C#
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 42 32 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 0
Contract jobs citing C# 2,073 5,009 5,440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 6.52% 6.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.98% 17.31% 15.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 3,736 4,211
10th Percentile £375 £400 £351
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £638
90th Percentile £789 £813 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £433
% change year-on-year - +15.61% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 135 69
10th Percentile £50.00 £47.89 £36.36
25th Percentile £61.88 £60.91 £41.67
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +34.83% +7.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year -0.38% +34.54% +6.70%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,834 28,943 34,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.82% 37.70% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,852 20,725 25,297
10th Percentile £360 £400 £363
25th Percentile £433 £468 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £470
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.64% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 502 432
10th Percentile £31.28 £25.50 £18.60
25th Percentile £46.48 £46.38 £27.50
Median hourly rate £61.42 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +31.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.41 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.68 £74.52 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.30
% change year-on-year - +40.39% +7.67%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 -8 1,889 £588 -2.08% 2,200
London -13 1,238 £625 -3.85% 699
Work from Home -24 735 £550 -0.45% 1,443
UK excluding London -20 661 £500 - 1,700
South East +4 192 £568 +0.44% 458
North of England -17 126 £450 -8.72% 486
South West -21 113 £550 - 154
Midlands +14 106 £450 - 274
West Midlands +42 78 £455 -4.21% 157
East of England -12 68 £475 -2.56% 185
North West -27 65 £469 -3.85% 268
Yorkshire +19 49 £435 -13.00% 145
Scotland -32 47 £450 - 86
East Midlands -9 28 £419 -6.89% 116
Wales -17 13 £350 -22.22% 68
North East +18 12 £375 -23.08% 79
Northern Ireland -16 1 £575 +43.75% 23

C#
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 70 (3.38%) Confluence
2 56 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.96%) IIS
4 18 (0.87%) CMS
5 14 (0.68%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.58%) NServiceBus
7 10 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.29%) Apache
9 6 (0.29%) EPiServer
9 6 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.096%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.096%) DataSynapse
11 2 (0.096%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.096%) nginx
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 64 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.14%) CATIA
5 3 (0.14%) Mingle
6 2 (0.096%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.096%) Blender
6 2 (0.096%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.096%) Maya
6 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.048%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 61 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.30%) Endur
3 13 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.14%) BusinessWorks
5 3 (0.14%) DELMIA
5 3 (0.14%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.14%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 3 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.096%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.096%) Maximo
6 2 (0.096%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.096%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 2 (0.096%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.048%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 888 (42.84%) Azure
2 291 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
3 267 (12.88%) AWS
4 157 (7.57%) Serverless
5 135 (6.51%) Power Platform
6 111 (5.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 104 (5.02%) Azure Functions
8 95 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
8 95 (4.58%) GCP
9 75 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 68 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
11 62 (2.99%) GitHub
12 58 (2.80%) Power Automate
13 55 (2.65%) PowerApps
14 52 (2.51%) Entra ID
15 51 (2.46%) PaaS
16 46 (2.22%) SaaS
17 45 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
18 39 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 38 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.36%) Firewall
2 36 (1.74%) DNS
3 34 (1.64%) RS-422
4 33 (1.59%) Modbus
4 33 (1.59%) RS-485
5 32 (1.54%) VLAN
6 27 (1.30%) DHCP
7 24 (1.16%) FTP
8 23 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
9 22 (1.06%) TCP/IP
10 18 (0.87%) HTTP
11 14 (0.68%) Network Security
12 13 (0.63%) Wireless
13 12 (0.58%) VPN
14 7 (0.34%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.29%) SAN
16 4 (0.19%) 3GPP
16 4 (0.19%) Ethernet
16 4 (0.19%) Internet
16 4 (0.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (22.87%) SQL Server
2 127 (6.13%) Relational Database
3 80 (3.86%) NoSQL
4 75 (3.62%) Power BI
5 64 (3.09%) Oracle Database
6 62 (2.99%) MySQL
7 58 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 55 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 39 (1.88%) Data Lake
11 35 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
12 33 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 32 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
14 24 (1.16%) Redis
15 20 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
15 20 (0.96%) RDBMS
16 19 (0.92%) Big Data
16 19 (0.92%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.68%) GIS
18 13 (0.63%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 262 (12.64%) Git
2 125 (6.03%) Selenium
3 122 (5.89%) JIRA
4 103 (4.97%) SpecFlow
5 99 (4.78%) Visual Studio
6 83 (4.00%) TeamCity
7 68 (3.28%) Jenkins
8 63 (3.04%) Bitbucket
9 58 (2.80%) NUnit
10 44 (2.12%) Postman
11 43 (2.07%) Cucumber
12 39 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
13 33 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
14 24 (1.16%) Appium
14 24 (1.16%) Cypress.io
14 24 (1.16%) Moq
14 24 (1.16%) Subversion
15 19 (0.92%) Axure RP
16 18 (0.87%) GitLab
16 18 (0.87%) SonarQube
General
1 520 (25.08%) Finance
2 334 (16.11%) Social Skills
3 296 (14.28%) Banking
4 195 (9.41%) Front Office
5 148 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 119 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 119 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 60 (2.89%) Electronics
8 59 (2.85%) Back Office
9 46 (2.22%) Marketing
10 32 (1.54%) Law
10 32 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 30 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (0.77%) Games
13 16 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.72%) Health Technology
15 12 (0.58%) Automotive
15 12 (0.58%) Legal
15 12 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,149 (55.43%) Developer
2 458 (22.09%) .NET Developer
3 429 (20.69%) C# Developer
4 250 (12.06%) Senior
5 195 (9.41%) Software Engineer
6 167 (8.06%) C# .NET Developer
7 152 (7.33%) Senior Developer
8 135 (6.51%) Lead
9 118 (5.69%) Full Stack Developer
10 103 (4.97%) Analyst
11 102 (4.92%) Software Developer
12 100 (4.82%) Architect
13 77 (3.71%) Azure Developer
14 73 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
15 65 (3.14%) SQL Developer
16 62 (2.99%) .NET Software Engineer
17 58 (2.80%) Senior .NET Developer
18 55 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
19 54 (2.60%) Full Stack .NET Developer
20 53 (2.56%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,270 (61.26%) .NET
2 314 (15.15%) .NET Core
3 304 (14.66%) .NET Framework
4 260 (12.54%) ASP.NET
5 218 (10.52%) REST
6 212 (10.23%) AngularJS
7 206 (9.94%) React
8 182 (8.78%) HTML
9 154 (7.43%) WPF
10 149 (7.19%) CSS
11 109 (5.26%) Entity Framework
12 90 (4.34%) ASP.NET Core
13 86 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
14 79 (3.81%) RESTful
15 77 (3.71%) Web Services
16 73 (3.52%) JSON
17 71 (3.42%) XML
18 70 (3.38%) Kafka
19 66 (3.18%) WCF
20 64 (3.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.66%) Derivative
2 89 (4.29%) Equities
3 82 (3.96%) Hedge funds
4 81 (3.91%) Fixed Income
5 73 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
6 65 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 65 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 48 (2.32%) Cloud Native
8 45 (2.17%) Algorithms
9 44 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (2.03%) Market Risk
11 39 (1.88%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.59%) PKI
14 27 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 26 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (1.11%) Onboarding
17 19 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
18 18 (0.87%) Public Cloud
19 17 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 243 (11.72%) Windows
2 173 (8.35%) Linux
3 49 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.17%) Unix
5 13 (0.63%) VMS
6 12 (0.58%) Android
7 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.48%) Solaris
8 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.24%) CentOS
11 4 (0.19%) Debian
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.096%) Fedora
13 2 (0.096%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.048%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.048%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (32.66%) Agile
2 578 (27.88%) DevOps
3 355 (17.12%) CI/CD
4 350 (16.88%) Software Engineering
5 328 (15.82%) Test Automation
6 264 (12.74%) Microservices
7 259 (12.49%) TDD
8 218 (10.52%) Full Stack Development
9 203 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
10 173 (8.35%) Continuous Integration
11 162 (7.81%) OO
12 161 (7.77%) SDLC
13 154 (7.43%) MVC
14 145 (6.99%) Software Testing
15 144 (6.95%) Scrum
16 136 (6.56%) Unit Testing
17 124 (5.98%) Migration
18 120 (5.79%) Infrastructure as Code
19 99 (4.78%) Business Intelligence
20 97 (4.68%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 685 (33.04%) SQL
2 430 (20.74%) JavaScript
3 409 (19.73%) Python
4 362 (17.46%) Java
5 195 (9.41%) C++
6 174 (8.39%) PowerShell
7 163 (7.86%) TypeScript
8 107 (5.16%) C
8 107 (5.16%) VB
9 99 (4.78%) PL/SQL
10 93 (4.49%) T-SQL
11 72 (3.47%) VB.NET
12 61 (2.94%) VBA
13 55 (2.65%) Bash
13 55 (2.65%) Go
14 41 (1.98%) PHP
15 40 (1.93%) Ruby
16 36 (1.74%) Perl
17 33 (1.59%) VBScript
18 32 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 264 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 223 (10.76%) SC Cleared
3 174 (8.39%) Degree
4 61 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 48 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 17 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.77%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 13 (0.63%) PhD
13 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.29%) CHECK Team Leader
16 6 (0.29%) CREST Certified
16 6 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.43%) QA
2 35 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.40%) EMIR
4 25 (1.21%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.96%) WCAG
6 18 (0.87%) MiFID
7 10 (0.48%) GDPR
8 8 (0.39%) NIST
9 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.24%) HL7
11 4 (0.19%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 2 (0.096%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.096%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.096%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.096%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.096%) SLA
14 1 (0.048%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.048%) NCSC
System Software
1 199 (9.60%) Docker
2 70 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.25%) vSphere
5 23 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.096%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.096%) KVM
8 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.096%) Platform Symphony
8 2 (0.096%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.096%) Xen
9 1 (0.048%) Ceph
9 1 (0.048%) Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) LXC
9 1 (0.048%) NFS
Systems Management
1 198 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 156 (7.53%) Terraform
3 67 (3.23%) Ansible
4 24 (1.16%) Packer
5 22 (1.06%) SCCM
6 19 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (0.87%) Grafana
8 17 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.68%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.63%) SCOM
10 13 (0.63%) WSUS
11 11 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
12 10 (0.48%) BladeLogic
13 9 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.43%) Puppet
14 7 (0.34%) Kibana
14 7 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.29%) Netcool
15 6 (0.29%) Tivoli
16 5 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 374 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 191 (9.21%) Oracle
3 59 (2.85%) VMware
4 43 (2.07%) Databricks
5 42 (2.03%) Atlassian
6 40 (1.93%) Citrix
7 33 (1.59%) SAP
8 31 (1.50%) OpenLink
8 31 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.40%) Google
10 27 (1.30%) IBM
11 21 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 20 (0.96%) TIBCO
13 19 (0.92%) Dynatrace
14 16 (0.77%) Xamarin
15 13 (0.63%) Murex
15 13 (0.63%) Sitecore
16 12 (0.58%) ESRI
16 12 (0.58%) Finsemble
17 11 (0.53%) Micro Focus