C# Contracts in London

C#
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 25 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing C# 1,277 1,882 2,808
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.24% 7.17% 7.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.92% 17.71% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 1,503 2,329
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £750
90th Percentile £831 £850 £825
England median daily rate £575 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £36.80 £44.57
25th Percentile £40.82 - £46.00
Median hourly rate £43.84 £50.42 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% +3.79% +9.17%
75th Percentile £46.86 £52.97 £55.56
90th Percentile - £68.50 £58.95
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +22.78%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,410 10,625 16,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.33% 40.51% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,897 7,942 12,386
10th Percentile £381 £413 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 82 113
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.33 £28.80
25th Percentile £40.79 £50.11 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.75 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C# in London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in London

C#
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Central London -9 174 £600 -7.69% 88
East London +9 26 £435 +8.75% 9
West London +25 15 £575 +27.78% 14
South London -3 6 £430 -25.22% 12
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 23 (1.80%) CMS
2 18 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.33%) IIS
4 13 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.31%) Luigi
8 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Confluence
10 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.078%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.078%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.078%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.078%) Jadu
10 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.078%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.078%) Umbraco
Applications
1 49 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.72%) Endur
2 20 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.94%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.63%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.39%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.16%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.078%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 529 (41.43%) Azure
2 269 (21.06%) Azure DevOps
3 149 (11.67%) AWS
4 115 (9.01%) Azure Service Bus
5 83 (6.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 68 (5.32%) Entra ID
7 61 (4.78%) Power Platform
8 56 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (4.23%) Serverless
10 53 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
11 49 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
12 45 (3.52%) GCP
13 42 (3.29%) Azure Functions
14 39 (3.05%) Azure API Management
15 35 (2.74%) PowerApps
16 32 (2.51%) Power Automate
17 27 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
18 23 (1.80%) PaaS
19 22 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
20 20 (1.57%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.64%) Internet
2 8 (0.63%) FTP
2 8 (0.63%) HTTP
3 7 (0.55%) DNS
3 7 (0.55%) Kerberos
4 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.47%) VPN
4 6 (0.47%) Wireless
5 4 (0.31%) Firewall
5 4 (0.31%) SSH
6 3 (0.23%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.16%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.16%) DHCP
7 2 (0.16%) Network Security
7 2 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.078%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.078%) Intranet
8 1 (0.078%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (29.91%) SQL Server
2 60 (4.70%) Relational Database
3 54 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 53 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 48 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (2.27%) Oracle Database
8 27 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (2.11%) Power BI
9 21 (1.64%) Redis
10 19 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.17%) KDB
13 12 (0.94%) Big Data
13 12 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.78%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.78%) Kdb+
15 7 (0.55%) MySQL
15 7 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 131 (10.26%) Git
2 68 (5.32%) SpecFlow
3 67 (5.25%) Selenium
4 58 (4.54%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.84%) Visual Studio
6 46 (3.60%) JIRA
7 41 (3.21%) Jenkins
8 28 (2.19%) WebDriver
9 25 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 25 (1.96%) GitLab
10 22 (1.72%) NUnit
10 22 (1.72%) Postman
11 18 (1.41%) Moq
12 16 (1.25%) Appium
12 16 (1.25%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.10%) webpack
14 12 (0.94%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.94%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.94%) SoapUI
14 12 (0.94%) TestNG
General
1 392 (30.70%) Finance
2 246 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 238 (18.64%) Front Office
4 214 (16.76%) Banking
5 105 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 100 (7.83%) Back Office
7 85 (6.66%) Investment Banking
8 81 (6.34%) Public Sector
9 25 (1.96%) Financial Institution
10 22 (1.72%) Local Government
11 17 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.17%) Marketing
12 15 (1.17%) Retail
13 10 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.55%) Games
14 7 (0.55%) Law
14 7 (0.55%) Legal
14 7 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.47%) Electronics
15 6 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 750 (58.73%) Developer
2 317 (24.82%) C# Developer
3 257 (20.13%) Senior
4 220 (17.23%) .NET Developer
5 158 (12.37%) Senior Developer
6 126 (9.87%) Software Engineer
7 106 (8.30%) Full Stack Developer
8 91 (7.13%) C# .NET Developer
9 90 (7.05%) Lead
10 89 (6.97%) Software Developer
11 85 (6.66%) Analyst
12 65 (5.09%) Azure Developer
13 54 (4.23%) Angular Developer
14 52 (4.07%) .NET Software Engineer
15 49 (3.84%) Senior Software Developer
16 47 (3.68%) Backend Developer
17 46 (3.60%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 45 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
19 41 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
19 41 (3.21%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 751 (58.81%) .NET
2 220 (17.23%) .NET Core
3 181 (14.17%) React
4 175 (13.70%) .NET Framework
5 160 (12.53%) AngularJS
6 137 (10.73%) ASP.NET
7 130 (10.18%) XML
8 105 (8.22%) HTML
9 89 (6.97%) CSS
10 80 (6.26%) REST
11 79 (6.19%) WPF
12 54 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
13 52 (4.07%) WCF
14 50 (3.92%) Web Services
15 48 (3.76%) Redux
16 39 (3.05%) Entity Framework
16 39 (3.05%) Kafka
17 34 (2.66%) Middleware
17 34 (2.66%) RESTful
18 33 (2.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 116 (9.08%) Derivative
2 101 (7.91%) Hedge funds
3 86 (6.73%) Fixed Income
4 69 (5.40%) Equities
5 61 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 60 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
7 44 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 40 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.57%) Equity Derivative
11 19 (1.49%) Market Risk
12 17 (1.33%) Cloud Native
13 16 (1.25%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.78%) Management Information System
16 10 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
17 9 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
18 8 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
18 8 (0.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.11%) Windows
2 60 (4.70%) Linux
3 30 (2.35%) Unix
4 16 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.078%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.078%) VMS
6 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (33.75%) DevOps
2 429 (33.59%) Agile
3 267 (20.91%) Software Engineering
4 211 (16.52%) CI/CD
5 171 (13.39%) Full Stack Development
6 169 (13.23%) TDD
7 153 (11.98%) Scrum
8 142 (11.12%) Test Automation
9 126 (9.87%) OO
10 120 (9.40%) Microservices
11 114 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (6.89%) SDLC
13 87 (6.81%) Asset Management
13 87 (6.81%) Continuous Integration
14 85 (6.66%) Design Patterns
15 81 (6.34%) Mentoring
16 80 (6.26%) Analytics
17 72 (5.64%) API Management
17 72 (5.64%) Investment Management
18 71 (5.56%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 504 (39.47%) SQL
2 266 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 215 (16.84%) Python
4 211 (16.52%) Java
5 189 (14.80%) PowerShell
6 120 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 96 (7.52%) Bicep
8 72 (5.64%) C++
9 66 (5.17%) T-SQL
10 58 (4.54%) PL/SQL
11 42 (3.29%) VBA
12 31 (2.43%) VB.NET
13 24 (1.88%) VB
14 15 (1.17%) C
15 12 (0.94%) Go
16 11 (0.86%) Bash
17 9 (0.70%) PHP
17 9 (0.70%) Ruby
18 8 (0.63%) Perl
19 7 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 124 (9.71%) Degree
2 57 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 48 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.39%) PhD
10 4 (0.31%) CHECK Team Leader
10 4 (0.31%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.31%) GIAC
10 4 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.31%) OSCP
11 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.23%) ISEB
11 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.16%) CCNP
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.078%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.83%) QA
2 29 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.72%) WCAG
4 17 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 15 (1.17%) MiFID
6 14 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.47%) GDPR
7 6 (0.47%) NIST
7 6 (0.47%) SLA
8 5 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
8 5 (0.39%) EMIR
9 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.31%) SEPA
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.078%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.078%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.078%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 110 (8.61%) Active Directory
2 51 (3.99%) Docker
3 4 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.31%) NFS
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.078%) Firmware
5 1 (0.078%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 50 (3.92%) Terraform
3 25 (1.96%) Ansible
4 9 (0.70%) BladeLogic
4 9 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.16%) Grafana
5 2 (0.16%) Kibana
5 2 (0.16%) logstash
5 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.16%) Puppet
5 2 (0.16%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.078%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.078%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.078%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.078%) VxRail
Vendors
1 279 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 115 (9.01%) Oracle
3 29 (2.27%) Citrix
4 21 (1.64%) OpenLink
5 20 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.49%) Databricks
7 16 (1.25%) SAP
8 13 (1.02%) ION Trading
8 13 (1.02%) PayPal
9 11 (0.86%) TIBCO
10 9 (0.70%) Altiris
10 9 (0.70%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.63%) Google
12 7 (0.55%) AVEVA
12 7 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.55%) Okta
13 6 (0.47%) Blue Prism
13 6 (0.47%) iManage
13 6 (0.47%) Optimizely
13 6 (0.47%) UiPath