C# .NET Developer Contracts

C# .NET Developer
UK

The median C# .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 379 420
Rank change year-on-year -72 +41 -34
Contract jobs requiring a C# .NET Developer 131 370 533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.65% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 318 424
10th Percentile £350 £388 £352
25th Percentile £400 £400 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £703 £650
90th Percentile £740 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -6.05% +3.26% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.25 £43.70
25th Percentile - £39.13 £49.25
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - -23.42% +63.24%
75th Percentile - £46.13 £62.15
90th Percentile - £48.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £49.00 £58.83
% change year-on-year - -16.70% +73.01%

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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 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% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £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# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# .NET Developer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 -51 122 £500 -4.76% 134
London -28 100 £500 -11.11% 35
Work from Home -34 52 £500 +14.29% 119
UK excluding London -2 19 £446 -6.05% 106
Midlands +34 7 £459 +31.07% 18
North of England +19 5 £475 - 28
West Midlands +32 4 £400 +6.67% 8
East Midlands +11 3 £550 +66.67% 10
South West +10 3 £406 -23.35% 12
South East +4 3 £388 -21.32% 36
Yorkshire +22 2 £400 -13.51% 11
North West +5 2 £488 -8.24% 11
North East +15 1 - - 8
Wales +13 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, C# .NET 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# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 131 (100.00%) C#
1 131 (100.00%) .NET
2 64 (48.85%) Azure
3 57 (43.51%) SQL
4 56 (42.75%) SQL Server
4 56 (42.75%) Finance
5 46 (35.11%) .NET Core
6 40 (30.53%) DevOps
7 38 (29.01%) Agile
8 37 (28.24%) .NET Framework
9 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
10 28 (21.37%) Oracle
10 28 (21.37%) JavaScript
11 27 (20.61%) AWS
12 25 (19.08%) Full Stack Development
13 24 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (17.56%) React
14 23 (17.56%) TDD
15 22 (16.79%) ASP.NET
16 21 (16.03%) PL/SQL
16 21 (16.03%) Oracle Database
17 20 (15.27%) AngularJS
17 20 (15.27%) T-SQL
18 19 (14.50%) VB
18 19 (14.50%) VB.NET
18 19 (14.50%) VBA
18 19 (14.50%) Microsoft Excel
18 19 (14.50%) Software Engineering
18 19 (14.50%) QA
18 19 (14.50%) Git

C# .NET 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 4 (3.05%) CMS
2 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.76%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.76%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (14.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (48.85%) Azure
2 27 (20.61%) AWS
3 24 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.87%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (6.87%) GCP
5 8 (6.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.82%) Serverless
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.05%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.29%) Azure App Service
8 3 (2.29%) PaaS
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.76%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) FTP
2 1 (0.76%) CTI
2 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (42.75%) SQL Server
2 21 (16.03%) Oracle Database
3 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.53%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (14.50%) Git
2 9 (6.87%) Visual Studio
3 7 (5.34%) Octopus Deploy
3 7 (5.34%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.58%) SpecFlow
5 5 (3.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.29%) GitLab
7 3 (2.29%) JIRA
7 3 (2.29%) Selenium
8 2 (1.53%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.53%) NUnit
9 1 (0.76%) GoCD
9 1 (0.76%) Hudson
9 1 (0.76%) MSTest
9 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (42.75%) Finance
2 19 (14.50%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.98%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.92%) Front Office
5 11 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.11%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.34%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.58%) Banking
8 6 (4.58%) Electronics
8 6 (4.58%) Marketing
9 5 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.82%) Law
10 4 (3.05%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.29%) Back Office
11 3 (2.29%) Local Government
12 2 (1.53%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.76%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (100.00%) .NET
2 46 (35.11%) .NET Core
3 37 (28.24%) .NET Framework
4 23 (17.56%) React
5 22 (16.79%) ASP.NET
6 20 (15.27%) AngularJS
7 10 (7.63%) REST
8 9 (6.87%) Kafka
9 8 (6.11%) HTML
10 7 (5.34%) CSS
10 7 (5.34%) Entity Framework
10 7 (5.34%) XML
11 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (3.82%) Web Services
11 5 (3.82%) WPF
12 4 (3.05%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (2.29%) jQuery
13 3 (2.29%) Vue
13 3 (2.29%) WCF
13 3 (2.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (6.11%) Equities
2 8 (6.11%) Fixed Income
2 8 (6.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.82%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.29%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.53%) Derivative
7 2 (1.53%) IoT
7 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.34%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.53%) DevOps
2 38 (29.01%) Agile
3 25 (19.08%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (17.56%) TDD
5 19 (14.50%) Software Engineering
6 18 (13.74%) Microservices
6 18 (13.74%) Unit Testing
7 16 (12.21%) CI/CD
7 16 (12.21%) Data Analysis
7 16 (12.21%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (12.21%) Scrum
8 14 (10.69%) MVC
9 13 (9.92%) OO
10 12 (9.16%) Analytics
11 10 (7.63%) Asset Management
11 10 (7.63%) Design Patterns
12 9 (6.87%) Clean Code
12 9 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (6.87%) SDLC
13 8 (6.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) C#
2 57 (43.51%) SQL
3 28 (21.37%) JavaScript
4 21 (16.03%) PL/SQL
5 20 (15.27%) T-SQL
6 19 (14.50%) VB
6 19 (14.50%) VB.NET
6 19 (14.50%) VBA
7 12 (9.16%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.58%) Bicep
8 6 (4.58%) Java
8 6 (4.58%) Python
8 6 (4.58%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.29%) C
10 1 (0.76%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.50%) QA
2 5 (3.82%) MiFID
3 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.29%) WCAG
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.11%) Terraform
2 6 (4.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.37%) Oracle
3 16 (12.21%) Citrix
4 6 (4.58%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.58%) SAP
5 2 (1.53%) Google
5 2 (1.53%) IBM
5 2 (1.53%) Optimizely