C# Contracts in England

C#
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 34 32
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing C# 933 1,900 2,962
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.83% 5.11% 5.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.35% 17.40% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 1,364 2,216
10th Percentile £385 £378 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 75 112
10th Percentile £45.75 £46.25 £46.48
25th Percentile £62.19 £61.25 £52.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £66.19
90th Percentile £65.38 £73.50 £71.08
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +25.82%

All Programming Languages
England

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in England

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# in England

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in England

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in England

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in England

C#
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London -16 656 £625 - 772
South East +10 102 £450 -10.00% 527
Midlands -8 52 £463 -5.52% 335
North of England -77 41 £419 -9.46% 533
West Midlands +1 34 £450 -14.29% 172
South West -17 26 £430 -4.44% 161
North West -46 25 £413 -15.38% 316
East of England -22 20 £490 +7.10% 174
East Midlands -12 13 £495 +17.30% 144
Yorkshire -25 13 £475 +11.76% 137
North East -23 3 £370 -10.84% 89
C#
UK

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.89%) Confluence
3 22 (2.36%) IIS
4 9 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.75%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (0.75%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.43%) Apache
6 4 (0.43%) CMS
6 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) DataSynapse
8 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) WinCC
Applications
1 49 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.64%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.75%) Endur
3 3 (0.32%) Magento
3 3 (0.32%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Actimize
5 1 (0.11%) FastStats
5 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle TCA
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 403 (43.19%) Azure
2 157 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
3 137 (14.68%) AWS
4 89 (9.54%) Power Platform
5 81 (8.68%) Dynamics 365
6 65 (6.97%) Power Automate
7 60 (6.43%) PowerApps
8 56 (6.00%) Serverless
9 48 (5.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 41 (4.39%) Azure Functions
10 41 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
11 40 (4.29%) Azure AKS
12 36 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 33 (3.54%) Entra ID
14 31 (3.32%) GitHub
15 30 (3.22%) GCP
16 28 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (2.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (2.36%) PaaS
19 21 (2.25%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.68%) DNS
2 15 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.29%) HTTP
3 12 (1.29%) Internet
4 9 (0.96%) SSL
5 7 (0.75%) DHCP
5 7 (0.75%) Firewall
5 7 (0.75%) FTP
5 7 (0.75%) SMTP
6 5 (0.54%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.54%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.43%) LTE
7 4 (0.43%) NAS
7 4 (0.43%) Network Security
7 4 (0.43%) Wireless
8 3 (0.32%) SAN
9 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.11%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.11%) Intranet
10 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (21.86%) SQL Server
2 53 (5.68%) Relational Database
3 40 (4.29%) NoSQL
4 39 (4.18%) Oracle Database
5 34 (3.64%) Power BI
5 34 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (2.89%) Redis
8 24 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (2.36%) MongoDB
10 20 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.50%) Big Data
12 14 (1.50%) DocumentDB
13 13 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.07%) MySQL
15 8 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.75%) Apache Hive
16 7 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 107 (11.47%) Git
2 77 (8.25%) JIRA
3 62 (6.65%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.72%) Visual Studio
5 31 (3.32%) Bitbucket
5 31 (3.32%) TeamCity
6 28 (3.00%) Selenium
7 23 (2.47%) GitLab
8 22 (2.36%) SpecFlow
9 17 (1.82%) JMeter
10 15 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (1.50%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.29%) Postman
13 11 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.96%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.96%) NUnit
14 9 (0.96%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.86%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.64%) Eclipse
16 6 (0.64%) WinRunner
General
1 272 (29.15%) Finance
2 247 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 150 (16.08%) Banking
4 124 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (10.93%) Front Office
6 77 (8.25%) Investment Banking
7 60 (6.43%) Public Sector
8 27 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.57%) Marketing
10 23 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.25%) Back Office
12 15 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.39%) Electronics
14 12 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.29%) Retail Banking
15 8 (0.86%) Legal
15 8 (0.86%) Retail
16 7 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 570 (61.09%) Developer
2 241 (25.83%) C# Developer
3 158 (16.93%) .NET Developer
4 109 (11.68%) Senior
5 90 (9.65%) C# .NET Developer
6 84 (9.00%) Software Engineer
7 65 (6.97%) Senior Developer
8 64 (6.86%) Lead
9 61 (6.54%) Architect
10 48 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.39%) Python Developer
12 40 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
13 37 (3.97%) C# Software Engineer
14 35 (3.75%) WPF Developer
15 34 (3.64%) C# WPF Developer
16 32 (3.43%) Senior C# Developer
16 32 (3.43%) Software Developer
17 31 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (3.11%) Azure Developer
19 28 (3.00%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 569 (60.99%) .NET
2 142 (15.22%) .NET Framework
3 134 (14.36%) HTML
4 121 (12.97%) CSS
5 119 (12.75%) .NET Core
6 108 (11.58%) React
7 105 (11.25%) ASP.NET
8 91 (9.75%) AngularJS
9 74 (7.93%) REST
10 62 (6.65%) Kafka
11 61 (6.54%) WPF
12 60 (6.43%) Web Services
13 56 (6.00%) WCF
14 55 (5.89%) RESTful
15 54 (5.79%) ASP.NET Web API
16 48 (5.14%) Entity Framework
17 40 (4.29%) Node.js
18 39 (4.18%) JSON
19 36 (3.86%) FastAPI
20 32 (3.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 44 (4.72%) Derivative
3 34 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
7 19 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.93%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.61%) Fixed Income
10 15 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.18%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.18%) Market Risk
12 11 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.96%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 120 (12.86%) Windows
2 41 (4.39%) Linux
3 24 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.54%) Unix
6 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.32%) Android
7 3 (0.32%) CentOS
8 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.21%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.21%) Solaris
8 2 (0.21%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (34.94%) Agile
2 317 (33.98%) DevOps
3 223 (23.90%) CI/CD
4 178 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
5 163 (17.47%) Software Engineering
6 138 (14.79%) Test Automation
7 121 (12.97%) Microservices
8 102 (10.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (9.65%) OO
9 90 (9.65%) TDD
10 73 (7.82%) Design Patterns
11 72 (7.72%) Scrum
12 65 (6.97%) CRM
13 64 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (6.86%) SDLC
13 64 (6.86%) Unit Testing
14 62 (6.65%) Infrastructure as Code
15 61 (6.54%) Containerisation
16 57 (6.11%) Analytics
17 55 (5.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 378 (40.51%) SQL
2 303 (32.48%) JavaScript
3 218 (23.37%) Python
4 162 (17.36%) Java
5 111 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 106 (11.36%) PowerShell
7 87 (9.32%) C++
8 72 (7.72%) PL/SQL
9 41 (4.39%) T-SQL
9 41 (4.39%) VB
10 35 (3.75%) VBA
11 20 (2.14%) VB.NET
12 18 (1.93%) Bicep
13 16 (1.71%) Delphi
13 16 (1.71%) PHP
13 16 (1.71%) Ruby
14 11 (1.18%) Go
14 11 (1.18%) RPG
14 11 (1.18%) RPG IV
15 9 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 82 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.97%) Degree
4 22 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.93%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.54%) MCPD
9 5 (0.54%) MCSD
10 4 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.32%) CISSP
11 3 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.21%) OCP
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.50%) QA
2 16 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.75%) MiFID
6 6 (0.64%) EMIR
7 4 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.32%) GDPR
8 3 (0.32%) WCAG
9 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.21%) HL7
9 2 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 111 (11.90%) Docker
2 33 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.43%) Platform Symphony
4 4 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.32%) vCloud
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.32%) vSphere
6 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 135 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 78 (8.36%) Terraform
3 34 (3.64%) Ansible
4 12 (1.29%) Grafana
5 11 (1.18%) Kibana
6 7 (0.75%) MIIS
7 6 (0.64%) Perfmon
8 5 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.32%) Puppet
9 3 (0.32%) WMI
10 2 (0.21%) Control-M
10 2 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Netcool
11 1 (0.11%) SCCM
11 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 191 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 132 (14.15%) Oracle
3 25 (2.68%) Databricks
4 22 (2.36%) SAP
5 20 (2.14%) Google
6 13 (1.39%) TIBCO
7 12 (1.29%) Citrix
7 12 (1.29%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.18%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.18%) OutSystems
8 11 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.07%) IBM
10 9 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.86%) OpenLink
11 8 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.86%) VMware
12 6 (0.64%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.64%) New Relic
12 6 (0.64%) PayPal
12 6 (0.64%) Splunk