C# Architect Contracts

C# Architect
UK

The median C# Architect daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 706 859
Rank change year-on-year +134 +153 -171
Contract jobs requiring a C# Architect 6 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.017% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.018% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £638 £533 £536
25th Percentile £656 £669 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £606
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +27.84% +19.75%
75th Percentile £731 £863 £633
90th Percentile £743 £878 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £625

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

C# Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C# Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# Architect in the UK

C# Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# Architect.

Daily rate trend for C# Architect in the UK

C# Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# Architect.

Hourly rate trend for C# Architect in the UK

C# Architect
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
London +109 6 £700 -9.68%
England +105 6 £700 -9.68% 4
Work from Home +130 3 £650 -16.13% 3

C# Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, C# Architect 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 featuring C# Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) NuGet
2 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (33.33%) Portfolio Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) GDPR
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) B2B
3 2 (33.33%) B2C
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Logistics

C# Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) NuGet
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Agriculture
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) gRPC
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (16.67%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) B2B
1 2 (33.33%) B2C
1 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (33.33%) Logistics
1 2 (33.33%) Portfolio Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Debt
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) API Management
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) SOLID
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Bicep
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM