Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 May 2019

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 21 May 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

C#
UK
6 months to
21 May 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 18 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing C# 7,192 8,308 6,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.91% 8.25% 7.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.44% 19.18% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,482 6,206 4,957
UK median daily rate £450 £433 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +4.05% +8.13% -
10th Percentile £325 £313 £281
90th Percentile £625 £638 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +12.00% +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 90 155
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £43.00 £41.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +3.61% +7.44%
10th Percentile £23.47 £31.88 £21.68
90th Percentile £55.00 £48.82 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.66% +7.89%

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.

All Programming Languages
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 38,998 43,320 37,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.87% 43.04% 41.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,041 30,274 25,531
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.70% +8.82% +1.19%
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
90th Percentile £650 £638 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £405 £388
% change year-on-year +4.94% +4.52% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 675 781 808
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £41.38
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.32% +7.47%
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.70 £16.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £56.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.50 £40.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year +8.75% -2.44% +6.49%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing C#.

Contractor daily rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 21 May 2019.

Contractor daily rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 21 May 2019.

Contractor 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 21 May 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -5 6,621 £450 - 2,973
UK excluding London 0 4,037 £420 +12.00% 2,393
London -4 3,074 £500 - 761
South East +13 1,266 £450 +12.50% 608
North of England -2 1,016 £388 +6.90% 610
Midlands -3 612 £400 +6.67% 469
North West 0 535 £400 +6.67% 304
South West -8 457 £425 +13.33% 281
West Midlands -4 403 £425 +13.33% 249
Yorkshire -7 375 £375 +3.45% 254
Scotland +2 335 £375 -3.23% 100
East of England -14 204 £408 -1.21% 249
East Midlands -4 191 £375 - 219
Wales +2 133 £450 +12.50% 45
North East +24 106 £400 +23.08% 53
Northern Ireland -8 30 £338 -25.82% 33
Isle of Man +2 2 - - 1

For the 6 months to 21 May 2019, IT contractor jobs citing C# also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for C#.

1 5,325 (74.04%) .NET
2 3,133 (43.56%) Agile Software Development
3 2,591 (36.03%) SQL
4 2,553 (35.50%) JavaScript
5 2,506 (34.84%) SQL Server
6 2,241 (31.16%) Microsoft Azure
7 1,903 (26.46%) MVC
8 1,867 (25.96%) ASP.NET
9 1,623 (22.57%) Microsoft
10 1,603 (22.29%) HTML
11 1,578 (21.94%) AngularJS
12 1,489 (20.70%) CSS
13 1,412 (19.63%) TDD
14 1,352 (18.80%) Finance
15 1,269 (17.64%) .NET Framework
16 1,238 (17.21%) ASP.NET Web API
17 979 (13.61%) Scrum
18 968 (13.46%) Git (software)
19 959 (13.33%) Test Automation
20 952 (13.24%) .NET Core
21 915 (12.72%) Visual Studio
22 914 (12.71%) Java
23 909 (12.64%) Web Services
24 886 (12.32%) ASP.NET MVC
25 879 (12.22%) DevOps
26 781 (10.86%) Microservices
27 776 (10.79%) BDD
28 773 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
29 753 (10.47%) jQuery
30 731 (10.16%) Software Engineering

C#
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 315 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 173 (2.41%) CMS
3 161 (2.24%) Umbraco
4 146 (2.03%) IIS
5 123 (1.71%) Confluence
6 82 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 77 (1.07%) BizTalk Server
8 66 (0.92%) Apache Spark
9 65 (0.90%) Tomcat
10 63 (0.88%) SharePoint 2013
11 59 (0.82%) Apache
12 50 (0.70%) nginx
13 48 (0.67%) NServiceBus
14 42 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.57%) WebSphere
16 39 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
17 36 (0.50%) JBoss
18 30 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
19 27 (0.38%) WebLogic
20 24 (0.33%) EPiServer
Applications
1 140 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.083%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.056%) InfoPath
8 3 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.028%) GIMP
9 2 (0.028%) InVision
10 1 (0.014%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.014%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.014%) Blender
10 1 (0.014%) Maya
10 1 (0.014%) Stata
10 1 (0.014%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 403 (5.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 12 (0.17%) Endur
4 10 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 9 (0.13%) Visualfiles
6 7 (0.097%) RMDS
6 7 (0.097%) SDL Web 8
7 6 (0.083%) Magento
7 6 (0.083%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.056%) CiviCRM
8 4 (0.056%) Eikon
8 4 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.056%) Revive Adserver
9 3 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.042%) Salesforce.com CRM
9 3 (0.042%) SAP MII
10 2 (0.028%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.028%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 2,241 (31.16%) Microsoft Azure
2 610 (8.48%) Amazon AWS
3 267 (3.71%) Serverless
4 251 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
5 238 (3.31%) PaaS
6 183 (2.54%) Power Platform
7 169 (2.35%) Azure Functions
8 163 (2.27%) GitHub
9 160 (2.22%) SaaS
10 127 (1.77%) Office 365
11 120 (1.67%) Azure Active Directory
12 98 (1.36%) IaaS
13 90 (1.25%) Google Cloud Platform
14 82 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
15 71 (0.99%) npm
16 37 (0.51%) Google Analytics
17 33 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
18 32 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
19 27 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
20 25 (0.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 93 (1.29%) HTTP
2 86 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 50 (0.70%) SSL
4 43 (0.60%) Internet
5 33 (0.46%) Ethernet
6 28 (0.39%) DNS
7 27 (0.38%) FTP
8 26 (0.36%) AMQP
9 21 (0.29%) Intranet
10 19 (0.26%) Firewall
10 19 (0.26%) SSH
11 18 (0.25%) SNMP
12 15 (0.21%) Kerberos
12 15 (0.21%) Network Security
12 15 (0.21%) Skype
13 13 (0.18%) SMTP
14 12 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
15 8 (0.11%) NFC
16 7 (0.097%) H.323
17 6 (0.083%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,506 (34.84%) SQL Server
2 415 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 371 (5.16%) NoSQL
4 281 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 271 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 252 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
7 232 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 187 (2.60%) Cosmos DB
9 184 (2.56%) SQL Server 2012
10 165 (2.29%) MongoDB
11 160 (2.22%) Power BI
12 159 (2.21%) Big Data
13 136 (1.89%) MySQL
14 129 (1.79%) Redis
15 111 (1.54%) SQL Server 2008
16 92 (1.28%) Hadoop
17 89 (1.24%) Oracle Database
18 87 (1.21%) RDBMS
19 86 (1.20%) Data Lake
20 76 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 968 (13.46%) Git (software)
2 915 (12.72%) Visual Studio
3 611 (8.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 492 (6.84%) Selenium
5 419 (5.83%) Visual Studio Team System
6 401 (5.58%) Jenkins
7 358 (4.98%) SpecFlow
8 347 (4.82%) TeamCity
9 338 (4.70%) JIRA
10 230 (3.20%) NUnit
11 203 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 157 (2.18%) WebDriver
13 137 (1.90%) Cucumber
14 127 (1.77%) Subversion
15 116 (1.61%) gulp
16 101 (1.40%) MSTest
17 99 (1.38%) Jasmine
18 91 (1.27%) JMeter
19 84 (1.17%) Eclipse
20 83 (1.15%) Grunt
General
1 1,352 (18.80%) Finance
2 481 (6.69%) Banking
3 367 (5.10%) Front Office
4 181 (2.52%) Retail
5 152 (2.11%) Investment Banking
6 112 (1.56%) Telecoms
7 110 (1.53%) Law
8 105 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 100 (1.39%) Back Office
10 98 (1.36%) Marketing
11 92 (1.28%) Games
12 86 (1.20%) Legal
13 69 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 57 (0.79%) Electronics
15 42 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 38 (0.53%) Automotive
17 37 (0.51%) Publishing
18 32 (0.44%) Military
19 30 (0.42%) Advertising
20 23 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5,181 (72.04%) Developer
2 2,241 (31.16%) .NET Developer
3 1,978 (27.50%) C# Developer
4 1,016 (14.13%) C# .NET Developer
5 586 (8.15%) Full Stack Developer
6 445 (6.19%) Software Developer
7 441 (6.13%) Senior Developer
8 409 (5.69%) SQL Developer
9 359 (4.99%) Angular Developer
10 282 (3.92%) Software Engineer
11 276 (3.84%) Azure Developer
12 263 (3.66%) Analyst
13 246 (3.42%) ASP.NET Developer
14 237 (3.30%) Architect
15 215 (2.99%) Tester
16 214 (2.98%) Senior .NET Developer
17 190 (2.64%) React Developer
18 189 (2.63%) C# ASP.NET Developer
19 178 (2.47%) CRM Developer
20 173 (2.41%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,325 (74.04%) .NET
2 1,867 (25.96%) ASP.NET
3 1,603 (22.29%) HTML
4 1,578 (21.94%) AngularJS
5 1,489 (20.70%) CSS
6 1,269 (17.64%) .NET Framework
7 1,238 (17.21%) ASP.NET Web API
8 952 (13.24%) .NET Core
9 909 (12.64%) Web Services
10 886 (12.32%) ASP.NET MVC
11 753 (10.47%) jQuery
12 693 (9.64%) REST
13 643 (8.94%) React
14 623 (8.66%) Entity Framework
15 592 (8.23%) RESTful
16 549 (7.63%) WCF
17 536 (7.45%) HTML5
18 505 (7.02%) XML
19 497 (6.91%) JSON
20 453 (6.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 500 (6.95%) Greenfield Project
2 310 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
3 246 (3.42%) Fintech
4 232 (3.23%) User Experience
5 197 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 190 (2.64%) Hedge funds
7 185 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 144 (2.00%) Fixed Income
9 141 (1.96%) Derivative
10 137 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 103 (1.43%) Algorithms
12 90 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 64 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 54 (0.75%) Robotics
15 53 (0.74%) Equities
16 49 (0.68%) Digital Media
17 44 (0.61%) OTC Derivatives
18 35 (0.49%) N-Tier
19 33 (0.46%) Data Centre
20 32 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 659 (9.16%) Windows
2 279 (3.88%) Linux
3 146 (2.03%) Android
4 121 (1.68%) Apple iOS
5 90 (1.25%) Unix
6 75 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 39 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 22 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 22 (0.31%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.22%) Windows 8
11 15 (0.21%) CentOS
12 14 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.15%) VMS
14 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.11%) Solaris
15 8 (0.11%) Windows XP
16 7 (0.097%) Debian
17 5 (0.070%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,133 (43.56%) Agile Software Development
2 1,903 (26.46%) MVC
3 1,412 (19.63%) TDD
4 979 (13.61%) Scrum
5 959 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 879 (12.22%) DevOps
7 781 (10.86%) Microservices
8 776 (10.79%) BDD
9 773 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
10 731 (10.16%) Software Engineering
11 600 (8.34%) OO
12 545 (7.58%) Unit Testing
13 477 (6.63%) SOLID
14 464 (6.45%) CRM
15 433 (6.02%) Web Development
16 418 (5.81%) Problem-Solving
17 381 (5.30%) SDLC
18 331 (4.60%) Business Intelligence
19 326 (4.53%) OOP
20 313 (4.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,591 (36.03%) SQL
2 2,553 (35.50%) JavaScript
3 914 (12.71%) Java
4 594 (8.26%) T-SQL
5 592 (8.23%) Python
6 553 (7.69%) C++
7 447 (6.22%) TypeScript
8 410 (5.70%) PowerShell
9 306 (4.25%) VB.NET
10 184 (2.56%) VB
11 155 (2.16%) PL/SQL
12 152 (2.11%) VBA
13 141 (1.96%) Ruby
14 116 (1.61%) C
15 102 (1.42%) Scala
16 86 (1.20%) PHP
17 65 (0.90%) Perl
18 55 (0.76%) R
19 54 (0.75%) Groovy
20 47 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 365 (5.08%) Degree
2 356 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 263 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 80 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 45 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (0.47%) ISTQB
7 34 (0.47%) PhD
8 31 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
10 26 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.31%) ISEB
12 18 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 10 (0.14%) CISSP
15 9 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 7 (0.097%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.083%) CISA
17 6 (0.083%) CISM
17 6 (0.083%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (5.10%) QA
2 32 (0.44%) Data Quality
2 32 (0.44%) GDPR
3 27 (0.38%) SLA
4 26 (0.36%) PCI DSS
5 24 (0.33%) WCAG
6 13 (0.18%) GxP
6 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.083%) IFRS
11 5 (0.070%) HL7
11 5 (0.070%) ISAE 3402
11 5 (0.070%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.070%) ISO 31000
11 5 (0.070%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (0.056%) PSD2
13 3 (0.042%) Dublin Core
13 3 (0.042%) MiFID
System Software
1 469 (6.52%) Docker
2 165 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 50 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.19%) XenApp
6 10 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.083%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.070%) Firmware
10 5 (0.070%) HDFS
10 5 (0.070%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.042%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.042%) vSphere
12 2 (0.028%) OpenDJ
12 2 (0.028%) OpenIDM
12 2 (0.028%) Squid
Systems Management
1 290 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 113 (1.57%) Ansible
3 91 (1.27%) Terraform
4 81 (1.13%) Puppet
5 64 (0.89%) Opscode Chef
6 40 (0.56%) SCCM
7 30 (0.42%) Kibana
8 29 (0.40%) Grafana
9 21 (0.29%) HP ALM
10 15 (0.21%) Nessus
10 15 (0.21%) SCOM
11 14 (0.19%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 13 (0.18%) WSUS
13 11 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.15%) Nmap
13 11 (0.15%) SCOrch
13 11 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,623 (22.57%) Microsoft
2 492 (6.84%) Oracle
3 167 (2.32%) Xamarin
4 138 (1.92%) Google
5 99 (1.38%) Sitecore
6 87 (1.21%) SAP
7 77 (1.07%) Telerik
8 59 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 54 (0.75%) HP
10 53 (0.74%) IBM
11 52 (0.72%) Salesforce.com
12 42 (0.58%) Citrix
13 37 (0.51%) TIBCO
14 33 (0.46%) Tableau
14 33 (0.46%) VMware
15 32 (0.44%) MuleSoft
16 31 (0.43%) Blue Prism
17 28 (0.39%) UiPath
18 27 (0.38%) Sybase
19 25 (0.35%) Databricks
3,162 C# job vacancies Nationwide