C# Software Engineer Contracts

C# Software Engineer
UK

The median C# Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 586 711
Rank change year-on-year +65 +125 -92
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 64 107 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 81 75
10th Percentile £369 £488 £400
25th Percentile £525 £563 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +36.84% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 19
10th Percentile - £47.90 £47.70
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.42 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.92% +2.90% +8.89%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year - +32.65% +8.89%

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
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 £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Software Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# Software Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +55 58 £650 - 54
London +56 39 £650 -1.89% 15
UK excluding London +61 24 £450 -10.00% 41
Work from Home +87 14 £650 +4.00% 91
East of England +5 8 - - 8
South West +10 6 £475 -5.00% 3
South East +18 5 £550 +10.00% 8
Scotland - 5 £313 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, C# Software Engineer 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# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) C#
1 64 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (54.69%) .NET
3 32 (50.00%) Azure
4 19 (29.69%) Agile
5 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
6 16 (25.00%) Linux
6 16 (25.00%) TDD
6 16 (25.00%) Finance
7 15 (23.44%) C++
7 15 (23.44%) DevOps
8 14 (21.88%) Windows
9 13 (20.31%) Visual Studio
9 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
10 12 (18.75%) Microservices
10 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
10 12 (18.75%) Web Services
10 12 (18.75%) SQL
10 12 (18.75%) Unit Testing
11 11 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (17.19%) AngularJS
11 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
11 11 (17.19%) Synthetic Environment
11 11 (17.19%) Digital Twin
11 11 (17.19%) Fintech
12 10 (15.63%) Eclipse
12 10 (15.63%) TCP/IP
12 10 (15.63%) Visualisation
13 9 (14.06%) Node.js
13 9 (14.06%) Git

C# Software Engineer 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 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) Azure Service Bus
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (9.38%) Azure App Service
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.69%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.13%) PaaS
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.56%) GCP
9 1 (1.56%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) TCP/IP
2 9 (14.06%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (10.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) Visual Studio
2 10 (15.63%) Eclipse
3 9 (14.06%) Git
4 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.25%) SpecFlow
6 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.13%) Postman
6 2 (3.13%) Selenium
7 1 (1.56%) Appium
7 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.56%) Checkstyle
7 1 (1.56%) JIRA
7 1 (1.56%) MSTest
7 1 (1.56%) NUnit
7 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (25.00%) Finance
2 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Front Office
3 9 (14.06%) Military
3 9 (14.06%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Aviation
4 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.56%) Electronics
7 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (54.69%) .NET
2 12 (18.75%) Web Services
3 11 (17.19%) AngularJS
4 9 (14.06%) .NET Core
4 9 (14.06%) Node.js
5 6 (9.38%) .NET Framework
5 6 (9.38%) React
6 3 (4.69%) Kafka
6 3 (4.69%) REST
6 3 (4.69%) XML
7 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.56%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.56%) JSON
8 1 (1.56%) OpenFin
8 1 (1.56%) Reactive Extensions
8 1 (1.56%) RESTful
8 1 (1.56%) RxJS
8 1 (1.56%) SOAP
8 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.69%) Derivative
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.00%) Linux
2 14 (21.88%) Windows
3 3 (4.69%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (29.69%) Agile
3 16 (25.00%) TDD
4 15 (23.44%) DevOps
5 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.75%) Microservices
5 12 (18.75%) Unit Testing
6 11 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (17.19%) Digital Twin
6 11 (17.19%) Fintech
6 11 (17.19%) Synthetic Environment
7 10 (15.63%) Visualisation
8 9 (14.06%) Continuous Delivery
8 9 (14.06%) Validation
8 9 (14.06%) Verification and Validation
9 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.38%) Computer Science
10 6 (9.38%) Domain-Driven Design
10 6 (9.38%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) C#
2 15 (23.44%) C++
3 12 (18.75%) SQL
4 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.25%) Bicep
7 3 (4.69%) Bash
7 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.69%) Python
8 2 (3.13%) Perl
9 1 (1.56%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
1 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.56%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.81%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.56%) Finsemble
2 1 (1.56%) Google
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle
2 1 (1.56%) SAP
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