C#
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 34 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing C# 2,078 3,352 5,441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.80% 5.60% 6.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.30% 15.99% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,519 4,189
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £448 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 121 86
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £59.38 £55.00 £44.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.66
Median % change year-on-year - +25.82% +14.81%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.03
% change year-on-year - +22.58% +17.84%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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 -2 1,889 £575 -4.17% 1,729
London -2 1,270 £625 -3.85% 538
Work from Home +1 898 £575 +4.55% 1,275
UK excluding London -6 637 £475 - 1,318
North of England +9 173 £463 -2.63% 335
South East -18 150 £500 -9.09% 283
North West -3 99 £488 +2.63% 199
South West -24 92 £450 -14.29% 162
Midlands -13 83 £490 +15.18% 270
East of England +5 78 £458 +0.27% 127
West Midlands +1 46 £525 +5.00% 162
Scotland -21 46 £413 -13.16% 99
Yorkshire +9 45 £425 -10.53% 93
East Midlands -1 37 £419 +10.26% 108
North East +25 29 £415 -7.78% 47
Wales -8 11 £394 -7.35% 50
Northern Ireland +7 5 £575 +43.75% 24

C#
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 39 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.64%) CMS
3 25 (1.20%) IIS
4 18 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.58%) Apache
6 12 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.58%) Confluence
7 7 (0.34%) SAS
8 6 (0.29%) NServiceBus
8 6 (0.29%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.19%) Luigi
10 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.14%) Jadu
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.096%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.096%) Kentico
11 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.048%) Moodle
Applications
1 123 (5.92%) Chatbot
2 61 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.048%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.048%) Blender
7 1 (0.048%) InDesign
7 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.048%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 43 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.96%) Endur
3 12 (0.58%) ION Anvil
4 10 (0.48%) Maximo
5 8 (0.38%) ION MarketView
6 4 (0.19%) LabWindows
7 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.096%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.096%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.096%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.096%) Shopify
9 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 805 (38.74%) Azure
2 367 (17.66%) Azure DevOps
3 208 (10.01%) AWS
4 128 (6.16%) Azure Service Bus
5 122 (5.87%) Power Platform
6 93 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 90 (4.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 89 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (4.19%) Serverless
10 81 (3.90%) Entra ID
11 79 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
12 63 (3.03%) Azure Functions
13 58 (2.79%) Power Automate
14 54 (2.60%) GCP
15 53 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
15 53 (2.55%) PowerApps
16 52 (2.50%) Azure API Management
17 46 (2.21%) PaaS
18 39 (1.88%) Azure Storage
19 37 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.83%) Modbus
2 37 (1.78%) RS-422
3 36 (1.73%) RS-485
4 34 (1.64%) DNS
5 28 (1.35%) DHCP
6 26 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 24 (1.15%) Firewall
8 23 (1.11%) Internet
9 16 (0.77%) HTTP
10 14 (0.67%) FTP
11 13 (0.63%) Wireless
12 10 (0.48%) VPN
13 9 (0.43%) Ethernet
14 7 (0.34%) Intranet
14 7 (0.34%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.24%) Network Security
15 5 (0.24%) RS-232
16 4 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
16 4 (0.19%) SSH
17 3 (0.14%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (24.25%) SQL Server
2 81 (3.90%) Relational Database
3 72 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 66 (3.18%) NoSQL
5 61 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 51 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 51 (2.45%) Power BI
7 44 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
9 32 (1.54%) Oracle Database
10 28 (1.35%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.01%) MySQL
12 19 (0.91%) Redis
13 18 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.82%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.77%) Big Data
16 15 (0.72%) KDB
17 13 (0.63%) DynamoDB
18 10 (0.48%) Kdb+
19 7 (0.34%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 215 (10.35%) Git
2 99 (4.76%) Selenium
2 99 (4.76%) Visual Studio
3 84 (4.04%) SpecFlow
4 80 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 80 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 79 (3.80%) JIRA
6 37 (1.78%) NUnit
7 36 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 36 (1.73%) WebDriver
8 32 (1.54%) GitLab
9 29 (1.40%) Postman
10 22 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 22 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
11 21 (1.01%) Moq
12 20 (0.96%) JUnit
12 20 (0.96%) TestNG
13 19 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
13 19 (0.91%) webpack
14 18 (0.87%) Subversion
General
1 455 (21.90%) Finance
2 388 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 241 (11.60%) Front Office
4 239 (11.50%) Banking
5 143 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 130 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
7 100 (4.81%) Back Office
8 91 (4.38%) Investment Banking
9 52 (2.50%) Electronics
10 27 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.11%) Local Government
11 23 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.06%) Marketing
13 18 (0.87%) Retail
14 16 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.67%) Games
17 12 (0.58%) Law
18 10 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,214 (58.42%) Developer
2 407 (19.59%) C# Developer
3 360 (17.32%) .NET Developer
4 307 (14.77%) Senior
5 234 (11.26%) Software Developer
6 206 (9.91%) Software Engineer
7 185 (8.90%) Senior Developer
8 146 (7.03%) Full Stack Developer
9 127 (6.11%) Lead
10 126 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
11 93 (4.48%) Analyst
12 92 (4.43%) Azure Developer
13 67 (3.22%) Angular Developer
14 63 (3.03%) Architect
15 58 (2.79%) .NET Software Engineer
15 58 (2.79%) C# Software Engineer
15 58 (2.79%) Full-Stack C# Developer
16 52 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (2.45%) Senior Software Developer
18 50 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,111 (53.46%) .NET
2 285 (13.72%) .NET Core
3 276 (13.28%) HTML
4 254 (12.22%) .NET Framework
5 238 (11.45%) React
6 234 (11.26%) AngularJS
7 223 (10.73%) ASP.NET
8 153 (7.36%) XML
9 151 (7.27%) CSS
10 129 (6.21%) REST
11 90 (4.33%) WPF
12 79 (3.80%) Web Services
13 74 (3.56%) Entity Framework
14 70 (3.37%) JSON
15 67 (3.22%) RESTful
16 66 (3.18%) ASP.NET Core
17 62 (2.98%) WCF
18 56 (2.69%) ASP.NET Web API
19 55 (2.65%) Redux
20 50 (2.41%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 118 (5.68%) Derivative
2 105 (5.05%) Hedge funds
3 90 (4.33%) Fixed Income
4 73 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 71 (3.42%) Equities
6 68 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 65 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 38 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 26 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.20%) Cloud Native
12 22 (1.06%) PKI
13 21 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
14 20 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (0.91%) Market Risk
16 17 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (0.63%) Data Structures
17 13 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 159 (7.65%) Windows
2 130 (6.26%) Linux
3 44 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.88%) Unix
5 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (0.53%) Android
7 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (31.67%) Agile
2 651 (31.33%) DevOps
3 501 (24.11%) Software Engineering
4 305 (14.68%) CI/CD
5 257 (12.37%) Full Stack Development
6 252 (12.13%) TDD
7 230 (11.07%) Test Automation
8 220 (10.59%) Scrum
9 206 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
10 188 (9.05%) OO
11 181 (8.71%) Microservices
12 162 (7.80%) Continuous Integration
13 159 (7.65%) Code Quality
14 152 (7.31%) Artificial Intelligence
15 142 (6.83%) MVC
16 127 (6.11%) Design Patterns
17 123 (5.92%) Conversational UI
17 123 (5.92%) SDLC
17 123 (5.92%) Unit Testing
18 113 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 777 (37.39%) SQL
2 526 (25.31%) JavaScript
3 417 (20.07%) Python
4 293 (14.10%) Java
5 236 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 167 (8.04%) C++
7 155 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 110 (5.29%) Bicep
9 83 (3.99%) T-SQL
10 76 (3.66%) C
11 74 (3.56%) PL/SQL
12 53 (2.55%) VB.NET
13 52 (2.50%) VBA
14 51 (2.45%) VB
15 22 (1.06%) VBScript
16 21 (1.01%) PHP
17 19 (0.91%) Bash
18 17 (0.82%) Go
19 15 (0.72%) R
19 15 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 287 (13.81%) Degree
2 208 (10.01%) Security Cleared
3 149 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 71 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.29%) CHECK Team Leader
12 6 (0.29%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.29%) GIAC
12 6 (0.29%) OSCP
12 6 (0.29%) PhD
13 5 (0.24%) ISEB
13 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.14%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.14%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.46%) QA
2 39 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.25%) WCAG
4 17 (0.82%) NIST
4 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.63%) MiFID
7 9 (0.43%) GDPR
7 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.34%) CDISC
10 6 (0.29%) SLA
11 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.19%) EMIR
11 4 (0.19%) SEPA
12 3 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
12 3 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.14%) GxP
12 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 2 (0.096%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 121 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 60 (2.89%) Docker
3 20 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.19%) NFS
9 3 (0.14%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.096%) vSphere
11 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (4.04%) Terraform
2 80 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.12%) Ansible
4 26 (1.25%) SCCM
5 18 (0.87%) SCOM
6 17 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (0.82%) WSUS
7 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
9 9 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.34%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.14%) Grafana
11 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.14%) Puppet
12 2 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.096%) Kibana
12 2 (0.096%) logstash
12 2 (0.096%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 403 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 133 (6.40%) Oracle
3 121 (5.82%) PayPal
4 32 (1.54%) Citrix
5 29 (1.40%) SAP
6 23 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.91%) OpenLink
8 14 (0.67%) AVEVA
8 14 (0.67%) Databricks
8 14 (0.67%) VMware
9 13 (0.63%) ION Trading
10 12 (0.58%) TIBCO
11 11 (0.53%) Google
12 10 (0.48%) Informatica
12 10 (0.48%) Xamarin
13 9 (0.43%) Altiris
13 9 (0.43%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.43%) IBM
13 9 (0.43%) UiPath
14 7 (0.34%) Okta