C# Contracts in the City of London

C#
Central London > City of London

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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 15 36
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 -10
Contract jobs citing C# 157 334 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.23% 9.25% 6.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.05% 21.55% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 214 214
10th Percentile £418 £454 £388
25th Percentile £481 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.24% -1.45%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £712
90th Percentile £854 £825 £793
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Programming Languages
City of London

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 746 1,550 1,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.33% 42.92% 44.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 1,017 1,463
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £712
90th Percentile £799 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £617 £600
% change year-on-year -8.86% +2.86% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

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

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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

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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 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the City of London

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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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 6 (3.82%) IIS
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) Luigi
2 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Endur
2 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (41.40%) Azure
2 33 (21.02%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (7.01%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (5.73%) AWS
7 8 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (4.46%) Serverless
9 6 (3.82%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.18%) Azure API Management
10 5 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.18%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.55%) GCP
12 3 (1.91%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.91%) GitHub
12 3 (1.91%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) Internet
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.64%) DHCP
3 1 (0.64%) DNS
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (40.76%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.73%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.82%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.18%) KDB
6 5 (3.18%) Power BI
7 4 (2.55%) Redis
8 3 (1.91%) MySQL
9 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.64%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.64%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Git
1 19 (12.10%) Selenium
2 14 (8.92%) SpecFlow
3 13 (8.28%) JIRA
3 13 (8.28%) TeamCity
4 7 (4.46%) Postman
5 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.18%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.18%) GitLab
7 4 (2.55%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.91%) Appium
8 3 (1.91%) JMeter
8 3 (1.91%) JUnit
8 3 (1.91%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.91%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.91%) TestNG
8 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.27%) eggPlant
9 2 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.27%) SOAtest
General
1 34 (21.66%) Finance
2 33 (21.02%) Banking
3 30 (19.11%) Social Skills
4 21 (13.38%) Investment Banking
5 17 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (8.92%) Front Office
7 6 (3.82%) Back Office
7 6 (3.82%) Legal
8 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.55%) Prime Brokerage
8 4 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.55%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) International Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Games
11 1 (0.64%) Local Government
11 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.64%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (49.68%) Developer
2 31 (19.75%) Senior
3 29 (18.47%) C# Developer
4 24 (15.29%) Full Stack Developer
5 17 (10.83%) .NET Developer
6 14 (8.92%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.01%) C# .NET Developer
7 11 (7.01%) Quantitative Developer
8 10 (6.37%) Lead
8 10 (6.37%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Analyst
10 8 (5.10%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 8 (5.10%) Tester
11 7 (4.46%) React Developer
12 6 (3.82%) Full Stack .NET Developer
12 6 (3.82%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.18%) Java Developer
13 5 (3.18%) Senior Software Developer
13 5 (3.18%) SQL Developer
13 5 (3.18%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (54.78%) .NET
2 26 (16.56%) .NET Core
3 22 (14.01%) ASP.NET
4 21 (13.38%) .NET Framework
5 18 (11.46%) React
6 16 (10.19%) AngularJS
7 15 (9.55%) Web Services
8 14 (8.92%) CSS
8 14 (8.92%) HTML
9 12 (7.64%) XML
10 11 (7.01%) REST
11 9 (5.73%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (5.10%) Svelte
13 6 (3.82%) WCF
14 5 (3.18%) ADO
14 5 (3.18%) Kafka
14 5 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (3.18%) WinForms
15 4 (2.55%) RxJS
15 4 (2.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.46%) Market Risk
1 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.82%) Equities
2 6 (3.82%) Fixed Income
2 6 (3.82%) Hedge funds
3 4 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.91%) Derivative
5 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.27%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.27%) PKI
5 2 (1.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.64%) BYOD
6 1 (0.64%) CBDC
6 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.92%) Windows
2 8 (5.10%) Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.49%) DevOps
2 55 (35.03%) Agile
3 28 (17.83%) Full Stack Development
4 27 (17.20%) SDLC
4 27 (17.20%) Test Automation
5 26 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (14.65%) CI/CD
7 19 (12.10%) Software Engineering
8 16 (10.19%) OO
9 14 (8.92%) API Management
9 14 (8.92%) Scrum
9 14 (8.92%) Test Strategy
10 12 (7.64%) TDD
11 11 (7.01%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (6.37%) Computer Science
12 10 (6.37%) Microservices
12 10 (6.37%) Migration
12 10 (6.37%) Performance Testing
13 9 (5.73%) Analytics
13 9 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 48 (30.57%) SQL
2 32 (20.38%) Java
2 32 (20.38%) Python
3 26 (16.56%) PowerShell
4 21 (13.38%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.83%) C++
6 11 (7.01%) T-SQL
7 10 (6.37%) Bicep
8 8 (5.10%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.55%) Rust
10 3 (1.91%) C
10 3 (1.91%) Clojure
10 3 (1.91%) Go
10 3 (1.91%) Haskell
10 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.91%) R
11 2 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (8.28%) Degree
2 6 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.91%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.27%) ISEB
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.64%) PhD
6 1 (0.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.55%) QA
2 6 (3.82%) SLA
3 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.91%) WCAG
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (6.37%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) Grafana
3 1 (0.64%) Kibana
3 1 (0.64%) logstash
3 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.10%) Oracle
3 6 (3.82%) Cadence
3 6 (3.82%) Databricks
3 6 (3.82%) iManage
4 5 (3.18%) OpenLink
5 2 (1.27%) Citrix
5 2 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.64%) Splunk