C# Developer Contracts in England

C# Developer
UK > England

The median C# Developer daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 204 212
Rank change year-on-year -48 +8 -25
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 349 620 989
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 1.32% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.40% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 540 845
10th Percentile £385 £388 £393
25th Percentile £500 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £775
90th Percentile £825 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +23.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £58.00 - £50.60
25th Percentile £60.63 - £52.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% -36.28% +46.75%
75th Percentile £71.88 - £61.50
90th Percentile £73.75 - £61.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.61% +44.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London -20 304 £650 -3.70% 50
South East +1 11 £463 -22.92% 33
North of England -4 11 £475 +11.76% 71
Midlands +8 8 £488 +30.00% 46
North West -4 8 £500 +11.11% 37
South West -6 7 £338 -3.57% 14
West Midlands +15 6 £438 +12.90% 22
Yorkshire +13 3 £400 -5.88% 24
East of England -4 3 - - 16
East Midlands +2 2 £550 +57.14% 24
C# Developer
UK

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, C# 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 across the England region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 349 (100.00%) C#
2 221 (63.32%) .NET
3 153 (43.84%) SQL
4 132 (37.82%) Azure
5 126 (36.10%) SQL Server
6 125 (35.82%) Finance
7 98 (28.08%) Agile
8 87 (24.93%) Social Skills
9 82 (23.50%) DevOps
10 78 (22.35%) Front Office
11 75 (21.49%) .NET Framework
12 66 (18.91%) .NET Core
13 63 (18.05%) Full Stack Development
14 62 (17.77%) AngularJS
15 61 (17.48%) Software Engineering
15 61 (17.48%) JavaScript
16 60 (17.19%) React
17 59 (16.91%) Microsoft
17 59 (16.91%) Banking
18 54 (15.47%) WPF
18 54 (15.47%) Oracle
19 51 (14.61%) CI/CD
20 50 (14.33%) Azure DevOps
21 45 (12.89%) ASP.NET
22 41 (11.75%) Git
23 40 (11.46%) TDD
23 40 (11.46%) OO
24 39 (11.17%) Microservices
25 37 (10.60%) PL/SQL
25 37 (10.60%) Electronic Trading

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (4.01%) IIS
2 6 (1.72%) CMS
3 4 (1.15%) Apache
4 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.57%) Jadu
6 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.29%) EPiServer
Applications
1 36 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Endur
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 132 (37.82%) Azure
2 50 (14.33%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (10.32%) AWS
4 28 (8.02%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (4.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (3.44%) Entra ID
7 11 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (3.15%) Serverless
8 10 (2.87%) Azure Functions
8 10 (2.87%) GCP
8 10 (2.87%) PaaS
9 8 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.29%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.01%) GitHub
10 7 (2.01%) npm
11 5 (1.43%) Azure API Management
11 5 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.15%) Azure App Service
13 3 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.72%) Internet
2 5 (1.43%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.29%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (36.10%) SQL Server
2 32 (9.17%) Oracle Database
3 28 (8.02%) NoSQL
4 21 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (5.44%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.72%) MySQL
12 5 (1.43%) Redis
13 4 (1.15%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.86%) Power BI
14 3 (0.86%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
16 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
16 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
16 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
16 1 (0.29%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 41 (11.75%) Git
2 24 (6.88%) TeamCity
3 15 (4.30%) NUnit
3 15 (4.30%) Visual Studio
4 13 (3.72%) Moq
5 12 (3.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 12 (3.44%) SpecFlow
6 11 (3.15%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.15%) JIRA
6 11 (3.15%) Selenium
7 9 (2.58%) Jenkins
8 7 (2.01%) webpack
9 5 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.15%) GitLab
11 3 (0.86%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.57%) MSTest
12 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Team System
13 1 (0.29%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 125 (35.82%) Finance
2 87 (24.93%) Social Skills
3 78 (22.35%) Front Office
4 59 (16.91%) Banking
5 33 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (9.17%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.58%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.72%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.01%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.72%) Law
11 5 (1.43%) Back Office
11 5 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.15%) Electronics
12 4 (1.15%) Marketing
12 4 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.86%) Local Government
14 2 (0.57%) Retail
14 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.29%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (63.32%) .NET
2 75 (21.49%) .NET Framework
3 66 (18.91%) .NET Core
4 62 (17.77%) AngularJS
5 60 (17.19%) React
6 54 (15.47%) WPF
7 45 (12.89%) ASP.NET
8 27 (7.74%) WCF
9 25 (7.16%) HTML
10 21 (6.02%) CSS
10 21 (6.02%) REST
11 19 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (5.44%) XML
12 18 (5.16%) RESTful
13 16 (4.58%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (4.58%) Kafka
14 15 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
14 15 (4.30%) Entity Framework
15 14 (4.01%) Middleware
15 14 (4.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.32%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (8.88%) Fixed Income
3 19 (5.44%) Equities
4 17 (4.87%) Derivative
5 14 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.15%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (2.87%) Equity Derivative
7 10 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.29%) Hedge funds
10 7 (2.01%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.86%) Solar Panel
14 2 (0.57%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.60%) Windows
2 9 (2.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.08%) Agile
2 82 (23.50%) DevOps
3 63 (18.05%) Full Stack Development
4 61 (17.48%) Software Engineering
5 51 (14.61%) CI/CD
6 40 (11.46%) OO
6 40 (11.46%) TDD
7 39 (11.17%) Microservices
8 37 (10.60%) Electronic Trading
9 35 (10.03%) Scrum
10 33 (9.46%) MVC
10 33 (9.46%) Unit Testing
11 32 (9.17%) Design Patterns
12 31 (8.88%) Test Automation
13 27 (7.74%) Continuous Integration
13 27 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (6.88%) Data Analysis
15 21 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (6.02%) Multithreading
16 20 (5.73%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 349 (100.00%) C#
2 153 (43.84%) SQL
3 61 (17.48%) JavaScript
4 37 (10.60%) PL/SQL
5 34 (9.74%) T-SQL
6 30 (8.60%) VBA
7 27 (7.74%) VB
8 25 (7.16%) Python
9 24 (6.88%) PowerShell
10 23 (6.59%) TypeScript
11 15 (4.30%) Java
11 15 (4.30%) VB.NET
12 11 (3.15%) Bicep
13 6 (1.72%) C++
14 4 (1.15%) PHP
15 3 (0.86%) C
16 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.29%) Groovy
17 1 (0.29%) R
17 1 (0.29%) XAML
Qualifications
1 25 (7.16%) Degree
2 11 (3.15%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.01%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.31%) QA
2 5 (1.43%) MiFID
3 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.15%) SEPA
3 4 (1.15%) WCAG
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (4.87%) Docker
2 14 (4.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.15%) Terraform
3 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 54 (15.47%) Oracle
3 24 (6.88%) Citrix
4 10 (2.87%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.43%) Okta
6 4 (1.15%) Google
6 4 (1.15%) SAP
7 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.57%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.57%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.29%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.29%) Virgin Media