C# Software Engineer Contracts

C# Software Engineer
UK

The median C# Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 613 727
Rank change year-on-year +95 +114 -68
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 66 84 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 65 63
10th Percentile £386 £505 £413
25th Percentile £525 £563 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £681
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 15
10th Percentile - £46.63 £47.50
25th Percentile - - £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.42 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.92% +0.84% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# Software Engineer.

Daily rate trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Software Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# Software Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# Software Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +64 61 £650 - 52
London +61 40 £650 -1.89% 14
UK excluding London +35 26 £450 -10.00% 41
Work from Home +87 13 £650 +4.00% 33
East of England +11 8 - - 10
South West +1 7 £475 -7.32% 9
South East +16 5 £550 +10.00% 8
Scotland - 5 £313 - 1
North of England +12 1 - - 8
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, C# Software Engineer 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# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) C#
1 66 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (53.03%) .NET
3 33 (50.00%) Azure
4 19 (28.79%) Microsoft
4 19 (28.79%) Agile
4 19 (28.79%) TDD
5 17 (25.76%) Linux
6 16 (24.24%) C++
6 16 (24.24%) Finance
7 15 (22.73%) Visual Studio
7 15 (22.73%) Windows
8 14 (21.21%) DevOps
8 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
9 13 (19.70%) Microservices
9 13 (19.70%) Web Services
9 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
9 13 (19.70%) Unit Testing
9 13 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (18.18%) AngularJS
10 12 (18.18%) Fintech
10 12 (18.18%) Digital Twin
10 12 (18.18%) Synthetic Environment
10 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 11 (16.67%) Visualisation
11 11 (16.67%) SQL
11 11 (16.67%) Eclipse
11 11 (16.67%) TCP/IP
12 10 (15.15%) Validation
12 10 (15.15%) Military

C# Software Engineer 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 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) AWS
2 8 (12.12%) Azure Service Bus
3 7 (10.61%) Azure App Service
4 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (3.03%) GCP
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.52%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 10 (15.15%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.52%) 4G
3 1 (1.52%) 5G
3 1 (1.52%) Broadband
3 1 (1.52%) HTTP
3 1 (1.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (22.73%) Visual Studio
2 11 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 9 (13.64%) Git
4 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.58%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.03%) Postman
5 2 (3.03%) Selenium
6 1 (1.52%) Appium
6 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.52%) Checkstyle
6 1 (1.52%) JIRA
6 1 (1.52%) MSTest
6 1 (1.52%) NUnit
6 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (24.24%) Finance
2 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Military
3 10 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Front Office
5 5 (7.58%) Aviation
5 5 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.55%) Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (53.03%) .NET
2 13 (19.70%) Web Services
3 12 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 10 (15.15%) Node.js
5 9 (13.64%) .NET Core
6 6 (9.09%) React
7 5 (7.58%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.55%) Kafka
8 3 (4.55%) XML
9 2 (3.03%) REST
10 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (1.52%) CSS3
10 1 (1.52%) HTML5
10 1 (1.52%) jQuery
10 1 (1.52%) JSON
10 1 (1.52%) KnockoutJS
10 1 (1.52%) Reactive Extensions
10 1 (1.52%) RESTful
10 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.06%) Derivative
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.52%) IoT
4 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.76%) Linux
2 15 (22.73%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (28.79%) Agile
2 19 (28.79%) TDD
3 14 (21.21%) DevOps
4 13 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (19.70%) Microservices
4 13 (19.70%) Unit Testing
5 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.18%) Digital Twin
5 12 (18.18%) Fintech
5 12 (18.18%) Synthetic Environment
6 11 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 10 (15.15%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (15.15%) Validation
7 10 (15.15%) Verification and Validation
8 8 (12.12%) Domain-Driven Design
9 7 (10.61%) Multithreading
9 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.61%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 66 (100.00%) C#
2 16 (24.24%) C++
3 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.67%) SQL
5 9 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.58%) Bicep
7 3 (4.55%) Bash
7 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.55%) Python
8 2 (3.03%) Perl
9 1 (1.52%) C
9 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.52%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (28.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.52%) Finsemble
2 1 (1.52%) Google
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle
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