C# Developer Contracts

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 210 227
Rank change year-on-year -41 +17 -23
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 406 780 1,149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.32% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.40% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 660 961
10th Percentile £377 £400 £381
25th Percentile £499 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £763
90th Percentile £825 £806 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.25 £45.55
25th Percentile £60.63 £51.69 £51.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +41.10%
75th Percentile £71.88 £64.69 £61.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +58.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C# Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# Developer.

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# Developer.

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the UK 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
England -44 377 £650 +4.00% 217
London -19 321 £650 -3.70% 91
Work from Home -6 188 £650 +8.33% 153
UK excluding London -37 49 £475 - 145
South East +1 15 £463 -22.92% 25
North of England -3 12 £488 +8.33% 40
Midlands +20 9 £488 +30.00% 44
North West +2 8 £500 +11.11% 26
West Midlands +16 7 £438 +12.90% 22
South West +13 7 £338 -25.00% 12
East of England +3 5 £433 -8.95% 5
Yorkshire +18 2 £400 -15.79% 6
East Midlands +14 2 £550 +57.14% 22
North East +14 2 - - 9
Wales +13 1 - - 12

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 406 (100.00%) C#
2 252 (62.07%) .NET
3 168 (41.38%) SQL
4 155 (38.18%) Azure
5 145 (35.71%) Finance
6 132 (32.51%) SQL Server
7 111 (27.34%) Agile
8 98 (24.14%) Front Office
9 97 (23.89%) DevOps
10 89 (21.92%) Social Skills
11 76 (18.72%) .NET Framework
12 75 (18.47%) AngularJS
12 75 (18.47%) .NET Core
13 74 (18.23%) Full Stack Development
14 65 (16.01%) Banking
14 65 (16.01%) Software Engineering
15 64 (15.76%) JavaScript
16 62 (15.27%) Microsoft
16 62 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
17 60 (14.78%) React
18 56 (13.79%) CI/CD
19 54 (13.30%) Git
19 54 (13.30%) WPF
20 52 (12.81%) ASP.NET
21 49 (12.07%) Oracle
21 49 (12.07%) TDD
22 47 (11.58%) Microservices
23 43 (10.59%) Scrum
24 42 (10.34%) Electronic Trading
25 41 (10.10%) Test Automation

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (2.22%) IIS
2 6 (1.48%) CMS
3 4 (0.99%) Apache
4 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.49%) Jadu
6 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.25%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 38 (9.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.25%) Endur
2 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 155 (38.18%) Azure
2 62 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (9.11%) AWS
4 30 (7.39%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (4.19%) PaaS
6 14 (3.45%) Serverless
7 13 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (3.20%) Azure Functions
8 12 (2.96%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.22%) Azure AKS
9 9 (2.22%) GCP
10 8 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.97%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.72%) GitHub
11 7 (1.72%) npm
12 6 (1.48%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.97%) Internet
2 5 (1.23%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.49%) FTP
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (32.51%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.40%) NoSQL
2 26 (6.40%) Oracle Database
3 24 (5.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 20 (4.93%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.48%) MySQL
9 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.99%) Redis
11 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.74%) Power BI
12 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.49%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.25%) OLTP
13 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 54 (13.30%) Git
2 29 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 19 (4.68%) NUnit
3 19 (4.68%) Visual Studio
4 17 (4.19%) Moq
5 15 (3.69%) Octopus Deploy
5 15 (3.69%) SpecFlow
6 13 (3.20%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.20%) JIRA
7 11 (2.71%) Selenium
8 9 (2.22%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (1.72%) webpack
10 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.99%) GitLab
11 3 (0.74%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.49%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.49%) MSTest
12 2 (0.49%) Postman
12 2 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 145 (35.71%) Finance
2 98 (24.14%) Front Office
3 89 (21.92%) Social Skills
4 65 (16.01%) Banking
5 38 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (8.13%) Investment Banking
7 23 (5.67%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.69%) Financial Institution
9 14 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.22%) Law
12 7 (1.72%) Electronics
12 7 (1.72%) Marketing
12 7 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.23%) Back Office
14 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.74%) Local Government
16 2 (0.49%) Retail
16 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.25%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (62.07%) .NET
2 76 (18.72%) .NET Framework
3 75 (18.47%) .NET Core
3 75 (18.47%) AngularJS
4 60 (14.78%) React
5 54 (13.30%) WPF
6 52 (12.81%) ASP.NET
7 23 (5.67%) WCF
8 22 (5.42%) REST
9 21 (5.17%) HTML
9 21 (5.17%) RESTful
10 20 (4.93%) ASP.NET Web API
10 20 (4.93%) Entity Framework
10 20 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (4.68%) XML
12 18 (4.43%) CSS
13 17 (4.19%) ASP.NET Core
13 17 (4.19%) Middleware
14 16 (3.94%) Web Services
15 15 (3.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.11%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (7.88%) Fixed Income
3 27 (6.65%) Derivative
4 20 (4.93%) Equities
5 17 (4.19%) Equity Derivative
6 16 (3.94%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.20%) Algorithms
7 13 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.46%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.48%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.99%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (0.49%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.17%) Windows
2 15 (3.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (27.34%) Agile
2 97 (23.89%) DevOps
3 74 (18.23%) Full Stack Development
4 65 (16.01%) Software Engineering
5 56 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 49 (12.07%) TDD
7 47 (11.58%) Microservices
8 43 (10.59%) Scrum
9 42 (10.34%) Electronic Trading
10 41 (10.10%) Test Automation
11 36 (8.87%) OO
12 35 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
12 35 (8.62%) Unit Testing
13 34 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (7.88%) MVC
15 27 (6.65%) Design Patterns
16 26 (6.40%) Multithreading
17 23 (5.67%) Analytics
17 23 (5.67%) Clean Code
17 23 (5.67%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 406 (100.00%) C#
2 168 (41.38%) SQL
3 64 (15.76%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.87%) Python
5 35 (8.62%) T-SQL
6 32 (7.88%) PL/SQL
7 27 (6.65%) VBA
8 25 (6.16%) PowerShell
9 24 (5.91%) VB
10 23 (5.67%) TypeScript
11 18 (4.43%) Java
12 17 (4.19%) VB.NET
13 11 (2.71%) Bicep
14 6 (1.48%) C++
15 5 (1.23%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.99%) PHP
17 3 (0.74%) C
18 2 (0.49%) Ruby
19 1 (0.25%) Groovy
19 1 (0.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 26 (6.40%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.67%) Degree
2 23 (5.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.90%) QA
2 5 (1.23%) MiFID
3 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.99%) SEPA
3 4 (0.99%) WCAG
4 1 (0.25%) GDPR
4 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (4.68%) Docker
2 14 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.43%) Terraform
2 12 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.49%) Ansible
4 1 (0.25%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.25%) SCOM
4 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.07%) Oracle
3 21 (5.17%) Citrix
4 12 (2.96%) TIBCO
5 7 (1.72%) SAP
6 5 (1.23%) Okta
7 4 (0.99%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.74%) Google
9 2 (0.49%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.49%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.25%) IBM
10 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.25%) OpenLink