Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 September 2020

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 25 September 2020 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
25 Sep 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 24 17 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing C# 1,858 6,820 8,967
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.25% 7.72% 8.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.76% 18.30% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,541 5,281 6,850
Median daily rate £475 £450 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
10th Percentile £320 £325 £313
90th Percentile £700 £625 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £413 £388
% change year-on-year - +6.45% +6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 101 107
Median hourly rate £45.00 £44.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +1.12% +4.71% -
10th Percentile £26.83 £35.00 £23.35
90th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £54.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £45.00 £42.25
% change year-on-year +1.01% +6.51% -0.59%

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 12,585 37,274 45,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.33% 42.20% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,310 25,800 32,176
Median daily rate £488 £475 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.63% - +5.56%
10th Percentile £313 £320 £313
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £425 £415
% change year-on-year +1.18% +2.41% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 685 716
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.00 £41.53
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -20.45% +5.95% +3.83%
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.23 £16.25
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%

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 25 September 2020.

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 25 September 2020.

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 25 September 2020. 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 -10 1,614 £475 +5.56% 1,803
London -4 978 £550 +10.00% 463
UK excluding London -12 756 £413 - 1,489
Work from Home -10 297 £450 +5.88% 300
South East -17 186 £450 +2.86% 343
Scotland +10 137 £445 +4.71% 94
North of England -30 135 £375 -0.66% 451
Midlands -15 108 £375 -7.41% 222
South West -17 98 £420 +0.90% 172
North West -24 83 £375 -0.13% 268
West Midlands -12 75 £375 -11.76% 126
East of England -6 71 £475 +11.76% 151
Yorkshire -30 38 £363 -3.33% 137
East Midlands -15 33 £363 -5.84% 95
North East -13 14 £413 +3.13% 46
Wales -15 13 £400 -1.84% 40
Northern Ireland -2 8 £431 +0.23% 17

For the 6 months to 25 September 2020, 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 1,168 (62.86%) .NET
2 718 (38.64%) Agile Software Development
3 680 (36.60%) Azure
4 649 (34.93%) SQL
5 570 (30.68%) JavaScript
6 533 (28.69%) SQL Server
7 462 (24.87%) Microsoft
8 400 (21.53%) ASP.NET
9 376 (20.24%) DevOps
10 346 (18.62%) AngularJS
11 343 (18.46%) Finance
12 341 (18.35%) .NET Core
13 338 (18.19%) Java
14 323 (17.38%) Python
15 313 (16.85%) Microservices
16 303 (16.31%) HTML
17 260 (13.99%) CSS
18 258 (13.89%) .NET Framework
19 257 (13.83%) Git (software)
20 248 (13.35%) React
21 241 (12.97%) Test Automation
22 234 (12.59%) Web Services
23 233 (12.54%) MVC
23 233 (12.54%) AWS
24 231 (12.43%) Software Engineering
25 224 (12.06%) Front Office
26 223 (12.00%) PowerShell
27 222 (11.95%) Banking
28 219 (11.79%) TDD
29 214 (11.52%) Windows

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
1 142 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 60 (3.23%) IIS
3 54 (2.91%) Confluence
4 30 (1.61%) CMS
5 25 (1.35%) NServiceBus
6 24 (1.29%) Apache Spark
7 21 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (1.13%) Umbraco
8 16 (0.86%) BizTalk Server
9 13 (0.70%) Apache
10 11 (0.59%) SharePoint 2013
11 9 (0.48%) EPiServer
11 9 (0.48%) Moodle
11 9 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
12 7 (0.38%) nginx
13 5 (0.27%) Kentico
14 4 (0.22%) Apache Pig
14 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
14 4 (0.22%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 37 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 14 (0.75%) InfoPath
5 13 (0.70%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.48%) Acrobat
7 8 (0.43%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 2 (0.11%) LaTeX
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.054%) Blender
10 1 (0.054%) Sketch
10 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 121 (6.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.65%) SunGard Martini
3 8 (0.43%) Visualfiles
4 6 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.16%) Endur
7 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.16%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.16%) SmartPlant
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.11%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.11%) RMDS
8 2 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.054%) Front Arena
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.054%) Sophis RISQUE
Cloud Services
1 680 (36.60%) Azure
2 233 (12.54%) AWS
3 149 (8.02%) Power Platform
4 96 (5.17%) Serverless
5 90 (4.84%) Logic Apps
6 76 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
7 60 (3.23%) GCP
8 57 (3.07%) Power Automate
9 56 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 52 (2.80%) Azure Functions
11 46 (2.48%) PaaS
12 43 (2.31%) PowerApps
13 39 (2.10%) GitHub
14 35 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (1.67%) Office 365
16 27 (1.45%) SaaS
17 24 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
18 23 (1.24%) Amazon S3
18 23 (1.24%) Azure Active Directory
19 22 (1.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.35%) Firewall
2 22 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.02%) Internet
4 16 (0.86%) SNMP
5 15 (0.81%) HTTP
6 14 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
6 14 (0.75%) VLAN
7 13 (0.70%) DNS
8 11 (0.59%) Intranet
9 9 (0.48%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.43%) Skype
11 7 (0.38%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.32%) Network Security
12 6 (0.32%) RTMP
13 5 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (0.22%) DHCP
14 4 (0.22%) Modbus
14 4 (0.22%) MQTT
14 4 (0.22%) RS-485
15 3 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 533 (28.69%) SQL Server
2 90 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 87 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 86 (4.63%) MongoDB
5 82 (4.41%) Power BI
6 80 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 77 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 69 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 58 (3.12%) Big Data
10 49 (2.64%) Cosmos DB
10 49 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
11 44 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
12 43 (2.31%) MySQL
13 41 (2.21%) Redis
14 39 (2.10%) Oracle Database
15 36 (1.94%) Data Lake
16 32 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 22 (1.18%) SQL Server 2008
18 21 (1.13%) SQL Server 2017
19 18 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 257 (13.83%) Git (software)
2 188 (10.12%) Visual Studio
3 114 (6.14%) JIRA
4 111 (5.97%) Selenium
5 100 (5.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 99 (5.33%) Jenkins
7 97 (5.22%) TeamCity
8 77 (4.14%) SpecFlow
9 51 (2.74%) NUnit
9 51 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
10 48 (2.58%) Subversion
11 46 (2.48%) Visual Studio Team System
12 35 (1.88%) Bitbucket
13 34 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 29 (1.56%) Postman
15 24 (1.29%) webpack
16 21 (1.13%) Maven
17 19 (1.02%) GitLab
17 19 (1.02%) MSTest
17 19 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
General
1 343 (18.46%) Finance
2 224 (12.06%) Front Office
3 222 (11.95%) Banking
4 131 (7.05%) Investment Banking
5 108 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 38 (2.05%) Marketing
7 37 (1.99%) Games
8 25 (1.35%) Back Office
8 25 (1.35%) Law
9 20 (1.08%) Electronics
9 20 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 18 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 16 (0.86%) Military
13 14 (0.75%) Retail
14 11 (0.59%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.54%) Legal
16 6 (0.32%) Advertising
16 6 (0.32%) French Language
16 6 (0.32%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 1,170 (62.97%) Developer
2 422 (22.71%) C# Developer
3 414 (22.28%) .NET Developer
4 159 (8.56%) C# .NET Developer
5 121 (6.51%) Full Stack Developer
6 106 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 103 (5.54%) Azure Developer
8 94 (5.06%) SQL Developer
9 86 (4.63%) Senior Developer
10 68 (3.66%) Architect
11 66 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
11 66 (3.55%) Software Developer
12 61 (3.28%) React Developer
13 58 (3.12%) Analyst
13 58 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
14 56 (3.01%) Angular Developer
15 51 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
16 50 (2.69%) Consultant
17 48 (2.58%) Microsoft Developer
18 46 (2.48%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,168 (62.86%) .NET
2 400 (21.53%) ASP.NET
3 346 (18.62%) AngularJS
4 341 (18.35%) .NET Core
5 303 (16.31%) HTML
6 260 (13.99%) CSS
7 258 (13.89%) .NET Framework
8 248 (13.35%) React
9 234 (12.59%) Web Services
10 162 (8.72%) ASP.NET Web API
11 158 (8.50%) REST
12 131 (7.05%) Entity Framework
13 122 (6.57%) RESTful
14 109 (5.87%) WPF
15 105 (5.65%) ASP.NET Core
15 105 (5.65%) HTML5
15 105 (5.65%) XML
16 104 (5.60%) jQuery
17 97 (5.22%) ASP.NET MVC
18 94 (5.06%) Vue.js
Miscellaneous
1 124 (6.67%) Derivative
2 118 (6.35%) Fixed Income
3 116 (6.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 95 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
6 78 (4.20%) Hedge funds
7 77 (4.14%) Equities
7 77 (4.14%) User Experience
8 30 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.29%) Private Cloud
10 22 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 20 (1.08%) Cloud Native
13 18 (0.97%) Client/Server
14 17 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.91%) N-Tier
15 15 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.70%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 214 (11.52%) Windows
2 112 (6.03%) Linux
3 65 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.88%) Android
5 33 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 33 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (1.13%) Windows 10
8 19 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (0.97%) CentOS
10 13 (0.70%) Unix
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Mobile
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.22%) Debian
12 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.054%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (38.64%) Agile Software Development
2 376 (20.24%) DevOps
3 313 (16.85%) Microservices
4 241 (12.97%) Test Automation
5 233 (12.54%) MVC
6 231 (12.43%) Software Engineering
7 219 (11.79%) TDD
8 185 (9.96%) Scrum
9 177 (9.53%) Migration
10 165 (8.88%) Continuous Integration
11 148 (7.97%) Unit Testing
12 136 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
13 130 (7.00%) CRM
14 117 (6.30%) BDD
15 115 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
16 108 (5.81%) Fintech
17 102 (5.49%) Web Development
18 101 (5.44%) OO
19 100 (5.38%) Asset Management
20 96 (5.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 649 (34.93%) SQL
2 570 (30.68%) JavaScript
3 338 (18.19%) Java
4 323 (17.38%) Python
5 223 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 192 (10.33%) C++
7 134 (7.21%) T-SQL
8 109 (5.87%) TypeScript
9 55 (2.96%) VB.NET
10 50 (2.69%) VB
11 49 (2.64%) Bash Shell
12 42 (2.26%) C
13 40 (2.15%) VBA
14 39 (2.10%) Go
15 31 (1.67%) Kotlin
15 31 (1.67%) PHP
16 30 (1.61%) PL/SQL
16 30 (1.61%) R
17 29 (1.56%) Scala
18 24 (1.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 190 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 133 (7.16%) SC Cleared
3 126 (6.78%) Degree
4 41 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 33 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 15 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 10 (0.54%) ISEB
10 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.32%) CISSP
11 6 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (0.32%) GCFA
12 5 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 5 (0.27%) MCSD
12 5 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.22%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.16%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.66%) QA
2 29 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.38%) NIST
4 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.32%) Solvency II
5 4 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (0.22%) NCSC
6 2 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.11%) SEPA
6 2 (0.11%) SLA
6 2 (0.11%) WCAG
7 1 (0.054%) CDISC
7 1 (0.054%) EMIR
7 1 (0.054%) FINREP
7 1 (0.054%) HL7
7 1 (0.054%) MiFID
7 1 (0.054%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.054%) PMO
7 1 (0.054%) TARGET2
7 1 (0.054%) WAI
System Software
1 197 (10.60%) Docker
2 66 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.81%) vSphere
5 11 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.22%) LXC
9 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) PowerDNS
10 2 (0.11%) vCloud
11 1 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.054%) Firmware
11 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.054%) XenApp
11 1 (0.054%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 161 (8.67%) Kubernetes
2 88 (4.74%) Terraform
3 63 (3.39%) Ansible
4 31 (1.67%) Opscode Chef
4 31 (1.67%) Puppet
5 18 (0.97%) Grafana
6 17 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.86%) Packer
8 15 (0.81%) ZABBIX
9 8 (0.43%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 7 (0.38%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.27%) Kibana
13 4 (0.22%) Control-M
13 4 (0.22%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.16%) Foglight
14 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
15 2 (0.11%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 462 (24.87%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.46%) Oracle
3 72 (3.88%) Databricks
4 46 (2.48%) Atlassian
5 44 (2.37%) Google
6 38 (2.05%) SAP
7 30 (1.61%) Xamarin
8 27 (1.45%) VMware
9 25 (1.35%) StreamSets
10 22 (1.18%) Salesforce.com
10 22 (1.18%) Tableau
11 20 (1.08%) Dell
12 19 (1.02%) DevExpress
13 17 (0.91%) Adobe
13 17 (0.91%) Splunk
14 16 (0.86%) Sitecore
15 14 (0.75%) EMC
15 14 (0.75%) Sybase
16 12 (0.65%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.65%) SunGard
1,984 C# job vacancies Nationwide