C# Contracts in London

C#
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing C# 1,277 1,873 2,785
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.22% 7.13% 7.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.90% 17.63% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,496 2,304
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £632 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +1.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £750
90th Percentile £837 £850 £825
England median daily rate £575 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £36.80 £44.69
25th Percentile £40.82 - £46.86
Median hourly rate £43.84 £50.42 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% +3.79% +9.17%
75th Percentile £46.86 £52.97 £56.90
90th Percentile - £68.50 £58.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year - +17.12% +23.33%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,418 10,624 16,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.30% 40.46% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,908 7,938 12,324
10th Percentile £381 £413 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 82 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.33 £29.08
25th Percentile £40.80 £50.11 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.01 £75.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C# in London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in London

C#
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the London 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
Central London -8 174 £600 -7.69% 87
East London +7 26 £435 +8.75% 9
West London +30 15 £575 +27.78% 15
South London -3 6 £430 -25.22% 13
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 23 (1.80%) CMS
2 17 (1.33%) IIS
2 17 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.39%) Apache
6 4 (0.31%) Luigi
7 3 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) Confluence
9 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.078%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.078%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.078%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.078%) Jadu
9 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.078%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.078%) Umbraco
Applications
1 50 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.80%) Endur
2 20 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.94%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.63%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.39%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.16%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.078%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 526 (41.19%) Azure
2 269 (21.06%) Azure DevOps
3 149 (11.67%) AWS
4 114 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
5 82 (6.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 68 (5.32%) Entra ID
7 61 (4.78%) Power Platform
8 56 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (4.23%) Serverless
10 53 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
11 50 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 45 (3.52%) GCP
13 42 (3.29%) Azure Functions
14 40 (3.13%) Azure API Management
15 35 (2.74%) PowerApps
16 32 (2.51%) Power Automate
17 28 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
18 24 (1.88%) PaaS
19 21 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
20 20 (1.57%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.64%) Internet
2 8 (0.63%) FTP
2 8 (0.63%) HTTP
3 7 (0.55%) DNS
3 7 (0.55%) Kerberos
4 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.47%) VPN
4 6 (0.47%) Wireless
5 4 (0.31%) Firewall
5 4 (0.31%) SSH
6 3 (0.23%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.16%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.16%) DHCP
7 2 (0.16%) Network Security
7 2 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.078%) Intranet
8 1 (0.078%) VLAN
8 1 (0.078%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (29.91%) SQL Server
2 61 (4.78%) Relational Database
3 54 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 53 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 47 (3.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (2.35%) Oracle Database
8 27 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (2.11%) Power BI
9 20 (1.57%) Redis
10 19 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.17%) KDB
13 12 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.86%) Big Data
15 10 (0.78%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.78%) Kdb+
16 7 (0.55%) MySQL
16 7 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 133 (10.42%) Git
2 67 (5.25%) SpecFlow
3 65 (5.09%) Selenium
4 58 (4.54%) TeamCity
5 46 (3.60%) JIRA
5 46 (3.60%) Visual Studio
6 41 (3.21%) Jenkins
7 26 (2.04%) WebDriver
8 25 (1.96%) Cucumber
8 25 (1.96%) GitLab
9 22 (1.72%) NUnit
10 21 (1.64%) Postman
11 18 (1.41%) Moq
12 16 (1.25%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.10%) Appium
13 14 (1.10%) webpack
14 12 (0.94%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.94%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.94%) SoapUI
14 12 (0.94%) TestNG
General
1 391 (30.62%) Finance
2 246 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 236 (18.48%) Front Office
4 214 (16.76%) Banking
5 101 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 99 (7.75%) Back Office
7 85 (6.66%) Investment Banking
8 80 (6.26%) Public Sector
9 24 (1.88%) Financial Institution
10 23 (1.80%) Local Government
11 17 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.17%) Marketing
12 15 (1.17%) Retail
13 10 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.55%) Games
14 7 (0.55%) Law
14 7 (0.55%) Legal
14 7 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.47%) Electronics
15 6 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 749 (58.65%) Developer
2 317 (24.82%) C# Developer
3 255 (19.97%) Senior
4 220 (17.23%) .NET Developer
5 158 (12.37%) Senior Developer
6 125 (9.79%) Software Engineer
7 103 (8.07%) Full Stack Developer
8 92 (7.20%) C# .NET Developer
9 91 (7.13%) Lead
10 89 (6.97%) Software Developer
11 83 (6.50%) Analyst
12 65 (5.09%) Azure Developer
13 53 (4.15%) Angular Developer
14 52 (4.07%) .NET Software Engineer
15 49 (3.84%) Senior Software Developer
16 48 (3.76%) Backend Developer
17 45 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
17 45 (3.52%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 41 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
18 41 (3.21%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 751 (58.81%) .NET
2 220 (17.23%) .NET Core
3 182 (14.25%) React
4 176 (13.78%) .NET Framework
5 159 (12.45%) AngularJS
6 137 (10.73%) ASP.NET
7 130 (10.18%) XML
8 104 (8.14%) HTML
9 89 (6.97%) CSS
10 82 (6.42%) REST
11 78 (6.11%) WPF
12 54 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
13 52 (4.07%) WCF
14 50 (3.92%) Web Services
15 48 (3.76%) Redux
16 39 (3.05%) Entity Framework
16 39 (3.05%) Kafka
17 34 (2.66%) Middleware
17 34 (2.66%) RESTful
18 33 (2.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 115 (9.01%) Derivative
2 101 (7.91%) Hedge funds
3 86 (6.73%) Fixed Income
4 69 (5.40%) Equities
5 60 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
5 60 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 44 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 20 (1.57%) Equity Derivative
10 19 (1.49%) Market Risk
11 18 (1.41%) Cloud Native
12 17 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.78%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.11%) Windows
2 61 (4.78%) Linux
3 30 (2.35%) Unix
4 16 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.078%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.078%) VMS
6 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (33.91%) DevOps
2 426 (33.36%) Agile
3 268 (20.99%) Software Engineering
4 213 (16.68%) CI/CD
5 170 (13.31%) Full Stack Development
6 167 (13.08%) TDD
7 154 (12.06%) Scrum
8 139 (10.88%) Test Automation
9 127 (9.95%) OO
10 121 (9.48%) Microservices
11 111 (8.69%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (6.81%) Asset Management
13 86 (6.73%) Design Patterns
13 86 (6.73%) SDLC
14 85 (6.66%) Continuous Integration
15 82 (6.42%) Mentoring
16 81 (6.34%) Analytics
17 73 (5.72%) Investment Management
18 72 (5.64%) API Management
18 72 (5.64%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 505 (39.55%) SQL
2 268 (20.99%) JavaScript
3 219 (17.15%) Python
4 213 (16.68%) Java
5 191 (14.96%) PowerShell
6 121 (9.48%) TypeScript
7 96 (7.52%) Bicep
8 73 (5.72%) C++
9 67 (5.25%) T-SQL
10 58 (4.54%) PL/SQL
11 43 (3.37%) VBA
12 33 (2.58%) VB.NET
13 25 (1.96%) VB
14 15 (1.17%) C
15 13 (1.02%) Go
16 11 (0.86%) Bash
17 10 (0.78%) Ruby
18 9 (0.70%) PHP
19 8 (0.63%) Perl
20 7 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 124 (9.71%) Degree
2 57 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 48 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.39%) PhD
10 4 (0.31%) CHECK Team Leader
10 4 (0.31%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.31%) GIAC
10 4 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.31%) OSCP
11 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.23%) ISEB
11 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.16%) CCNP
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.078%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.91%) QA
2 29 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.72%) WCAG
4 17 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 15 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.10%) MiFID
7 6 (0.47%) GDPR
7 6 (0.47%) NIST
7 6 (0.47%) SLA
8 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (0.31%) EMIR
8 4 (0.31%) SEPA
9 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.078%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.078%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.078%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 110 (8.61%) Active Directory
2 50 (3.92%) Docker
3 4 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.31%) NFS
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.078%) Firmware
5 1 (0.078%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (3.99%) Terraform
2 50 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.96%) Ansible
4 9 (0.70%) BladeLogic
4 9 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.16%) Grafana
5 2 (0.16%) Kibana
5 2 (0.16%) logstash
5 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.16%) Puppet
5 2 (0.16%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.078%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.078%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.078%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.078%) VxRail
Vendors
1 277 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 115 (9.01%) Oracle
3 30 (2.35%) Citrix
4 22 (1.72%) OpenLink
5 20 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.41%) Databricks
7 16 (1.25%) SAP
8 13 (1.02%) ION Trading
8 13 (1.02%) PayPal
9 11 (0.86%) TIBCO
10 9 (0.70%) Altiris
10 9 (0.70%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.63%) Google
12 7 (0.55%) AVEVA
12 7 (0.55%) Blue Prism
12 7 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.55%) Okta
12 7 (0.55%) UiPath
13 6 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
13 6 (0.47%) iManage