC
14 3 (0.16%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (7.25%) QA
2 34 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.27%) WCAG
4 17 (0.90%) NIST
5 16 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 14 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.69%) MiFID
8 9 (0.48%) GDPR
8 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.32%) SLA
11 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.21%) EMIR
11 4 (0.21%) SEPA
12 3 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
12 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.053%) HIPAA
System Software
1 120 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 58 (3.07%) Docker
3 19 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.21%) NFS
9 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.053%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 78 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 71 (3.76%) Terraform
3 43 (2.28%) Ansible
4 26 (1.38%) SCCM
5 17 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (0.90%) WSUS
6 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.85%) SCOM
7 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.48%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 2 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.11%) Grafana
11 2 (0.11%) Kibana
11 2 (0.11%) logstash
11 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.11%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 371 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.83%) Oracle
3 110 (5.82%) PayPal
4 32 (1.69%) Citrix
5 26 (1.38%) SAP
6 22 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.01%) OpenLink
8 14 (0.74%) VMware
9 13 (0.69%) Databricks
9 13 (0.69%) ION Trading
10 12 (0.64%) TIBCO
11 11 (0.58%) Google
12 10 (0.53%) Informatica
12 10 (0.53%) Xamarin
13 9 (0.48%) Altiris
13 9 (0.48%) AVEVA
13 9 (0.48%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.48%) IBM
13 9 (0.48%) UiPath
14 7 (0.37%) Okta