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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing C# 1,900 2,832 4,520
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.16% 5.77% 6.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.50% 16.42% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,362 2,123 3,513
10th Percentile £377 £400 £381
25th Percentile £456 £463 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £545
% change year-on-year - +5.50% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 107 73
10th Percentile £46.25 £43.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.44 £47.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.12% +23.33%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.38 £70.30 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%

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 10,858 17,251 25,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.48% 35.12% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 12,598 19,160
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £794 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 419 446
10th Percentile £37.63 £26.01 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.34 £49.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £70.68
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 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 0 1,278 £625 -1.50% 566
North of England +7 167 £475 - 331
South East -14 151 £500 -4.53% 232
North West 0 100 £475 -1.30% 194
South West -16 96 £450 -14.29% 159
Midlands -6 83 £490 +15.18% 288
East of England +1 81 £475 +4.11% 95
West Midlands -3 47 £525 +5.00% 174
Yorkshire +12 39 £406 -14.47% 102
East Midlands -1 36 £425 +11.84% 114
North East +24 28 £415 -12.63% 37
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 36 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.74%) CMS
3 23 (1.21%) IIS
4 18 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.68%) Apache
6 13 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.42%) Confluence
7 8 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.21%) Luigi
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.16%) Jadu
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.053%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.053%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.053%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.053%) Site Server
Applications
1 110 (5.79%) Chatbot
2 58 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.053%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.053%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.21%) Endur
3 12 (0.63%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.42%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.26%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.21%) LabWindows
6 4 (0.21%) Maximo
6 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.11%) SAP GTS
9 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.053%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.053%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 736 (38.74%) Azure
2 366 (19.26%) Azure DevOps
3 205 (10.79%) AWS
4 124 (6.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 110 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 92 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 87 (4.58%) Entra ID
8 85 (4.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 81 (4.26%) Serverless
10 77 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
11 74 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (3.16%) Azure Functions
12 60 (3.16%) Power Automate
13 56 (2.95%) PowerApps
14 52 (2.74%) GCP
15 51 (2.68%) Azure API Management
16 49 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
17 41 (2.16%) PaaS
18 36 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
18 36 (1.89%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.95%) Modbus
1 37 (1.95%) RS-485
2 36 (1.89%) RS-422
3 34 (1.79%) DNS
4 31 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.47%) DHCP
6 24 (1.26%) Firewall
6 24 (1.26%) Internet
7 14 (0.74%) Ethernet
7 14 (0.74%) FTP
8 13 (0.68%) HTTP
9 11 (0.58%) VPN
10 8 (0.42%) Wireless
11 7 (0.37%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.32%) Intranet
12 6 (0.32%) Network Security
13 5 (0.26%) RS-232
14 4 (0.21%) Cisco Firepower
14 4 (0.21%) SSH
15 3 (0.16%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (25.21%) SQL Server
2 71 (3.74%) Relational Database
3 65 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 64 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 54 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 46 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (2.42%) Power BI
7 43 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (1.58%) Oracle Database
10 26 (1.37%) MongoDB
11 23 (1.21%) Redis
12 21 (1.11%) MySQL
13 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.84%) Big Data
15 15 (0.79%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.79%) KDB
16 13 (0.68%) DynamoDB
17 10 (0.53%) Kdb+
18 7 (0.37%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 207 (10.89%) Git
2 103 (5.42%) Visual Studio
3 80 (4.21%) Selenium
4 75 (3.95%) SpecFlow
5 70 (3.68%) Jenkins
6 69 (3.63%) JIRA
7 66 (3.47%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.58%) GitLab
9 28 (1.47%) Postman
9 28 (1.47%) WebDriver
10 27 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 27 (1.42%) NUnit
11 21 (1.11%) Cypress.io
12 19 (1.00%) Moq
12 19 (1.00%) webpack
13 16 (0.84%) Appium
13 16 (0.84%) Artifactory
13 16 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
13 16 (0.84%) Subversion
13 16 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 428 (22.53%) Finance
2 367 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 234 (12.32%) Front Office
4 221 (11.63%) Banking
5 124 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 100 (5.26%) Back Office
8 86 (4.53%) Investment Banking
9 51 (2.68%) Electronics
10 24 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 24 (1.26%) Local Government
11 22 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.16%) Marketing
12 20 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (0.89%) Retail
14 15 (0.79%) Military
14 15 (0.79%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.63%) Games
15 12 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,111 (58.47%) Developer
2 369 (19.42%) C# Developer
3 307 (16.16%) .NET Developer
4 298 (15.68%) Senior
5 222 (11.68%) Software Developer
6 209 (11.00%) Software Engineer
7 182 (9.58%) Senior Developer
8 134 (7.05%) Full Stack Developer
9 123 (6.47%) Lead
10 108 (5.68%) C# .NET Developer
11 94 (4.95%) Analyst
12 84 (4.42%) Azure Developer
13 62 (3.26%) Angular Developer
14 59 (3.11%) Architect
14 59 (3.11%) C# Software Engineer
15 57 (3.00%) .NET Software Engineer
16 52 (2.74%) Senior Software Developer
17 50 (2.63%) Backend Developer
18 49 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
19 48 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,015 (53.42%) .NET
2 266 (14.00%) .NET Core
3 253 (13.32%) HTML
4 234 (12.32%) .NET Framework
5 222 (11.68%) React
6 207 (10.89%) AngularJS
7 200 (10.53%) ASP.NET
8 164 (8.63%) XML
9 137 (7.21%) CSS
10 118 (6.21%) REST
11 89 (4.68%) Web Services
12 82 (4.32%) WPF
13 67 (3.53%) RESTful
14 64 (3.37%) JSON
15 63 (3.32%) ASP.NET Core
15 63 (3.32%) Entity Framework
16 57 (3.00%) WCF
17 51 (2.68%) Node.js
18 48 (2.53%) Redux
19 47 (2.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.05%) Derivative
2 102 (5.37%) Hedge funds
3 86 (4.53%) Fixed Income
4 76 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 68 (3.58%) Equities
6 65 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
7 62 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
8 45 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 44 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 38 (2.00%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.21%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.16%) Cloud Native
13 21 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.11%) PKI
14 20 (1.05%) Equity Derivative
15 19 (1.00%) Market Risk
16 18 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
17 15 (0.79%) Data Structures
18 13 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
18 13 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.42%) Windows
2 130 (6.84%) Linux
3 46 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.05%) Unix
5 16 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (0.53%) Android
7 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (33.58%) Agile
2 622 (32.74%) DevOps
3 490 (25.79%) Software Engineering
4 298 (15.68%) CI/CD
5 245 (12.89%) TDD
6 227 (11.95%) Full Stack Development
7 215 (11.32%) Scrum
8 204 (10.74%) Test Automation
9 183 (9.63%) OO
10 179 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
11 168 (8.84%) Microservices
12 154 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
13 141 (7.42%) Artificial Intelligence
14 140 (7.37%) Code Quality
15 123 (6.47%) Unit Testing
16 120 (6.32%) MVC
17 119 (6.26%) Design Patterns
18 110 (5.79%) Conversational UI
19 109 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
20 108 (5.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 725 (38.16%) SQL
2 489 (25.74%) JavaScript
3 380 (20.00%) Python
4 270 (14.21%) Java
5 241 (12.68%) PowerShell
6 168 (8.84%) C++
7 149 (7.84%) TypeScript
8 122 (6.42%) Bicep
9 79 (4.16%) T-SQL
10 76 (4.00%) C
11 64 (3.37%) PL/SQL
12 48 (2.53%) VBA
13 45 (2.37%) VB.NET
14 41 (2.16%) VB
15 20 (1.05%) VBScript
16 18 (0.95%) Bash
16 18 (0.95%) PHP
17 15 (0.79%) Go
18 14 (0.74%) Ruby
19 12 (0.63%) F#
Qualifications
1 274 (14.42%) Degree
2 175 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 131 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 62 (3.26%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.47%) PhD
10 8 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.21%) CHECK Team Leader
13 4 (0.21%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.21%) GIAC
13 4 (0.21%) OSCP
14 3 (0.16%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.16%) ISEB
14 3 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (7.11%) QA
2 34 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.21%) WCAG
4 17 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 15 (0.79%) NIST
6 14 (0.74%) MiFID
7 9 (0.47%) GDPR
7 9 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.32%) SLA
10 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.21%) EMIR
10 4 (0.21%) SEPA
11 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.053%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 130 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.53%) Docker
3 20 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.21%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) vSphere
12 1 (0.053%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 87 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 71 (3.74%) Terraform
3 43 (2.26%) Ansible
4 26 (1.37%) SCCM
5 17 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (0.89%) WSUS
6 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.84%) SCOM
7 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.47%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.11%) Grafana
12 2 (0.11%) Kibana
12 2 (0.11%) logstash
12 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.11%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 392 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 131 (6.89%) Oracle
3 110 (5.79%) PayPal
4 30 (1.58%) Citrix
5 28 (1.47%) SAP
6 23 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.16%) OpenLink
8 18 (0.95%) Databricks
9 15 (0.79%) VMware
10 13 (0.68%) ION Trading
11 12 (0.63%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.58%) Google
12 11 (0.58%) Informatica
12 11 (0.58%) TIBCO
13 9 (0.47%) Altiris
13 9 (0.47%) AVEVA
13 9 (0.47%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.37%) Blue Prism
14 7 (0.37%) Okta
14 7 (0.37%) UiPath