Senior C# .NET Developer Contracts

Senior C# .NET Developer
UK

The median Senior C# .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £529 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 684 805
Rank change year-on-year +97 +121 -141
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# .NET Developer 11 35 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.059% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.062% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 39
10th Percentile £448 £507 £450
25th Percentile £483 £569 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £663 £630
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +5.16% +68.00%
75th Percentile £545 £800 £800
90th Percentile £616 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £527
% change year-on-year - +18.65% +42.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Senior C# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior C# .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior C# .NET Developer.

Daily rate trend for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior C# .NET Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior C# .NET Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C# .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +104 10 £545 -19.26% 26
London +84 8 £545 -22.14% 5
Work from Home +122 6 £513 -18.00% 24
UK excluding London +61 1 - - 24
North of England +32 1 - - 6
North East - 1 - - 1

Senior C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior C# .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior C# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (81.82%) .NET Core
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
4 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (45.45%) Bicep
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
5 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 4 (36.36%) Scrum
5 4 (36.36%) Microservices
5 4 (36.36%) React
5 4 (36.36%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
6 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
6 3 (27.27%) API Management
6 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
6 3 (27.27%) B2C
6 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
6 3 (27.27%) XML
7 2 (18.18%) SQL
7 2 (18.18%) OO
7 2 (18.18%) Python
7 2 (18.18%) OOD
7 2 (18.18%) SOA

Senior C# .NET Developer Skill Set
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 2 (18.18%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) CTI
1 1 (9.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Back Office
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Front Office
2 1 (9.09%) Law
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (81.82%) .NET Core
3 4 (36.36%) React
4 3 (27.27%) XML
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (18.18%) CSS
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) jQuery
5 2 (18.18%) Node.js
6 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (9.09%) REST
6 1 (9.09%) WCF
6 1 (9.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) API Management
4 3 (27.27%) B2C
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) OO
5 2 (18.18%) OOD
5 2 (18.18%) SOA
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
6 1 (9.09%) Backends for Frontends
6 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
6 1 (9.09%) Kanban
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) MVVM
6 1 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) Bicep
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft