Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Skill Sets
Period
to 29 July 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 29 July 2021 with a comparison to the 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#
Central London > City of London
6 months to
29 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 21 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing C# 261 223 514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.62% 9.45% 7.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.40% 18.80% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 177 430
10th Percentile £414 £366 £406
25th Percentile £513 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £681 £625 £588
90th Percentile £770 £715 £688
Central London median daily rate £625 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +25.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £22.00

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,591 1,186 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.43% 50.25% 50.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 921 2,672
10th Percentile £406 £375 £406
25th Percentile £470 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.38% - -
75th Percentile £675 £625 £613
90th Percentile £750 £688 £675
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 22
10th Percentile £24.19 £23.35 "
25th Percentile £26.00 £33.31 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £38.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% +75.00% +2.33%
75th Percentile £37.75 £52.38 £37.50
90th Percentile £47.43 £57.88 £51.04
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +71.11% +4.65%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the City of London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for C# in the City of London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 July 2021.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the City of London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the City of London

For the 6 months to 29 July 2021, IT contractor jobs citing C# also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for C#.

1 169 (64.75%) .NET
2 149 (57.09%) Agile Software Development
3 138 (52.87%) SQL
4 135 (51.72%) Azure
5 98 (37.55%) TDD
6 93 (35.63%) DevOps
7 91 (34.87%) AngularJS
8 76 (29.12%) Banking
9 69 (26.44%) Finance
10 64 (24.52%) Continuous Integration
11 63 (24.14%) JavaScript
11 63 (24.14%) TypeScript
12 56 (21.46%) SQL Server
13 55 (21.07%) Derivative
14 54 (20.69%) Front Office
15 52 (19.92%) PowerShell
16 50 (19.16%) AWS
17 46 (17.62%) ASP.NET
17 46 (17.62%) Software Engineering
18 45 (17.24%) Social Skills
19 44 (16.86%) Microsoft
20 43 (16.48%) Investment Banking
20 43 (16.48%) React
21 41 (15.71%) SharePoint
22 40 (15.33%) Power Platform
23 39 (14.94%) Git (software)
24 38 (14.56%) Power BI
25 37 (14.18%) Business Intelligence
26 34 (13.03%) Analytics
27 32 (12.26%) Microservices

C#
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
1 41 (15.71%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.45%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (1.53%) IIS
4 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.45%) InfoPath
1 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.45%) Summit
2 5 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Global One
3 1 (0.38%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.38%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 135 (51.72%) Azure
2 50 (19.16%) AWS
3 40 (15.33%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.81%) Azure Active Directory
5 17 (6.51%) Serverless
6 15 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.60%) Azure Functions
8 11 (4.21%) Power Automate
8 11 (4.21%) Slack
9 9 (3.45%) Workato
10 7 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.68%) GCP
11 6 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.92%) PaaS
13 4 (1.53%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (1.53%) GitHub
13 4 (1.53%) SaaS
13 4 (1.53%) Zapier
14 3 (1.15%) Azure Event Grid
14 3 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.77%) Broadband
2 2 (0.77%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) Firewall
3 1 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.46%) SQL Server
2 38 (14.56%) Power BI
3 17 (6.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.21%) Tableau
5 9 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.45%) Metadata
6 8 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 7 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.15%) SQL Server 2012
10 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.77%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.77%) Bigtable
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server 2014
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server 2016
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server 2019
Development Applications
1 39 (14.94%) Git (software)
2 30 (11.49%) Visual Studio
3 28 (10.73%) Octopus Deploy
4 20 (7.66%) JIRA
5 12 (4.60%) Jenkins
6 11 (4.21%) Selenium
6 11 (4.21%) TeamCity
7 10 (3.83%) SpecFlow
8 9 (3.45%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.68%) WebDriver
10 6 (2.30%) JMeter
10 6 (2.30%) NUnit
10 6 (2.30%) Postman
10 6 (2.30%) Subversion
11 5 (1.92%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.92%) Visual Studio Team System
12 4 (1.53%) Appium
13 3 (1.15%) MSTest
13 3 (1.15%) Rational Performance Tester
13 3 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (29.12%) Banking
2 69 (26.44%) Finance
3 54 (20.69%) Front Office
4 45 (17.24%) Social Skills
5 43 (16.48%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.45%) Marketing
8 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.15%) Legal
10 2 (0.77%) Advertising
10 2 (0.77%) Back Office
10 2 (0.77%) International Banking
10 2 (0.77%) Publishing
11 1 (0.38%) French Language
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.38%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 189 (72.41%) Developer
2 119 (45.59%) C# Developer
3 30 (11.49%) .NET Developer
4 26 (9.96%) Technical Leader
5 15 (5.75%) C# .NET Developer
6 14 (5.36%) SQL Developer
7 13 (4.98%) Front Office Developer
8 12 (4.60%) Angular Developer
8 12 (4.60%) C++ Developer
8 12 (4.60%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.60%) SharePoint Developer
9 10 (3.83%) Azure Developer
9 10 (3.83%) Summit Developer
10 9 (3.45%) C++/C# Developer
10 9 (3.45%) Quantitative Developer
10 9 (3.45%) React Developer
11 8 (3.07%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.68%) Analyst
12 7 (2.68%) Perl Developer
12 7 (2.68%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (64.75%) .NET
2 91 (34.87%) AngularJS
3 46 (17.62%) ASP.NET
4 43 (16.48%) React
5 27 (10.34%) HTML
6 25 (9.58%) .NET Core
7 24 (9.20%) ASP.NET Core
8 21 (8.05%) CSS
9 18 (6.90%) WPF
10 15 (5.75%) .NET Framework
10 15 (5.75%) WCF
11 11 (4.21%) RESTful
12 10 (3.83%) Node.js
13 9 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (3.45%) REST
14 8 (3.07%) Redux
15 6 (2.30%) WinForms
16 5 (1.92%) Protocol Buffers
16 5 (1.92%) Web Services
16 5 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.07%) Derivative
2 29 (11.11%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 28 (10.73%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (7.28%) Fixed Income
5 14 (5.36%) Market Risk
6 13 (4.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (4.60%) Credit Risk
8 10 (3.83%) Equities
9 7 (2.68%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.92%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.53%) Grid Computing
12 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.77%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.77%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.77%) User Experience
14 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
14 1 (0.38%) Mashup
14 1 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.45%) Windows
2 4 (1.53%) Unix
3 3 (1.15%) Android
3 3 (1.15%) Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (57.09%) Agile Software Development
2 98 (37.55%) TDD
3 93 (35.63%) DevOps
4 64 (24.52%) Continuous Integration
5 46 (17.62%) Software Engineering
6 37 (14.18%) Business Intelligence
7 34 (13.03%) Analytics
8 32 (12.26%) Microservices
9 30 (11.49%) Mentoring
10 27 (10.34%) Full Stack Development
11 24 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (9.20%) Test Automation
12 22 (8.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 21 (8.05%) BDD
14 19 (7.28%) Electronic Trading
15 18 (6.90%) Investment Management
16 14 (5.36%) Multithreading
16 14 (5.36%) Scrum
17 13 (4.98%) Competitor Analysis
18 12 (4.60%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 138 (52.87%) SQL
2 63 (24.14%) JavaScript
2 63 (24.14%) TypeScript
3 52 (19.92%) PowerShell
4 32 (12.26%) Python
5 29 (11.11%) Java
6 28 (10.73%) C++
7 14 (5.36%) T-SQL
8 10 (3.83%) VBA
9 9 (3.45%) Perl
10 4 (1.53%) C
10 4 (1.53%) PHP
10 4 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.53%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
11 3 (1.15%) VB
12 2 (0.77%) Bash Shell
12 2 (0.77%) F#
12 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.77%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (3.45%) Degree
2 2 (0.77%) PhD
2 2 (0.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.96%) QA
2 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (9.58%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.77%) Platform Symphony
4 1 (0.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (4.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.53%) Terraform
3 2 (0.77%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) BladeLogic
4 1 (0.38%) Control-M
4 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (0.38%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.38%) Marathon
4 1 (0.38%) QRadar
4 1 (0.38%) SCOrch
4 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 44 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.13%) Salesforce.com
3 15 (5.75%) Oracle
4 11 (4.21%) Nintex
5 4 (1.53%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.53%) IBM
5 4 (1.53%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.15%) HP
6 3 (1.15%) Splunk
6 3 (1.15%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.15%) UiPath
7 2 (0.77%) Adobe
7 2 (0.77%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.77%) Charles River
7 2 (0.77%) Citrix
7 2 (0.77%) Databricks
7 2 (0.77%) Google
7 2 (0.77%) Workday
8 1 (0.38%) BMC
8 1 (0.38%) CyberArk