Senior C# Software Engineer Contracts

Senior C# Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior C# Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563 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 577 694 844
Rank change year-on-year +117 +150 -173
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Software Engineer 5 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.030% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.032% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £479 - £460
25th Percentile £503 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% +12.38% -
75th Percentile £628 £700 £575
90th Percentile £656 £798 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +31.25%

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%

Senior C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Software Engineer in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior C# Software Engineer in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior C# Software Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior C# Software Engineer in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior C# Software Engineer in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C# Software Engineer 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 +111 5 £563 -4.66% 10
London +99 4 £650 - 5
Work from Home +112 2 £563 +2.27% 8
UK excluding London +48 1 £475 -5.00% 5
South West +18 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior C# Software Engineer 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 Senior C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) React
5 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
5 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (20.00%) RxJS
5 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
5 1 (20.00%) OpenFin
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
5 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (20.00%) Playwright
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) IoT
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Retail
5 1 (20.00%) Finsemble
5 1 (20.00%) Active Directory

Senior C# Software Engineer 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Front Office
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) OpenFin
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) Reactive Extensions
3 1 (20.00%) RxJS
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Finsemble