C# Contracts in the South East

C#
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 57 54
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing C# 150 220 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.74% 3.91% 4.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.42% 14.19% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 164 243
10th Percentile £376 £380 £375
25th Percentile £408 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.06% +16.47%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £600
England median daily rate £575 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 13
10th Percentile - £23.80 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +57.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £55.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £74.00 £61.47
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +22.78%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,208 1,550 2,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.08% 27.55% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 1,098 1,323
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £412 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 87 84
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.10 £19.88
Median hourly rate £60.87 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +57.14% -16.17%
75th Percentile £66.52 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £61.51
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the South East.

Daily rate trend for C# in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley +6 74 £550 +3.77% 79
Berkshire +6 58 £588 +23.68% 39
Hampshire -43 29 £413 -15.38% 49
Surrey +14 19 £600 +18.23% 50
Buckinghamshire +13 15 £450 -25.00% 20
West Sussex +7 10 £550 -23.61% 6
East Sussex +4 10 £380 -41.54% 16
Kent -1 5 £325 -35.00% 19
Home Counties - 2 £475 -
Oxfordshire +3 1 £550 +100.00% 20
C#
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.67%) Confluence
3 3 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.33%) Apache
4 2 (1.33%) Jadu
5 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (2.67%) LabWindows
2 2 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 76 (50.67%) Azure
2 31 (20.67%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 17 (11.33%) AWS
5 17 (11.33%) Azure Storage
5 17 (11.33%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (9.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (8.00%) PaaS
8 9 (6.00%) Power Platform
9 8 (5.33%) Azure API Management
9 8 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (5.33%) Serverless
10 7 (4.67%) Azure Functions
10 7 (4.67%) Power Automate
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.33%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.33%) SaaS
13 4 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.33%) DHCP
1 17 (11.33%) DNS
1 17 (11.33%) Firewall
2 4 (2.67%) RS-232
2 4 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.00%) Network Security
3 3 (2.00%) VPN
4 2 (1.33%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.67%) MySQL
3 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.33%) CouchDB
5 2 (1.33%) Power BI
6 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.67%) Redis
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (18.67%) Git
2 26 (17.33%) Visual Studio
3 19 (12.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.00%) JIRA
5 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (2.67%) Subversion
6 3 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.00%) JMeter
6 3 (2.00%) Postman
6 3 (2.00%) Selenium
6 3 (2.00%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.33%) Appium
7 2 (1.33%) GitLab
7 2 (1.33%) NUnit
7 2 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.67%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.67%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.67%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.67%) Xcode
General
1 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.67%) Finance
4 12 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.00%) Electronics
6 1 (0.67%) Back Office
6 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.67%) Marketing
6 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (54.67%) Developer
2 20 (13.33%) .NET Developer
3 17 (11.33%) Active Directory Support
3 17 (11.33%) Software Developer
4 15 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 14 (9.33%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (9.33%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (9.33%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.33%) Support Specialist
6 13 (8.67%) Senior
7 11 (7.33%) Full Stack Developer
8 9 (6.00%) Lead
9 8 (5.33%) Architect
10 7 (4.67%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.00%) C++ Developer
11 6 (4.00%) Integration Developer
12 5 (3.33%) Azure Developer
12 5 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) Tester
13 4 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (51.33%) .NET
2 26 (17.33%) ASP.NET
3 23 (15.33%) AngularJS
4 21 (14.00%) ARM Templates
5 16 (10.67%) XML
6 14 (9.33%) .NET Core
6 14 (9.33%) HTML
7 13 (8.67%) CSS
7 13 (8.67%) JSON
8 12 (8.00%) .NET Framework
9 11 (7.33%) RESTful
10 9 (6.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (5.33%) REST
11 8 (5.33%) SOAP
12 7 (4.67%) Blazor
12 7 (4.67%) Entity Framework
13 6 (4.00%) React
14 5 (3.33%) Web Services
15 4 (2.67%) ADO
15 4 (2.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (11.33%) PKI
3 9 (6.00%) CCTV
3 9 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.33%) Animation
6 2 (1.33%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.33%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.33%) IoT
6 2 (1.33%) Mixed Reality
7 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 41 (27.33%) Windows
2 39 (26.00%) Linux
3 20 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 17 (11.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (11.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.67%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.67%) Agile
2 55 (36.67%) DevOps
3 38 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 31 (20.67%) Software Engineering
6 22 (14.67%) Scrum
7 21 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
8 20 (13.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 19 (12.67%) OO
10 18 (12.00%) Data Protection
10 18 (12.00%) Microservices
11 17 (11.33%) Analytics
11 17 (11.33%) Identity Management
11 17 (11.33%) ITIL
11 17 (11.33%) Log Analytics
11 17 (11.33%) Privileged Identity Management
11 17 (11.33%) RBAC
11 17 (11.33%) Release Management
11 17 (11.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.33%) PowerShell
2 36 (24.00%) SQL
3 25 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.00%) C++
5 18 (12.00%) Bicep
6 17 (11.33%) VB
6 17 (11.33%) VBScript
7 15 (10.00%) Python
8 10 (6.67%) Java
9 9 (6.00%) T-SQL
10 7 (4.67%) Bash
11 6 (4.00%) C
11 6 (4.00%) PHP
12 4 (2.67%) F#
12 4 (2.67%) Perl
12 4 (2.67%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.67%) X++
13 3 (2.00%) Ruby
14 2 (1.33%) GLSL
14 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.33%) SC Cleared
3 29 (19.33%) Degree
4 19 (12.67%) DV Cleared
5 17 (11.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.00%) QA
2 8 (5.33%) ISO 9001
2 8 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (14.00%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (4.00%) Docker
5 5 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 25 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (11.33%) SCCM
2 17 (11.33%) SCOM
2 17 (11.33%) WSUS
3 14 (9.33%) Ansible
4 3 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.33%) Terraform
6 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (28.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.33%) Oracle
3 5 (3.33%) VMware
4 4 (2.67%) Informatica
5 2 (1.33%) Atmel
5 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) Compaq
6 1 (0.67%) Google
6 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.67%) SAP