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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 36 31
Rank change year-on-year -30 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 1,029 2,098 3,707
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.54% 4.75% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.41% 16.25% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 769 1,497 2,778
10th Percentile £373 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £690 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £800 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 71 141
10th Percentile £29.95 £40.82 £48.50
25th Percentile £33.81 £57.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - +30.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile £65.23 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +28.03%

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 9,881 12,908 22,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.98% 29.20% 35.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,640 9,123 16,286
10th Percentile £356 £350 £399
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £676
90th Percentile £756 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.64% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 482 506
10th Percentile £22.35 £30.63 £26.19
25th Percentile £33.69 £46.20 £49.76
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.69 £67.38 £69.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.37 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £61.60 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.90% -1.44% +25.63%

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025. 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 -23 913 £550 -6.38% 2,238
London -17 629 £613 -2.00% 1,037
Work from Home -26 396 £525 -8.70% 1,123
UK excluding London -44 296 £450 -5.26% 1,419
South East +16 101 £475 -5.00% 428
Midlands -3 52 £450 -4.00% 191
North of England -81 42 £425 -5.56% 363
Scotland +1 37 £468 +10.00% 88
West Midlands -2 35 £463 -11.90% 105
South West -20 31 £430 -9.47% 142
East of England -16 22 £490 +8.89% 155
North West -64 22 £413 -13.16% 203
Yorkshire -19 16 £475 +11.76% 112
East Midlands -3 12 £495 +18.35% 82
Wales +4 8 £272 -30.82% 52
Northern Ireland 0 7 £325 -43.48% 23
North East -27 4 £370 -12.94% 50

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 39 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.72%) Confluence
3 19 (1.85%) IIS
4 10 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (0.58%) CMS
6 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
7 4 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Pig
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.097%) DataSynapse
9 1 (0.097%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.097%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.097%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.097%) WinCC
Applications
1 48 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.58%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
5 1 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.097%) Revit
5 1 (0.097%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.097%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 63 (6.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.58%) Endur
3 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.19%) Misys Opics
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.19%) Shopify
5 1 (0.097%) Actimize
5 1 (0.097%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.097%) Magento
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle TCA
5 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.097%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.097%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 484 (47.04%) Azure
2 195 (18.95%) Azure DevOps
3 155 (15.06%) AWS
4 118 (11.47%) Power Platform
5 108 (10.50%) Dynamics 365
6 87 (8.45%) Power Automate
7 84 (8.16%) PowerApps
8 69 (6.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 65 (6.32%) Serverless
10 48 (4.66%) Azure Functions
11 46 (4.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 38 (3.69%) Entra ID
13 37 (3.60%) Azure AKS
13 37 (3.60%) GCP
13 37 (3.60%) GitHub
14 34 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (2.43%) PaaS
18 24 (2.33%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.24%) DNS
2 13 (1.26%) HTTP
3 12 (1.17%) Internet
3 12 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.97%) SSL
5 8 (0.78%) Firewall
6 7 (0.68%) FTP
6 7 (0.68%) SMTP
7 6 (0.58%) DHCP
8 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.39%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.39%) LTE
9 4 (0.39%) NAS
9 4 (0.39%) Network Security
9 4 (0.39%) Wireless
10 3 (0.29%) SAN
11 2 (0.19%) Intranet
12 1 (0.097%) 3GPP
12 1 (0.097%) NFC
12 1 (0.097%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (19.83%) SQL Server
2 67 (6.51%) Relational Database
3 48 (4.66%) Power BI
4 47 (4.57%) NoSQL
5 38 (3.69%) Oracle Database
6 32 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 30 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (2.72%) Redis
9 25 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (2.33%) MongoDB
11 23 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (1.85%) DocumentDB
13 17 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (1.46%) Big Data
15 12 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.87%) MySQL
18 8 (0.78%) Apache Hive
18 8 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
19 7 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 133 (12.93%) Git
2 97 (9.43%) JIRA
3 76 (7.39%) Jenkins
4 52 (5.05%) Visual Studio
5 32 (3.11%) TeamCity
6 28 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 25 (2.43%) Selenium
8 18 (1.75%) GitLab
8 18 (1.75%) JMeter
9 17 (1.65%) Postman
9 17 (1.65%) SpecFlow
10 15 (1.46%) Cypress.io
10 15 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
12 11 (1.07%) NUnit
13 9 (0.87%) Ant
13 9 (0.87%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.87%) Subversion
14 7 (0.68%) Appium
14 7 (0.68%) LoadRunner
General
1 291 (28.28%) Finance
2 257 (24.98%) Social Skills
3 159 (15.45%) Banking
4 119 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (8.36%) Front Office
6 79 (7.68%) Public Sector
7 74 (7.19%) Investment Banking
8 30 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 27 (2.62%) Marketing
10 23 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.14%) Back Office
12 19 (1.85%) Electronics
13 17 (1.65%) Retail Banking
14 16 (1.55%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.17%) Games
17 10 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (0.87%) Legal
19 8 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 629 (61.13%) Developer
2 245 (23.81%) C# Developer
3 170 (16.52%) .NET Developer
4 120 (11.66%) Senior
5 99 (9.62%) Software Engineer
6 91 (8.84%) C# .NET Developer
7 68 (6.61%) Senior Developer
8 66 (6.41%) Lead
9 56 (5.44%) Architect
10 53 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 49 (4.76%) Python Developer
12 38 (3.69%) C# Software Engineer
13 37 (3.60%) Software Developer
14 36 (3.50%) WPF Developer
15 35 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
15 35 (3.40%) C# WPF Developer
16 32 (3.11%) C++ Developer
17 31 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.01%) Senior C# Developer
18 28 (2.72%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 621 (60.35%) .NET
2 158 (15.35%) .NET Framework
3 139 (13.51%) HTML
4 128 (12.44%) CSS
5 125 (12.15%) .NET Core
6 119 (11.56%) ASP.NET
7 108 (10.50%) React
8 99 (9.62%) AngularJS
9 86 (8.36%) REST
10 73 (7.09%) RESTful
11 65 (6.32%) Kafka
12 63 (6.12%) WPF
13 56 (5.44%) ASP.NET Web API
13 56 (5.44%) Web Services
14 53 (5.15%) WCF
15 52 (5.05%) Entity Framework
16 40 (3.89%) SOAP
17 38 (3.69%) JSON
17 38 (3.69%) Node.js
18 36 (3.50%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 59 (5.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 46 (4.47%) Derivative
2 46 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 30 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
6 19 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 18 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.46%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.26%) Equities
11 13 (1.26%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.17%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.17%) Market Risk
13 10 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 125 (12.15%) Windows
2 54 (5.25%) Linux
3 25 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.55%) Unix
5 7 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.29%) CentOS
9 2 (0.19%) Android
9 2 (0.19%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.19%) Solaris
9 2 (0.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.097%) AIX
10 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.097%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (36.44%) Agile
2 370 (35.96%) DevOps
3 243 (23.62%) CI/CD
4 206 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (17.30%) Software Engineering
6 151 (14.67%) Test Automation
7 129 (12.54%) Microservices
8 107 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 103 (10.01%) TDD
10 95 (9.23%) OO
11 88 (8.55%) Scrum
12 78 (7.58%) SDLC
13 74 (7.19%) Design Patterns
14 69 (6.71%) Containerisation
14 69 (6.71%) CRM
15 66 (6.41%) Unit Testing
15 66 (6.41%) User Experience
16 64 (6.22%) Continuous Integration
16 64 (6.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 63 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 416 (40.43%) SQL
2 320 (31.10%) JavaScript
3 245 (23.81%) Python
4 166 (16.13%) Java
5 123 (11.95%) TypeScript
6 113 (10.98%) PowerShell
7 91 (8.84%) C++
8 72 (7.00%) PL/SQL
9 42 (4.08%) VB
10 41 (3.98%) T-SQL
11 39 (3.79%) VBA
12 23 (2.24%) VB.NET
13 18 (1.75%) Ruby
14 17 (1.65%) Delphi
15 16 (1.55%) PHP
16 14 (1.36%) Bicep
17 10 (0.97%) Go
18 9 (0.87%) RPG
18 9 (0.87%) RPG IV
19 8 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 135 (13.12%) Security Cleared
2 111 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 82 (7.97%) Degree
4 30 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.29%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.29%) CISSP
11 3 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.19%) ISEB
12 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.19%) MCPD
12 2 (0.19%) MCSD
12 2 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.80%) QA
2 23 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.68%) MiFID
6 6 (0.58%) EMIR
7 4 (0.39%) GDPR
7 4 (0.39%) WCAG
8 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.19%) HL7
9 2 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.097%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.097%) SEPA
System Software
1 115 (11.18%) Docker
2 41 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) Platform Symphony
5 3 (0.29%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) vCloud
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.097%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 151 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 88 (8.55%) Terraform
3 43 (4.18%) Ansible
4 10 (0.97%) MIIS
5 9 (0.87%) Grafana
5 9 (0.87%) Kibana
6 8 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.58%) Puppet
8 5 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.49%) Perfmon
9 4 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.29%) WMI
11 2 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.19%) SCCM
11 2 (0.19%) SCOM
11 2 (0.19%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 211 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 130 (12.63%) Oracle
3 29 (2.82%) SAP
4 26 (2.53%) Databricks
5 21 (2.04%) Google
6 14 (1.36%) OutSystems
7 13 (1.26%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.17%) Citrix
9 11 (1.07%) Cloudera
9 11 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.07%) TIBCO
10 9 (0.87%) IBM
11 8 (0.78%) VMware
12 7 (0.68%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.58%) New Relic
13 6 (0.58%) OpenLink
13 6 (0.58%) PayPal
13 6 (0.58%) Splunk
13 6 (0.58%) Xamarin