C# Contracts in London

C#
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 25 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +7
Contract jobs citing C# 1,259 1,834 2,827
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.21% 7.09% 7.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.69% 17.58% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 1,477 2,347
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £640 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £588 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £36.80 £44.57
25th Percentile £40.82 - £45.98
Median hourly rate £43.84 £50.42 £49.28
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% +2.31% +10.75%
75th Percentile £46.86 £52.97 £56.29
90th Percentile - £68.50 £58.95
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,395 10,434 16,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.63% 40.32% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,885 7,812 12,407
10th Percentile £381 £413 £416
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £835 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 113
10th Percentile £23.80 £30.30 £31.05
25th Percentile £40.77 £49.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C# in London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C# in London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for C# in London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in London

C#
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the London 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
Central London -8 172 £600 -8.05% 88
East London +7 26 £435 +8.75% 9
West London +27 15 £575 +27.78% 14
South London -3 6 £430 -25.22% 12
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 23 (1.83%) CMS
2 18 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.35%) IIS
4 13 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.48%) Apache
7 4 (0.32%) Luigi
8 3 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Confluence
10 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.079%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.079%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.079%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.079%) Jadu
10 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.079%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.079%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.079%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.83%) Endur
2 19 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.95%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.64%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.40%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.16%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.079%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.079%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 526 (41.78%) Azure
2 266 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
3 147 (11.68%) AWS
4 115 (9.13%) Azure Service Bus
5 83 (6.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 68 (5.40%) Entra ID
7 60 (4.77%) Power Platform
8 56 (4.45%) Dynamics 365
9 53 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
10 50 (3.97%) Serverless
11 49 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 43 (3.42%) GCP
13 40 (3.18%) Azure Functions
14 39 (3.10%) Azure API Management
15 34 (2.70%) PowerApps
16 32 (2.54%) Power Automate
17 27 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
18 23 (1.83%) PaaS
19 21 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
20 20 (1.59%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.67%) Internet
2 7 (0.56%) DNS
2 7 (0.56%) FTP
2 7 (0.56%) HTTP
2 7 (0.56%) Kerberos
3 6 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.48%) VPN
4 5 (0.40%) Wireless
5 4 (0.32%) Firewall
5 4 (0.32%) SSH
6 3 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.16%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.16%) DHCP
7 2 (0.16%) Network Security
7 2 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.079%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.079%) VLAN
8 1 (0.079%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (30.02%) SQL Server
2 57 (4.53%) Relational Database
3 55 (4.37%) NoSQL
4 53 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 48 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 34 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 31 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (2.22%) Power BI
9 27 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (1.99%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.67%) Redis
12 19 (1.51%) MongoDB
13 16 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (1.19%) KDB
15 12 (0.95%) Big Data
15 12 (0.95%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.79%) Kdb+
17 9 (0.71%) Data Lake
18 7 (0.56%) MySQL
18 7 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 129 (10.25%) Git
2 68 (5.40%) Selenium
2 68 (5.40%) SpecFlow
3 55 (4.37%) TeamCity
4 48 (3.81%) Visual Studio
5 44 (3.49%) JIRA
6 41 (3.26%) Jenkins
7 28 (2.22%) WebDriver
8 25 (1.99%) GitLab
9 23 (1.83%) Cucumber
10 21 (1.67%) NUnit
10 21 (1.67%) Postman
11 17 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 17 (1.35%) Moq
12 15 (1.19%) Appium
13 14 (1.11%) webpack
14 12 (0.95%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.95%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.95%) SoapUI
14 12 (0.95%) TestNG
General
1 383 (30.42%) Finance
2 240 (19.06%) Social Skills
3 231 (18.35%) Front Office
4 214 (17.00%) Banking
5 100 (7.94%) Back Office
6 99 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (6.83%) Investment Banking
8 80 (6.35%) Public Sector
9 24 (1.91%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.67%) Local Government
11 16 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.19%) Retail
13 14 (1.11%) Marketing
14 10 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.56%) Games
15 7 (0.56%) Legal
16 6 (0.48%) Law
16 6 (0.48%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.40%) Electronics
17 5 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 738 (58.62%) Developer
2 311 (24.70%) C# Developer
3 254 (20.17%) Senior
4 213 (16.92%) .NET Developer
5 156 (12.39%) Senior Developer
6 123 (9.77%) Software Engineer
7 105 (8.34%) Full Stack Developer
8 91 (7.23%) Lead
9 89 (7.07%) Software Developer
10 87 (6.91%) C# .NET Developer
11 81 (6.43%) Analyst
12 64 (5.08%) Azure Developer
13 54 (4.29%) Angular Developer
14 50 (3.97%) .NET Software Engineer
15 49 (3.89%) Senior Software Developer
16 47 (3.73%) Backend Developer
16 47 (3.73%) Full-Stack C# Developer
17 45 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
18 42 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
19 41 (3.26%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 738 (58.62%) .NET
2 216 (17.16%) .NET Core
3 179 (14.22%) React
4 170 (13.50%) .NET Framework
5 156 (12.39%) AngularJS
6 133 (10.56%) ASP.NET
7 128 (10.17%) XML
8 104 (8.26%) HTML
9 86 (6.83%) CSS
10 77 (6.12%) REST
11 76 (6.04%) WPF
12 52 (4.13%) ASP.NET Core
12 52 (4.13%) WCF
13 50 (3.97%) Web Services
14 45 (3.57%) Redux
15 39 (3.10%) Kafka
16 38 (3.02%) Entity Framework
17 32 (2.54%) Middleware
17 32 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
17 32 (2.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.05%) Derivative
2 100 (7.94%) Hedge funds
3 84 (6.67%) Fixed Income
4 68 (5.40%) Equities
5 61 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 58 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
7 43 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 40 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
11 19 (1.51%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.27%) Cloud Native
13 15 (1.19%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.79%) Management Information System
16 10 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
17 9 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
18 8 (0.64%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 77 (6.12%) Windows
2 58 (4.61%) Linux
3 30 (2.38%) Unix
4 16 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.24%) Android
6 1 (0.079%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.079%) VMS
6 1 (0.079%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (34.00%) DevOps
2 423 (33.60%) Agile
3 263 (20.89%) Software Engineering
4 207 (16.44%) CI/CD
5 166 (13.19%) Full Stack Development
6 165 (13.11%) TDD
7 151 (11.99%) Scrum
8 143 (11.36%) Test Automation
9 121 (9.61%) OO
10 120 (9.53%) Microservices
11 109 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
12 90 (7.15%) Asset Management
13 85 (6.75%) SDLC
14 84 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
14 84 (6.67%) Design Patterns
15 80 (6.35%) Mentoring
16 77 (6.12%) Analytics
17 72 (5.72%) API Management
18 71 (5.64%) Investment Management
19 70 (5.56%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 501 (39.79%) SQL
2 264 (20.97%) JavaScript
3 208 (16.52%) Python
4 207 (16.44%) Java
5 187 (14.85%) PowerShell
6 120 (9.53%) TypeScript
7 96 (7.63%) Bicep
8 71 (5.64%) C++
9 64 (5.08%) T-SQL
10 55 (4.37%) PL/SQL
11 38 (3.02%) VBA
12 26 (2.07%) VB.NET
13 20 (1.59%) VB
14 15 (1.19%) C
15 11 (0.87%) Bash
15 11 (0.87%) Go
16 8 (0.64%) Perl
16 8 (0.64%) PHP
16 8 (0.64%) Ruby
17 7 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 124 (9.85%) Degree
2 56 (4.45%) Security Cleared
3 47 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 28 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.40%) PhD
10 4 (0.32%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.24%) CHECK Team Leader
11 3 (0.24%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.24%) GIAC
11 3 (0.24%) ISEB
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.24%) OSCP
12 2 (0.16%) CCNP
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.079%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.86%) QA
2 29 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.75%) WCAG
4 17 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.27%) MiFID
6 14 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.48%) EMIR
7 6 (0.48%) GDPR
7 6 (0.48%) SLA
8 5 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
8 5 (0.40%) NIST
9 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.32%) SEPA
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.079%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.079%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.079%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 110 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.89%) Docker
3 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.32%) NFS
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.079%) Firmware
5 1 (0.079%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.81%) Terraform
3 25 (1.99%) Ansible
4 9 (0.71%) BladeLogic
4 9 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
5 8 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.16%) Grafana
6 2 (0.16%) Kibana
6 2 (0.16%) logstash
6 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.16%) Puppet
6 2 (0.16%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.079%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.079%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.079%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (0.079%) VxRail
Vendors
1 277 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 112 (8.90%) Oracle
3 27 (2.14%) Citrix
4 22 (1.75%) OpenLink
5 20 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.51%) Databricks
7 15 (1.19%) SAP
8 13 (1.03%) ION Trading
8 13 (1.03%) PayPal
9 10 (0.79%) TIBCO
10 9 (0.71%) Altiris
10 9 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.56%) AVEVA
11 7 (0.56%) Google
11 7 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.56%) Okta
12 6 (0.48%) Cadence
12 6 (0.48%) iManage
12 6 (0.48%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.48%) Virgin Media