C# .NET Developer Contracts

C# .NET Developer
UK

The median C# .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 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 467 404 430
Rank change year-on-year -63 +26 -32
Contract jobs requiring a C# .NET Developer 108 302 501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.57% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 264 405
10th Percentile £363 £377 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +17.78%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £43.70
25th Percentile - - £49.25
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - -35.14% +63.24%
75th Percentile - - £62.15
90th Percentile - - £62.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - +72.06%

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# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# .NET 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 -65 101 £500 -4.76% 115
London -19 86 £500 -10.71% 26
Work from Home -14 41 £500 +21.21% 91
UK excluding London -10 15 £475 - 90
Midlands +16 5 £500 +33.33% 27
North of England +6 4 £475 +2.70% 37
West Midlands +10 3 £400 +3.23% 11
South West +3 3 £406 -16.67% 6
Yorkshire +15 2 £400 -5.88% 14
East Midlands +10 2 £550 +62.96% 16
North West +8 2 £488 -4.88% 16
Scotland +27 1 - -
Wales +15 1 - - 2
South East +5 1 £625 +40.85% 16

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, C# .NET 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# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 108 (100.00%) C#
1 108 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (53.70%) Azure
3 49 (45.37%) SQL
4 42 (38.89%) Finance
5 40 (37.04%) SQL Server
6 39 (36.11%) DevOps
7 35 (32.41%) .NET Core
8 33 (30.56%) Agile
9 29 (26.85%) .NET Framework
10 27 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 25 (23.15%) Full Stack Development
12 23 (21.30%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (21.30%) AWS
12 23 (21.30%) Oracle
13 21 (19.44%) JavaScript
14 20 (18.52%) ASP.NET
15 19 (17.59%) React
16 18 (16.67%) Social Skills
17 17 (15.74%) Git
17 17 (15.74%) Oracle Database
17 17 (15.74%) PL/SQL
18 16 (14.81%) OO
18 16 (14.81%) TDD
18 16 (14.81%) Software Engineering
19 15 (13.89%) Unit Testing
19 15 (13.89%) AngularJS
19 15 (13.89%) CI/CD
20 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
20 14 (12.96%) T-SQL

C# .NET 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 4 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.93%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.93%) IIS
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 58 (53.70%) Azure
2 23 (21.30%) AWS
2 23 (21.30%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 9 (8.33%) GCP
4 7 (6.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.78%) PaaS
7 3 (2.78%) Serverless
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.93%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.93%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 17 (15.74%) Oracle Database
3 14 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.48%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (15.74%) Git
2 6 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.63%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (4.63%) SpecFlow
3 5 (4.63%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.70%) GitLab
4 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (2.78%) Selenium
6 2 (1.85%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.93%) GoCD
7 1 (0.93%) Hudson
7 1 (0.93%) MSTest
7 1 (0.93%) NUnit
7 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (38.89%) Finance
2 18 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.11%) Front Office
5 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Banking
5 5 (4.63%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.63%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.78%) Back Office
7 3 (2.78%) Electronics
7 3 (2.78%) Local Government
7 3 (2.78%) Marketing
7 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.85%) Law
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (32.41%) .NET Core
3 29 (26.85%) .NET Framework
4 20 (18.52%) ASP.NET
5 19 (17.59%) React
6 15 (13.89%) AngularJS
7 9 (8.33%) Kafka
8 8 (7.41%) HTML
8 8 (7.41%) REST
9 7 (6.48%) CSS
9 7 (6.48%) XML
10 6 (5.56%) Web Services
11 5 (4.63%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (3.70%) Entity Framework
13 3 (2.78%) Blazor
13 3 (2.78%) jQuery
13 3 (2.78%) Vue
14 2 (1.85%) LINQ
14 2 (1.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.48%) Equities
3 7 (6.48%) Fixed Income
3 7 (6.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (6.48%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.70%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.85%) IoT
6 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.93%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (1.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) DevOps
2 33 (30.56%) Agile
3 25 (23.15%) Full Stack Development
4 16 (14.81%) OO
4 16 (14.81%) Software Engineering
4 16 (14.81%) TDD
5 15 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 15 (13.89%) Unit Testing
6 14 (12.96%) Scrum
7 13 (12.04%) Microservices
8 12 (11.11%) Asset Management
8 12 (11.11%) MVC
9 11 (10.19%) Data Analysis
9 11 (10.19%) Design Patterns
9 11 (10.19%) OOP
10 10 (9.26%) Analytics
11 9 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (7.41%) Web Application Development
13 7 (6.48%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) C#
2 49 (45.37%) SQL
3 21 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 17 (15.74%) PL/SQL
5 14 (12.96%) T-SQL
6 13 (12.04%) PowerShell
7 12 (11.11%) VB
7 12 (11.11%) VB.NET
7 12 (11.11%) VBA
8 6 (5.56%) Bicep
9 5 (4.63%) Java
9 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.70%) Python
11 3 (2.78%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (9.26%) Degree
2 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.19%) QA
2 5 (4.63%) MiFID
3 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.78%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.30%) Oracle
3 11 (10.19%) Citrix
4 3 (2.78%) Google
4 3 (2.78%) SAP
5 2 (1.85%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Xamarin