C# Contracts in the South East

C#
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 54 57
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing C# 150 237 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.71% 4.07% 4.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.54% 14.67% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 180 232
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £406 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.55% +17.06%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £540
90th Percentile £623 £820 £599
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 15
10th Percentile - £23.80 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +50.68% -20.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £57.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £74.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,196 1,615 2,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.65% 27.71% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,151 1,367
10th Percentile £325 £333 £339
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 87
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £65.52
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the South East.

Daily rate trend for C# in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +3 72 £550 - 90
Berkshire +11 57 £588 +16.34% 41
Hampshire -39 29 £413 -17.50% 64
Surrey +12 20 £600 +18.23% 58
Buckinghamshire +7 15 £450 -25.00% 18
West Sussex +6 11 £550 +4.76% 15
East Sussex +3 9 £380 -51.90% 14
Kent -2 5 £325 -33.33% 24
Home Counties - 2 £475 -
Sussex -4 1 £450 -33.33% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.67%) Confluence
3 3 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.33%) Apache
4 2 (1.33%) Jadu
5 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (2.67%) LabWindows
2 2 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (49.33%) Azure
2 31 (20.67%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 16 (10.67%) AWS
5 16 (10.67%) Azure Storage
6 15 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (8.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (6.67%) PaaS
9 9 (6.00%) Power Platform
10 8 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (5.33%) Serverless
11 7 (4.67%) Azure API Management
11 7 (4.67%) Azure Functions
11 7 (4.67%) Power Automate
12 6 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (3.33%) PowerApps
14 4 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 3 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.67%) DHCP
1 16 (10.67%) DNS
1 16 (10.67%) Firewall
2 4 (2.67%) RS-232
2 4 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.33%) Modbus
3 2 (1.33%) Network Security
3 2 (1.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) NFC
4 1 (0.67%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.67%) MySQL
3 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.33%) CouchDB
5 2 (1.33%) Power BI
6 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.67%) Redis
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (19.33%) Git
2 27 (18.00%) Visual Studio
3 20 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.67%) JIRA
5 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (2.67%) Subversion
6 3 (2.00%) JMeter
6 3 (2.00%) Postman
6 3 (2.00%) Selenium
6 3 (2.00%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.33%) Appium
7 2 (1.33%) GitLab
7 2 (1.33%) NUnit
7 2 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.67%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.67%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.67%) Finance
4 12 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.00%) Electronics
6 1 (0.67%) Back Office
6 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.67%) Marketing
6 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (55.33%) Developer
2 22 (14.67%) .NET Developer
3 17 (11.33%) Software Developer
4 15 (10.00%) Active Directory Support
4 15 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
4 15 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.33%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (9.33%) C# Developer
5 14 (9.33%) Senior
5 14 (9.33%) Support Specialist
6 10 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
7 8 (5.33%) Architect
7 8 (5.33%) Lead
8 7 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.00%) C++ Developer
9 6 (4.00%) Integration Developer
10 5 (3.33%) Azure Developer
10 5 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (51.33%) .NET
2 27 (18.00%) ASP.NET
3 23 (15.33%) AngularJS
4 19 (12.67%) ARM Templates
5 17 (11.33%) XML
6 15 (10.00%) HTML
7 14 (9.33%) .NET Core
7 14 (9.33%) JSON
8 13 (8.67%) CSS
9 12 (8.00%) .NET Framework
10 11 (7.33%) RESTful
11 9 (6.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (6.00%) REST
12 8 (5.33%) SOAP
13 7 (4.67%) Blazor
13 7 (4.67%) Entity Framework
14 6 (4.00%) React
15 5 (3.33%) Web Services
16 4 (2.67%) ADO
16 4 (2.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (10.67%) PKI
3 9 (6.00%) CCTV
3 9 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.33%) Animation
5 2 (1.33%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (1.33%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.33%) IoT
5 2 (1.33%) Mixed Reality
5 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.67%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 41 (27.33%) Windows
2 39 (26.00%) Linux
3 18 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 15 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (2.67%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.00%) Android
8 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.67%) Agile
2 52 (34.67%) DevOps
3 38 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (22.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (22.00%) Software Engineering
5 23 (15.33%) Scrum
6 20 (13.33%) OO
7 19 (12.67%) Full Stack Development
7 19 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (12.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 17 (11.33%) Data Protection
9 17 (11.33%) Microservices
9 17 (11.33%) SOLID
9 17 (11.33%) TDD
10 16 (10.67%) Analytics
10 16 (10.67%) Identity Management
10 16 (10.67%) ITIL
10 16 (10.67%) Privileged Identity Management
10 16 (10.67%) Release Management
10 16 (10.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.67%) PowerShell
2 36 (24.00%) SQL
3 27 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 25 (16.67%) C++
5 16 (10.67%) Bicep
5 16 (10.67%) VB
5 16 (10.67%) VBScript
6 14 (9.33%) Python
7 10 (6.67%) Java
8 9 (6.00%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.67%) Bash
9 7 (4.67%) C
10 5 (3.33%) PHP
11 4 (2.67%) F#
11 4 (2.67%) Perl
11 4 (2.67%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.67%) X++
12 2 (1.33%) GLSL
12 2 (1.33%) Ruby
12 2 (1.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.33%) SC Cleared
3 28 (18.67%) Degree
4 18 (12.00%) DV Cleared
5 16 (10.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.67%) QA
2 8 (5.33%) ISO 9001
2 8 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (12.67%) Virtual Machines
2 18 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (10.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.33%) Docker
5 4 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 23 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (10.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (10.67%) SCCM
2 16 (10.67%) SCOM
2 16 (10.67%) WSUS
3 14 (9.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.33%) Terraform
5 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.33%) Oracle
3 4 (2.67%) Informatica
3 4 (2.67%) VMware
4 2 (1.33%) Atmel
4 2 (1.33%) Google
4 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.67%) Compaq
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.67%) SAP