C#
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 34 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +7
Contract jobs citing C# 2,096 3,336 5,417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.81% 5.59% 6.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.31% 15.96% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 2,504 4,175
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 119 86
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.99 £44.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.66
Median % change year-on-year - +25.82% +14.81%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.75 £73.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.03
% change year-on-year - +22.58% +17.84%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,854 20,901 32,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.49% 35.02% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,130 15,092 23,463
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £760 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 471 514
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +26.21% +16.52%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 -2 1,907 £584 -2.71% 1,824
London -1 1,281 £625 -3.85% 584
Work from Home +1 907 £575 +4.55% 1,331
UK excluding London -8 644 £475 - 1,357
North of England +8 174 £463 -2.63% 349
South East -17 151 £500 -5.21% 282
North West +1 99 £488 +2.63% 208
South West -23 95 £450 -14.29% 165
Midlands -8 83 £490 +15.18% 288
East of England +4 80 £458 +0.27% 128
Yorkshire +12 46 £425 -10.53% 95
West Midlands -1 46 £525 +5.00% 173
Scotland -23 46 £413 -13.16% 100
East Midlands +1 37 £419 +10.26% 115
North East +25 29 £415 -7.78% 50
Wales -9 11 £394 -7.35% 46
Northern Ireland +8 5 £575 +43.75% 21

C#
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 39 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.62%) CMS
3 25 (1.19%) IIS
4 18 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.57%) Apache
6 12 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.57%) Confluence
7 7 (0.33%) SAS
7 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.29%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.19%) Luigi
10 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.14%) Jadu
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.095%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.095%) Kentico
11 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.048%) Moodle
Applications
1 123 (5.87%) Chatbot
2 62 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.048%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.048%) Blender
7 1 (0.048%) InDesign
7 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.048%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 43 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.00%) Endur
3 12 (0.57%) ION Anvil
4 10 (0.48%) Maximo
5 8 (0.38%) ION MarketView
6 4 (0.19%) LabWindows
7 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.095%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.095%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.095%) Shopify
9 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 813 (38.79%) Azure
2 371 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
3 211 (10.07%) AWS
4 129 (6.15%) Azure Service Bus
5 123 (5.87%) Power Platform
6 94 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 90 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 89 (4.25%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (4.15%) Serverless
10 81 (3.86%) Entra ID
11 80 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
12 63 (3.01%) Azure Functions
13 58 (2.77%) Power Automate
14 54 (2.58%) GCP
15 53 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
15 53 (2.53%) PowerApps
16 52 (2.48%) Azure API Management
17 47 (2.24%) PaaS
18 39 (1.86%) Azure Storage
19 37 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.81%) Modbus
2 37 (1.77%) RS-422
3 36 (1.72%) RS-485
4 34 (1.62%) DNS
5 28 (1.34%) DHCP
5 28 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.15%) Firewall
7 23 (1.10%) Internet
8 16 (0.76%) HTTP
9 14 (0.67%) FTP
10 13 (0.62%) Wireless
11 11 (0.52%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.48%) VPN
13 7 (0.33%) Intranet
13 7 (0.33%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.24%) Network Security
14 5 (0.24%) RS-232
15 4 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
15 4 (0.19%) SSH
16 3 (0.14%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 508 (24.24%) SQL Server
2 81 (3.86%) Relational Database
3 74 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 66 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 63 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 52 (2.48%) Power BI
7 51 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
9 41 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (1.53%) Oracle Database
11 28 (1.34%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.00%) MySQL
13 19 (0.91%) Redis
14 18 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.81%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.76%) Big Data
17 15 (0.72%) KDB
18 13 (0.62%) DynamoDB
19 10 (0.48%) Kdb+
20 7 (0.33%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 217 (10.35%) Git
2 103 (4.91%) Visual Studio
3 99 (4.72%) Selenium
4 85 (4.06%) SpecFlow
5 80 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 80 (3.82%) TeamCity
6 79 (3.77%) JIRA
7 37 (1.77%) NUnit
8 36 (1.72%) Cucumber
8 36 (1.72%) WebDriver
9 32 (1.53%) GitLab
10 30 (1.43%) Postman
11 22 (1.05%) Cypress.io
11 22 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
12 21 (1.00%) Moq
13 20 (0.95%) JUnit
13 20 (0.95%) TestNG
14 19 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (0.91%) webpack
15 18 (0.86%) Subversion
General
1 457 (21.80%) Finance
2 392 (18.70%) Social Skills
3 242 (11.55%) Front Office
4 241 (11.50%) Banking
5 144 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 131 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 101 (4.82%) Back Office
8 93 (4.44%) Investment Banking
9 52 (2.48%) Electronics
10 27 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 23 (1.10%) Local Government
11 23 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.05%) Marketing
13 18 (0.86%) Retail
14 17 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.72%) Games
17 12 (0.57%) Law
17 12 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,225 (58.44%) Developer
2 408 (19.47%) C# Developer
3 364 (17.37%) .NET Developer
4 311 (14.84%) Senior
5 238 (11.35%) Software Developer
6 210 (10.02%) Software Engineer
7 188 (8.97%) Senior Developer
8 148 (7.06%) Full Stack Developer
9 130 (6.20%) Lead
10 126 (6.01%) C# .NET Developer
11 93 (4.44%) Analyst
12 92 (4.39%) Azure Developer
13 67 (3.20%) Angular Developer
14 64 (3.05%) Architect
15 61 (2.91%) C# Software Engineer
16 58 (2.77%) .NET Software Engineer
16 58 (2.77%) Full-Stack C# Developer
17 52 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
17 52 (2.48%) Senior Software Developer
18 50 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,126 (53.72%) .NET
2 288 (13.74%) .NET Core
3 276 (13.17%) HTML
4 256 (12.21%) .NET Framework
5 239 (11.40%) React
6 234 (11.16%) AngularJS
7 224 (10.69%) ASP.NET
8 154 (7.35%) XML
9 152 (7.25%) CSS
10 129 (6.15%) REST
11 91 (4.34%) WPF
12 81 (3.86%) Web Services
13 74 (3.53%) Entity Framework
14 70 (3.34%) JSON
15 67 (3.20%) RESTful
16 66 (3.15%) ASP.NET Core
17 63 (3.01%) WCF
18 56 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web API
19 55 (2.62%) Redux
20 51 (2.43%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 118 (5.63%) Derivative
2 105 (5.01%) Hedge funds
3 90 (4.29%) Fixed Income
4 73 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 71 (3.39%) Equities
6 69 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
7 65 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 38 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 26 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.19%) Cloud Native
12 22 (1.05%) PKI
13 21 (1.00%) Equity Derivative
14 20 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (0.91%) Market Risk
16 18 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
18 13 (0.62%) Data Structures
18 13 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 162 (7.73%) Windows
2 132 (6.30%) Linux
3 44 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.86%) Unix
5 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (0.52%) Android
7 7 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (31.82%) Agile
2 655 (31.25%) DevOps
3 506 (24.14%) Software Engineering
4 309 (14.74%) CI/CD
5 260 (12.40%) Full Stack Development
6 255 (12.17%) TDD
7 230 (10.97%) Test Automation
8 221 (10.54%) Scrum
9 208 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
10 189 (9.02%) OO
11 182 (8.68%) Microservices
12 164 (7.82%) Continuous Integration
13 159 (7.59%) Code Quality
14 153 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence
15 142 (6.77%) MVC
16 127 (6.06%) Design Patterns
17 125 (5.96%) Unit Testing
18 123 (5.87%) Conversational UI
18 123 (5.87%) SDLC
19 113 (5.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 785 (37.45%) SQL
2 531 (25.33%) JavaScript
3 417 (19.90%) Python
4 293 (13.98%) Java
5 237 (11.31%) PowerShell
6 170 (8.11%) C++
7 156 (7.44%) TypeScript
8 111 (5.30%) Bicep
9 85 (4.06%) T-SQL
10 76 (3.63%) C
11 74 (3.53%) PL/SQL
12 54 (2.58%) VB.NET
13 53 (2.53%) VBA
14 51 (2.43%) VB
15 22 (1.05%) VBScript
16 21 (1.00%) PHP
17 19 (0.91%) Bash
18 17 (0.81%) Go
19 15 (0.72%) R
19 15 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 289 (13.79%) Degree
2 211 (10.07%) Security Cleared
3 151 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 71 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 49 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (1.53%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.62%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.29%) CHECK Team Leader
12 6 (0.29%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.29%) GIAC
12 6 (0.29%) OSCP
12 6 (0.29%) PhD
13 5 (0.24%) ISEB
13 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.14%) HNC
14 3 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.40%) QA
2 39 (1.86%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.24%) WCAG
4 17 (0.81%) NIST
4 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.67%) MiFID
7 9 (0.43%) GDPR
7 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.33%) CDISC
10 6 (0.29%) SLA
11 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.19%) EMIR
11 4 (0.19%) SEPA
12 3 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
12 3 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.14%) GxP
12 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 2 (0.095%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 122 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.96%) Docker
3 20 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.19%) NFS
9 3 (0.14%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.095%) vSphere
11 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (4.01%) Terraform
2 82 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.10%) Ansible
4 26 (1.24%) SCCM
5 18 (0.86%) SCOM
6 17 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (0.81%) WSUS
7 16 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
9 9 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.33%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.14%) Grafana
11 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.14%) Puppet
12 2 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.095%) Kibana
12 2 (0.095%) logstash
12 2 (0.095%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 407 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.39%) Oracle
3 121 (5.77%) PayPal
4 32 (1.53%) Citrix
5 29 (1.38%) SAP
6 23 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.95%) OpenLink
8 15 (0.72%) Databricks
9 14 (0.67%) AVEVA
9 14 (0.67%) VMware
10 13 (0.62%) ION Trading
11 12 (0.57%) TIBCO
12 11 (0.52%) Google
12 11 (0.52%) Xamarin
13 10 (0.48%) Informatica
14 9 (0.43%) Altiris
14 9 (0.43%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.43%) IBM
14 9 (0.43%) UiPath
15 7 (0.33%) Optimizely