C# Developer Contracts

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £625 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 276 210 230
Rank change year-on-year -66 +20 -29
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 374 698 1,120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.25% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.33% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 595 941
10th Percentile £377 £393 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.38%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £775
90th Percentile £801 £820 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.40% +13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £58.00 £41.05 £43.70
25th Percentile £60.63 £48.63 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +12.61% +44.16%
75th Percentile £71.88 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £73.75 - £61.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £56.50
% change year-on-year - - +66.18%

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# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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 -54 348 £625 - 207
London -28 303 £650 -3.70% 53
Work from Home -6 173 £650 +8.33% 143
UK excluding London -44 42 £475 - 159
North of England +2 11 £475 +11.76% 61
South East -7 11 £463 -22.92% 24
Midlands +9 8 £488 +30.00% 45
North West -3 8 £500 +14.94% 27
South West +6 7 £338 -3.57% 14
West Midlands +6 6 £438 +12.90% 21
Yorkshire +14 3 £400 -5.88% 21
East of England -3 3 - - 7
East Midlands +6 2 £550 +57.14% 24
Scotland +24 1 - - 4
Wales +14 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 374 (100.00%) C#
2 234 (62.57%) .NET
3 154 (41.18%) SQL
4 150 (40.11%) Azure
5 127 (33.96%) SQL Server
6 126 (33.69%) Finance
7 107 (28.61%) Agile
8 91 (24.33%) Social Skills
9 89 (23.80%) DevOps
10 83 (22.19%) Front Office
11 77 (20.59%) .NET Framework
12 72 (19.25%) Full Stack Development
13 67 (17.91%) AngularJS
13 67 (17.91%) .NET Core
14 62 (16.58%) React
14 62 (16.58%) Software Engineering
14 62 (16.58%) Microsoft
15 61 (16.31%) JavaScript
16 60 (16.04%) Banking
17 55 (14.71%) WPF
18 54 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
19 53 (14.17%) CI/CD
20 52 (13.90%) Oracle
21 48 (12.83%) ASP.NET
21 48 (12.83%) Git
22 41 (10.96%) TDD
23 39 (10.43%) Microservices
23 39 (10.43%) Electronic Trading
23 39 (10.43%) OO
24 38 (10.16%) Scrum

C# 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 13 (3.48%) IIS
2 6 (1.60%) CMS
3 4 (1.07%) Apache
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) Jadu
6 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
Applications
1 35 (9.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 150 (40.11%) Azure
2 54 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (10.16%) AWS
4 30 (8.02%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (3.21%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.21%) PaaS
8 11 (2.94%) Serverless
9 10 (2.67%) Azure Functions
9 10 (2.67%) GCP
10 8 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.14%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.87%) GitHub
11 7 (1.87%) npm
12 5 (1.34%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.34%) Azure API Management
12 5 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.07%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.21%) Internet
2 5 (1.34%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (33.96%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.02%) Oracle Database
3 28 (7.49%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (5.08%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.14%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.60%) MySQL
12 5 (1.34%) Redis
13 4 (1.07%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.80%) Power BI
14 3 (0.80%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
16 1 (0.27%) Big Data
16 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
16 1 (0.27%) Flink
16 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 48 (12.83%) Git
2 25 (6.68%) TeamCity
3 15 (4.01%) NUnit
3 15 (4.01%) Visual Studio
4 13 (3.48%) Moq
4 13 (3.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 12 (3.21%) SpecFlow
6 11 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.94%) JIRA
6 11 (2.94%) Selenium
7 9 (2.41%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.87%) webpack
9 5 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.07%) GitLab
11 3 (0.80%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.53%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.53%) MSTest
12 2 (0.53%) Subversion
12 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 126 (33.69%) Finance
2 91 (24.33%) Social Skills
3 83 (22.19%) Front Office
4 60 (16.04%) Banking
5 34 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (8.56%) Investment Banking
7 18 (4.81%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.28%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.60%) Law
11 5 (1.34%) Back Office
11 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.07%) Electronics
12 4 (1.07%) Marketing
12 4 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.80%) Local Government
14 2 (0.53%) Retail
14 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.27%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (62.57%) .NET
2 77 (20.59%) .NET Framework
3 67 (17.91%) .NET Core
3 67 (17.91%) AngularJS
4 62 (16.58%) React
5 55 (14.71%) WPF
6 48 (12.83%) ASP.NET
7 26 (6.95%) WCF
8 25 (6.68%) HTML
9 21 (5.61%) CSS
9 21 (5.61%) REST
10 19 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (5.08%) RESTful
10 19 (5.08%) XML
11 18 (4.81%) Kafka
12 16 (4.28%) ASP.NET Web API
13 15 (4.01%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (4.01%) Entity Framework
13 15 (4.01%) Web Services
14 14 (3.74%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.63%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (8.02%) Fixed Income
3 19 (5.08%) Equities
4 18 (4.81%) Derivative
5 15 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.94%) Equity Derivative
6 11 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.14%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.87%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.80%) Solar Panel
15 2 (0.53%) Cloud Native
15 2 (0.53%) IoT
15 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.75%) Windows
2 11 (2.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (28.61%) Agile
2 89 (23.80%) DevOps
3 72 (19.25%) Full Stack Development
4 62 (16.58%) Software Engineering
5 53 (14.17%) CI/CD
6 41 (10.96%) TDD
7 39 (10.43%) Electronic Trading
7 39 (10.43%) Microservices
7 39 (10.43%) OO
8 38 (10.16%) Scrum
9 35 (9.36%) Test Automation
10 34 (9.09%) Unit Testing
11 33 (8.82%) MVC
12 32 (8.56%) Design Patterns
13 28 (7.49%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (7.49%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (6.15%) Data Analysis
15 22 (5.88%) Multithreading
16 20 (5.35%) Clean Code
16 20 (5.35%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 374 (100.00%) C#
2 154 (41.18%) SQL
3 61 (16.31%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.36%) PL/SQL
4 35 (9.36%) T-SQL
5 29 (7.75%) Python
6 28 (7.49%) VBA
7 25 (6.68%) PowerShell
7 25 (6.68%) VB
8 23 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.28%) Java
10 14 (3.74%) VB.NET
11 11 (2.94%) Bicep
12 6 (1.60%) C++
13 5 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.07%) PHP
15 3 (0.80%) C
16 1 (0.27%) Groovy
16 1 (0.27%) R
16 1 (0.27%) XAML
Qualifications
1 24 (6.42%) Degree
2 20 (5.35%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.75%) QA
2 5 (1.34%) MiFID
3 4 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.07%) SEPA
3 4 (1.07%) WCAG
4 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (4.55%) Docker
2 14 (3.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (3.74%) Kubernetes
1 14 (3.74%) Terraform
2 2 (0.53%) Ansible
3 1 (0.27%) Grafana
3 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) SCOM
3 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 52 (13.90%) Oracle
3 23 (6.15%) Citrix
4 10 (2.67%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.34%) Okta
6 4 (1.07%) Google
6 4 (1.07%) SAP
7 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.53%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.53%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe
8 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.27%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.27%) Xamarin