C# Developer Contracts in the City of London

The median contractor rate for a C# Developer was £513 per day in advertised job vacancies in the City of London during the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

C# Developer London / City of London
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	58	67	48
Rank change year-on-year	+9	-19
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer	123	108	215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	3.76%	3.25%	3.69%
As % of the Job Titles category	3.94%	3.40%	3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted	113	103	201
Median daily rate	£513	£500	£500
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.50%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£375	£311	£350
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£620	£638	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£346	£330	£325
% change year-on-year	+4.92%	+1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£36.63	£43.00	£22.88
% change year-on-year	-14.82%	+87.97%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles City of London
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	3125	3181	5524
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	95.42%	95.73%	94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted	2394	2584	4248
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£313	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	37	37	100
Median hourly rate	£18.70	£19.00	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-1.60%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.54	£12.50	£10.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£30.00	£31.50	£37.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.00
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+9.06%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the City of London that featured C# Developer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the City of London

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing C# Developer in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate trend for C# Developer in the City of London

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing C# Developer in the City of London over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the City of London

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for C# Developer in the City of London

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, C# Developer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the City of London region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1	217 (100.00%)	C#
2	151 (69.59%)	.NET
3	101 (46.54%)	SQL Server
4	97 (44.70%)	SQL
5	95 (43.78%)	Finance
6	74 (34.10%)	MVC
7	73 (33.64%)	TDD
8	69 (31.80%)	Agile Software Development
9	68 (31.34%)	WCF
10	64 (29.49%)	WPF
11	60 (27.65%)	Multithreading
12	56 (25.81%)	ASP.NET
13	54 (24.88%)	Front Office
14	51 (23.50%)	Banking
15	46 (21.20%)	AngularJS

16	45 (20.74%)	JavaScript
17	40 (18.43%)	OO
17	40 (18.43%)	HTML
18	38 (17.51%)	Greenfield Project
19	37 (17.05%)	MVVM
20	36 (16.59%)	CSS
21	31 (14.29%)	Entity Framework
22	29 (13.36%)	Test Automation
22	29 (13.36%)	Unit Testing
23	28 (12.90%)	.NET Framework
24	27 (12.44%)	Derivative
24	27 (12.44%)	Moq
24	27 (12.44%)	ASP.NET MVC
24	27 (12.44%)	T-SQL
25	26 (11.98%)	Windows

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	7 (3.23%)	IIS
2	6 (2.76%)	SharePoint
3	3 (1.38%)	BizTalk Server
4	2 (0.92%)	Apache
4	2 (0.92%)	CMS
4	2 (0.92%)	MQSeries
5	1 (0.46%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	10 (4.61%)	Microsoft Excel
2	1 (0.46%)	Adobe Illustrator
2	1 (0.46%)	Photoshop
2	1 (0.46%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	2 (0.92%)	Endur
1	2 (0.92%)	Kondor
2	1 (0.46%)	Bloomberg AIM
2	1 (0.46%)	Dynamics CRM
2	1 (0.46%)	thinkFolio

Cloud Services
1	10 (4.61%)	Microsoft Azure
2	5 (2.30%)	Amazon AWS

Communications & Networking
1	3 (1.38%)	HTTP
2	2 (0.92%)	Ethernet
2	2 (0.92%)	TCP/IP
3	1 (0.46%)	snoop

Database & Business Intelligence
1	101 (46.54%)	SQL Server
2	26 (11.98%)	SQL Server 2012
3	24 (11.06%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	21 (9.68%)	SQL Server 2008
5	16 (7.37%)	SQL Server 2016
6	10 (4.61%)	Relational Database
7	9 (4.15%)	SQL Server 2005
8	3 (1.38%)	MongoDB
8	3 (1.38%)	NoSQL
8	3 (1.38%)	Oracle Database
8	3 (1.38%)	Oracle Database 11g
8	3 (1.38%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
9	2 (0.92%)	Azure SQL Database
9	2 (0.92%)	InterSystems Cache
10	1 (0.46%)	Big Data
10	1 (0.46%)	Redis
10	1 (0.46%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
10	1 (0.46%)	SQLite

Development Applications
1	27 (12.44%)	Moq
2	23 (10.60%)	NUnit
3	18 (8.29%)	MSTest
4	13 (5.99%)	Team Foundation Server
5	7 (3.23%)	Git (software)
5	7 (3.23%)	JIRA
5	7 (3.23%)	SpecFlow
6	6 (2.76%)	Selenium
6	6 (2.76%)	TeamCity
7	5 (2.30%)	Mockito
7	5 (2.30%)	Rhino Mocks
7	5 (2.30%)	Visual Studio
7	5 (2.30%)	WebDriver
8	4 (1.84%)	JIRA Agile
9	2 (0.92%)	Subversion
10	1 (0.46%)	Balsamiq Mockups
10	1 (0.46%)	EasyMock
10	1 (0.46%)	JUnit
10	1 (0.46%)	ReSharper
10	1 (0.46%)	XMLSpy

General
1	95 (43.78%)	Finance
2	54 (24.88%)	Front Office
3	51 (23.50%)	Banking
4	20 (9.22%)	Investment Banking
5	4 (1.84%)	Back Office
5	4 (1.84%)	Retail
6	3 (1.38%)	Law
7	2 (0.92%)	Financial Institution
8	1 (0.46%)	French Language
8	1 (0.46%)	Legal
8	1 (0.46%)	Marketing
8	1 (0.46%)	Private Banking
8	1 (0.46%)	Telecoms

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	151 (69.59%)	.NET
2	68 (31.34%)	WCF
3	64 (29.49%)	WPF
4	56 (25.81%)	ASP.NET
5	46 (21.20%)	AngularJS
6	40 (18.43%)	HTML
7	36 (16.59%)	CSS
8	31 (14.29%)	Entity Framework
9	28 (12.90%)	.NET Framework
10	27 (12.44%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	24 (11.06%)	jQuery
12	22 (10.14%)	Task Parallel Library
13	17 (7.83%)	Web Services
14	16 (7.37%)	ASP.NET Web API
15	14 (6.45%)	HTML5
15	14 (6.45%)	WinForms
16	13 (5.99%)	Ajax
16	13 (5.99%)	RESTful
17	11 (5.07%)	LINQ
17	11 (5.07%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	38 (17.51%)	Greenfield Project
2	27 (12.44%)	Derivative
3	22 (10.14%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	17 (7.83%)	Hedge funds
5	10 (4.61%)	Fixed Income
6	8 (3.69%)	Computer Science
7	7 (3.23%)	Analytical Skills
7	7 (3.23%)	Equity Derivative
8	6 (2.76%)	Data Structures
9	5 (2.30%)	Credit Risk
9	5 (2.30%)	Equities
9	5 (2.30%)	Reinsurance
10	4 (1.84%)	Market Risk
11	3 (1.38%)	Algorithms
11	3 (1.38%)	Mobile App
11	3 (1.38%)	User Experience
12	2 (0.92%)	Interest Rate Derivative
13	1 (0.46%)	iPad
13	1 (0.46%)	Management Information System
13	1 (0.46%)	Reference Data

Operating Systems
1	26 (11.98%)	Windows
2	8 (3.69%)	Linux
3	2 (0.92%)	CentOS
3	2 (0.92%)	Windows Server
4	1 (0.46%)	Android
4	1 (0.46%)	Apple iOS
4	1 (0.46%)	Unix
4	1 (0.46%)	Windows 10
4	1 (0.46%)	Windows Embedded Compact

Processes & Methodologies
1	74 (34.10%)	MVC
2	73 (33.64%)	TDD
3	69 (31.80%)	Agile Software Development
4	60 (27.65%)	Multithreading
5	40 (18.43%)	OO
6	37 (17.05%)	MVVM
7	29 (13.36%)	Test Automation
7	29 (13.36%)	Unit Testing
8	23 (10.60%)	Mathematics
9	21 (9.68%)	Scrum
10	18 (8.29%)	Web Development
11	17 (7.83%)	Analytics
12	14 (6.45%)	SOA
13	13 (5.99%)	OOP
13	13 (5.99%)	Physics
14	12 (5.53%)	SDLC
15	11 (5.07%)	Capital Modelling
15	11 (5.07%)	Multithreaded Programming
16	10 (4.61%)	BDD
16	10 (4.61%)	Greeks

Programming Languages
1	217 (100.00%)	C#
2	97 (44.70%)	SQL
3	45 (20.74%)	JavaScript
4	27 (12.44%)	T-SQL
5	13 (5.99%)	Java
6	9 (4.15%)	VB
7	8 (3.69%)	C++
7	8 (3.69%)	Python
8	7 (3.23%)	VB.NET
9	6 (2.76%)	VBA
10	5 (2.30%)	TypeScript
11	2 (0.92%)	PowerShell
12	1 (0.46%)	Scala
12	1 (0.46%)	VB6
12	1 (0.46%)	VBScript
12	1 (0.46%)	XAML

Qualifications
1	8 (3.69%)	Degree
2	3 (1.38%)	Computer Science Degree
3	2 (0.92%)	CFA
3	2 (0.92%)	MBA
3	2 (0.92%)	MCP
3	2 (0.92%)	Microsoft Certification
4	1 (0.46%)	Numerate Degree
4	1 (0.46%)	PMI Certification
4	1 (0.46%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	3 (1.38%)	ISO/IEC 27001
1	3 (1.38%)	QA
2	2 (0.92%)	SLA
3	1 (0.46%)	MiFID

System Software
1	1 (0.46%)	Docker

Vendors
1	25 (11.52%)	Microsoft
2	6 (2.76%)	Oracle
3	4 (1.84%)	Infragistics
3	4 (1.84%)	Sybase
4	3 (1.38%)	Bloomberg
4	3 (1.38%)	Telerik
4	3 (1.38%)	Typemock
4	3 (1.38%)	Xamarin
5	2 (0.92%)	DevExpress
5	2 (0.92%)	ION Trading
5	2 (0.92%)	Murex
5	2 (0.92%)	OpenLink
5	2 (0.92%)	OpenText
5	2 (0.92%)	Redback
5	2 (0.92%)	RedDot
6	1 (0.46%)	Adobe
6	1 (0.46%)	Atlassian
6	1 (0.46%)	IBM
6	1 (0.46%)	Kofax
6	1 (0.46%)	TIBCO