C# Contracts in the South East

C#
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 71 59 50
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 147 194 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.60% 3.44% 4.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.57% 12.93% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 143 228
10th Percentile £378 £382 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £491
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.87% +15.59%
75th Percentile £608 £633 £549
90th Percentile £624 £688 £602
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 13
10th Percentile - £24.85 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £42.63 -
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +57.14% -21.18%
75th Percentile £73.44 £64.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £80.75 £76.75 £61.47
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,270 1,500 2,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.51% 26.59% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 1,045 1,322
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £691 £650
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 86 77
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -18.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.00 £63.95
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for C# in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the South East 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
Thames Valley +15 71 £550 - 81
Berkshire +13 57 £605 +42.35% 35
Hampshire -32 30 £419 -16.25% 44
Surrey +19 18 £606 +19.46% 38
Buckinghamshire +9 13 £450 -23.40% 19
East Sussex +10 11 £380 -41.54% 23
West Sussex +11 10 £550 -33.33% 4
Kent -2 5 £325 -35.00% 22
Home Counties - 2 £475 -
Oxfordshire +2 1 £550 +100.00% 27
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 20 (13.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.04%) Confluence
2 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
3 2 (1.36%) Jadu
4 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 76 (51.70%) Azure
2 27 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (17.69%) Azure Monitor
4 23 (15.65%) Entra ID
5 20 (13.61%) Azure Storage
5 20 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (9.52%) AWS
7 11 (7.48%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (6.80%) Power Platform
9 9 (6.12%) PaaS
10 7 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (4.76%) Power Automate
11 6 (4.08%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.40%) Azure API Management
12 5 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.72%) SaaS
13 4 (2.72%) Serverless
14 3 (2.04%) Azure Functions
14 3 (2.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.61%) DHCP
1 20 (13.61%) DNS
1 20 (13.61%) Firewall
2 4 (2.72%) RS-232
2 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.04%) Network Security
3 3 (2.04%) VPN
4 2 (1.36%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.72%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.72%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.72%) MySQL
3 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.36%) CouchDB
4 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.36%) Power BI
4 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (17.69%) Git
2 23 (15.65%) Visual Studio
3 19 (12.93%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.44%) JIRA
5 4 (2.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (2.72%) Subversion
6 3 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.04%) JMeter
6 3 (2.04%) Selenium
6 3 (2.04%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.36%) Appium
7 2 (1.36%) GitLab
7 2 (1.36%) NUnit
7 2 (1.36%) Postman
7 2 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.68%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.68%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.68%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.68%) Xcode
General
1 36 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.56%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.84%) Finance
4 3 (2.04%) Electronics
5 1 (0.68%) Back Office
5 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.68%) Marketing
5 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (55.10%) Developer
2 20 (13.61%) .NET Developer
2 20 (13.61%) Active Directory Support
3 18 (12.24%) Software Developer
4 14 (9.52%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (9.52%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 14 (9.52%) Support Specialist
5 13 (8.84%) C# Developer
5 13 (8.84%) Senior
6 11 (7.48%) Full Stack Developer
7 9 (6.12%) Lead
8 7 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.08%) Active Directory Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) C++ Developer
9 6 (4.08%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (48.30%) .NET
2 27 (18.37%) ASP.NET
3 23 (15.65%) AngularJS
4 22 (14.97%) ARM Templates
5 15 (10.20%) HTML
6 14 (9.52%) CSS
7 13 (8.84%) .NET Core
8 12 (8.16%) XML
9 11 (7.48%) .NET Framework
9 11 (7.48%) RESTful
10 9 (6.12%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (6.12%) JSON
11 7 (4.76%) Blazor
12 6 (4.08%) Entity Framework
13 5 (3.40%) React
13 5 (3.40%) Web Services
14 4 (2.72%) ADO
14 4 (2.72%) Node.js
14 4 (2.72%) SOAP
14 4 (2.72%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (13.61%) PKI
3 9 (6.12%) CCTV
3 9 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.36%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.36%) Animation
5 2 (1.36%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.36%) IoT
5 2 (1.36%) Mixed Reality
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (29.93%) Windows
2 42 (28.57%) Linux
3 23 (15.65%) Windows Server
4 20 (13.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (13.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.72%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (2.72%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.04%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.82%) Agile
2 53 (36.05%) DevOps
3 36 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 31 (21.09%) Software Engineering
6 23 (15.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 22 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (13.61%) Analytics
8 20 (13.61%) Full Stack Development
8 20 (13.61%) Identity Management
8 20 (13.61%) ITIL
8 20 (13.61%) Log Analytics
8 20 (13.61%) Privileged Identity Management
8 20 (13.61%) RBAC
8 20 (13.61%) Release Management
8 20 (13.61%) Scrum
8 20 (13.61%) Service Management
9 17 (11.56%) Data Protection
10 15 (10.20%) Microservices
11 14 (9.52%) OO
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.53%) PowerShell
2 28 (19.05%) SQL
3 26 (17.69%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.33%) C++
5 21 (14.29%) Bicep
6 20 (13.61%) VB
6 20 (13.61%) VBScript
7 15 (10.20%) Python
8 10 (6.80%) Java
9 9 (6.12%) T-SQL
10 7 (4.76%) Bash
11 6 (4.08%) C
11 6 (4.08%) PHP
12 4 (2.72%) F#
12 4 (2.72%) Perl
12 4 (2.72%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.72%) X++
13 3 (2.04%) Ruby
14 2 (1.36%) GLSL
14 2 (1.36%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 50 (34.01%) Security Cleared
2 43 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 32 (21.77%) Degree
4 22 (14.97%) DV Cleared
5 20 (13.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.12%) QA
2 8 (5.44%) ISO 9001
2 8 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 24 (16.33%) Virtual Machines
2 23 (15.65%) Active Directory
3 20 (13.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.40%) Docker
4 5 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.04%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 28 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (13.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (13.61%) SCCM
2 20 (13.61%) SCOM
2 20 (13.61%) WSUS
3 14 (9.52%) Ansible
4 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (29.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.76%) Oracle
3 5 (3.40%) VMware
4 4 (2.72%) Informatica
5 2 (1.36%) Atmel
6 1 (0.68%) Compaq
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.68%) SAP