Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 19 August 2017

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 19 August 2017 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
19 Aug 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 18 26 20
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing C# 7162 7366 8157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.43% 6.79% 7.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.67% 17.31% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5273 5399 5987
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +6.25% - +6.67%
10th Percentile £300 £288 £273
90th Percentile £625 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 129 136
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £38.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +11.84% -5.00% +6.67%
10th Percentile £30.00 £13.35 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.24 £47.91 £52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £38.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.84% -5.00% +9.38%

C# is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills
UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills 40524 42556 42426
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK 42.03% 39.22% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 27858 29250 28187
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +5.96%
10th Percentile £300 £280 £263
90th Percentile £625 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 779 909 905
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +4.73%
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.46 £15.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £51.00 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +5.88%

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 19 August 2017.

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 19 August 2017.

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 19 August 2017. 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 +2 6608 £425 +6.25% 1867
UK excluding London +3 3693 £363 +3.57% 1351
London +5 3389 £500 +5.26% 606
South East -5 1005 £375 - 342
North of England +6 809 £350 +3.70% 398
Midlands -1 551 £350 - 207
South West +4 517 £375 +7.14% 156
North West +7 418 £350 +5.90% 229
East of England +5 333 £363 -3.33% 153
Scotland +15 315 £370 +13.85% 73
Yorkshire -3 297 £340 -1.45% 157
West Midlands +1 278 £350 - 88
East Midlands -4 267 £338 -0.37% 119
North East +43 94 £340 +3.03% 12
Northern Ireland -2 88 £400 +3.90% 1
Wales 0 87 £370 -4.52% 20
Isle of Man +1 1 £210 - 1

For the 6 months to 19 August 2017, IT contractor jobs citing C# also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for C#.

1 5068 (70.76%) .NET
2 2965 (41.40%) Agile Software Development
3 2666 (37.22%) SQL Server
4 2596 (36.25%) SQL
5 2443 (34.11%) JavaScript
6 2415 (33.72%) MVC
7 2329 (32.52%) ASP.NET
8 1886 (26.33%) HTML
9 1694 (23.65%) CSS
10 1654 (23.09%) Microsoft
11 1565 (21.85%) AngularJS
12 1559 (21.77%) Finance
13 1539 (21.49%) TDD
14 1119 (15.62%) Java
15 1115 (15.57%) ASP.NET MVC
16 1085 (15.15%) ASP.NET Web API
17 1051 (14.67%) .NET Framework
18 1010 (14.10%) Scrum
19 916 (12.79%) jQuery
20 893 (12.47%) Windows
21 887 (12.38%) Web Services
22 854 (11.92%) Test Automation
23 848 (11.84%) WCF
24 842 (11.76%) Microsoft Azure
25 833 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
26 832 (11.62%) HTML5
27 828 (11.56%) Banking
28 760 (10.61%) WPF
29 737 (10.29%) Visual Studio
30 736 (10.28%) Team Foundation Server

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
1 317 (4.43%) CMS
2 296 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 255 (3.56%) IIS
4 176 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
5 138 (1.93%) Confluence
6 136 (1.90%) Umbraco
7 120 (1.68%) Sitecore CMS
8 95 (1.33%) NServiceBus
9 93 (1.30%) SharePoint 2013
10 78 (1.09%) EPiServer
11 76 (1.06%) BizTalk Server
12 67 (0.94%) Apache
13 62 (0.87%) Tomcat
14 59 (0.82%) SharePoint 2010
15 45 (0.63%) JBoss
16 36 (0.50%) Apache Solr
17 35 (0.49%) Apache Spark
18 27 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 27 (0.38%) WebSphere
19 26 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 228 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 14 (0.20%) InfoPath
4 14 (0.20%) Photoshop
5 13 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.084%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.056%) SmartSuite
8 4 (0.056%) SPSS
9 3 (0.042%) 3ds Max
9 3 (0.042%) Maya
9 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.014%) CATIA
11 1 (0.014%) GIMP
11 1 (0.014%) Simulink
11 1 (0.014%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 288 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (0.59%) ION MarketView
3 36 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.20%) Endur
5 12 (0.17%) RMDS
6 10 (0.14%) Salesforce.com CRM
7 7 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.084%) SessionCam
9 5 (0.070%) SDL Web 8
9 5 (0.070%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.056%) Summit
11 3 (0.042%) Markit EDM
11 3 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.042%) SunGard GMI
11 3 (0.042%) SunGard Martini
12 2 (0.028%) IntelliMatch
12 2 (0.028%) Murex MxG2000
12 2 (0.028%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.028%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.028%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 842 (11.76%) Microsoft Azure
2 405 (5.65%) Amazon AWS
3 79 (1.10%) SaaS
4 70 (0.98%) GitHub
5 57 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
6 52 (0.73%) Office 365
7 49 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
8 42 (0.59%) PaaS
9 39 (0.54%) IaaS
10 33 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (0.32%) Google Cloud Platform
12 16 (0.22%) Google Analytics
13 13 (0.18%) Azure Active Directory
14 11 (0.15%) Yammer
15 9 (0.13%) Firebase
16 8 (0.11%) Amazon S3
16 8 (0.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (0.11%) BrowserStack
17 7 (0.098%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 149 (2.08%) HTTP
2 78 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 62 (0.87%) Internet
4 48 (0.67%) Intranet
5 39 (0.54%) Firewall
6 37 (0.52%) DNS
7 29 (0.40%) LDAP
8 19 (0.27%) SSL
9 15 (0.21%) Kerberos
10 13 (0.18%) Ethernet
10 13 (0.18%) X.509
11 12 (0.17%) AMQP
11 12 (0.17%) SMTP
11 12 (0.17%) Wireshark
12 11 (0.15%) SMS
13 10 (0.14%) Link 16
14 9 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.11%) Network Security
15 8 (0.11%) Skype
16 7 (0.098%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2666 (37.22%) SQL Server
2 424 (5.92%) NoSQL
3 380 (5.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 360 (5.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 335 (4.68%) Relational Database
6 325 (4.54%) SQL Server 2008
7 295 (4.12%) MongoDB
8 282 (3.94%) SQL Server 2012
9 154 (2.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 142 (1.98%) Oracle Database
11 122 (1.70%) Big Data
12 114 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
12 114 (1.59%) MySQL
13 100 (1.40%) Hadoop
14 99 (1.38%) SQL Server 2016
15 88 (1.23%) RDBMS
16 85 (1.19%) SQL Server 2014
17 81 (1.13%) SQL Server 2005
18 72 (1.01%) Power BI
19 62 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 737 (10.29%) Visual Studio
2 736 (10.28%) Team Foundation Server
3 705 (9.84%) Git (software)
4 381 (5.32%) Selenium
5 368 (5.14%) TeamCity
6 332 (4.64%) JIRA
7 320 (4.47%) NUnit
8 297 (4.15%) Jenkins
9 291 (4.06%) SpecFlow
10 258 (3.60%) Subversion
11 230 (3.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 146 (2.04%) JUnit
13 141 (1.97%) Cucumber
14 126 (1.76%) Moq
15 122 (1.70%) WebDriver
16 105 (1.47%) gulp
17 102 (1.42%) MSTest
18 73 (1.02%) MSBuild
19 72 (1.01%) ReSharper
20 57 (0.80%) Grunt
General
1 1559 (21.77%) Finance
2 828 (11.56%) Banking
3 592 (8.27%) Front Office
4 357 (4.98%) Investment Banking
5 200 (2.79%) Retail
6 137 (1.91%) Marketing
7 112 (1.56%) Advertising
8 110 (1.54%) Back Office
9 108 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 92 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 82 (1.14%) Games
12 70 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 69 (0.96%) Electronics
14 63 (0.88%) Law
15 42 (0.59%) Automotive
16 41 (0.57%) Legal
17 25 (0.35%) Aerospace
18 24 (0.34%) Publishing
19 18 (0.25%) Military
20 17 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5624 (78.53%) Developer
2 2513 (35.09%) C# Developer
3 2497 (34.86%) .NET Developer
4 1305 (18.22%) C# .NET Developer
5 585 (8.17%) Senior Developer
6 549 (7.67%) SQL Developer
7 510 (7.12%) ASP.NET Developer
8 494 (6.90%) Full Stack Developer
9 401 (5.60%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 395 (5.52%) Angular Developer
11 386 (5.39%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
12 325 (4.54%) WPF Developer
13 312 (4.36%) Analyst
14 307 (4.29%) Software Developer
15 285 (3.98%) JavaScript Developer
16 282 (3.94%) Senior C# Developer
17 268 (3.74%) C# WPF Developer
18 258 (3.60%) Java Developer
19 252 (3.52%) Senior .NET Developer
20 222 (3.10%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5068 (70.76%) .NET
2 2329 (32.52%) ASP.NET
3 1886 (26.33%) HTML
4 1694 (23.65%) CSS
5 1565 (21.85%) AngularJS
6 1115 (15.57%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1085 (15.15%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1051 (14.67%) .NET Framework
9 916 (12.79%) jQuery
10 887 (12.38%) Web Services
11 848 (11.84%) WCF
12 832 (11.62%) HTML5
13 760 (10.61%) WPF
14 625 (8.73%) Entity Framework
15 624 (8.71%) REST
16 579 (8.08%) XML
17 449 (6.27%) RESTful
18 425 (5.93%) CSS3
19 422 (5.89%) JSON
20 394 (5.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 501 (7.00%) Greenfield Project
2 452 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
3 318 (4.44%) Computer Science
4 299 (4.17%) Fixed Income
5 272 (3.80%) Derivative
6 252 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 203 (2.83%) User Experience
8 192 (2.68%) Mobile App
9 190 (2.65%) Equities
10 128 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 127 (1.77%) Fintech
12 123 (1.72%) Algorithms
13 111 (1.55%) Hedge funds
14 103 (1.44%) Market Risk
15 76 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 72 (1.01%) N-Tier
17 65 (0.91%) Credit Risk
18 55 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
18 55 (0.77%) Virtual Team
19 48 (0.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 893 (12.47%) Windows
2 339 (4.73%) Linux
3 207 (2.89%) Unix
4 165 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 142 (1.98%) Android
6 130 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 74 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 40 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 34 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 29 (0.40%) Windows 7
11 23 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 22 (0.31%) CentOS
13 20 (0.28%) Solaris
14 18 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
15 11 (0.15%) Windows Mobile
16 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
17 7 (0.098%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.070%) Debian
18 5 (0.070%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2965 (41.40%) Agile Software Development
2 2415 (33.72%) MVC
3 1539 (21.49%) TDD
4 1010 (14.10%) Scrum
5 854 (11.92%) Test Automation
6 833 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
7 669 (9.34%) OO
8 658 (9.19%) Web Development
9 646 (9.02%) BDD
10 629 (8.78%) Unit Testing
11 621 (8.67%) Software Engineering
12 473 (6.60%) DevOps
13 468 (6.53%) SDLC
14 403 (5.63%) Multithreading
15 382 (5.33%) SOLID
16 363 (5.07%) CRM
17 341 (4.76%) MVVM
18 337 (4.71%) E-Commerce
19 312 (4.36%) Microservices
20 297 (4.15%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 2596 (36.25%) SQL
2 2443 (34.11%) JavaScript
3 1119 (15.62%) Java
4 661 (9.23%) C++
5 598 (8.35%) T-SQL
6 583 (8.14%) Python
7 366 (5.11%) VB.NET
8 344 (4.80%) PowerShell
9 279 (3.90%) TypeScript
10 238 (3.32%) Ruby
11 217 (3.03%) VB
12 201 (2.81%) VBA
13 186 (2.60%) Scala
14 185 (2.58%) C
15 184 (2.57%) PL/SQL
16 106 (1.48%) Perl
17 99 (1.38%) XAML
18 89 (1.24%) Shell Script
19 78 (1.09%) PHP
20 74 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 445 (6.21%) Degree
2 281 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 171 (2.39%) SC Cleared
4 154 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 55 (0.77%) ISTQB
7 47 (0.66%) ISEB
8 45 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
9 39 (0.54%) DV Cleared
10 21 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (0.27%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.25%) MCP
13 16 (0.22%) MCSE
14 12 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 12 (0.17%) PhD
15 11 (0.15%) CFA
16 10 (0.14%) MCTS
17 8 (0.11%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.11%) CISSP
18 7 (0.098%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (4.02%) QA
2 49 (0.68%) MiFID
3 19 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
5 12 (0.17%) SLA
6 11 (0.15%) HL7
6 11 (0.15%) WCAG
7 10 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
8 9 (0.13%) Basel III
9 8 (0.11%) EMIR
9 8 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.070%) COBIT
10 5 (0.070%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.056%) IFRS
11 4 (0.056%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.056%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.056%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.042%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.028%) GxP
13 2 (0.028%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 151 (2.11%) Docker
2 129 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.084%) vSphere
6 5 (0.070%) Firmware
6 5 (0.070%) HDFS
6 5 (0.070%) Platform Symphony
6 5 (0.070%) UAG
6 5 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.056%) LXC
7 4 (0.056%) NFS
7 4 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.042%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.042%) vCloud
8 3 (0.042%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.042%) XenApp
8 3 (0.042%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.028%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 92 (1.28%) Opscode Chef
2 84 (1.17%) Puppet
3 58 (0.81%) Ansible
4 20 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
4 20 (0.28%) Kibana
4 20 (0.28%) SCCM
5 17 (0.24%) Kubernetes
6 16 (0.22%) HP Fortify
7 15 (0.21%) Control-M
8 10 (0.14%) Nagios
8 10 (0.14%) Terraform
9 9 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.13%) Grafana
10 8 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (0.11%) SCOM
10 8 (0.11%) WMI
11 7 (0.098%) Netcool
12 6 (0.084%) logstash
12 6 (0.084%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 6 (0.084%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1654 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 628 (8.77%) Oracle
3 244 (3.41%) Sitecore
4 148 (2.07%) Xamarin
5 137 (1.91%) Google
6 123 (1.72%) Sybase
7 88 (1.23%) SAP
8 72 (1.01%) TIBCO
9 68 (0.95%) DevExpress
10 57 (0.80%) ION Trading
10 57 (0.80%) Telerik
11 56 (0.78%) HP
12 50 (0.70%) Salesforce.com
13 37 (0.52%) IBM
14 35 (0.49%) Bloomberg
15 33 (0.46%) Adobe
16 32 (0.45%) Infragistics
16 32 (0.45%) Red Hat
17 30 (0.42%) Nintex
17 30 (0.42%) Perforce
1964 C# job vacancies Nationwide