C# Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C# Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 422 446
Rank change year-on-year +53 +24 -54
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 22 35 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 27
10th Percentile £256 £380 -
25th Percentile £313 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £513
90th Percentile - £545 £620
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +36.84% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 19
10th Percentile £64.25 £48.12 £47.70
25th Percentile - £60.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +12.24% +8.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured C# Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
East of England +9 7 - - 9
South East +20 5 £550 +10.00% 6
South West +15 5 £475 -5.00% 5
Scotland - 5 £313 - 2
C# Software Engineer
UK

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, C# Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) C#
1 22 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (59.09%) Linux
3 12 (54.55%) Windows
4 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (50.00%) Agile
4 11 (50.00%) C++
4 11 (50.00%) Visual Studio
5 10 (45.45%) Web Services
5 10 (45.45%) Unit Testing
6 9 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (40.91%) Digital Twin
6 9 (40.91%) Synthetic Environment
7 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
7 8 (36.36%) Visualisation
7 8 (36.36%) Eclipse
7 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
8 7 (31.82%) TDD
8 7 (31.82%) Validation
8 7 (31.82%) Military
8 7 (31.82%) Ethernet
8 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
8 7 (31.82%) Azure
8 7 (31.82%) Verification and Validation
8 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
8 7 (31.82%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (31.82%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (31.82%) Node.js
9 6 (27.27%) Git
9 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 7 (31.82%) Ethernet
3 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 8 (36.36%) Eclipse
3 6 (27.27%) Git
4 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.55%) Appium
5 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) Checkstyle
5 1 (4.55%) JIRA
5 1 (4.55%) MSTest
5 1 (4.55%) NUnit
5 1 (4.55%) Selenium
5 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (31.82%) Military
1 7 (31.82%) Presentation Skills
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Aviation
2 5 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Web Services
2 7 (31.82%) Node.js
3 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
3 5 (22.73%) React
4 4 (18.18%) .NET
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.09%) XML
6 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
6 1 (4.55%) JSON
6 1 (4.55%) REST
6 1 (4.55%) RESTful
6 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
2 12 (54.55%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) Unit Testing
4 9 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (40.91%) Digital Twin
4 9 (40.91%) Synthetic Environment
5 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 8 (36.36%) Visualisation
6 7 (31.82%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (31.82%) TDD
6 7 (31.82%) Validation
6 7 (31.82%) Verification and Validation
7 5 (22.73%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (18.18%) OO
9 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
9 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
9 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.64%) Scrum
9 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
10 2 (9.09%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (50.00%) C++
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.64%) Bash
5 3 (13.64%) Python
6 2 (9.09%) Perl
6 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.55%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle