C# Contracts in the UK excluding London

C#
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 50 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing C# 648 1,015 1,677
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.12% 4.19% 5.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.30% 14.33% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 698 1,193
10th Percentile £313 £350 £360
25th Percentile £394 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +12.20%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £619 £675 £606
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 107 74
10th Percentile £46.25 £48.65 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.35 £41.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year - +22.58% +17.84%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £70.30 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +23.81% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,871 7,081 9,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.44% 29.25% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 5,058 6,298
10th Percentile £318 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £656 £678 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 359 341
10th Percentile £35.72 £23.08 £17.28
25th Percentile £49.61 £50.00 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year - +25.63% +18.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.42
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +22.35% +14.94%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 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
North of England +9 172 £450 -5.26% 323
South East -15 154 £500 -9.09% 286
North West -4 97 £475 -1.30% 185
South West -18 94 £450 -14.29% 148
Midlands -6 86 £482 +13.41% 277
East of England +7 81 £458 +1.67% 127
West Midlands +4 48 £525 +5.00% 161
Scotland -23 46 £413 -13.16% 96
Yorkshire +14 45 £425 -10.53% 89
East Midlands -3 38 £419 +8.83% 116
North East +22 30 £415 -10.27% 53
Wales -9 11 £394 -8.70% 51
Northern Ireland +6 5 £575 +43.75% 25
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 22 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.23%) CMS
4 7 (1.08%) Apache
5 6 (0.93%) Confluence
6 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.77%) IIS
6 5 (0.77%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.31%) Jadu
7 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.15%) Site Server
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 109 (16.82%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.23%) Maximo
3 4 (0.62%) LabWindows
4 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 213 (32.87%) Azure
2 89 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (7.41%) AWS
3 48 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 35 (5.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 28 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (4.01%) Azure Storage
6 26 (4.01%) Serverless
7 25 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
7 25 (3.86%) Power Automate
8 19 (2.93%) Entra ID
9 18 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (2.47%) Azure Functions
11 15 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (2.31%) PaaS
11 15 (2.31%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (2.01%) Azure AKS
14 9 (1.39%) Azure API Management
14 9 (1.39%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.02%) Modbus
2 38 (5.86%) RS-422
3 37 (5.71%) RS-485
4 25 (3.86%) DHCP
4 25 (3.86%) DNS
5 20 (3.09%) TCP/IP
6 19 (2.93%) Firewall
7 9 (1.39%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.93%) FTP
8 6 (0.93%) HTTP
8 6 (0.93%) Intranet
8 6 (0.93%) Wireless
9 5 (0.77%) RS-232
10 3 (0.46%) Internet
10 3 (0.46%) RTSP
11 2 (0.31%) MQTT
11 2 (0.31%) Network Security
11 2 (0.31%) VPN
12 1 (0.15%) NAS
12 1 (0.15%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (16.36%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.62%) Power BI
3 15 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.16%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.85%) MySQL
7 11 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.23%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.93%) Redis
10 5 (0.77%) Big Data
10 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.77%) GIS
10 5 (0.77%) SQLite
11 4 (0.62%) Biml
11 4 (0.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.46%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.31%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 75 (11.57%) Git
2 50 (7.72%) Visual Studio
3 30 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.86%) Selenium
5 22 (3.40%) JIRA
6 11 (1.70%) SpecFlow
6 11 (1.70%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.39%) NUnit
8 8 (1.23%) Eclipse
8 8 (1.23%) Mercurial
8 8 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (1.23%) WebDriver
9 7 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.93%) Subversion
11 5 (0.77%) Checkstyle
11 5 (0.77%) Postman
11 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.77%) webpack
12 4 (0.62%) GitLab
General
1 111 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 45 (6.94%) Finance
3 43 (6.64%) Electronics
4 36 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 23 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.54%) Military
8 8 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.08%) Multimedia
9 7 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.93%) Aviation
10 6 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.77%) Games
11 5 (0.77%) Law
11 5 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.62%) Automotive
12 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.62%) Marketing
13 3 (0.46%) Banking
13 3 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 367 (56.64%) Developer
2 142 (21.91%) Software Developer
3 97 (14.97%) .NET Developer
4 85 (13.12%) Software Engineer
5 51 (7.87%) C# Developer
6 41 (6.33%) C++ Software Engineer
7 40 (6.17%) Senior
8 30 (4.63%) Lead
9 27 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
10 23 (3.55%) Senior Developer
11 22 (3.40%) Architect
12 20 (3.09%) Test Engineer
13 19 (2.93%) C# .NET Developer
13 19 (2.93%) C# Software Engineer
13 19 (2.93%) Tester
14 17 (2.62%) Azure Developer
15 15 (2.31%) Applications Developer
15 15 (2.31%) Azure Specialist
16 14 (2.16%) Active Directory Specialist
16 14 (2.16%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (41.51%) .NET
2 158 (24.38%) HTML
3 66 (10.19%) ASP.NET
4 59 (9.10%) AngularJS
5 54 (8.33%) .NET Framework
6 51 (7.87%) React
7 50 (7.72%) .NET Core
8 46 (7.10%) CSS
9 33 (5.09%) RESTful
9 33 (5.09%) XML
10 31 (4.78%) JSON
11 30 (4.63%) REST
12 25 (3.86%) Blazor
12 25 (3.86%) Web Services
13 22 (3.40%) Entity Framework
14 21 (3.24%) ASP.NET MVC
15 19 (2.93%) ARM Templates
16 18 (2.78%) SOAP
17 15 (2.31%) ASP.NET Web API
18 14 (2.16%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (2.93%) Product Ownership
3 15 (2.31%) PKI
4 13 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.39%) CCTV
8 7 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 6 (0.93%) IoT
10 5 (0.77%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.77%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.77%) Social Media
11 4 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.62%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.46%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 76 (11.73%) Windows
2 59 (9.10%) Linux
3 24 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.23%) Unix
6 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.62%) Android
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (36.11%) Software Engineering
2 217 (33.49%) Agile
3 187 (28.86%) DevOps
4 121 (18.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 120 (18.52%) Code Quality
6 109 (16.82%) Conversational UI
7 80 (12.35%) TDD
8 78 (12.04%) CI/CD
9 77 (11.88%) Test Automation
10 68 (10.49%) Continuous Integration
11 63 (9.72%) Full Stack Development
11 63 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (9.72%) Scrum
11 63 (9.72%) Unit Testing
12 56 (8.64%) Software Testing
13 52 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (7.56%) MVC
14 49 (7.56%) OO
15 46 (7.10%) Microservices
16 44 (6.79%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 237 (36.57%) SQL
2 235 (36.27%) JavaScript
3 174 (26.85%) Python
4 92 (14.20%) C++
5 64 (9.88%) C
6 62 (9.57%) Java
7 44 (6.79%) PowerShell
8 34 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 23 (3.55%) Bicep
10 20 (3.09%) VBScript
11 16 (2.47%) VB
12 12 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.85%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.39%) PHP
14 8 (1.23%) Bash
14 8 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.93%) VBA
16 5 (0.77%) X++
17 4 (0.62%) F#
17 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 158 (24.38%) Degree
2 114 (17.59%) Security Cleared
3 79 (12.19%) SC Cleared
4 46 (7.10%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 8 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.46%) HNC
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.31%) HND
11 2 (0.31%) ISEB
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.09%) QA
2 9 (1.39%) NIST
3 8 (1.23%) ISO 9001
3 8 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.46%) GDPR
5 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 17 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (2.16%) Docker
5 12 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.08%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.46%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.86%) SCCM
3 16 (2.47%) Terraform
3 16 (2.47%) WSUS
4 15 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (2.31%) Ansible
4 15 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (2.31%) SCOM
5 7 (1.08%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.15%) Grafana
8 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 108 (16.67%) PayPal
2 99 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.31%) Oracle
4 12 (1.85%) VMware
5 9 (1.39%) Informatica
5 9 (1.39%) SAP
6 7 (1.08%) Veeam
6 7 (1.08%) Wind River
7 6 (0.93%) AVEVA
7 6 (0.93%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.77%) Talend
9 4 (0.62%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.46%) IBM
10 3 (0.46%) Nintex
10 3 (0.46%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.46%) Pega
10 3 (0.46%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.31%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.31%) Atmel
11 2 (0.31%) Google