C# Contracts

C#
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 42 32
Rank change year-on-year -20 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing C# 1,212 2,073 5,009
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.46% 4.62% 6.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.65% 14.98% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 1,558 3,736
10th Percentile £339 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £789 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 71 135
10th Percentile £31.50 £50.00 £47.89
25th Percentile £58.75 £61.88 £60.91
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +34.83%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £70.30
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year - -0.38% +34.54%

All Programming Languages
UK

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,385 13,834 28,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.46% 30.82% 37.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,298 9,852 20,725
10th Percentile £350 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £433 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +7.62%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.10% -3.85% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 422 502
10th Percentile £21.70 £31.28 £25.50
25th Percentile £40.06 £46.48 £46.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.42 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -1.73% +31.58%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £67.41
90th Percentile £82.00 £78.68 £74.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.39%

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 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 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 -19 1,090 £550 -6.38% 1,329
London -12 731 £580 -7.20% 455
Work from Home -11 425 £500 -9.09% 989
UK excluding London -32 370 £488 -2.50% 961
South East -25 107 £525 -7.49% 189
North of England -16 75 £490 +8.89% 303
Midlands -24 60 £500 +11.11% 196
East of England +10 50 £493 +3.68% 107
South West -36 40 £525 -4.55% 79
Scotland +8 39 £425 -5.56% 58
West Midlands -29 39 £562 +23.41% 115
North West -15 37 £433 -7.73% 172
Yorkshire +5 29 £567 +30.34% 96
East Midlands -5 16 £465 +10.98% 79
North East -13 9 £350 -6.67% 36
Wales -8 5 £210 -40.03% 33
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 15

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 30 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.39%) Umbraco
3 23 (1.90%) IIS
4 18 (1.49%) CMS
4 18 (1.49%) Confluence
5 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.25%) Apache
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Pig
8 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.17%) JBoss
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.083%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.083%) Documentum
9 1 (0.083%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.083%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.083%) WinCC
Applications
1 44 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.41%) InfoPath
4 4 (0.33%) Revit
5 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.25%) SketchUp
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (4.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.83%) Misys Opics
3 7 (0.58%) Endur
4 4 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.25%) Findur
6 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.083%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.083%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 603 (49.75%) Azure
2 229 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
3 132 (10.89%) AWS
4 119 (9.82%) Power Platform
5 100 (8.25%) Serverless
6 88 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
7 80 (6.60%) Azure Functions
8 69 (5.69%) Power Automate
9 68 (5.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 63 (5.20%) PowerApps
11 49 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 48 (3.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 47 (3.88%) GCP
14 40 (3.30%) GitHub
15 38 (3.14%) Entra ID
16 36 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
16 36 (2.97%) Azure Storage
17 28 (2.31%) Azure API Management
17 28 (2.31%) Azure App Service
18 26 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.89%) TCP/IP
2 29 (2.39%) Ethernet
3 20 (1.65%) Internet
4 15 (1.24%) DNS
5 14 (1.16%) Intranet
6 12 (0.99%) DHCP
7 11 (0.91%) Firewall
8 10 (0.83%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.74%) SSL
10 7 (0.58%) HTTP
11 5 (0.41%) FTP
12 4 (0.33%) NAS
13 3 (0.25%) LTE
13 3 (0.25%) Network Security
14 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
14 2 (0.17%) RS-232
14 2 (0.17%) RS-485
14 2 (0.17%) SAN
14 2 (0.17%) VLAN
14 2 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (24.26%) SQL Server
2 86 (7.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 75 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 64 (5.28%) NoSQL
4 64 (5.28%) Power BI
5 62 (5.12%) Oracle Database
6 59 (4.87%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 39 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
9 32 (2.64%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (1.73%) MySQL
10 21 (1.73%) Redis
11 14 (1.16%) Big Data
12 11 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
12 11 (0.91%) Data Lake
12 11 (0.91%) Informix
12 11 (0.91%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 137 (11.30%) Git
2 97 (8.00%) Visual Studio
3 90 (7.43%) JIRA
4 64 (5.28%) Jenkins
5 47 (3.88%) Selenium
6 46 (3.80%) SpecFlow
7 33 (2.72%) Eclipse
7 33 (2.72%) TeamCity
8 28 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
9 26 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 22 (1.82%) Bitbucket
11 21 (1.73%) NUnit
11 21 (1.73%) Postman
12 15 (1.24%) Cucumber
13 13 (1.07%) GitLab
13 13 (1.07%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.83%) JMeter
14 10 (0.83%) MSBuild
14 10 (0.83%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.74%) Cypress.io
General
1 303 (25.00%) Finance
2 296 (24.42%) Social Skills
3 140 (11.55%) Banking
4 95 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 79 (6.52%) Front Office
7 58 (4.79%) Investment Banking
8 50 (4.13%) Back Office
9 38 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (2.64%) Marketing
11 28 (2.31%) Military
12 23 (1.90%) Electronics
12 23 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.16%) French Language
15 12 (0.99%) Games
15 12 (0.99%) German Language
16 11 (0.91%) Spanish Language
17 9 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 736 (60.73%) Developer
2 260 (21.45%) .NET Developer
2 260 (21.45%) C# Developer
3 137 (11.30%) Senior
4 111 (9.16%) C# .NET Developer
5 109 (8.99%) Software Engineer
6 91 (7.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 87 (7.18%) Senior Developer
8 80 (6.60%) Lead
9 74 (6.11%) Architect
10 57 (4.70%) Azure Developer
11 52 (4.29%) C# Software Engineer
12 50 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
13 49 (4.04%) C# WPF Developer
13 49 (4.04%) WPF Developer
14 40 (3.30%) Analyst
15 35 (2.89%) Software Developer
15 35 (2.89%) SQL Developer
16 34 (2.81%) React Developer
17 31 (2.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 817 (67.41%) .NET
2 246 (20.30%) .NET Framework
3 171 (14.11%) CSS
4 170 (14.03%) ASP.NET
4 170 (14.03%) HTML
5 161 (13.28%) .NET Core
6 159 (13.12%) React
7 133 (10.97%) AngularJS
8 126 (10.40%) RESTful
9 92 (7.59%) WPF
10 85 (7.01%) Entity Framework
11 83 (6.85%) Web Services
12 76 (6.27%) Kafka
13 56 (4.62%) Node.js
14 55 (4.54%) REST
15 53 (4.37%) WCF
16 50 (4.13%) ASP.NET Web API
17 44 (3.63%) JSON
18 37 (3.05%) WinForms
19 36 (2.97%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.22%) Product Ownership
2 38 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.56%) Derivative
5 30 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 28 (2.31%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.16%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
12 12 (0.99%) Onboarding
13 11 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.83%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.74%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 163 (13.45%) Windows
2 93 (7.67%) Linux
3 15 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.16%) Unix
5 7 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.50%) Solaris
6 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.25%) Android
9 2 (0.17%) CentOS
9 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.083%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (35.23%) Agile
2 378 (31.19%) DevOps
3 281 (23.18%) CI/CD
4 197 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (14.69%) Test Automation
6 170 (14.03%) Software Engineering
7 150 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 136 (11.22%) Microservices
9 124 (10.23%) TDD
10 114 (9.41%) Scrum
11 113 (9.32%) Design Patterns
11 113 (9.32%) Unit Testing
12 111 (9.16%) Continuous Integration
13 109 (8.99%) SDLC
14 102 (8.42%) MVC
15 99 (8.17%) OO
16 81 (6.68%) Computer Science
17 78 (6.44%) Migration
18 74 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
19 68 (5.61%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 523 (43.15%) SQL
2 348 (28.71%) JavaScript
3 195 (16.09%) Python
4 142 (11.72%) Java
5 119 (9.82%) C++
6 117 (9.65%) PowerShell
7 84 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 82 (6.77%) T-SQL
9 67 (5.53%) VBA
10 66 (5.45%) PL/SQL
11 63 (5.20%) VB.NET
12 57 (4.70%) VB
13 18 (1.49%) Bicep
14 16 (1.32%) Bash
14 16 (1.32%) R
15 13 (1.07%) C
15 13 (1.07%) Delphi
16 10 (0.83%) Go
17 9 (0.74%) VBScript
18 8 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 155 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 122 (10.07%) Degree
3 112 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.58%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.25%) APMP
12 3 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.25%) HNC
12 3 (0.25%) HND
12 3 (0.25%) NVQ Level 3
13 2 (0.17%) ISEB
13 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.03%) QA
2 20 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 9 (0.74%) MiFID
5 8 (0.66%) EMIR
6 6 (0.50%) GDPR
6 6 (0.50%) WCAG
7 5 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.33%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.17%) SEPA
10 2 (0.17%) SLA
11 1 (0.083%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.083%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 99 (8.17%) Docker
2 34 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.50%) Firmware
4 6 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.25%) Ceph
5 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.083%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 145 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 74 (6.11%) Terraform
3 25 (2.06%) Ansible
4 11 (0.91%) Grafana
5 8 (0.66%) SCCM
6 7 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.50%) SCOM
7 6 (0.50%) WSUS
8 4 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.25%) Kibana
9 3 (0.25%) Netcool
9 3 (0.25%) Puppet
9 3 (0.25%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.17%) Argo
10 2 (0.17%) Oozie
10 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 334 (27.56%) Microsoft
2 131 (10.81%) Oracle
3 28 (2.31%) SAP
4 20 (1.65%) Databricks
5 17 (1.40%) Google
6 16 (1.32%) Citrix
6 16 (1.32%) OpenAI
7 10 (0.83%) OpenLink
7 10 (0.83%) VMware
8 9 (0.74%) Murex
9 8 (0.66%) IBM
10 7 (0.58%) Informatica
10 7 (0.58%) Okta
10 7 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.58%) Telerik
10 7 (0.58%) TIBCO
11 6 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.50%) Virgin Media
11 6 (0.50%) Xamarin
12 5 (0.41%) CyberArk