Senior C# Developer Contracts

The median contractor rate for a Senior C# Developer was £500 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to 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.

Senior C# Developer UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	470	553	488
Rank change year-on-year	+83	-65
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer	137	98	153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.29%	0.18%	0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.31%	0.19%	0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted	118	93	123
Median daily rate	£500	£525	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-4.76%	+10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£340	£332	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£611	£638	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£385	£350	£350
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	0
Median hourly rate	-	£32.50	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£32.50	-

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	44561	50348	53046
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.78%	94.85%	94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	28813	32834	33338
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£245
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£568
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1376	1496	2028
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.42	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£44.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.00
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+9.06%

Senior C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Senior C# Developer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Senior C# Developer.

Contractor daily rate trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Senior C# Developer over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C# Developer.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Top 30 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# Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+55	119	£525	-	100
London	+6	83	£550	-7.36%	39
City of London	-12	28	£525	-13.40%	14
Yorkshire	-	12	£325	-	7
Belfast	-	11	£413	-
Northern Ireland	-	11	£413	-
County Antrim	-	11	£413	-
South East	+29	8	£463	+19.35%	20
Scotland	-	7	£375	-	5
Edinburgh	-	7	£375	-	4
West Yorkshire	-	7	£325	-	5
South West	+9	5	£500	-	7
Surrey	+6	5	£475	+18.75%	1
Bristol	-	5	£500	-	2
Leeds	-	5	£325	-	5
East Yorkshire	-	5	£365	-	1
Hull	-	5	£365	-	1
West Midlands	+24	4	£275	-30.37%	6
East Midlands	-5	4	£335	-25.55%	6
Northamptonshire	-	3	£335	-	1
Northampton	-	3	£335	-	1
Birmingham	+20	2	-	-
North West	+14	2	-	-	5
Manchester	+12	2	-	-	3
Bradford	-	2	£320	-
Reigate	-	2	£475	-
Tyne and Wear	+74	1	£500	+42.85%	1
North East	+69	1	£500	+42.85%	1
West Sussex	+21	1	£425	+16.43%	2
Woking	0	1	£500	-

Senior C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, Senior C# Developer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring Senior C# Developer in the job title.

1	267 (100.00%)	C#
2	228 (85.39%)	.NET
3	145 (54.31%)	SQL Server
4	129 (48.31%)	Agile Software Development
5	116 (43.45%)	TDD
6	112 (41.95%)	MVC
7	109 (40.82%)	SQL
8	97 (36.33%)	JavaScript
9	96 (35.96%)	Finance
10	94 (35.21%)	ASP.NET
11	82 (30.71%)	AngularJS
12	68 (25.47%)	.NET Framework
13	66 (24.72%)	Banking
14	64 (23.97%)	WCF
15	59 (22.10%)	HTML

15	59 (22.10%)	Scrum
16	56 (20.97%)	ASP.NET MVC
17	52 (19.48%)	WPF
18	51 (19.10%)	Microsoft Azure
19	49 (18.35%)	ASP.NET Web API
20	48 (17.98%)	Entity Framework
21	43 (16.10%)	CSS
22	41 (15.36%)	Microsoft
23	40 (14.98%)	E-Commerce
24	39 (14.61%)	T-SQL
24	39 (14.61%)	Multithreading
25	38 (14.23%)	XML
25	38 (14.23%)	BDD
26	34 (12.73%)	Microservices
27	32 (11.99%)	REST

Senior C# Developer Skill Set
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
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	17 (6.37%)	Elasticsearch
2	10 (3.75%)	NServiceBus
3	5 (1.87%)	Umbraco
4	4 (1.50%)	CMS
4	4 (1.50%)	SharePoint
5	3 (1.12%)	Sitecore CMS
6	2 (0.75%)	BizTalk Server
6	2 (0.75%)	Confluence
6	2 (0.75%)	EPiServer
6	2 (0.75%)	Oracle Coherence
6	2 (0.75%)	WebSphere
7	1 (0.37%)	IIS
7	1 (0.37%)	Oracle SOA Suite
7	1 (0.37%)	Sitefinity
7	1 (0.37%)	Tomcat
7	1 (0.37%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	7 (2.62%)	Microsoft Excel
2	1 (0.37%)	Microsoft Office
2	1 (0.37%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	3 (1.12%)	ION MarketView
2	1 (0.37%)	Dynamics CRM

Cloud Services
1	51 (19.10%)	Microsoft Azure
2	28 (10.49%)	Amazon AWS
3	18 (6.74%)	GitHub
4	17 (6.37%)	Amazon EC2
5	5 (1.87%)	SaaS
6	2 (0.75%)	AWS Lambda
6	2 (0.75%)	IaaS
6	2 (0.75%)	PaaS
7	1 (0.37%)	Amazon Kinesis
7	1 (0.37%)	Azure Active Directory

Communications & Networking
1	3 (1.12%)	IP Telephony
2	2 (0.75%)	Ethernet
2	2 (0.75%)	TCP/IP
3	1 (0.37%)	PPP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	145 (54.31%)	SQL Server
2	23 (8.61%)	NoSQL
3	21 (7.87%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	20 (7.49%)	Amazon DynamoDB
5	17 (6.37%)	SQL Server 2012
6	16 (5.99%)	Hadoop
6	16 (5.99%)	SQL Server 2008
7	14 (5.24%)	Relational Database
8	6 (2.25%)	Redis
9	5 (1.87%)	Azure SQL Database
10	4 (1.50%)	MongoDB
10	4 (1.50%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
11	3 (1.12%)	PostgreSQL
11	3 (1.12%)	Power BI
12	1 (0.37%)	Amazon RDS
12	1 (0.37%)	Data Warehouse
12	1 (0.37%)	MS Access

Development Applications
1	26 (9.74%)	Visual Studio
2	24 (8.99%)	TeamCity
3	20 (7.49%)	NUnit
4	18 (6.74%)	Team Foundation Server
5	17 (6.37%)	Octopus Deploy
6	16 (5.99%)	JIRA
7	15 (5.62%)	Git (software)
8	13 (4.87%)	MSTest
9	8 (3.00%)	Moq
10	7 (2.62%)	Bitbucket
11	6 (2.25%)	Selenium
12	4 (1.50%)	JIRA Agile
12	4 (1.50%)	JSUnit
13	3 (1.12%)	Cucumber
13	3 (1.12%)	GoCD
13	3 (1.12%)	SpecFlow
13	3 (1.12%)	Subversion
14	2 (0.75%)	Sahi
14	2 (0.75%)	Visual Studio Tools for Office
14	2 (0.75%)	WATIR

General
1	96 (35.96%)	Finance
2	66 (24.72%)	Banking
3	32 (11.99%)	Front Office
4	21 (7.87%)	Investment Banking
5	6 (2.25%)	Retail
6	2 (0.75%)	Automotive
6	2 (0.75%)	Back Office
6	2 (0.75%)	Marketing
7	1 (0.37%)	Games
7	1 (0.37%)	Legal

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	228 (85.39%)	.NET
2	94 (35.21%)	ASP.NET
3	82 (30.71%)	AngularJS
4	68 (25.47%)	.NET Framework
5	64 (23.97%)	WCF
6	59 (22.10%)	HTML
7	56 (20.97%)	ASP.NET MVC
8	52 (19.48%)	WPF
9	49 (18.35%)	ASP.NET Web API
10	48 (17.98%)	Entity Framework
11	43 (16.10%)	CSS
12	38 (14.23%)	XML
13	32 (11.99%)	REST
14	28 (10.49%)	HTML5
15	26 (9.74%)	jQuery
15	26 (9.74%)	RabbitMQ
16	21 (7.87%)	Web Services
17	19 (7.12%)	JSON
17	19 (7.12%)	Node.js
17	19 (7.12%)	RESTful

Miscellaneous
1	29 (10.86%)	Fixed Income
2	18 (6.74%)	Blog
2	18 (6.74%)	User Experience
3	16 (5.99%)	Greenfield Project
3	16 (5.99%)	Public Cloud
4	15 (5.62%)	Computer Science
5	14 (5.24%)	Derivative
6	9 (3.37%)	Analytical Skills
7	8 (3.00%)	Enterprise Software
7	8 (3.00%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
7	8 (3.00%)	Hedge funds
8	7 (2.62%)	N-Tier
9	6 (2.25%)	Data Structures
9	6 (2.25%)	Equities
9	6 (2.25%)	Mobile App
10	5 (1.87%)	Reinsurance
11	3 (1.12%)	Algorithms
11	3 (1.12%)	Client/Server
12	2 (0.75%)	Credit Risk
12	2 (0.75%)	Grid Computing

Operating Systems
1	26 (9.74%)	Windows
2	4 (1.50%)	Unix
3	2 (0.75%)	Android
3	2 (0.75%)	Apple iOS
4	1 (0.37%)	Linux
4	1 (0.37%)	Solaris

Processes & Methodologies
1	129 (48.31%)	Agile Software Development
2	116 (43.45%)	TDD
3	112 (41.95%)	MVC
4	59 (22.10%)	Scrum
5	40 (14.98%)	E-Commerce
6	39 (14.61%)	Multithreading
7	38 (14.23%)	BDD
8	34 (12.73%)	Microservices
9	32 (11.99%)	Unit Testing
10	30 (11.24%)	Continuous Integration
10	30 (11.24%)	OO
11	29 (10.86%)	SOA
12	27 (10.11%)	DevOps
13	25 (9.36%)	Kanban
14	23 (8.61%)	Continuous Improvement
15	22 (8.24%)	SDLC
16	21 (7.87%)	Test Automation
17	19 (7.12%)	CQRS
17	19 (7.12%)	Web Development
18	17 (6.37%)	MVVM

Programming Languages
1	267 (100.00%)	C#
2	109 (40.82%)	SQL
3	97 (36.33%)	JavaScript
4	39 (14.61%)	T-SQL
5	26 (9.74%)	Java
6	22 (8.24%)	C++
7	18 (6.74%)	Ruby
8	16 (5.99%)	Scala
9	13 (4.87%)	C
10	9 (3.37%)	TypeScript
11	7 (2.62%)	C++/CLI
11	7 (2.62%)	PowerShell
11	7 (2.62%)	Python
12	6 (2.25%)	ES6
12	6 (2.25%)	VBA
13	3 (1.12%)	Perl
13	3 (1.12%)	Shell Script
13	3 (1.12%)	VB.NET
14	1 (0.37%)	PL/SQL
14	1 (0.37%)	VC++

Qualifications
1	18 (6.74%)	Degree
2	11 (4.12%)	Computer Science Degree
3	3 (1.12%)	SC Cleared
3	3 (1.12%)	Security Cleared
4	2 (0.75%)	BPSS Clearance
4	2 (0.75%)	MBA
4	2 (0.75%)	Numerate Degree
5	1 (0.37%)	CFA
5	1 (0.37%)	Master's Degree
5	1 (0.37%)	Postgraduate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	19 (7.12%)	QA
2	1 (0.37%)	MiFID

System Software
1	7 (2.62%)	Docker
2	2 (0.75%)	Platform Symphony
3	1 (0.37%)	Active Directory

Systems Management
1	17 (6.37%)	Opscode Chef
2	1 (0.37%)	Puppet

Vendors
1	41 (15.36%)	Microsoft
2	13 (4.87%)	Oracle
3	7 (2.62%)	Google
3	7 (2.62%)	Perforce
4	5 (1.87%)	Sitecore
4	5 (1.87%)	Sybase
4	5 (1.87%)	Xamarin
5	3 (1.12%)	ION Trading
6	2 (0.75%)	Infragistics
6	2 (0.75%)	Solace
6	2 (0.75%)	TIBCO
6	2 (0.75%)	Typemock
7	1 (0.37%)	Avaya
7	1 (0.37%)	Bloomberg
7	1 (0.37%)	Blue Prism
7	1 (0.37%)	SAP
7	1 (0.37%)	Sun
7	1 (0.37%)	Telerik