C# Contracts in the UK excluding London

C#
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 58 49 40
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing C# 648 998 1,606
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.16% 4.25% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.54% 14.64% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 683 1,120
10th Percentile £313 £350 £362
25th Percentile £392 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +11.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £619 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £573 £575 £543
% change year-on-year -0.43% +5.99% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 96 68
10th Percentile £46.25 £47.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £55.94 £46.93
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +22.78%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.75 £70.30 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
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# within the UK excluding 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
North of England +9 169 £475 - 326
South East -11 151 £500 -4.76% 225
North West +1 101 £475 -3.06% 189
South West -21 96 £450 -14.29% 153
Midlands -5 83 £490 +15.18% 269
East of England +2 81 £475 +5.56% 93
Scotland -15 51 £425 -10.53% 101
West Midlands -4 47 £525 +5.00% 162
Yorkshire +5 40 £413 -13.16% 103
East Midlands +2 36 £425 +11.84% 107
North East +23 28 £415 -7.78% 36
Wales -3 13 £394 -8.70% 45
Northern Ireland +3 5 £575 +43.75% 23
C#
UK

C#
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 18 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.39%) Apache
3 9 (1.39%) CMS
4 7 (1.08%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.77%) Confluence
5 5 (0.77%) IIS
6 2 (0.31%) Jadu
6 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.15%) Site Server
7 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (16.67%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.23%) Maximo
3 4 (0.62%) LabWindows
4 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 218 (33.64%) Azure
2 101 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (7.72%) AWS
4 47 (7.25%) Power Platform
5 33 (5.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 28 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.17%) Serverless
8 25 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
8 25 (3.86%) Power Automate
9 22 (3.40%) Azure Storage
10 21 (3.24%) Entra ID
11 18 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (2.78%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.47%) Azure Functions
12 16 (2.47%) PaaS
13 12 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.85%) SaaS
14 10 (1.54%) Azure AKS
15 9 (1.39%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.71%) Modbus
1 37 (5.71%) RS-485
2 36 (5.56%) RS-422
3 26 (4.01%) DHCP
3 26 (4.01%) DNS
4 25 (3.86%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.09%) Firewall
6 14 (2.16%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.93%) FTP
8 5 (0.77%) HTTP
8 5 (0.77%) Intranet
8 5 (0.77%) RS-232
9 3 (0.46%) Internet
9 3 (0.46%) Network Security
9 3 (0.46%) RTSP
9 3 (0.46%) VPN
9 3 (0.46%) Wireless
10 2 (0.31%) MQTT
10 2 (0.31%) SAN
11 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.93%) Power BI
3 18 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 16 (2.47%) MySQL
5 15 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.93%) Redis
9 5 (0.77%) Big Data
9 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.77%) GIS
9 5 (0.77%) SQLite
10 4 (0.62%) Biml
10 4 (0.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 78 (12.04%) Git
2 64 (9.88%) Visual Studio
3 31 (4.78%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.86%) JIRA
5 24 (3.70%) Selenium
6 14 (2.16%) Eclipse
7 11 (1.70%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.39%) WebDriver
9 8 (1.23%) NUnit
9 8 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (1.08%) SpecFlow
10 7 (1.08%) Subversion
11 6 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.93%) Mercurial
11 6 (0.93%) Postman
12 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 125 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 43 (6.64%) Electronics
3 35 (5.40%) Finance
3 35 (5.40%) Public Sector
4 27 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.16%) Military
6 13 (2.01%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.93%) Aviation
10 6 (0.93%) Banking
11 5 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.77%) Games
11 5 (0.77%) Law
11 5 (0.77%) Marketing
11 5 (0.77%) Multimedia
11 5 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.62%) Automotive
13 3 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 365 (56.33%) Developer
2 143 (22.07%) Software Developer
3 94 (14.51%) .NET Developer
4 91 (14.04%) Software Engineer
5 49 (7.56%) C# Developer
6 44 (6.79%) C++ Software Engineer
7 42 (6.48%) Senior
8 30 (4.63%) Lead
9 29 (4.48%) Full Stack Developer
10 25 (3.86%) C# Software Engineer
11 23 (3.55%) Senior Developer
12 20 (3.09%) Architect
13 18 (2.78%) Test Engineer
14 17 (2.62%) Applications Developer
14 17 (2.62%) Azure Developer
14 17 (2.62%) C# .NET Developer
14 17 (2.62%) Tester
15 16 (2.47%) Active Directory Support
16 14 (2.16%) Azure Specialist
16 14 (2.16%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (41.82%) .NET
2 159 (24.54%) HTML
3 62 (9.57%) ASP.NET
4 61 (9.41%) .NET Framework
5 56 (8.64%) AngularJS
6 50 (7.72%) React
7 49 (7.56%) .NET Core
8 48 (7.41%) CSS
9 36 (5.56%) Web Services
10 35 (5.40%) XML
11 33 (5.09%) REST
12 32 (4.94%) RESTful
13 30 (4.63%) JSON
14 25 (3.86%) Blazor
14 25 (3.86%) Entity Framework
15 22 (3.40%) Node.js
16 21 (3.24%) ARM Templates
17 20 (3.09%) SOAP
18 18 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
19 14 (2.16%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.56%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (2.62%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.47%) PKI
4 13 (2.01%) Mobile App
5 12 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 12 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.39%) CCTV
7 9 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (0.93%) IoT
10 5 (0.77%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.77%) Social Media
11 4 (0.62%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.62%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.62%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 84 (12.96%) Windows
2 66 (10.19%) Linux
3 27 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.23%) Unix
6 7 (1.08%) Android
6 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (37.04%) Software Engineering
2 223 (34.41%) Agile
3 199 (30.71%) DevOps
4 121 (18.67%) Code Quality
5 120 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 108 (16.67%) Conversational UI
7 85 (13.12%) CI/CD
8 78 (12.04%) TDD
9 73 (11.27%) Test Automation
10 72 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
11 67 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (10.34%) Unit Testing
12 65 (10.03%) Full Stack Development
13 58 (8.95%) Scrum
14 52 (8.02%) OO
15 51 (7.87%) Software Testing
16 50 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (7.10%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (7.10%) MVC
18 43 (6.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 243 (37.50%) SQL
2 235 (36.27%) JavaScript
3 174 (26.85%) Python
4 96 (14.81%) C++
5 63 (9.72%) Java
6 60 (9.26%) C
7 47 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 34 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 25 (3.86%) Bicep
10 21 (3.24%) VB
10 21 (3.24%) VBScript
11 12 (1.85%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 10 (1.54%) PHP
13 8 (1.23%) Bash
14 7 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.08%) VBA
15 5 (0.77%) Ruby
15 5 (0.77%) X++
16 4 (0.62%) F#
Qualifications
1 162 (25.00%) Degree
2 108 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 74 (11.42%) SC Cleared
4 46 (7.10%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 11 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.62%) PhD
10 3 (0.46%) HNC
10 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.31%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.31%) HND
11 2 (0.31%) ISEB
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.56%) QA
2 9 (1.39%) NIST
3 8 (1.23%) ISO 9001
3 8 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.46%) GDPR
5 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.15%) HL7
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (3.09%) Active Directory
1 20 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (2.47%) Docker
2 16 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.46%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.01%) SCCM
3 17 (2.62%) WSUS
4 16 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (2.47%) SCOM
4 16 (2.47%) Terraform
5 15 (2.31%) Ansible
6 7 (1.08%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Grafana
9 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 108 (16.67%) PayPal
3 20 (3.09%) Oracle
4 13 (2.01%) VMware
5 10 (1.54%) SAP
5 10 (1.54%) Xamarin
6 9 (1.39%) Informatica
7 7 (1.08%) Veeam
8 6 (0.93%) AVEVA
9 5 (0.77%) Talend
10 4 (0.62%) Infragistics
11 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.46%) IBM
11 3 (0.46%) Nintex
11 3 (0.46%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.46%) OutSystems
11 3 (0.46%) Pega
11 3 (0.46%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.31%) Atmel
12 2 (0.31%) Sitecore