C# Developer Contracts in England

C# Developer
UK > England

The median C# Developer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 185 210
Rank change year-on-year -55 +25 -22
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 361 674 1,011
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 1.40% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.48% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 577 858
10th Percentile £385 £388 £381
25th Percentile £509 £450 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £775
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £58.00 £39.75 £51.50
25th Percentile £60.63 £45.38 £54.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -2.98% +44.17%
75th Percentile £71.88 £65.00 £61.93
90th Percentile £73.75 - £62.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +41.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London -18 311 £650 -3.70% 83
South East -5 14 £475 -20.83% 24
North of England -1 11 £488 +10.17% 55
Midlands +16 8 £488 +30.00% 35
North West -4 8 £500 +12.99% 34
South West +3 7 £338 -6.90% 15
West Midlands +22 6 £438 +12.90% 17
East of England 0 3 - - 5
Yorkshire +12 2 £400 -11.11% 13
East Midlands +7 2 £550 +61.76% 18
North East +9 1 - - 11
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 361 (100.00%) C#
2 216 (59.83%) .NET
3 160 (44.32%) SQL
4 135 (37.40%) Azure
5 133 (36.84%) Finance
6 121 (33.52%) SQL Server
7 95 (26.32%) Agile
8 90 (24.93%) Front Office
9 83 (22.99%) DevOps
10 81 (22.44%) Social Skills
11 67 (18.56%) .NET Core
11 67 (18.56%) .NET Framework
12 64 (17.73%) Banking
12 64 (17.73%) JavaScript
13 63 (17.45%) Software Engineering
13 63 (17.45%) Full Stack Development
14 62 (17.17%) AngularJS
15 57 (15.79%) React
15 57 (15.79%) Microsoft
16 56 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
17 52 (14.40%) WPF
18 49 (13.57%) CI/CD
19 45 (12.47%) Oracle
20 43 (11.91%) ASP.NET
20 43 (11.91%) Git
20 43 (11.91%) TDD
21 39 (10.80%) Microservices
22 38 (10.53%) Scrum
23 37 (10.25%) Electronic Trading
24 35 (9.70%) AWS

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (2.77%) IIS
2 6 (1.66%) CMS
3 4 (1.11%) Apache
4 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) Jadu
6 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) EPiServer
Applications
1 33 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.28%) Endur
2 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 135 (37.40%) Azure
2 56 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (9.70%) AWS
4 28 (7.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (3.88%) PaaS
6 13 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (3.32%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.32%) Serverless
8 11 (3.05%) Azure Functions
9 10 (2.77%) GCP
10 8 (2.22%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.94%) GitHub
11 7 (1.94%) npm
12 6 (1.66%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.66%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.49%) Internet
2 5 (1.39%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (33.52%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.93%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.37%) Oracle Database
3 23 (6.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (5.82%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.66%) MySQL
9 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.11%) Redis
11 3 (0.83%) Power BI
11 3 (0.83%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.28%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 43 (11.91%) Git
2 25 (6.93%) TeamCity
3 18 (4.99%) Visual Studio
4 16 (4.43%) NUnit
5 15 (4.16%) Moq
6 14 (3.88%) SpecFlow
7 13 (3.60%) Octopus Deploy
8 11 (3.05%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.05%) JIRA
8 11 (3.05%) Selenium
9 9 (2.49%) Jenkins
10 7 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (1.94%) webpack
11 4 (1.11%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.11%) GitLab
12 3 (0.83%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.55%) MSTest
13 2 (0.55%) Postman
14 1 (0.28%) GoCD
14 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 133 (36.84%) Finance
2 90 (24.93%) Front Office
3 81 (22.44%) Social Skills
4 64 (17.73%) Banking
5 35 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (9.42%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.16%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.88%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.94%) Law
10 7 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.39%) Back Office
11 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Electronics
12 4 (1.11%) Marketing
12 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.83%) Local Government
14 2 (0.55%) Retail
14 2 (0.55%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.28%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (59.83%) .NET
2 67 (18.56%) .NET Core
2 67 (18.56%) .NET Framework
3 62 (17.17%) AngularJS
4 57 (15.79%) React
5 52 (14.40%) WPF
6 43 (11.91%) ASP.NET
7 24 (6.65%) WCF
8 22 (6.09%) HTML
9 21 (5.82%) REST
10 19 (5.26%) CSS
10 19 (5.26%) XML
11 18 (4.99%) ASP.NET Web API
11 18 (4.99%) Entity Framework
11 18 (4.99%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (4.99%) RESTful
12 16 (4.43%) Web Services
13 15 (4.16%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (4.16%) Middleware
14 13 (3.60%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.42%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (8.86%) Fixed Income
3 25 (6.93%) Derivative
4 20 (5.54%) Equities
5 16 (4.43%) Equity Derivative
5 16 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.77%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.77%) Renewable Energy
8 9 (2.49%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.66%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.11%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 4 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.83%) Solar Panel
13 2 (0.55%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.37%) Windows
2 12 (3.32%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (26.32%) Agile
2 83 (22.99%) DevOps
3 63 (17.45%) Full Stack Development
3 63 (17.45%) Software Engineering
4 49 (13.57%) CI/CD
5 43 (11.91%) TDD
6 39 (10.80%) Microservices
7 38 (10.53%) Scrum
8 37 (10.25%) Electronic Trading
9 35 (9.70%) Test Automation
10 34 (9.42%) OO
11 32 (8.86%) MVC
11 32 (8.86%) Unit Testing
12 30 (8.31%) Continuous Integration
13 29 (8.03%) Design Patterns
13 29 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (6.09%) Front End Development
14 22 (6.09%) Multithreading
15 20 (5.54%) Analytics
16 18 (4.99%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 361 (100.00%) C#
2 160 (44.32%) SQL
3 64 (17.73%) JavaScript
4 31 (8.59%) Python
5 28 (7.76%) PL/SQL
5 28 (7.76%) T-SQL
6 24 (6.65%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.37%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.37%) VBA
8 20 (5.54%) VB
9 16 (4.43%) Java
10 11 (3.05%) Bicep
10 11 (3.05%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.66%) C++
12 4 (1.11%) PHP
13 3 (0.83%) C
14 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.55%) Ruby
15 1 (0.28%) Groovy
15 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (6.65%) Degree
2 14 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.94%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.37%) QA
2 5 (1.39%) MiFID
3 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.11%) SEPA
3 4 (1.11%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (4.71%) Docker
2 14 (3.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (3.05%) Kubernetes
1 11 (3.05%) Terraform
2 2 (0.55%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) Grafana
3 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.47%) Oracle
3 18 (4.99%) Citrix
4 10 (2.77%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.39%) Okta
6 4 (1.11%) Google
6 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.11%) SAP
7 2 (0.55%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.55%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.55%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.28%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.28%) OpenLink