C# Contracts in the UK excluding London

C#
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 111 58 51
Rank change year-on-year -53 -7 -13
Contract jobs citing C# 287 645 1,019
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.25% 3.11% 4.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.88% 13.26% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 363 703
10th Percentile £325 £313 £350
25th Percentile £385 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% - +3.26%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £619 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 75 101
10th Percentile £29.85 £46.25 £48.50
25th Percentile £45.75 £61.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile £65.30 £73.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +25.82%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -1 32 £475 +15.15% 89
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
Wales +1 11 £375 -4.76% 47
Northern Ireland -6 7 £325 -43.48% 18
North East -23 3 £370 -10.84% 89
C#
UK

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 18 (6.27%) Confluence
2 7 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.39%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.39%) CMS
3 4 (1.39%) IIS
3 4 (1.39%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 20 (6.97%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.09%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.09%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 21 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) Magento
2 3 (1.05%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 141 (49.13%) Azure
2 59 (20.56%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (16.72%) AWS
4 27 (9.41%) Power Platform
5 19 (6.62%) Dynamics 365
5 19 (6.62%) PowerApps
6 18 (6.27%) Power Automate
6 18 (6.27%) Serverless
7 17 (5.92%) GCP
7 17 (5.92%) SaaS
8 13 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (4.18%) Azure Functions
10 10 (3.48%) Azure API Management
10 10 (3.48%) GitHub
11 9 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.79%) Azure AKS
12 8 (2.79%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.74%) Ethernet
1 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.39%) LTE
2 4 (1.39%) Wireless
3 3 (1.05%) NAS
4 1 (0.35%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.35%) 4G
4 1 (0.35%) 5G
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) Firewall
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
4 1 (0.35%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 20 (6.97%) Relational Database
3 16 (5.57%) Power BI
4 8 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.44%) MySQL
6 6 (2.09%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.09%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.70%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.70%) GIS
9 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.70%) ObjectStore
9 2 (0.70%) Redis
9 2 (0.70%) Tableau
10 1 (0.35%) Metadata
10 1 (0.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 60 (20.91%) Git
2 37 (12.89%) JIRA
3 34 (11.85%) Visual Studio
4 16 (5.57%) Selenium
5 15 (5.23%) Jenkins
6 12 (4.18%) SpecFlow
7 10 (3.48%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.48%) Cypress.io
8 9 (3.14%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (2.79%) Postman
10 7 (2.44%) Subversion
11 6 (2.09%) Eclipse
11 6 (2.09%) WebDriver
12 5 (1.74%) JMeter
12 5 (1.74%) NUnit
12 5 (1.74%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.39%) Ant
13 4 (1.39%) Maven
14 3 (1.05%) LabVIEW
General
1 73 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.77%) Finance
3 36 (12.54%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.01%) Manufacturing
5 20 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.53%) Electronics
7 12 (4.18%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.48%) Marketing
9 8 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.44%) Banking
11 6 (2.09%) Front Office
11 6 (2.09%) Retail
12 5 (1.74%) Games
12 5 (1.74%) Military
13 4 (1.39%) Law
13 4 (1.39%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (1.05%) French Language
14 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (53.31%) Developer
2 41 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 40 (13.94%) .NET Developer
4 37 (12.89%) C# Developer
5 28 (9.76%) Senior
6 20 (6.97%) Architect
7 19 (6.62%) C# Software Engineer
8 17 (5.92%) Azure Developer
9 16 (5.57%) Delphi Developer
9 16 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (5.57%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (4.88%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.48%) Lead
12 10 (3.48%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.14%) Applications Engineer
13 9 (3.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (56.45%) .NET
2 59 (20.56%) HTML
3 51 (17.77%) CSS
4 35 (12.20%) .NET Core
5 30 (10.45%) .NET Framework
5 30 (10.45%) ASP.NET
6 29 (10.10%) AngularJS
7 26 (9.06%) React
7 26 (9.06%) REST
8 17 (5.92%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (5.92%) RESTful
9 13 (4.53%) Blazor
10 12 (4.18%) Entity Framework
11 11 (3.83%) Node.js
11 11 (3.83%) OpenID
11 11 (3.83%) Web Services
12 10 (3.48%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (3.14%) XML
14 8 (2.79%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (2.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.27%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (3.83%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.79%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.79%) NHS
5 6 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.39%) Derivative
7 4 (1.39%) Equities
7 4 (1.39%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (1.39%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.05%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.05%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.03%) Windows
2 27 (9.41%) Linux
3 8 (2.79%) Unix
4 7 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (37.63%) Agile
2 98 (34.15%) DevOps
3 77 (26.83%) CI/CD
4 75 (26.13%) Software Engineering
5 71 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (23.69%) Test Automation
7 38 (13.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 31 (10.80%) Microservices
9 30 (10.45%) TDD
10 26 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (9.06%) Scrum
11 25 (8.71%) User Experience
12 24 (8.36%) Root Cause Analysis
12 24 (8.36%) SDLC
13 23 (8.01%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (8.01%) CRM
14 22 (7.67%) Containerisation
14 22 (7.67%) Design Patterns
14 22 (7.67%) MVC
15 21 (7.32%) OO
Programming Languages
1 106 (36.93%) JavaScript
2 102 (35.54%) SQL
3 68 (23.69%) Python
4 34 (11.85%) PowerShell
5 31 (10.80%) TypeScript
6 30 (10.45%) Java
7 20 (6.97%) C++
8 17 (5.92%) PL/SQL
9 16 (5.57%) Delphi
10 6 (2.09%) PHP
10 6 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.74%) Bash
11 5 (1.74%) Bicep
12 4 (1.39%) VBScript
13 3 (1.05%) Ruby
13 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.05%) VB
13 3 (1.05%) VBA
14 2 (0.70%) C
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.20%) Degree
3 30 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.23%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.39%) ISEB
7 4 (1.39%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.05%) CISSP
8 3 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.70%) OCP
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.32%) QA
2 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) GDPR
4 1 (0.35%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (7.67%) Docker
2 16 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (12.54%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.41%) Terraform
3 11 (3.83%) Ansible
4 7 (2.44%) MIIS
5 4 (1.39%) Grafana
6 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.05%) Puppet
6 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.05%) WMI
7 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) SCOM
8 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (28.22%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.76%) Oracle
3 17 (5.92%) Google
4 11 (3.83%) SAP
5 10 (3.48%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.09%) PayPal
7 4 (1.39%) Databricks
7 4 (1.39%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.05%) Mentor Graphics
8 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (0.70%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.70%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.70%) New Relic
9 2 (0.70%) Perforce
9 2 (0.70%) Siemens
9 2 (0.70%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.35%) Perfecto Mobile
10 1 (0.35%) Snow