C# Contracts in England

C#
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 33 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing C# 1,882 2,761 4,543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.17% 5.70% 6.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.26% 16.33% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 2,093 3,546
10th Percentile £375 £400 £383
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 100 70
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.63 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.09 £47.14
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year - +19.82% +20.56%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £70.30 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.56
% change year-on-year - +23.68% +16.79%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,903 16,906 25,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.95% 34.89% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,919 12,370 19,191
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 404 450
10th Percentile £37.59 £25.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.53 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
Median % change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £79.59 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in England

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# in England

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in England

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in England

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in England

C#
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# within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 0 1,260 £625 -2.34% 713
North of England +2 167 £475 - 402
South East -11 148 £506 -3.57% 384
North West -3 102 £475 -9.52% 220
South West -19 94 £450 -13.46% 156
Midlands -9 85 £489 +15.06% 309
East of England 0 80 £475 +4.11% 110
West Midlands -2 49 £525 +5.00% 197
Yorkshire +2 39 £470 -1.05% 127
East Midlands 0 38 £425 +11.84% 111
North East +25 26 £415 -0.90% 59
C#
UK

C#
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 35 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.75%) CMS
3 23 (1.22%) IIS
4 18 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.80%) Apache
6 14 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.43%) Confluence
7 8 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.21%) Luigi
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.16%) Jadu
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.053%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.053%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.053%) Site Server
11 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.053%) WordPress
Applications
1 110 (5.84%) Chatbot
2 54 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.053%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.053%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.33%) Endur
3 12 (0.64%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.43%) ION MarketView
5 5 (0.27%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.21%) LabWindows
6 4 (0.21%) Maximo
6 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.11%) SAP GTS
9 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.053%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.053%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 741 (39.37%) Azure
2 360 (19.13%) Azure DevOps
3 206 (10.95%) AWS
4 130 (6.91%) Azure Service Bus
5 108 (5.74%) Power Platform
6 95 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 90 (4.78%) Entra ID
8 83 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 80 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
10 77 (4.09%) Serverless
11 76 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (3.19%) Power Automate
13 58 (3.08%) Azure Functions
14 56 (2.98%) PowerApps
15 51 (2.71%) Azure API Management
16 50 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
17 49 (2.60%) GCP
18 40 (2.13%) PaaS
19 35 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
19 35 (1.86%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.91%) Modbus
1 36 (1.91%) RS-485
2 35 (1.86%) DNS
2 35 (1.86%) RS-422
3 31 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.54%) DHCP
5 25 (1.33%) Firewall
5 25 (1.33%) Internet
6 14 (0.74%) Ethernet
7 12 (0.64%) FTP
7 12 (0.64%) HTTP
8 10 (0.53%) VPN
9 7 (0.37%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.37%) Wireless
10 6 (0.32%) Intranet
11 5 (0.27%) Network Security
11 5 (0.27%) RS-232
12 4 (0.21%) SSH
13 3 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (0.16%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (25.56%) SQL Server
2 68 (3.61%) NoSQL
3 67 (3.56%) Relational Database
4 64 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 55 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 50 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 49 (2.60%) Power BI
8 45 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (1.43%) Redis
11 26 (1.38%) Oracle Database
12 25 (1.33%) MongoDB
13 23 (1.22%) MySQL
14 18 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.90%) Big Data
16 15 (0.80%) KDB
17 13 (0.69%) Data Lake
17 13 (0.69%) DynamoDB
18 10 (0.53%) Kdb+
19 7 (0.37%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 201 (10.68%) Git
2 106 (5.63%) Visual Studio
3 81 (4.30%) Selenium
4 74 (3.93%) SpecFlow
5 69 (3.67%) Jenkins
6 63 (3.35%) JIRA
7 62 (3.29%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.59%) GitLab
8 30 (1.59%) WebDriver
9 28 (1.49%) Postman
10 27 (1.43%) NUnit
11 25 (1.33%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.17%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.01%) Moq
13 19 (1.01%) webpack
14 18 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
15 17 (0.90%) Appium
16 16 (0.85%) Artifactory
16 16 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
16 16 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 417 (22.16%) Finance
2 366 (19.45%) Social Skills
3 230 (12.22%) Front Office
4 217 (11.53%) Banking
5 126 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 119 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 100 (5.31%) Back Office
8 85 (4.52%) Investment Banking
9 48 (2.55%) Electronics
10 25 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 22 (1.17%) Local Government
12 21 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.06%) Marketing
14 19 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (0.96%) Retail
16 13 (0.69%) Military
16 13 (0.69%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.58%) Law
18 10 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,106 (58.77%) Developer
2 362 (19.23%) C# Developer
3 297 (15.78%) .NET Developer
3 297 (15.78%) Senior
4 224 (11.90%) Software Developer
5 204 (10.84%) Software Engineer
6 182 (9.67%) Senior Developer
7 138 (7.33%) Full Stack Developer
8 122 (6.48%) Lead
9 103 (5.47%) C# .NET Developer
10 92 (4.89%) Analyst
11 84 (4.46%) Azure Developer
12 64 (3.40%) Angular Developer
13 59 (3.13%) C# Software Engineer
14 58 (3.08%) Architect
15 54 (2.87%) .NET Software Engineer
16 52 (2.76%) Senior Software Developer
17 51 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
17 51 (2.71%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 50 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,008 (53.56%) .NET
2 262 (13.92%) .NET Core
3 259 (13.76%) HTML
4 235 (12.49%) .NET Framework
5 217 (11.53%) React
6 200 (10.63%) AngularJS
7 194 (10.31%) ASP.NET
8 164 (8.71%) XML
9 138 (7.33%) CSS
10 110 (5.84%) REST
11 89 (4.73%) Web Services
12 80 (4.25%) WPF
13 66 (3.51%) Entity Framework
13 66 (3.51%) RESTful
14 59 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
14 59 (3.13%) JSON
15 58 (3.08%) WCF
16 51 (2.71%) Node.js
17 48 (2.55%) Blazor
17 48 (2.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 112 (5.95%) Derivative
2 99 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 83 (4.41%) Fixed Income
4 79 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 67 (3.56%) Equities
6 65 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 63 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 34 (1.81%) Algorithms
11 24 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.06%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.06%) PKI
14 19 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
14 19 (1.01%) Market Risk
15 17 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.85%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
18 13 (0.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 157 (8.34%) Windows
2 126 (6.70%) Linux
3 47 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.07%) Unix
5 17 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (0.58%) Android
7 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (33.53%) Agile
2 616 (32.73%) DevOps
3 481 (25.56%) Software Engineering
4 295 (15.67%) CI/CD
5 241 (12.81%) TDD
6 224 (11.90%) Full Stack Development
7 209 (11.11%) Scrum
8 202 (10.73%) Test Automation
9 177 (9.40%) OO
9 177 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
10 167 (8.87%) Microservices
11 147 (7.81%) Continuous Integration
12 141 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence
13 139 (7.39%) Code Quality
14 120 (6.38%) MVC
15 119 (6.32%) Unit Testing
16 116 (6.16%) Design Patterns
17 110 (5.84%) Conversational UI
18 107 (5.69%) SDLC
19 104 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 721 (38.31%) SQL
2 483 (25.66%) JavaScript
3 369 (19.61%) Python
4 264 (14.03%) Java
5 239 (12.70%) PowerShell
6 165 (8.77%) C++
7 147 (7.81%) TypeScript
8 124 (6.59%) Bicep
9 78 (4.14%) T-SQL
10 74 (3.93%) C
11 64 (3.40%) PL/SQL
12 45 (2.39%) VBA
13 39 (2.07%) VB
14 36 (1.91%) VB.NET
15 21 (1.12%) VBScript
16 18 (0.96%) Bash
17 17 (0.90%) PHP
18 13 (0.69%) Go
19 12 (0.64%) F#
19 12 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 275 (14.61%) Degree
2 171 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 128 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 62 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.48%) PhD
10 8 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.16%) CHECK Team Leader
13 3 (0.16%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.16%) GIAC
13 3 (0.16%) HNC
13 3 (0.16%) ISEB
13 3 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (7.07%) QA
2 34 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.33%) WCAG
4 17 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.85%) MiFID
6 14 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.74%) NIST
7 9 (0.48%) GDPR
7 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.43%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.32%) EMIR
9 6 (0.32%) SLA
10 5 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.21%) SEPA
12 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.053%) HL7
13 1 (0.053%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 132 (7.01%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.56%) Docker
3 21 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.21%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) vSphere
12 1 (0.053%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 91 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.56%) Terraform
3 43 (2.28%) Ansible
4 27 (1.43%) SCCM
5 18 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (0.96%) WSUS
6 17 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.90%) SCOM
7 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.48%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.11%) Grafana
12 2 (0.11%) Kibana
12 2 (0.11%) logstash
12 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.11%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.053%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 400 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 130 (6.91%) Oracle
3 110 (5.84%) PayPal
4 28 (1.49%) Citrix
5 26 (1.38%) SAP
6 24 (1.28%) OpenLink
7 22 (1.17%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.01%) Databricks
9 15 (0.80%) VMware
10 13 (0.69%) ION Trading
10 13 (0.69%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.58%) Informatica
12 10 (0.53%) TIBCO
13 9 (0.48%) Altiris
13 9 (0.48%) AVEVA
13 9 (0.48%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.48%) Google
14 8 (0.43%) IBM
15 7 (0.37%) MuleSoft
15 7 (0.37%) Veeam