C# Contracts in the North West

C#
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 46 44 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -20 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 103 143 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.86% 4.66% 7.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.70% 15.87% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 110 210
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £458
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +14.75% +14.38%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £525
90th Percentile £538 £603 £607
England median daily rate £588 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £23.85 £25.88
25th Percentile £38.39 £37.80 £28.44
Median hourly rate £41.23 £40.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -18.82% +47.06%
75th Percentile £44.07 £43.39 £65.00
90th Percentile - £46.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 656 901 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.60% 29.35% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 672 1,079
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 41
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.78 £21.50
Median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -11.47% +65.83%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.68 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the North West.

Daily rate trend for C# in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for C# in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the North West 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
Manchester -9 58 £475 - 125
Merseyside +29 19 £510 +4.62% 17
Cheshire -15 19 £469 -14.77% 43
Cumbria - 5 £525 - 4
Lancashire +4 1 - - 20
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (6.80%) Apache
2 5 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.88%) CMS
4 3 (2.91%) IIS
5 2 (1.94%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.97%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (24.27%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.91%) Maximo
3 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.97%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.21%) Azure
2 10 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (8.74%) AWS
4 8 (7.77%) Serverless
5 7 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.85%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.88%) npm
8 4 (3.88%) OCI
8 4 (3.88%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.88%) Yarn
9 3 (2.91%) GitHub
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) FTP
2 1 (0.97%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.85%) Big Data
3 4 (3.88%) MySQL
3 4 (3.88%) Redis
4 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.94%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Git
2 6 (5.83%) Selenium
3 5 (4.85%) JIRA
4 4 (3.88%) Jasmine
4 4 (3.88%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (3.88%) Mocha
4 4 (3.88%) SpecFlow
4 4 (3.88%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.88%) webpack
5 3 (2.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.94%) JMeter
6 2 (1.94%) TestComplete
6 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.97%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.97%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.97%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (11.65%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.85%) Manufacturing
2 5 (4.85%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (2.91%) Finance
3 3 (2.91%) Law
3 3 (2.91%) Legal
4 2 (1.94%) Banking
5 1 (0.97%) Advertising
5 1 (0.97%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.97%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (67.96%) Developer
2 32 (31.07%) Software Developer
3 20 (19.42%) .NET Developer
4 8 (7.77%) C# Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Test Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Azure Developer
6 6 (5.83%) Lead
7 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Senior
7 5 (4.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Tester
8 4 (3.88%) Development Manager
8 4 (3.88%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Software Development Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Software Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Systems Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Automation Tester
9 3 (2.91%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (41.75%) .NET
2 41 (39.81%) HTML
3 20 (19.42%) .NET Framework
4 15 (14.56%) CSS
5 12 (11.65%) React
6 11 (10.68%) Entity Framework
7 10 (9.71%) .NET Core
7 10 (9.71%) JSON
8 8 (7.77%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.77%) REST
8 8 (7.77%) XML
9 7 (6.80%) Web Services
10 6 (5.83%) Kafka
10 6 (5.83%) RESTful
11 5 (4.85%) Node.js
12 4 (3.88%) Playwright
13 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET Web API
13 3 (2.91%) NancyFx
13 3 (2.91%) Swagger
13 3 (2.91%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.83%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.91%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.97%) IoT
6 1 (0.97%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.97%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Android
1 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.01%) Agile
2 33 (32.04%) Software Engineering
3 26 (25.24%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (24.27%) Code Quality
4 25 (24.27%) Conversational UI
5 24 (23.30%) Test Automation
6 20 (19.42%) Scrum
7 19 (18.45%) CI/CD
7 19 (18.45%) DevOps
8 17 (16.50%) OO
9 13 (12.62%) OOP
10 8 (7.77%) Design Patterns
10 8 (7.77%) SOLID
11 7 (6.80%) API Development
11 7 (6.80%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (6.80%) Microservices
11 7 (6.80%) MVC
11 7 (6.80%) TDD
12 6 (5.83%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (5.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (52.43%) JavaScript
2 53 (51.46%) SQL
3 42 (40.78%) Python
4 13 (12.62%) Java
5 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.94%) C
6 2 (1.94%) C++
6 2 (1.94%) Delphi
6 2 (1.94%) PHP
6 2 (1.94%) VBScript
7 1 (0.97%) Bicep
7 1 (0.97%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (24.27%) Degree
2 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.71%) QA
2 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.91%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (24.27%) PayPal
2 9 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.85%) Informatica
3 5 (4.85%) Talend
4 4 (3.88%) Oracle
4 4 (3.88%) SAP
5 3 (2.91%) IBM
5 3 (2.91%) Nintex
5 3 (2.91%) Pega
6 2 (1.94%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.97%) Xamarin