Senior C# Developer Contracts

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 627 738
Rank change year-on-year +75 +111 -95
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 48 89 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 69 114
10th Percentile £456 £500 £412
25th Percentile £512 £556 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £731 £800 £800
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £473 £546
% change year-on-year +0.53% -13.38% +47.93%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Senior C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior C# Developer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# 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# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +80 47 £650 - 34
London +81 41 £650 -3.70% 22
Work from Home +100 26 £688 +5.77% 19
UK excluding London +52 5 £475 +0.53% 17
South East +24 3 £475 - 4
South West - 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior C# 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# Developer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) C#
2 32 (66.67%) .NET
3 30 (62.50%) Azure
4 24 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 18 (37.50%) Agile
5 18 (37.50%) DevOps
6 16 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 16 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 15 (31.25%) Finance
8 14 (29.17%) React
9 13 (27.08%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (27.08%) .NET Core
9 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
9 13 (27.08%) Scrum
10 12 (25.00%) XML
10 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
12 10 (20.83%) AngularJS
13 9 (18.75%) Entra ID
13 9 (18.75%) PowerShell
13 9 (18.75%) B2C
14 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
15 7 (14.58%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (14.58%) Bicep
15 7 (14.58%) CSS
15 7 (14.58%) HTML
15 7 (14.58%) Banking
15 7 (14.58%) jQuery
16 6 (12.50%) .NET Framework
16 6 (12.50%) SQL

Senior C# 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 (4.17%) Apache
1 2 (4.17%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) Azure
2 13 (27.08%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 7 (14.58%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (10.42%) AWS
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (4.17%) PaaS
8 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.08%) GCP
9 1 (2.08%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.17%) MySQL
3 2 (4.17%) Redis
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) NUnit
2 2 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Mercurial
3 1 (2.08%) Moq
3 1 (2.08%) MSTest
3 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 15 (31.25%) Finance
2 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
4 6 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (66.67%) .NET
2 14 (29.17%) React
3 13 (27.08%) .NET Core
4 12 (25.00%) XML
5 10 (20.83%) AngularJS
6 7 (14.58%) CSS
6 7 (14.58%) HTML
6 7 (14.58%) jQuery
7 6 (12.50%) .NET Framework
8 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET
9 4 (8.33%) Entity Framework
9 4 (8.33%) Node.js
10 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (6.25%) JSON
10 3 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (6.25%) Vue
10 3 (6.25%) WPF
11 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (4.17%) RESTful
11 2 (4.17%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.17%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (37.50%) Agile
1 18 (37.50%) DevOps
2 16 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
3 13 (27.08%) Scrum
4 9 (18.75%) B2C
5 6 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (12.50%) Microservices
6 5 (10.42%) Clean Code
6 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (10.42%) MVC
6 5 (10.42%) TDD
7 4 (8.33%) Electronic Trading
7 4 (8.33%) OO
7 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.33%) Unit Testing
7 4 (8.33%) User Experience
8 3 (6.25%) API Management
8 3 (6.25%) OOP
8 3 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) C#
2 16 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 7 (14.58%) Bicep
5 6 (12.50%) SQL
6 4 (8.33%) Java
6 4 (8.33%) Python
6 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.17%) WCAG
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.08%) OpenLink
3 1 (2.08%) Virgin Media