C# Contracts in the North West

C#
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 47 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -27 +9
Contract jobs citing C# 99 137 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.58% 4.29% 8.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.41% 14.75% 23.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 103 238
10th Percentile £344 £363 £382
25th Percentile £408 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £459
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +3.54% +14.69%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £525
90th Percentile £544 £599 £620
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £23.85 £26.25
25th Percentile £38.39 £37.80 £37.25
Median hourly rate £41.23 £40.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -4.49% +25.00%
75th Percentile £44.07 £43.39 £62.50
90th Percentile - £46.60 £65.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 687 929 1,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.86% 29.08% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 700 1,090
10th Percentile £325 £325 £320
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.95%
75th Percentile £539 £594 £588
90th Percentile £612 £651 £663
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 33
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £37.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%
75th Percentile £69.53 £51.93 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.95 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +13.64%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the North West.

Daily rate trend for C# in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester -8 57 £475 - 136
Merseyside +29 19 £510 +8.80% 26
Cheshire -19 16 £475 -13.64% 36
Cumbria - 5 £525 - 3
Lancashire 0 1 - - 14
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (5.05%) Apache
1 5 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.04%) CMS
3 3 (3.03%) IIS
4 2 (2.02%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.01%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (25.25%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.03%) Maximo
3 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.01%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.26%) Azure
2 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (8.08%) AWS
3 8 (8.08%) Serverless
4 7 (7.07%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.05%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.05%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.04%) npm
7 4 (4.04%) OCI
7 4 (4.04%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.04%) Yarn
8 3 (3.03%) GitHub
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) FTP
2 1 (1.01%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.05%) Big Data
3 4 (4.04%) Redis
4 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.02%) MySQL
4 2 (2.02%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) Selenium
3 5 (5.05%) JIRA
4 4 (4.04%) Jasmine
4 4 (4.04%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (4.04%) Mocha
4 4 (4.04%) SpecFlow
4 4 (4.04%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.04%) webpack
5 3 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.02%) TestComplete
6 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.01%) JMeter
7 1 (1.01%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.01%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (10.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
2 5 (5.05%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (3.03%) Finance
3 3 (3.03%) Law
3 3 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (1.01%) Games
Job Titles
1 67 (67.68%) Developer
2 32 (32.32%) Software Developer
3 17 (17.17%) .NET Developer
4 8 (8.08%) C# Developer
5 6 (6.06%) Azure Developer
5 6 (6.06%) Test Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Lead
6 5 (5.05%) Senior
6 5 (5.05%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Tester
7 4 (4.04%) Development Manager
7 4 (4.04%) QA Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Sitecore Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Software Development Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Software Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Systems Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (41.41%) .NET
2 39 (39.39%) HTML
3 19 (19.19%) .NET Framework
4 13 (13.13%) CSS
5 11 (11.11%) Entity Framework
6 10 (10.10%) .NET Core
6 10 (10.10%) JSON
6 10 (10.10%) React
7 8 (8.08%) REST
8 7 (7.07%) Web Services
9 6 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.06%) Kafka
9 6 (6.06%) RESTful
9 6 (6.06%) XML
10 5 (5.05%) ASP.NET
11 4 (4.04%) Playwright
12 3 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (3.03%) NancyFx
12 3 (3.03%) SOAP
12 3 (3.03%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.03%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.01%) IoT
6 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.01%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.01%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.35%) Agile
2 33 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 26 (26.26%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (25.25%) Code Quality
4 25 (25.25%) Conversational UI
5 24 (24.24%) Test Automation
6 20 (20.20%) Scrum
7 19 (19.19%) CI/CD
7 19 (19.19%) DevOps
8 17 (17.17%) OO
9 13 (13.13%) OOP
10 9 (9.09%) API Development
10 9 (9.09%) MVC
11 8 (8.08%) Design Patterns
11 8 (8.08%) SOLID
12 7 (7.07%) TDD
13 6 (6.06%) Deployment Automation
13 6 (6.06%) Microservices
14 5 (5.05%) Prototyping
14 5 (5.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 51 (51.52%) SQL
2 50 (50.51%) JavaScript
3 39 (39.39%) Python
4 10 (10.10%) Java
5 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.04%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.02%) C
6 2 (2.02%) C++
6 2 (2.02%) Delphi
6 2 (2.02%) PHP
6 2 (2.02%) VBScript
7 1 (1.01%) Bicep
7 1 (1.01%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (25.25%) Degree
2 8 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.03%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (25.25%) PayPal
2 8 (8.08%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.05%) Informatica
3 5 (5.05%) Talend
4 4 (4.04%) Oracle
4 4 (4.04%) SAP
4 4 (4.04%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.03%) IBM
5 3 (3.03%) Nintex
5 3 (3.03%) Pega
6 1 (1.01%) Xamarin