Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 January 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 January 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 Jan 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 15 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 0
Contract jobs citing C# 8,199 7,716 7,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.30% 7.81% 7.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.70% 18.54% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,297 5,890 4,999
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% -
10th Percentile £320 £310 £281
90th Percentile £650 £644 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 96 143
UK median hourly rate £43.75 £45.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% -
10th Percentile £21.42 £25.46 £17.32
90th Percentile £55.80 £48.75 £47.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +7.50% -

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 43,847 41,627 39,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.37% 42.15% 40.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 30,768 29,362 26,942
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +3.03%
10th Percentile £320 £308 £288
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 679 750 863
UK median hourly rate £42.19 £40.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +5.48% - +6.67%
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.61 £14.77
90th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £52.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +6.67%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 0 7,593 £454 +0.89% 4,450
UK excluding London +9 4,413 £400 +6.67% 3,569
London 0 3,665 £500 -1.96% 1,202
South East +14 1,344 £425 +13.33% 849
North of England +7 1,121 £375 +7.14% 1,001
Midlands +3 626 £400 +6.67% 639
South West -3 582 £411 +9.67% 408
North West +4 578 £385 +10.00% 488
Yorkshire +12 446 £375 +9.33% 410
West Midlands -2 422 £405 +8.00% 366
Scotland +4 337 £375 +4.17% 180
East of England -11 253 £413 +10.00% 353
East Midlands -2 198 £375 - 272
Wales +4 134 £400 +8.25% 100
North East +7 97 £450 +19.21% 103
Northern Ireland +9 21 £355 -25.26% 41
Isle of Man +3 7 £348 +13.93%

For the 6 months to 21 January 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 5,844 (71.28%) .NET
2 3,667 (44.72%) Agile Software Development
3 2,941 (35.87%) SQL
4 2,866 (34.96%) SQL Server
5 2,707 (33.02%) JavaScript
6 2,307 (28.14%) ASP.NET
7 2,238 (27.30%) MVC
8 2,192 (26.73%) Microsoft Azure
9 1,796 (21.91%) Microsoft
10 1,737 (21.19%) AngularJS
11 1,688 (20.59%) HTML
12 1,615 (19.70%) TDD
13 1,580 (19.27%) Finance
14 1,503 (18.33%) CSS
15 1,460 (17.81%) .NET Framework
16 1,368 (16.68%) ASP.NET Web API
17 1,269 (15.48%) Test Automation
18 1,104 (13.47%) Java
19 1,103 (13.45%) Scrum
20 1,025 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
21 1,012 (12.34%) Git (software)
22 1,011 (12.33%) ASP.NET MVC
23 972 (11.86%) Visual Studio
24 933 (11.38%) jQuery
25 879 (10.72%) Web Services
26 851 (10.38%) BDD
27 835 (10.18%) Windows
28 830 (10.12%) Microservices
29 824 (10.05%) .NET Core
30 816 (9.95%) DevOps

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
1 292 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 271 (3.31%) CMS
3 189 (2.31%) IIS
4 171 (2.09%) Umbraco
5 154 (1.88%) Confluence
6 149 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
7 99 (1.21%) NServiceBus
8 98 (1.20%) Apache
9 91 (1.11%) BizTalk Server
10 77 (0.94%) nginx
10 77 (0.94%) Tomcat
11 70 (0.85%) SharePoint 2013
12 68 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
13 50 (0.61%) Apache Spark
14 49 (0.60%) JBoss
14 49 (0.60%) WebLogic
15 34 (0.41%) Apache Solr
15 34 (0.41%) WebSphere
16 27 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 27 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 159 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 25 (0.30%) InfoPath
5 23 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.15%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.073%) CATIA
8 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.049%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.049%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.037%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.037%) InVision
9 3 (0.037%) Maya
10 2 (0.024%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.024%) Blender
10 2 (0.024%) GIMP
11 1 (0.012%) HipChat
11 1 (0.012%) LaTeX
11 1 (0.012%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 373 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.13%) RMDS
5 8 (0.098%) Markit EDM
6 6 (0.073%) Endur
6 6 (0.073%) thinkFolio
7 5 (0.061%) ENOVIA
7 5 (0.061%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.049%) CiviCRM
8 4 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.049%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.037%) Bloomberg AIM
10 2 (0.024%) Eagle PACE
10 2 (0.024%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.024%) nopCommerce
10 2 (0.024%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 2 (0.024%) Sage CRM
10 2 (0.024%) Scribe Insight
10 2 (0.024%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,192 (26.73%) Microsoft Azure
2 683 (8.33%) Amazon AWS
3 243 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
4 206 (2.51%) GitHub
5 172 (2.10%) SaaS
6 170 (2.07%) Serverless
7 157 (1.91%) PaaS
8 125 (1.52%) Office 365
9 115 (1.40%) Google Cloud Platform
10 93 (1.13%) Azure Functions
11 84 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 83 (1.01%) IaaS
13 75 (0.91%) Azure Active Directory
14 61 (0.74%) Google Analytics
15 60 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
16 49 (0.60%) npm
17 46 (0.56%) NuGet
18 28 (0.34%) Google Play
19 24 (0.29%) AWS CloudFormation
20 20 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 193 (2.35%) HTTP
2 106 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 82 (1.00%) Internet
4 78 (0.95%) SSL
5 45 (0.55%) AMQP
6 43 (0.52%) DNS
7 31 (0.38%) Firewall
8 28 (0.34%) Kerberos
9 23 (0.28%) SNMP
10 21 (0.26%) Ethernet
11 20 (0.24%) SMTP
11 20 (0.24%) VoIP
12 18 (0.22%) Intranet
12 18 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
13 15 (0.18%) SAN
14 14 (0.17%) DMZ
14 14 (0.17%) SMS
15 13 (0.16%) 802.11
15 13 (0.16%) VPN
16 12 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,866 (34.96%) SQL Server
2 454 (5.54%) NoSQL
3 401 (4.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 328 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 277 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 269 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 185 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 184 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 164 (2.00%) SQL Server 2012
10 154 (1.88%) SQL Server 2016
11 148 (1.81%) Power BI
12 135 (1.65%) MySQL
13 134 (1.63%) Cosmos DB
14 131 (1.60%) SQL Server 2008
15 125 (1.52%) Big Data
16 108 (1.32%) RDBMS
17 101 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 100 (1.22%) Oracle Database
19 97 (1.18%) SQL Server 2014
20 93 (1.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1,012 (12.34%) Git (software)
2 972 (11.86%) Visual Studio
3 698 (8.51%) Selenium
4 659 (8.04%) Team Foundation Server
5 522 (6.37%) JIRA
6 501 (6.11%) TeamCity
7 486 (5.93%) Jenkins
8 479 (5.84%) Visual Studio Team System
9 363 (4.43%) SpecFlow
10 288 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 247 (3.01%) NUnit
12 242 (2.95%) Cucumber
13 241 (2.94%) Subversion
14 190 (2.32%) WebDriver
15 128 (1.56%) Moq
16 127 (1.55%) Bitbucket
17 122 (1.49%) gulp
17 122 (1.49%) JUnit
18 108 (1.32%) MSTest
19 104 (1.27%) Eclipse
General
1 1,580 (19.27%) Finance
2 553 (6.74%) Banking
3 513 (6.26%) Front Office
4 219 (2.67%) Investment Banking
5 169 (2.06%) Retail
6 103 (1.26%) Telecoms
7 100 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 97 (1.18%) Marketing
9 91 (1.11%) Law
10 78 (0.95%) Back Office
11 77 (0.94%) Games
12 74 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 62 (0.76%) Legal
14 53 (0.65%) Electronics
15 44 (0.54%) Advertising
16 42 (0.51%) Publishing
17 35 (0.43%) Billing
18 33 (0.40%) Aerospace
19 24 (0.29%) Military
20 18 (0.22%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6,035 (73.61%) Developer
2 2,650 (32.32%) .NET Developer
3 2,613 (31.87%) C# Developer
4 1,246 (15.20%) C# .NET Developer
5 605 (7.38%) Full Stack Developer
6 593 (7.23%) Senior Developer
7 492 (6.00%) SQL Developer
8 453 (5.53%) Angular Developer
9 411 (5.01%) ASP.NET Developer
10 409 (4.99%) Software Developer
11 336 (4.10%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 325 (3.96%) Analyst
13 323 (3.94%) Architect
13 323 (3.94%) Azure Developer
14 296 (3.61%) Senior .NET Developer
15 287 (3.50%) Software Engineer
16 273 (3.33%) Tester
17 265 (3.23%) Senior C# Developer
18 260 (3.17%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
19 232 (2.83%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,844 (71.28%) .NET
2 2,307 (28.14%) ASP.NET
3 1,737 (21.19%) AngularJS
4 1,688 (20.59%) HTML
5 1,503 (18.33%) CSS
6 1,460 (17.81%) .NET Framework
7 1,368 (16.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1,011 (12.33%) ASP.NET MVC
9 933 (11.38%) jQuery
10 879 (10.72%) Web Services
11 824 (10.05%) .NET Core
12 776 (9.46%) Entity Framework
13 739 (9.01%) React
14 696 (8.49%) WCF
15 688 (8.39%) REST
16 672 (8.20%) WPF
17 655 (7.99%) HTML5
18 551 (6.72%) XML
19 491 (5.99%) RESTful
20 482 (5.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 652 (7.95%) Greenfield Project
2 419 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
3 306 (3.73%) Fintech
4 269 (3.28%) User Experience
5 268 (3.27%) Fixed Income
6 229 (2.79%) Hedge funds
7 228 (2.78%) Mobile App
8 209 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 181 (2.21%) Derivative
10 179 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 178 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
12 124 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 101 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 97 (1.18%) Equities
15 63 (0.77%) Credit Risk
16 60 (0.73%) Market Risk
17 51 (0.62%) N-Tier
18 41 (0.50%) Management Information System
19 39 (0.48%) Public Cloud
19 39 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 835 (10.18%) Windows
2 426 (5.20%) Linux
3 159 (1.94%) Android
3 159 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 153 (1.87%) Unix
4 153 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 71 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 63 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 42 (0.51%) Windows 7
8 34 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 34 (0.41%) Windows 8
9 28 (0.34%) CentOS
10 21 (0.26%) Debian
10 21 (0.26%) Solaris
11 18 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 17 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 14 (0.17%) Kali Linux
14 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (0.15%) Fedora
16 8 (0.098%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,667 (44.72%) Agile Software Development
2 2,238 (27.30%) MVC
3 1,615 (19.70%) TDD
4 1,269 (15.48%) Test Automation
5 1,103 (13.45%) Scrum
6 1,025 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 851 (10.38%) BDD
8 830 (10.12%) Microservices
9 816 (9.95%) DevOps
10 785 (9.57%) OO
11 771 (9.40%) Software Engineering
12 543 (6.62%) SDLC
13 520 (6.34%) Unit Testing
14 519 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
15 513 (6.26%) Web Development
16 459 (5.60%) SOLID
17 426 (5.20%) CRM
18 411 (5.01%) E-Commerce
19 391 (4.77%) Computer Science
20 375 (4.57%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 2,941 (35.87%) SQL
2 2,707 (33.02%) JavaScript
3 1,104 (13.47%) Java
4 756 (9.22%) Python
5 629 (7.67%) C++
6 602 (7.34%) T-SQL
7 450 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 446 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 292 (3.56%) VB.NET
10 201 (2.45%) C
11 197 (2.40%) PL/SQL
12 171 (2.09%) VB
13 167 (2.04%) Ruby
13 167 (2.04%) VBA
14 159 (1.94%) Scala
15 133 (1.62%) Perl
16 108 (1.32%) PHP
17 94 (1.15%) Bash Shell
18 92 (1.12%) Groovy
19 68 (0.83%) Go
Qualifications
1 494 (6.03%) Degree
2 358 (4.37%) Security Cleared
3 244 (2.98%) SC Cleared
4 147 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 64 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 49 (0.60%) PhD
8 43 (0.52%) ISTQB
9 40 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
11 32 (0.39%) ISEB
12 26 (0.32%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.28%) CISSP
14 21 (0.26%) MCSE
15 16 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 16 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.16%) CREST Certified
16 13 (0.16%) OSCE
17 12 (0.15%) DBS Check
18 11 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 400 (4.88%) QA
2 42 (0.51%) GDPR
3 40 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 24 (0.29%) SLA
5 19 (0.23%) WCAG
6 18 (0.22%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.18%) ISO 9001
8 15 (0.18%) PMO
9 14 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 11 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.098%) ISAE 3402
11 8 (0.098%) ISO 22301
11 8 (0.098%) ISO 31000
11 8 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 8 (0.098%) MISRA
11 8 (0.098%) MISRA C
11 8 (0.098%) WAI
12 6 (0.073%) TickIT
13 3 (0.037%) MiFID
System Software
1 495 (6.04%) Docker
2 108 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.18%) XenApp
7 12 (0.15%) VirtualBox
8 9 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.098%) ISA Server
9 8 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.098%) vSphere
10 6 (0.073%) Firmware
11 3 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.037%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.024%) ACF2
12 2 (0.024%) RACF
12 2 (0.024%) Squid
13 1 (0.012%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.012%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.012%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 249 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 125 (1.52%) Ansible
3 122 (1.49%) Puppet
4 85 (1.04%) Terraform
5 79 (0.96%) Kibana
6 58 (0.71%) Grafana
7 54 (0.66%) Opscode Chef
8 37 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (0.28%) Nessus
10 22 (0.27%) CA Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.27%) SCCM
11 21 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 16 (0.20%) Salt
13 14 (0.17%) Nmap
13 14 (0.17%) Packer
14 12 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (0.15%) HP ALM
15 11 (0.13%) HockeyApp
15 11 (0.13%) Nagios
15 11 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,796 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 601 (7.33%) Oracle
3 222 (2.71%) Google
4 133 (1.62%) Sitecore
5 129 (1.57%) Xamarin
6 84 (1.02%) SAP
7 79 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 61 (0.74%) TIBCO
9 47 (0.57%) Citrix
10 46 (0.56%) Apple
10 46 (0.56%) DevExpress
10 46 (0.56%) Telerik
11 45 (0.55%) VMware
12 43 (0.52%) IBM
13 42 (0.51%) Adobe
14 41 (0.50%) Bloomberg
14 41 (0.50%) Tableau
15 36 (0.44%) Sybase
16 34 (0.41%) webMethods
17 32 (0.39%) Reuters
4,851 C# job vacancies Nationwide