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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 44 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 -22 +8
Contract jobs citing C# 102 144 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.81% 4.61% 7.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.27% 15.62% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 111 211
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £402 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.29% +14.38%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £525
90th Percentile £538 £594 £606
England median daily rate £575 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £23.85 £26.03
25th Percentile £38.39 £37.80 £32.81
Median hourly rate £41.23 £40.59 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -32.35% +76.47%
75th Percentile £44.07 £43.39 £65.00
90th Percentile - £46.60 £66.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +22.78%

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 668 922 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.94% 29.49% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 683 1,078
10th Percentile £329 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 41
10th Percentile £39.25 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -19.14% +67.33%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

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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 12 May 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 12 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
Manchester -4 58 £475 - 124
Merseyside +31 19 £510 +4.62% 22
Cheshire -12 18 £475 -13.64% 39
Cumbria - 5 £525 - 3
Lancashire +3 1 - - 18
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 7 (6.86%) Apache
2 5 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.92%) CMS
4 3 (2.94%) IIS
5 2 (1.96%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.98%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (24.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.94%) Maximo
3 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.98%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.47%) Azure
2 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (8.82%) AWS
4 8 (7.84%) Serverless
5 7 (6.86%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.90%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.92%) npm
8 4 (3.92%) OCI
8 4 (3.92%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.92%) Yarn
9 3 (2.94%) GitHub
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) FTP
2 1 (0.98%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.90%) Big Data
3 4 (3.92%) MySQL
3 4 (3.92%) Redis
4 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.96%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) Selenium
3 5 (4.90%) JIRA
4 4 (3.92%) Jasmine
4 4 (3.92%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (3.92%) Mocha
4 4 (3.92%) SpecFlow
4 4 (3.92%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.92%) webpack
5 3 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.96%) JMeter
6 2 (1.96%) TestComplete
6 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.98%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.98%) NeoLoad
General
1 12 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
2 5 (4.90%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (2.94%) Finance
3 3 (2.94%) Law
3 3 (2.94%) Legal
4 2 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Games
Job Titles
1 69 (67.65%) Developer
2 32 (31.37%) Software Developer
3 19 (18.63%) .NET Developer
4 8 (7.84%) C# Developer
5 7 (6.86%) Test Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Azure Developer
6 6 (5.88%) Lead
7 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Senior
7 5 (4.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Tester
8 4 (3.92%) Development Manager
8 4 (3.92%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Software Development Manager
8 4 (3.92%) Software Manager
8 4 (3.92%) Systems Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Automation Tester
9 3 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (41.18%) .NET
2 41 (40.20%) HTML
3 19 (18.63%) .NET Framework
4 15 (14.71%) CSS
5 12 (11.76%) React
6 11 (10.78%) Entity Framework
7 10 (9.80%) .NET Core
7 10 (9.80%) JSON
8 8 (7.84%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.84%) REST
8 8 (7.84%) XML
9 7 (6.86%) Web Services
10 6 (5.88%) Kafka
10 6 (5.88%) RESTful
11 5 (4.90%) Node.js
12 4 (3.92%) Playwright
13 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
13 3 (2.94%) NancyFx
13 3 (2.94%) SOAP
13 3 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.94%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.98%) IoT
6 1 (0.98%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.98%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Android
1 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.33%) Agile
2 33 (32.35%) Software Engineering
3 26 (25.49%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (24.51%) Code Quality
4 25 (24.51%) Conversational UI
5 24 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 20 (19.61%) Scrum
7 19 (18.63%) CI/CD
7 19 (18.63%) DevOps
8 17 (16.67%) OO
9 13 (12.75%) OOP
10 8 (7.84%) Design Patterns
10 8 (7.84%) SOLID
11 7 (6.86%) API Development
11 7 (6.86%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (6.86%) Microservices
11 7 (6.86%) MVC
11 7 (6.86%) TDD
12 6 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (51.96%) JavaScript
1 53 (51.96%) SQL
2 42 (41.18%) Python
3 13 (12.75%) Java
4 4 (3.92%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.96%) C
5 2 (1.96%) C++
5 2 (1.96%) Delphi
5 2 (1.96%) PHP
5 2 (1.96%) VBScript
6 1 (0.98%) Bicep
6 1 (0.98%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (24.51%) Degree
2 8 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.94%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (24.51%) PayPal
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.90%) Informatica
3 5 (4.90%) Talend
4 4 (3.92%) Oracle
4 4 (3.92%) SAP
5 3 (2.94%) IBM
5 3 (2.94%) Nintex
5 3 (2.94%) Pega
6 2 (1.96%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.98%) Xamarin