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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 53 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing C# 152 230 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.74% 3.98% 4.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.54% 14.34% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 169 239
10th Percentile £377 £393 £375
25th Percentile £411 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +16.47%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £543
90th Percentile £624 £775 £600
England median daily rate £575 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +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 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%

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 1,212 1,604 2,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.86% 27.77% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 1,136 1,353
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £620 £588
90th Percentile £681 £700 £650
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.17% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 90 90
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.93 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.09 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £40.92
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +34.41% -3.72%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £65.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £50.50
% change year-on-year +2.97% +20.20% +17.44%

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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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 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
Thames Valley +7 74 £550 - 81
Berkshire +7 58 £588 +17.50% 33
Hampshire -35 29 £413 -14.29% 57
Surrey +16 20 £600 +18.23% 44
Buckinghamshire +10 15 £450 -25.00% 18
West Sussex +7 10 £550 +4.76% 9
East Sussex +5 10 £380 -51.90% 11
Kent -1 5 £325 -35.00% 21
Home Counties - 2 £475 -
Oxfordshire +4 1 £550 +100.00% 30
Sussex -4 1 £450 -33.33%
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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 16 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
4 2 (1.32%) Jadu
5 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) LabWindows
2 2 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 76 (50.00%) Azure
2 31 (20.39%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (16.45%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (13.16%) Entra ID
5 17 (11.18%) AWS
5 17 (11.18%) Azure Storage
6 16 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (9.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (7.89%) PaaS
9 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
10 8 (5.26%) Azure API Management
10 8 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (5.26%) Serverless
11 7 (4.61%) Azure Functions
11 7 (4.61%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (3.29%) PowerApps
13 5 (3.29%) SaaS
14 4 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.18%) DHCP
1 17 (11.18%) DNS
1 17 (11.18%) Firewall
2 4 (2.63%) RS-232
2 4 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.97%) Network Security
3 3 (1.97%) VPN
4 2 (1.32%) Modbus
5 1 (0.66%) NFC
5 1 (0.66%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.63%) MySQL
3 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.32%) CouchDB
5 2 (1.32%) Power BI
6 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.66%) Redis
6 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (19.08%) Git
2 27 (17.76%) Visual Studio
3 20 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.58%) JIRA
5 4 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (2.63%) Subversion
6 3 (1.97%) JMeter
6 3 (1.97%) Postman
6 3 (1.97%) Selenium
6 3 (1.97%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.32%) Appium
7 2 (1.32%) GitLab
7 2 (1.32%) NUnit
7 2 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.66%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.66%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.66%) TestRail
General
1 36 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.18%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.55%) Finance
4 12 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.97%) Electronics
6 1 (0.66%) Back Office
6 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.66%) Marketing
6 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (54.61%) Developer
2 21 (13.82%) .NET Developer
3 17 (11.18%) Software Developer
4 16 (10.53%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (9.87%) Azure Specialist
5 15 (9.87%) C# Developer
5 15 (9.87%) Software Engineer
6 14 (9.21%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (9.21%) Senior
6 14 (9.21%) Support Specialist
7 11 (7.24%) Full Stack Developer
8 10 (6.58%) Lead
9 8 (5.26%) Architect
10 7 (4.61%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.95%) C++ Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Integration Developer
12 5 (3.29%) Azure Developer
12 5 (3.29%) C# Software Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (51.32%) .NET
2 26 (17.11%) ASP.NET
3 23 (15.13%) AngularJS
4 20 (13.16%) ARM Templates
5 17 (11.18%) XML
6 14 (9.21%) .NET Core
6 14 (9.21%) HTML
6 14 (9.21%) JSON
7 13 (8.55%) CSS
8 12 (7.89%) .NET Framework
9 11 (7.24%) RESTful
10 9 (5.92%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (5.92%) REST
11 8 (5.26%) SOAP
12 7 (4.61%) Blazor
12 7 (4.61%) Entity Framework
13 6 (3.95%) React
13 6 (3.95%) Web Services
14 4 (2.63%) ADO
14 4 (2.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (11.18%) PKI
3 9 (5.92%) CCTV
3 9 (5.92%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.32%) Animation
6 2 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.32%) IoT
6 2 (1.32%) Mixed Reality
7 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.66%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 42 (27.63%) Windows
2 39 (25.66%) Linux
3 19 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 16 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.29%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (2.63%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.97%) Android
8 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (40.79%) Agile
2 54 (35.53%) DevOps
3 39 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (22.37%) CI/CD
5 32 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 23 (15.13%) Scrum
7 20 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
7 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (13.16%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 20 (13.16%) OO
8 19 (12.50%) Microservices
9 18 (11.84%) Data Protection
10 17 (11.18%) Analytics
10 17 (11.18%) Identity Management
10 17 (11.18%) ITIL
10 17 (11.18%) Privileged Identity Management
10 17 (11.18%) Release Management
10 17 (11.18%) Service Management
10 17 (11.18%) SOLID
10 17 (11.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 36 (23.68%) SQL
3 26 (17.11%) JavaScript
4 25 (16.45%) C++
5 17 (11.18%) Bicep
5 17 (11.18%) VB
5 17 (11.18%) VBScript
6 16 (10.53%) Python
7 11 (7.24%) Java
8 9 (5.92%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.61%) Bash
10 6 (3.95%) C
10 6 (3.95%) PHP
11 4 (2.63%) F#
11 4 (2.63%) Perl
11 4 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.63%) X++
12 3 (1.97%) Ruby
13 2 (1.32%) GLSL
13 2 (1.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 41 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 29 (19.08%) Degree
4 19 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 17 (11.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.29%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) ISO 9001
2 8 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (13.82%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.95%) Docker
5 5 (3.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.97%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 25 (16.45%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (11.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (11.18%) SCCM
2 17 (11.18%) SCOM
2 17 (11.18%) WSUS
3 14 (9.21%) Ansible
4 3 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.32%) Terraform
6 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.66%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (27.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.26%) Oracle
3 5 (3.29%) VMware
4 4 (2.63%) Informatica
5 2 (1.32%) Atmel
5 2 (1.32%) Google
5 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) Compaq
6 1 (0.66%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.66%) SAP