C# Developer Contracts

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 210 233
Rank change year-on-year -53 +23 -37
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 384 703 1,102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.25% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.33% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 597 921
10th Percentile £375 £388 £381
25th Percentile £466 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.64%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £775
90th Percentile £813 £813 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £58.00 £41.05 £44.63
25th Percentile £60.63 £48.63 £50.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +10.62% +46.75%
75th Percentile £71.88 £63.75 £61.93
90th Percentile £73.75 - £62.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +69.12%

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -44 356 £625 - 201
London -14 308 £650 -3.70% 63
Work from Home -4 182 £650 +8.33% 146
UK excluding London -42 44 £475 - 147
South East -3 13 £463 -22.92% 21
North of England -2 11 £475 +11.76% 51
Midlands +14 8 £488 +30.00% 47
North West -1 8 £500 +11.11% 26
South West -2 7 £338 -3.57% 12
West Midlands +11 6 £438 +12.90% 19
Yorkshire +16 3 £400 -5.88% 14
East of England -3 3 - - 5
East Midlands +7 2 £550 +57.14% 28
Scotland +22 1 - - 5
Wales +15 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 384 (100.00%) C#
2 236 (61.46%) .NET
3 161 (41.93%) SQL
4 156 (40.63%) Azure
5 130 (33.85%) Finance
6 125 (32.55%) SQL Server
7 107 (27.86%) Agile
8 94 (24.48%) DevOps
9 87 (22.66%) Social Skills
9 87 (22.66%) Front Office
10 74 (19.27%) .NET Framework
10 74 (19.27%) Full Stack Development
11 68 (17.71%) AngularJS
12 66 (17.19%) .NET Core
13 64 (16.67%) Software Engineering
13 64 (16.67%) Microsoft
14 62 (16.15%) JavaScript
15 61 (15.89%) Banking
16 60 (15.63%) React
16 60 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
17 54 (14.06%) WPF
18 53 (13.80%) CI/CD
19 51 (13.28%) Git
20 50 (13.02%) Oracle
21 48 (12.50%) ASP.NET
22 43 (11.20%) TDD
23 41 (10.68%) Scrum
24 40 (10.42%) Electronic Trading
24 40 (10.42%) Microservices
25 39 (10.16%) Test Automation

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 12 (3.13%) IIS
2 6 (1.56%) CMS
3 4 (1.04%) Apache
4 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.52%) Jadu
6 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
Applications
1 34 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 156 (40.63%) Azure
2 60 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (9.64%) AWS
4 32 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (4.17%) PaaS
7 14 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 11 (2.86%) Serverless
10 10 (2.60%) Azure Functions
10 10 (2.60%) GCP
11 9 (2.34%) Azure AKS
12 8 (2.08%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.82%) GitHub
13 7 (1.82%) npm
14 5 (1.30%) Azure API Management
14 5 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (0.78%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.86%) Internet
2 5 (1.30%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.26%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (32.55%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.29%) Oracle Database
3 27 (7.03%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (4.95%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.08%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.56%) MySQL
11 5 (1.30%) Redis
12 4 (1.04%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.78%) Power BI
13 3 (0.78%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
15 1 (0.26%) Big Data
15 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 51 (13.28%) Git
2 25 (6.51%) TeamCity
3 17 (4.43%) Visual Studio
4 15 (3.91%) Moq
4 15 (3.91%) NUnit
5 14 (3.65%) SpecFlow
6 13 (3.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.86%) JIRA
7 11 (2.86%) Selenium
8 9 (2.34%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.82%) webpack
10 6 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.04%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.04%) GitLab
12 3 (0.78%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.52%) Mercurial
13 2 (0.52%) MSTest
13 2 (0.52%) Subversion
14 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 130 (33.85%) Finance
2 87 (22.66%) Front Office
2 87 (22.66%) Social Skills
3 61 (15.89%) Banking
4 35 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 18 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.56%) Law
11 5 (1.30%) Back Office
11 5 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.04%) Electronics
12 4 (1.04%) Marketing
12 4 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.78%) Local Government
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.26%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (61.46%) .NET
2 74 (19.27%) .NET Framework
3 68 (17.71%) AngularJS
4 66 (17.19%) .NET Core
5 60 (15.63%) React
6 54 (14.06%) WPF
7 48 (12.50%) ASP.NET
8 25 (6.51%) WCF
9 23 (5.99%) HTML
10 21 (5.47%) REST
11 20 (5.21%) CSS
12 19 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (4.95%) RESTful
12 19 (4.95%) XML
13 17 (4.43%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (4.43%) Entity Framework
13 17 (4.43%) Kafka
14 16 (4.17%) Web Services
15 15 (3.91%) ASP.NET Core
16 14 (3.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (7.81%) Fixed Income
3 21 (5.47%) Derivative
4 19 (4.95%) Equities
5 16 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.39%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.08%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.82%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.04%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.78%) Solar Panel
15 2 (0.52%) Cloud Native
15 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.03%) Windows
2 15 (3.91%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (27.86%) Agile
2 94 (24.48%) DevOps
3 74 (19.27%) Full Stack Development
4 64 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 53 (13.80%) CI/CD
6 43 (11.20%) TDD
7 41 (10.68%) Scrum
8 40 (10.42%) Electronic Trading
8 40 (10.42%) Microservices
9 39 (10.16%) Test Automation
10 36 (9.38%) OO
11 33 (8.59%) Unit Testing
12 32 (8.33%) MVC
13 31 (8.07%) Design Patterns
14 29 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (7.03%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (5.73%) Data Analysis
17 21 (5.47%) Front End Development
17 21 (5.47%) Multithreading
18 20 (5.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 384 (100.00%) C#
2 161 (41.93%) SQL
3 62 (16.15%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.38%) T-SQL
5 33 (8.59%) PL/SQL
6 31 (8.07%) Python
7 26 (6.77%) VBA
8 25 (6.51%) PowerShell
9 24 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 23 (5.99%) VB
11 16 (4.17%) Java
12 12 (3.13%) VB.NET
13 11 (2.86%) Bicep
14 6 (1.56%) C++
15 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
16 4 (1.04%) PHP
17 3 (0.78%) C
18 1 (0.26%) Groovy
18 1 (0.26%) R
18 1 (0.26%) XAML
Qualifications
1 23 (5.99%) Degree
2 22 (5.73%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.29%) QA
2 5 (1.30%) MiFID
3 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.04%) SEPA
3 4 (1.04%) WCAG
4 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (4.43%) Docker
2 14 (3.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (3.65%) Kubernetes
1 14 (3.65%) Terraform
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Grafana
3 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.26%) SCOM
3 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 50 (13.02%) Oracle
3 22 (5.73%) Citrix
4 10 (2.60%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.30%) Okta
6 4 (1.04%) Google
6 4 (1.04%) SAP
7 2 (0.52%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.52%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.52%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe
8 1 (0.26%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.26%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.26%) Xamarin