C# .NET Developer Contracts

C# .NET Developer
UK

The median C# .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 383 434
Rank change year-on-year -85 +51 -45
Contract jobs requiring a C# .NET Developer 118 343 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.59% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.62% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 299 410
10th Percentile £342 £386 £363
25th Percentile £396 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £527
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.57% +18.04%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.40% +13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.25 £43.70
25th Percentile - £39.13 £49.25
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - -23.42% +63.24%
75th Percentile - £46.13 £62.15
90th Percentile - £48.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £49.00 £58.83
% change year-on-year - -16.70% +73.01%

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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
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 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

C# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# .NET Developer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 -56 109 £500 -4.76% 121
London -34 91 £500 -16.67% 35
Work from Home -30 48 £500 +16.28% 97
UK excluding London +9 17 £475 - 89
Midlands +22 6 £500 +37.93% 24
West Midlands +14 4 £400 +3.23% 12
North of England +7 4 £475 +5.56% 35
South West +8 3 £406 -23.35% 9
Yorkshire +19 2 £400 -11.11% 11
East Midlands +19 2 £550 +66.67% 12
North West +10 2 £488 +8.33% 18
South East +9 2 £506 -0.74% 15
Scotland +33 1 - -
Wales +17 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, C# .NET 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# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) C#
1 118 (100.00%) .NET
2 60 (50.85%) Azure
3 49 (41.53%) SQL
4 47 (39.83%) SQL Server
4 47 (39.83%) Finance
5 42 (35.59%) DevOps
6 40 (33.90%) .NET Core
7 37 (31.36%) Agile
8 33 (27.97%) .NET Framework
9 28 (23.73%) Microsoft
10 26 (22.03%) AWS
11 25 (21.19%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (21.19%) Full Stack Development
12 24 (20.34%) Oracle
13 23 (19.49%) JavaScript
14 21 (17.80%) ASP.NET
14 21 (17.80%) TDD
14 21 (17.80%) React
15 20 (16.95%) Git
16 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
17 18 (15.25%) Unit Testing
17 18 (15.25%) AngularJS
17 18 (15.25%) Social Skills
18 17 (14.41%) CI/CD
18 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
18 17 (14.41%) Oracle Database
18 17 (14.41%) PL/SQL
19 16 (13.56%) Scrum
20 15 (12.71%) OO

C# .NET 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 4 (3.39%) CMS
2 1 (0.85%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.85%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.85%) IIS
2 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.85%) Azure
2 26 (22.03%) AWS
3 25 (21.19%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.63%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (7.63%) GCP
5 7 (5.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (4.24%) Serverless
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.39%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.54%) Azure App Service
8 3 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.54%) PaaS
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.69%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.85%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (39.83%) SQL Server
2 17 (14.41%) Oracle Database
3 14 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.24%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.54%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.85%) Redis
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (16.95%) Git
2 8 (6.78%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.24%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (4.24%) SpecFlow
3 5 (4.24%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (4.24%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.39%) GitLab
5 3 (2.54%) Selenium
6 2 (1.69%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.69%) JIRA
7 1 (0.85%) GoCD
7 1 (0.85%) Hudson
7 1 (0.85%) MSTest
7 1 (0.85%) NUnit
7 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (39.83%) Finance
2 18 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.02%) Front Office
5 8 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.93%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.24%) Electronics
7 5 (4.24%) Marketing
7 5 (4.24%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.39%) Banking
8 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.39%) Law
9 3 (2.54%) Back Office
9 3 (2.54%) Local Government
10 1 (0.85%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (33.90%) .NET Core
3 33 (27.97%) .NET Framework
4 21 (17.80%) ASP.NET
4 21 (17.80%) React
5 18 (15.25%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.78%) HTML
6 8 (6.78%) Kafka
6 8 (6.78%) REST
7 7 (5.93%) CSS
7 7 (5.93%) Entity Framework
7 7 (5.93%) XML
8 6 (5.08%) Web Services
9 5 (4.24%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (2.54%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 3 (2.54%) Blazor
11 3 (2.54%) Node.js
11 3 (2.54%) Vue
11 3 (2.54%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.93%) Equities
3 7 (5.93%) Fixed Income
3 7 (5.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.39%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.39%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.54%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.69%) IoT
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.85%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Windows
2 2 (1.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.59%) DevOps
2 37 (31.36%) Agile
3 25 (21.19%) Full Stack Development
4 21 (17.80%) TDD
5 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
6 18 (15.25%) Unit Testing
7 17 (14.41%) CI/CD
8 16 (13.56%) Scrum
9 15 (12.71%) Microservices
9 15 (12.71%) OO
10 13 (11.02%) MVC
11 11 (9.32%) Analytics
11 11 (9.32%) Data Analysis
12 10 (8.47%) Asset Management
12 10 (8.47%) Design Patterns
12 10 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (8.47%) OOP
13 9 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (6.78%) Clean Code
14 8 (6.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 118 (100.00%) C#
2 49 (41.53%) SQL
3 23 (19.49%) JavaScript
4 17 (14.41%) PL/SQL
5 14 (11.86%) T-SQL
5 14 (11.86%) VB
5 14 (11.86%) VB.NET
5 14 (11.86%) VBA
6 13 (11.02%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.08%) Bicep
8 5 (4.24%) Java
8 5 (4.24%) Python
8 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.54%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (8.47%) Degree
2 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.02%) QA
2 5 (4.24%) MiFID
3 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.93%) Terraform
2 5 (4.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.34%) Oracle
3 11 (9.32%) Citrix
4 5 (4.24%) SAP
5 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.54%) Google
7 2 (1.69%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) Xamarin
133 C# .NET Developer jobs Nationwide