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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 44 26
Rank change year-on-year -4 -18 +3
Contract jobs citing C# 97 137 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.54% 4.52% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.65% 15.66% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 103 209
10th Percentile £335 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +14.13% +13.58%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £538
90th Percentile £538 £620 £606
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £23.85 £29.30
25th Percentile £38.39 £37.80 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.23 £40.59 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -37.55% +91.18%
75th Percentile £44.07 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - £46.60 £68.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

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 662 875 1,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.18% 28.87% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 653 1,097
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +20.48%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £663
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 39
10th Percentile £38.08 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.64
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -12.04% +75.00%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

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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 1 June 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 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
Manchester -13 53 £475 - 123
Cheshire -18 19 £469 -14.77% 30
Merseyside +29 18 £543 +14.21% 19
Cumbria - 5 £525 - 3
Lancashire +5 1 - - 16
C#
England

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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 (7.22%) Apache
2 5 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.15%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.12%) CMS
4 3 (3.09%) IIS
5 2 (2.06%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.03%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.09%) Maximo
3 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.71%) Azure
2 8 (8.25%) AWS
2 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (8.25%) Serverless
3 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.15%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.12%) npm
5 4 (4.12%) OCI
5 4 (4.12%) Yarn
6 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.06%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) FTP
2 1 (1.03%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) Big Data
3 4 (4.12%) MySQL
3 4 (4.12%) Redis
4 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.06%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Git
2 5 (5.15%) JIRA
3 4 (4.12%) Jasmine
3 4 (4.12%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (4.12%) Mocha
3 4 (4.12%) Selenium
3 4 (4.12%) TeamCity
3 4 (4.12%) webpack
4 3 (3.09%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.09%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.06%) JMeter
5 2 (2.06%) TestComplete
5 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.03%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.03%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (12.37%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
2 5 (5.15%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (3.09%) Law
3 3 (3.09%) Legal
4 2 (2.06%) Banking
5 1 (1.03%) Advertising
5 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.03%) Finance
5 1 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (68.04%) Developer
2 32 (32.99%) Software Developer
3 18 (18.56%) .NET Developer
4 8 (8.25%) C# Developer
5 7 (7.22%) Test Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Azure Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Lead
6 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Development Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Senior
7 4 (4.12%) Software Development Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Software Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Systems Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Pega Developer
8 3 (3.09%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (42.27%) HTML
2 39 (40.21%) .NET
3 20 (20.62%) .NET Framework
4 15 (15.46%) CSS
5 12 (12.37%) React
6 11 (11.34%) Entity Framework
7 10 (10.31%) JSON
8 9 (9.28%) .NET Core
9 8 (8.25%) AngularJS
9 8 (8.25%) REST
9 8 (8.25%) XML
10 7 (7.22%) Web Services
11 6 (6.19%) Kafka
11 6 (6.19%) RESTful
12 5 (5.15%) Node.js
13 4 (4.12%) Playwright
14 3 (3.09%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (3.09%) jQuery
14 3 (3.09%) NancyFx
14 3 (3.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.12%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.09%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.03%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.03%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Android
1 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.05%) Agile
2 32 (32.99%) Software Engineering
3 26 (26.80%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (25.77%) Code Quality
4 25 (25.77%) Conversational UI
5 21 (21.65%) Test Automation
6 20 (20.62%) Scrum
7 19 (19.59%) CI/CD
8 17 (17.53%) OO
9 15 (15.46%) DevOps
10 13 (13.40%) OOP
11 8 (8.25%) Design Patterns
12 7 (7.22%) API Development
12 7 (7.22%) Full Stack Development
12 7 (7.22%) Microservices
12 7 (7.22%) SOLID
12 7 (7.22%) TDD
13 6 (6.19%) Deployment Automation
13 6 (6.19%) MVC
13 6 (6.19%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (53.61%) JavaScript
1 52 (53.61%) SQL
2 41 (42.27%) Python
3 13 (13.40%) Java
4 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.06%) C
6 2 (2.06%) C++
6 2 (2.06%) Delphi
6 2 (2.06%) PHP
6 2 (2.06%) VBScript
7 1 (1.03%) Bicep
7 1 (1.03%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (25.77%) Degree
2 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (25.77%) PayPal
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) Informatica
3 5 (5.15%) Talend
4 4 (4.12%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) SAP
5 3 (3.09%) IBM
5 3 (3.09%) Nintex
5 3 (3.09%) Pega
6 2 (2.06%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.03%) Xamarin