C# Contracts with Work from Home Options

C#
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 37 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +22
Contract jobs citing C# 892 1,342 2,817
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.09% 5.57% 6.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.84% 15.24% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 1,024 2,205
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £452 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £693 £631
90th Percentile £788 £800 £760
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 37 27
10th Percentile - £43.00 -
25th Percentile £20.77 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £58.13
90th Percentile £65.75 - £63.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,999 8,808 16,823
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.15% 36.55% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,506 12,548
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 184 184
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

C#
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C# trend for jobs with a WFH option

C#
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C#.

C# daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

C#
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C# over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

C# daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C#
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C#.

C# hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C# over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

C# hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.13%) CMS
3 12 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.90%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.78%) SAS
6 5 (0.56%) Confluence
7 4 (0.45%) Luigi
8 2 (0.22%) Apache
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 2 (0.22%) Kentico
8 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (13.57%) Chatbot
2 22 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.11%) Blender
6 1 (0.11%) InDesign
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.23%) Endur
3 6 (0.67%) Maximo
4 2 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 383 (42.94%) Azure
2 159 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (7.62%) AWS
4 60 (6.73%) Azure Logic Apps
5 59 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
5 59 (6.61%) Power Platform
6 53 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 47 (5.27%) Entra ID
8 42 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 38 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
10 36 (4.04%) Azure API Management
11 33 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (3.70%) PowerApps
12 32 (3.59%) Serverless
13 29 (3.25%) Power Automate
14 28 (3.14%) Azure Storage
15 26 (2.91%) Azure Functions
16 20 (2.24%) PaaS
17 16 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
18 11 (1.23%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.47%) Firewall
2 21 (2.35%) DHCP
2 21 (2.35%) DNS
3 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.34%) Internet
5 2 (0.22%) HTTP
5 2 (0.22%) Modbus
5 2 (0.22%) RTSP
6 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.11%) FTP
6 1 (0.11%) MQTT
6 1 (0.11%) Network Security
6 1 (0.11%) RS-232
6 1 (0.11%) VLAN
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (22.98%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 34 (3.81%) Power BI
4 27 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.90%) MySQL
9 8 (0.90%) Redis
10 5 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.56%) GIS
10 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.45%) KDB
11 4 (0.45%) OLTP
11 4 (0.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 71 (7.96%) Git
2 38 (4.26%) Visual Studio
3 31 (3.48%) Selenium
4 30 (3.36%) JIRA
5 28 (3.14%) SpecFlow
6 16 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.79%) WebDriver
7 14 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 13 (1.46%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.46%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.23%) Postman
10 9 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 8 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.90%) GitLab
12 7 (0.78%) JMeter
12 7 (0.78%) Moq
13 6 (0.67%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.67%) Subversion
13 6 (0.67%) webpack
14 5 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 220 (24.66%) Finance
2 171 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 113 (12.67%) Front Office
4 88 (9.87%) Banking
5 56 (6.28%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (5.04%) Back Office
8 20 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 18 (2.02%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.01%) Law
10 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.67%) Marketing
12 6 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.56%) Electronics
13 5 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.45%) Games
14 4 (0.45%) Legal
15 3 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 578 (64.80%) Developer
2 182 (20.40%) C# Developer
3 171 (19.17%) Software Developer
4 119 (13.34%) Senior
5 114 (12.78%) .NET Developer
6 83 (9.30%) Full Stack Developer
7 78 (8.74%) Senior Developer
8 69 (7.74%) Lead
9 57 (6.39%) Azure Developer
10 47 (5.27%) Analyst
11 41 (4.60%) C# .NET Developer
12 35 (3.92%) Angular Developer
13 34 (3.81%) Software Engineer
14 32 (3.59%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 28 (3.14%) Senior C# Developer
16 27 (3.03%) Architect
17 23 (2.58%) Front Office Developer
17 23 (2.58%) React Developer
18 22 (2.47%) Lead Developer
19 21 (2.35%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (46.75%) .NET
2 180 (20.18%) HTML
3 97 (10.87%) .NET Framework
4 94 (10.54%) AngularJS
5 83 (9.30%) ASP.NET
6 81 (9.08%) .NET Core
7 74 (8.30%) React
8 72 (8.07%) XML
9 59 (6.61%) CSS
10 54 (6.05%) REST
11 39 (4.37%) Web Services
12 38 (4.26%) Entity Framework
13 29 (3.25%) ARM Templates
14 28 (3.14%) WPF
15 27 (3.03%) RESTful
16 25 (2.80%) ASP.NET Core
17 24 (2.69%) jQuery
18 22 (2.47%) Vue
19 21 (2.35%) JSON
19 21 (2.35%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.61%) Derivative
2 44 (4.93%) Hedge funds
3 36 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.25%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.47%) PKI
7 21 (2.35%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (2.24%) Equities
8 20 (2.24%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.57%) Equity Derivative
9 14 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.01%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.78%) Reinsurance
14 6 (0.67%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.67%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 67 (7.51%) Windows
2 45 (5.04%) Linux
3 33 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.01%) Unix
6 6 (0.67%) Android
7 5 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (26.91%) DevOps
2 227 (25.45%) Software Engineering
3 212 (23.77%) Agile
4 135 (15.13%) Code Quality
5 130 (14.57%) Artificial Intelligence
6 121 (13.57%) Conversational UI
7 112 (12.56%) CI/CD
8 109 (12.22%) Full Stack Development
9 78 (8.74%) Test Automation
10 77 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (7.96%) MVC
12 68 (7.62%) OO
13 66 (7.40%) Scrum
14 61 (6.84%) Mentoring
14 61 (6.84%) TDD
15 56 (6.28%) Microservices
16 55 (6.17%) Design Patterns
17 52 (5.83%) Analytics
18 48 (5.38%) Unit Testing
19 46 (5.16%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 379 (42.49%) SQL
2 263 (29.48%) JavaScript
3 234 (26.23%) Python
4 96 (10.76%) PowerShell
5 81 (9.08%) Java
6 63 (7.06%) Bicep
7 54 (6.05%) TypeScript
8 46 (5.16%) C++
9 31 (3.48%) VB
10 25 (2.80%) T-SQL
11 23 (2.58%) VBScript
12 17 (1.91%) VBA
13 14 (1.57%) VB.NET
14 11 (1.23%) F#
14 11 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.01%) C
15 9 (1.01%) R
16 7 (0.78%) Perl
17 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 205 (22.98%) Degree
2 79 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 59 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 18 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.45%) PhD
11 3 (0.34%) HNC
11 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.11%) ISEB
12 1 (0.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.17%) QA
2 16 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.12%) WCAG
4 9 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.90%) GDPR
6 7 (0.78%) CDISC
7 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.45%) SEPA
9 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (0.34%) GxP
9 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 2 (0.22%) NIST
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 59 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.58%) Docker
2 23 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.04%) Terraform
3 22 (2.47%) SCOM
4 20 (2.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (2.24%) SCCM
4 20 (2.24%) WSUS
5 5 (0.56%) Ansible
6 4 (0.45%) BladeLogic
6 4 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) Kibana
8 2 (0.22%) logstash
8 2 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Grafana
9 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 183 (20.52%) Microsoft
2 121 (13.57%) PayPal
3 35 (3.92%) Oracle
4 15 (1.68%) Xamarin
5 12 (1.35%) SAP
6 11 (1.23%) OpenLink
7 10 (1.12%) AVEVA
8 9 (1.01%) Databricks
9 6 (0.67%) Informatica
9 6 (0.67%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.56%) Citrix
10 5 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.45%) Adobe
11 4 (0.45%) Altiris
11 4 (0.45%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.45%) Google
12 3 (0.34%) OutSystems
12 3 (0.34%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.22%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.22%) Optimizely