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 8 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
8 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 413 424
Rank change year-on-year -80 +11 -23
Contract jobs requiring a C# .NET Developer 106 302 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.57% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 267 409
10th Percentile £376 £379 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £469
% change year-on-year - +1.33% +18.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £42.78
25th Percentile - - £46.94
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -31.43% +54.41%
75th Percentile - - £57.38
90th Percentile - - £60.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.50
% change year-on-year - - +63.24%

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 40,208 52,661 84,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.53% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,884 36,729 59,270
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,486 1,961
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

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 8 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 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
England -55 99 £500 -2.44% 142
London -38 85 £500 -10.71% 22
Work from Home -19 39 £500 +21.21% 108
UK excluding London -11 14 £475 - 119
Midlands +11 5 £500 +33.33% 30
South West +11 3 £406 +16.07% 8
North of England +9 3 £475 +5.56% 58
West Midlands +5 3 £400 +3.23% 13
East Midlands +9 2 £550 +62.96% 17
North West +6 2 £488 -2.50% 20
Scotland +29 1 - -
Wales +14 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +12 1 £400 -5.88% 27
South East +1 1 £625 +40.85% 21

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 106 (100.00%) C#
1 106 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (53.77%) Azure
3 47 (44.34%) SQL
4 41 (38.68%) SQL Server
4 41 (38.68%) Finance
5 40 (37.74%) DevOps
6 34 (32.08%) .NET Core
7 32 (30.19%) .NET Framework
8 31 (29.25%) Agile
9 27 (25.47%) Microsoft
10 24 (22.64%) Oracle
11 23 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (21.70%) AWS
11 23 (21.70%) Full Stack Development
12 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
13 20 (18.87%) React
13 20 (18.87%) ASP.NET
14 19 (17.92%) OO
15 18 (16.98%) JavaScript
15 18 (16.98%) PL/SQL
15 18 (16.98%) Oracle Database
16 17 (16.04%) Git
17 16 (15.09%) AngularJS
17 16 (15.09%) TDD
17 16 (15.09%) Software Engineering
17 16 (15.09%) Unit Testing
18 15 (14.15%) CI/CD
18 15 (14.15%) T-SQL
19 14 (13.21%) VB.NET

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 (3.77%) CMS
2 1 (0.94%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.94%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.94%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 57 (53.77%) Azure
2 23 (21.70%) AWS
2 23 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (8.49%) Azure Service Bus
3 9 (8.49%) GCP
4 7 (6.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.77%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.83%) PaaS
7 3 (2.83%) Serverless
8 2 (1.89%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.94%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.94%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (38.68%) SQL Server
2 18 (16.98%) Oracle Database
3 14 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.60%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.77%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.83%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (16.04%) Git
2 6 (5.66%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.72%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (4.72%) SpecFlow
3 5 (4.72%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.77%) GitLab
4 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.83%) Selenium
5 3 (2.83%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.89%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.94%) GoCD
7 1 (0.94%) Hudson
7 1 (0.94%) MSTest
7 1 (0.94%) NUnit
7 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (38.68%) Finance
2 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.38%) Front Office
5 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Banking
5 5 (4.72%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.72%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.83%) Back Office
6 3 (2.83%) Electronics
6 3 (2.83%) Local Government
6 3 (2.83%) Marketing
6 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.89%) Law
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (100.00%) .NET
2 34 (32.08%) .NET Core
3 32 (30.19%) .NET Framework
4 20 (18.87%) ASP.NET
4 20 (18.87%) React
5 16 (15.09%) AngularJS
6 9 (8.49%) HTML
6 9 (8.49%) Kafka
7 8 (7.55%) REST
8 7 (6.60%) CSS
8 7 (6.60%) XML
9 5 (4.72%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (4.72%) Web Services
10 4 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (3.77%) Entity Framework
10 4 (3.77%) WPF
11 3 (2.83%) Blazor
11 3 (2.83%) jQuery
11 3 (2.83%) Vue
12 2 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.49%) Fixed Income
1 9 (8.49%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (7.55%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.60%) Equities
3 7 (6.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.77%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.83%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.89%) IoT
6 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.94%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.43%) Windows
2 2 (1.89%) Linux
3 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (37.74%) DevOps
2 31 (29.25%) Agile
3 23 (21.70%) Full Stack Development
4 19 (17.92%) OO
5 16 (15.09%) Software Engineering
5 16 (15.09%) TDD
5 16 (15.09%) Unit Testing
6 15 (14.15%) CI/CD
7 14 (13.21%) Scrum
8 13 (12.26%) OOP
9 12 (11.32%) Asset Management
9 12 (11.32%) Microservices
9 12 (11.32%) MVC
10 11 (10.38%) Data Analysis
10 11 (10.38%) Design Patterns
10 11 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (8.49%) Analytics
11 9 (8.49%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.49%) Web Application Development
12 8 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 106 (100.00%) C#
2 47 (44.34%) SQL
3 18 (16.98%) JavaScript
3 18 (16.98%) PL/SQL
4 15 (14.15%) T-SQL
5 14 (13.21%) VB.NET
6 13 (12.26%) PowerShell
6 13 (12.26%) VB
6 13 (12.26%) VBA
7 6 (5.66%) Bicep
8 5 (4.72%) Java
9 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.83%) C
10 3 (2.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (11.32%) Degree
2 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.72%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) QA
2 5 (4.72%) MiFID
3 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) WCAG
4 1 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (25.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (22.64%) Oracle
3 11 (10.38%) Citrix
4 3 (2.83%) Google
4 3 (2.83%) SAP
5 2 (1.89%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.94%) Adobe
6 1 (0.94%) Xamarin
146 C# .NET Developer jobs Nationwide