C# Contracts in London

C#
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing C# 1,244 1,749 2,836
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.09% 6.93% 7.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.89% 17.27% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,415 2,367
10th Percentile £400 £400 £417
25th Percentile £500 £511 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £763
90th Percentile £825 £850 £838
England median daily rate £575 £600 £551
% change year-on-year -4.17% +8.99% +7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £36.80 £44.90
25th Percentile £40.82 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £43.84 £50.42 £49.99
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% +0.87% -8.70%
75th Percentile £46.86 £52.97 £54.68
90th Percentile - £58.50 £56.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.70
% change year-on-year - +12.66% +28.21%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,587 10,126 16,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.52% 40.12% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,007 7,630 12,509
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £827 £800
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 107
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.40 £28.85
25th Percentile £40.75 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +23.71% +2.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £66.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £75.57
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +18.44%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C# in London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C# in London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in London

C#
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London -9 171 £600 -8.40% 92
East London +12 26 £435 - 7
West London +31 18 £575 +27.78% 8
South London -2 7 £475 -13.64% 6
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 23 (1.85%) CMS
2 20 (1.61%) IIS
3 18 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.48%) Apache
7 4 (0.32%) Luigi
8 3 (0.24%) Confluence
8 3 (0.24%) nginx
9 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.080%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.080%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.080%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.080%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.080%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.080%) Jadu
9 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.080%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.080%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.080%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (2.01%) Endur
3 12 (0.96%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.64%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.40%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.080%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.080%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 551 (44.29%) Azure
2 272 (21.86%) Azure DevOps
3 140 (11.25%) AWS
4 120 (9.65%) Azure Service Bus
5 83 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 71 (5.71%) Entra ID
7 65 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
8 61 (4.90%) Power Platform
9 50 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
10 47 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 46 (3.70%) Serverless
12 42 (3.38%) GCP
13 39 (3.14%) Azure API Management
13 39 (3.14%) PowerApps
14 38 (3.05%) Azure Functions
15 34 (2.73%) Power Automate
16 25 (2.01%) PaaS
17 23 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
18 22 (1.77%) Azure App Service
19 21 (1.69%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.85%) Internet
2 7 (0.56%) FTP
2 7 (0.56%) Kerberos
3 5 (0.40%) DNS
3 5 (0.40%) HTTP
4 4 (0.32%) Firewall
4 4 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.32%) Wireless
5 3 (0.24%) SSH
5 3 (0.24%) VPN
6 2 (0.16%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.16%) DHCP
6 2 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.080%) 4G
7 1 (0.080%) 5G
7 1 (0.080%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.080%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (32.15%) SQL Server
2 62 (4.98%) NoSQL
3 54 (4.34%) Relational Database
4 50 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 46 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 42 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 35 (2.81%) Oracle Database
7 35 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (2.33%) Power BI
9 27 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (2.09%) Redis
11 22 (1.77%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.80%) KDB
14 9 (0.72%) Big Data
14 9 (0.72%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.64%) MySQL
16 7 (0.56%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.48%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 125 (10.05%) Git
2 72 (5.79%) Selenium
3 71 (5.71%) SpecFlow
4 55 (4.42%) Visual Studio
5 50 (4.02%) TeamCity
6 41 (3.30%) JIRA
7 39 (3.14%) Jenkins
8 28 (2.25%) WebDriver
9 24 (1.93%) GitLab
10 22 (1.77%) Cucumber
11 21 (1.69%) Postman
12 19 (1.53%) NUnit
13 15 (1.21%) Appium
13 15 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.21%) Moq
13 15 (1.21%) Visual Studio Team System
14 14 (1.13%) webpack
15 12 (0.96%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.96%) REST Assured
15 12 (0.96%) SoapUI
General
1 365 (29.34%) Finance
2 242 (19.45%) Social Skills
3 203 (16.32%) Front Office
4 194 (15.59%) Banking
5 94 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (6.83%) Back Office
7 79 (6.35%) Investment Banking
7 79 (6.35%) Public Sector
8 24 (1.93%) Financial Institution
9 19 (1.53%) Local Government
10 14 (1.13%) Retail
11 12 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (0.96%) Marketing
12 10 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.64%) Games
14 7 (0.56%) Legal
15 6 (0.48%) Law
16 5 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.40%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.32%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 739 (59.41%) Developer
2 303 (24.36%) C# Developer
3 254 (20.42%) Senior
4 217 (17.44%) .NET Developer
5 166 (13.34%) Senior Developer
6 128 (10.29%) Software Engineer
7 111 (8.92%) Full Stack Developer
8 100 (8.04%) Lead
9 85 (6.83%) C# .NET Developer
10 82 (6.59%) Software Developer
11 70 (5.63%) Analyst
12 62 (4.98%) Azure Developer
13 54 (4.34%) Angular Developer
14 48 (3.86%) .NET Software Engineer
14 48 (3.86%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 47 (3.78%) Backend Developer
16 45 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
17 44 (3.54%) Senior Software Developer
18 43 (3.46%) Senior C# Developer
19 42 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 768 (61.74%) .NET
2 218 (17.52%) .NET Core
3 190 (15.27%) .NET Framework
4 183 (14.71%) React
5 157 (12.62%) AngularJS
6 141 (11.33%) ASP.NET
7 129 (10.37%) XML
8 117 (9.41%) HTML
9 90 (7.23%) CSS
10 80 (6.43%) REST
11 73 (5.87%) WPF
12 54 (4.34%) WCF
13 48 (3.86%) ASP.NET Core
13 48 (3.86%) Web Services
14 43 (3.46%) Kafka
15 40 (3.22%) Entity Framework
16 38 (3.05%) Redux
17 35 (2.81%) RESTful
18 34 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
19 33 (2.65%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 94 (7.56%) Derivative
2 81 (6.51%) Hedge funds
3 80 (6.43%) Fixed Income
4 64 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 63 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
6 58 (4.66%) Equities
7 42 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 39 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.21%) Equity Derivative
11 15 (1.21%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.13%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.96%) Market Risk
14 11 (0.88%) Management Information System
14 11 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.72%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 83 (6.67%) Windows
2 54 (4.34%) Linux
3 26 (2.09%) Unix
4 16 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.080%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.080%) VMS
6 1 (0.080%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (34.81%) DevOps
2 414 (33.28%) Agile
3 267 (21.46%) Software Engineering
4 214 (17.20%) CI/CD
5 165 (13.26%) Full Stack Development
6 159 (12.78%) Scrum
7 158 (12.70%) TDD
8 137 (11.01%) Test Automation
9 125 (10.05%) OO
10 123 (9.89%) Microservices
11 110 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
12 93 (7.48%) SDLC
13 90 (7.23%) Design Patterns
14 81 (6.51%) Asset Management
15 79 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
16 75 (6.03%) MVC
17 73 (5.87%) Mentoring
18 72 (5.79%) Analytics
18 72 (5.79%) B2C
19 71 (5.71%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 482 (38.75%) SQL
2 268 (21.54%) JavaScript
3 187 (15.03%) PowerShell
4 184 (14.79%) Java
5 176 (14.15%) Python
6 124 (9.97%) TypeScript
7 93 (7.48%) Bicep
8 79 (6.35%) T-SQL
9 70 (5.63%) C++
10 60 (4.82%) PL/SQL
11 45 (3.62%) VBA
12 37 (2.97%) VB.NET
13 27 (2.17%) VB
14 16 (1.29%) C
15 12 (0.96%) Go
16 9 (0.72%) Bash
17 8 (0.64%) PHP
17 8 (0.64%) R
17 8 (0.64%) Rust
18 7 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (9.73%) Degree
2 49 (3.94%) Security Cleared
3 42 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 28 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.24%) PhD
10 2 (0.16%) CCNP
10 2 (0.16%) CHECK Team Leader
10 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.16%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.16%) GIAC
10 2 (0.16%) ISEB
10 2 (0.16%) OSCP
11 1 (0.080%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (8.04%) QA
2 28 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.85%) WCAG
4 17 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.29%) MiFID
6 12 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.48%) EMIR
7 6 (0.48%) SLA
8 5 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.32%) GDPR
9 4 (0.32%) NIST
9 4 (0.32%) SEPA
10 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.080%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.080%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 108 (8.68%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.78%) Docker
3 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.24%) NFS
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.080%) Firmware
5 1 (0.080%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.080%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 53 (4.26%) Terraform
3 24 (1.93%) Ansible
4 9 (0.72%) BladeLogic
4 9 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.16%) Grafana
5 2 (0.16%) Kibana
5 2 (0.16%) logstash
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.16%) Puppet
5 2 (0.16%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.080%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.080%) VxRail
Vendors
1 287 (23.07%) Microsoft
2 117 (9.41%) Oracle
3 32 (2.57%) Citrix
4 24 (1.93%) OpenLink
5 15 (1.21%) Databricks
6 13 (1.05%) ION Trading
6 13 (1.05%) PayPal
7 12 (0.96%) SAP
8 10 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 10 (0.80%) TIBCO
9 9 (0.72%) Altiris
9 9 (0.72%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.64%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.56%) AVEVA
11 7 (0.56%) Google
11 7 (0.56%) Okta
12 6 (0.48%) Cadence
12 6 (0.48%) iManage
12 6 (0.48%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.48%) Xamarin