C# Contracts in the North West

C#
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 47 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 -29 +12
Contract jobs citing C# 97 143 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.53% 4.44% 8.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.20% 15.31% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 111 248
10th Percentile £338 £363 £383
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.29% +14.38%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £523
90th Percentile £550 £600 £617
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £23.85 £26.25
25th Percentile £38.39 £37.80 £37.25
Median hourly rate £41.23 £40.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -4.49% +25.00%
75th Percentile £44.07 £43.39 £62.50
90th Percentile - £46.60 £65.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 683 934 1,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.85% 28.97% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 715 1,075
10th Percentile £325 £325 £324
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £588
90th Percentile £610 £656 £663
England median daily rate £540 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 32
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.74 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £36.40 £19.66
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -3.36% +23.53%
75th Percentile £69.53 £50.87 £54.38
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.01 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the North West.

Daily rate trend for C# in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Manchester -3 55 £475 - 125
Merseyside +26 19 £510 +8.80% 21
Cheshire -22 16 £475 -13.64% 38
Cumbria - 5 £525 - 4
Lancashire +5 1 - - 12
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (5.15%) Apache
1 5 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.12%) CMS
3 3 (3.09%) IIS
4 2 (2.06%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.03%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.09%) Maximo
3 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.77%) Azure
2 9 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (8.25%) AWS
3 8 (8.25%) Serverless
4 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.12%) npm
7 4 (4.12%) OCI
7 4 (4.12%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.12%) Yarn
8 3 (3.09%) GitHub
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) FTP
2 1 (1.03%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) Big Data
3 4 (4.12%) Redis
4 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.06%) MySQL
4 2 (2.06%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Git
2 6 (6.19%) Selenium
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
4 4 (4.12%) Jasmine
4 4 (4.12%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (4.12%) Mocha
4 4 (4.12%) SpecFlow
4 4 (4.12%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.12%) webpack
5 3 (3.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.06%) TestComplete
6 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.03%) JMeter
7 1 (1.03%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (10.31%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
2 5 (5.15%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (3.09%) Finance
3 3 (3.09%) Law
3 3 (3.09%) Legal
4 1 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 65 (67.01%) Developer
2 32 (32.99%) Software Developer
3 16 (16.49%) .NET Developer
4 8 (8.25%) C# Developer
5 6 (6.19%) Azure Developer
5 6 (6.19%) Test Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Lead
6 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Tester
7 4 (4.12%) Development Manager
7 4 (4.12%) QA Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Senior
7 4 (4.12%) Sitecore Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Software Development Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Software Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Systems Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (40.21%) .NET
2 38 (39.18%) HTML
3 18 (18.56%) .NET Framework
4 12 (12.37%) CSS
5 10 (10.31%) Entity Framework
5 10 (10.31%) JSON
6 9 (9.28%) .NET Core
6 9 (9.28%) React
7 8 (8.25%) REST
8 7 (7.22%) Web Services
9 6 (6.19%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.19%) Kafka
9 6 (6.19%) RESTful
9 6 (6.19%) XML
10 5 (5.15%) ASP.NET
11 4 (4.12%) Playwright
12 3 (3.09%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (3.09%) NancyFx
12 3 (3.09%) SOAP
12 3 (3.09%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.12%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.09%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.03%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.03%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.05%) Agile
2 33 (34.02%) Software Engineering
3 26 (26.80%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (25.77%) Code Quality
4 25 (25.77%) Conversational UI
5 24 (24.74%) Test Automation
6 19 (19.59%) CI/CD
6 19 (19.59%) Scrum
7 18 (18.56%) DevOps
8 17 (17.53%) OO
9 13 (13.40%) OOP
10 9 (9.28%) API Development
11 8 (8.25%) Design Patterns
11 8 (8.25%) MVC
11 8 (8.25%) SOLID
12 7 (7.22%) TDD
13 6 (6.19%) Deployment Automation
13 6 (6.19%) Microservices
14 5 (5.15%) Prototyping
14 5 (5.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.58%) SQL
2 50 (51.55%) JavaScript
3 39 (40.21%) Python
4 10 (10.31%) Java
5 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.06%) C
7 2 (2.06%) C++
7 2 (2.06%) Delphi
7 2 (2.06%) PHP
7 2 (2.06%) VBScript
8 1 (1.03%) Bicep
8 1 (1.03%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (25.77%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (25.77%) PayPal
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) Informatica
3 5 (5.15%) Talend
4 4 (4.12%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) SAP
4 4 (4.12%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.09%) IBM
5 3 (3.09%) Nintex
5 3 (3.09%) Pega
6 1 (1.03%) Xamarin