C# Software Developer Contracts

C# Software Developer
UK

The median C# Software Developer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 635 785
Rank change year-on-year +71 +150 -135
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 27 72 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.12% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.13% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 61 52
10th Percentile £500 £350 £375
25th Percentile £509 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +13.51% +23.33%
75th Percentile £713 £695 £538
90th Percentile £738 £725 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

C# Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Software Developer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +78 24 £600 - 45
London +81 21 £600 - 12
Work from Home +88 14 £675 +12.50% 32
UK excluding London +34 3 £500 +5.26% 37
North of England +21 2 £500 +5.26% 9
North West +13 2 £500 +25.00% 7
Wales +12 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, C# Software 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# Software Developer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) C#
2 21 (77.78%) .NET
3 20 (74.07%) Azure
4 14 (51.85%) Agile
5 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
5 11 (40.74%) DevOps
5 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
6 9 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 8 (29.63%) Finance
7 8 (29.63%) .NET Framework
8 7 (25.93%) SQL
9 6 (22.22%) XML
9 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
9 6 (22.22%) Scrum
9 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 6 (22.22%) Fintech
9 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
10 5 (18.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
10 5 (18.52%) Terraform
10 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
11 4 (14.81%) Law
11 4 (14.81%) Front Office
11 4 (14.81%) B2C
11 4 (14.81%) TDD
11 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
11 4 (14.81%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
11 4 (14.81%) SDET

C# Software 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 1 (3.70%) CMS
1 1 (3.70%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.41%) AWS
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) SpecFlow
2 3 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) NUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Front Office
3 4 (14.81%) Law
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Back Office
4 2 (7.41%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (77.78%) .NET
2 8 (29.63%) .NET Framework
3 6 (22.22%) XML
4 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
4 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (3.70%) CSS
6 1 (3.70%) HTML
6 1 (3.70%) jQuery
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (3.70%) React
6 1 (3.70%) WPF
6 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.81%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) Fintech
3 6 (22.22%) Scrum
3 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 4 (14.81%) B2C
4 4 (14.81%) SDET
4 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
4 4 (14.81%) TDD
4 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
5 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 3 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Order Management
5 3 (11.11%) SOLID
6 2 (7.41%) Architectural Design
7 1 (3.70%) Clean Code
7 1 (3.70%) Event-Driven
7 1 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
3 7 (25.93%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) Bicep
6 1 (3.70%) Ruby
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
2 1 (3.70%) OpenLink
2 1 (3.70%) SAP
2 1 (3.70%) Virgin Media
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