C# Developer Contracts

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 210 230
Rank change year-on-year -48 +20 -24
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 405 780 1,150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.32% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.40% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 660 961
10th Percentile £377 £400 £380
25th Percentile £499 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £763
90th Percentile £825 £806 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.25 £45.55
25th Percentile £60.63 £51.69 £51.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +41.10%
75th Percentile £71.88 £64.69 £61.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +58.62%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -45 376 £650 +4.00% 237
London -18 321 £650 -3.70% 109
Work from Home -12 187 £650 +8.33% 160
UK excluding London -39 48 £475 - 147
South East +2 15 £463 -22.92% 25
North of England +2 12 £488 +8.33% 39
Midlands +18 9 £488 +30.00% 44
North West +3 8 £500 +11.11% 25
West Midlands +19 7 £438 +12.90% 20
South West +13 7 £338 -25.00% 13
East of England +10 4 £433 -8.95% 6
Yorkshire +17 2 £400 -15.79% 7
North East +14 2 - - 8
East Midlands +14 2 £550 +57.14% 24
Wales +12 1 - - 12

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, C# Developer 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# Developer in the job title.

1 405 (100.00%) C#
2 251 (61.98%) .NET
3 168 (41.48%) SQL
4 155 (38.27%) Azure
5 145 (35.80%) Finance
6 132 (32.59%) SQL Server
7 111 (27.41%) Agile
8 98 (24.20%) Front Office
9 97 (23.95%) DevOps
10 88 (21.73%) Social Skills
11 75 (18.52%) .NET Core
11 75 (18.52%) AngularJS
11 75 (18.52%) .NET Framework
12 74 (18.27%) Full Stack Development
13 65 (16.05%) Banking
14 64 (15.80%) Software Engineering
14 64 (15.80%) JavaScript
15 62 (15.31%) Microsoft
15 62 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
16 60 (14.81%) React
17 56 (13.83%) CI/CD
18 53 (13.09%) WPF
18 53 (13.09%) Git
19 52 (12.84%) ASP.NET
20 49 (12.10%) Oracle
20 49 (12.10%) TDD
21 47 (11.60%) Microservices
22 43 (10.62%) Scrum
23 42 (10.37%) Electronic Trading
24 41 (10.12%) Test Automation

C# Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.22%) IIS
2 6 (1.48%) CMS
3 4 (0.99%) Apache
4 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.49%) Jadu
6 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.25%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 38 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.25%) Endur
2 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 155 (38.27%) Azure
2 62 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (9.14%) AWS
4 30 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (4.20%) PaaS
6 14 (3.46%) Serverless
7 13 (3.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (3.21%) Azure Functions
8 12 (2.96%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.22%) Azure AKS
9 9 (2.22%) GCP
10 8 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.98%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.73%) GitHub
11 7 (1.73%) npm
12 6 (1.48%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.98%) Internet
2 5 (1.23%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.49%) FTP
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (32.59%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.42%) NoSQL
2 26 (6.42%) Oracle Database
3 24 (5.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 20 (4.94%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.47%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.48%) MySQL
9 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.99%) Redis
11 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.74%) Power BI
12 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.49%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.25%) OLTP
13 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 53 (13.09%) Git
2 29 (7.16%) TeamCity
3 19 (4.69%) NUnit
4 18 (4.44%) Visual Studio
5 17 (4.20%) Moq
6 15 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 15 (3.70%) SpecFlow
7 13 (3.21%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.21%) JIRA
8 11 (2.72%) Selenium
9 9 (2.22%) Jenkins
10 7 (1.73%) webpack
11 6 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.99%) GitLab
13 3 (0.74%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.49%) Mercurial
14 2 (0.49%) MSTest
14 2 (0.49%) Postman
14 2 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 145 (35.80%) Finance
2 98 (24.20%) Front Office
3 88 (21.73%) Social Skills
4 65 (16.05%) Banking
5 38 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (8.15%) Investment Banking
7 23 (5.68%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 14 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.22%) Law
12 7 (1.73%) Electronics
12 7 (1.73%) Marketing
12 7 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.23%) Back Office
14 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.74%) Local Government
16 2 (0.49%) Retail
16 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.25%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (61.98%) .NET
2 75 (18.52%) .NET Core
2 75 (18.52%) .NET Framework
2 75 (18.52%) AngularJS
3 60 (14.81%) React
4 53 (13.09%) WPF
5 52 (12.84%) ASP.NET
6 22 (5.43%) REST
6 22 (5.43%) WCF
7 21 (5.19%) HTML
7 21 (5.19%) RESTful
8 20 (4.94%) ASP.NET Web API
8 20 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
9 19 (4.69%) Entity Framework
9 19 (4.69%) XML
10 18 (4.44%) CSS
11 17 (4.20%) ASP.NET Core
11 17 (4.20%) Middleware
12 16 (3.95%) Web Services
13 15 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.14%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (7.90%) Fixed Income
3 27 (6.67%) Derivative
4 20 (4.94%) Equities
5 17 (4.20%) Equity Derivative
6 16 (3.95%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.96%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.47%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.98%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.48%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.99%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 2 (0.49%) Market Risk
14 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.94%) Windows
2 15 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (27.41%) Agile
2 97 (23.95%) DevOps
3 74 (18.27%) Full Stack Development
4 64 (15.80%) Software Engineering
5 56 (13.83%) CI/CD
6 49 (12.10%) TDD
7 47 (11.60%) Microservices
8 43 (10.62%) Scrum
9 42 (10.37%) Electronic Trading
10 41 (10.12%) Test Automation
11 35 (8.64%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (8.64%) OO
12 34 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (8.40%) Unit Testing
13 32 (7.90%) MVC
14 26 (6.42%) Design Patterns
14 26 (6.42%) Multithreading
15 23 (5.68%) Analytics
15 23 (5.68%) Clean Code
15 23 (5.68%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 405 (100.00%) C#
2 168 (41.48%) SQL
3 64 (15.80%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.89%) Python
5 35 (8.64%) T-SQL
6 32 (7.90%) PL/SQL
7 27 (6.67%) VBA
8 25 (6.17%) PowerShell
9 24 (5.93%) VB
10 23 (5.68%) TypeScript
11 18 (4.44%) Java
12 17 (4.20%) VB.NET
13 11 (2.72%) Bicep
14 6 (1.48%) C++
15 5 (1.23%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.99%) PHP
17 3 (0.74%) C
18 2 (0.49%) Ruby
19 1 (0.25%) Groovy
19 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.68%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.43%) Degree
4 6 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.48%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.91%) QA
2 5 (1.23%) MiFID
3 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.99%) SEPA
3 4 (0.99%) WCAG
4 1 (0.25%) GDPR
4 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (4.69%) Docker
2 14 (3.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.44%) Terraform
2 12 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.49%) Ansible
4 1 (0.25%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.25%) SCOM
4 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.10%) Oracle
3 21 (5.19%) Citrix
4 12 (2.96%) TIBCO
5 7 (1.73%) SAP
6 5 (1.23%) Okta
7 4 (0.99%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.74%) Google
9 2 (0.49%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.49%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.25%) IBM
10 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.25%) OpenLink