C#
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 36 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing C# 2,057 3,004 5,340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.80% 5.34% 6.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.94% 15.57% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 2,267 4,138
10th Percentile £363 £399 £383
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +11.68%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +11.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 101 75
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.12% +23.33%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,901 19,292 31,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.12% 34.28% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,183 13,883 23,258
10th Percentile £350 £388 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £656
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 437 494
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.39 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.36 £62.50 £51.19
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% +22.11% +16.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.48 £72.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.99
% change year-on-year - +22.59% +24.35%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the UK

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England -2 1,866 £575 -4.17% 2,043
London +1 1,243 £618 -5.00% 788
Work from Home +6 888 £575 +4.55% 1,462
UK excluding London -4 643 £475 - 1,601
North of England +6 168 £475 - 385
South East -13 145 £500 -4.76% 493
North West +2 100 £475 -9.52% 221
South West -21 97 £450 -13.46% 142
Midlands -4 87 £489 +15.06% 298
East of England +1 80 £475 +1.33% 148
West Midlands -11 51 £525 +5.00% 178
Scotland -6 49 £419 -11.84% 101
Yorkshire 0 42 £475 - 107
East Midlands -3 38 £425 +11.84% 115
North East +24 26 £415 +7.10% 63
Wales -4 13 £394 -12.50% 41
Northern Ireland +6 5 £575 +43.75% 31

C#
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 36 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.70%) CMS
3 25 (1.22%) IIS
4 20 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.73%) Apache
6 15 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.44%) Confluence
8 8 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 7 (0.34%) SAS
10 4 (0.19%) Luigi
11 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.15%) Jadu
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.097%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.097%) Kentico
12 2 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.049%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.049%) Site Server
13 1 (0.049%) WebLogic
Applications
1 121 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 54 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.049%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.049%) Blender
7 1 (0.049%) InDesign
7 1 (0.049%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.049%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.17%) Endur
3 12 (0.58%) ION Anvil
4 10 (0.49%) Maximo
5 8 (0.39%) ION MarketView
6 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 4 (0.19%) LabWindows
7 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.097%) Shopify
10 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.049%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 844 (41.03%) Azure
2 388 (18.86%) Azure DevOps
3 216 (10.50%) AWS
4 137 (6.66%) Azure Service Bus
5 125 (6.08%) Power Platform
6 98 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 96 (4.67%) Entra ID
8 93 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
9 86 (4.18%) Azure Logic Apps
10 82 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
11 72 (3.50%) Serverless
12 66 (3.21%) PowerApps
13 65 (3.16%) Power Automate
14 55 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
15 51 (2.48%) Azure Functions
16 50 (2.43%) GCP
17 47 (2.28%) Azure API Management
18 43 (2.09%) PaaS
19 39 (1.90%) Azure Storage
20 33 (1.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.75%) Modbus
1 36 (1.75%) RS-485
2 35 (1.70%) DNS
2 35 (1.70%) RS-422
3 31 (1.51%) DHCP
4 30 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.31%) Firewall
6 26 (1.26%) Internet
7 14 (0.68%) Ethernet
8 12 (0.58%) FTP
9 11 (0.53%) HTTP
10 8 (0.39%) VPN
11 7 (0.34%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.34%) Wireless
12 6 (0.29%) Intranet
12 6 (0.29%) Network Security
13 5 (0.24%) RS-232
14 3 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
14 3 (0.15%) RTSP
14 3 (0.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 515 (25.04%) SQL Server
2 75 (3.65%) Relational Database
3 72 (3.50%) NoSQL
4 60 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 59 (2.87%) Power BI
6 55 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 54 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 49 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
9 41 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (1.56%) Oracle Database
11 30 (1.46%) MongoDB
12 29 (1.41%) Redis
13 27 (1.31%) MySQL
14 19 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.83%) Big Data
16 14 (0.68%) Data Lake
16 14 (0.68%) KDB
17 12 (0.58%) DynamoDB
18 9 (0.44%) Kdb+
19 8 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 224 (10.89%) Git
2 115 (5.59%) Visual Studio
3 100 (4.86%) Selenium
4 83 (4.04%) SpecFlow
5 75 (3.65%) Jenkins
6 71 (3.45%) JIRA
7 66 (3.21%) TeamCity
8 39 (1.90%) WebDriver
9 32 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 32 (1.56%) GitLab
10 29 (1.41%) Postman
11 27 (1.31%) Cypress.io
11 27 (1.31%) NUnit
12 22 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
13 19 (0.92%) Moq
13 19 (0.92%) webpack
14 18 (0.88%) Appium
14 18 (0.88%) Subversion
15 17 (0.83%) JUnit
16 16 (0.78%) Artifactory
General
1 412 (20.03%) Finance
2 399 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 218 (10.60%) Front Office
4 210 (10.21%) Banking
5 140 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 128 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (4.42%) Back Office
8 81 (3.94%) Investment Banking
9 47 (2.28%) Electronics
10 26 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 22 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.07%) Local Government
11 22 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 18 (0.88%) Marketing
14 17 (0.83%) Retail
15 14 (0.68%) Games
16 13 (0.63%) Military
17 12 (0.58%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,203 (58.48%) Developer
2 384 (18.67%) C# Developer
3 329 (15.99%) .NET Developer
4 313 (15.22%) Senior
5 241 (11.72%) Software Developer
6 218 (10.60%) Software Engineer
7 191 (9.29%) Senior Developer
8 157 (7.63%) Full Stack Developer
9 137 (6.66%) Lead
10 110 (5.35%) C# .NET Developer
11 91 (4.42%) Analyst
11 91 (4.42%) Azure Developer
12 69 (3.35%) Angular Developer
13 66 (3.21%) Architect
13 66 (3.21%) C# Software Engineer
14 61 (2.97%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 57 (2.77%) React Developer
16 56 (2.72%) .NET Software Engineer
16 56 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
17 52 (2.53%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,113 (54.11%) .NET
2 294 (14.29%) HTML
3 279 (13.56%) .NET Core
4 264 (12.83%) .NET Framework
5 248 (12.06%) React
6 225 (10.94%) AngularJS
7 212 (10.31%) ASP.NET
8 163 (7.92%) CSS
8 163 (7.92%) XML
9 115 (5.59%) REST
10 93 (4.52%) Web Services
11 87 (4.23%) WPF
12 75 (3.65%) Entity Framework
13 69 (3.35%) ASP.NET Core
13 69 (3.35%) RESTful
14 63 (3.06%) WCF
15 55 (2.67%) Node.js
16 54 (2.63%) JSON
16 54 (2.63%) Kafka
17 52 (2.53%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 102 (4.96%) Derivative
2 90 (4.38%) Hedge funds
3 83 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 80 (3.89%) Fixed Income
5 73 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 69 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
7 62 (3.01%) Equities
8 43 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 40 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 30 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 30 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 24 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.07%) PKI
13 21 (1.02%) Cloud Native
14 19 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (0.88%) Data Structures
15 18 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
16 17 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
17 14 (0.68%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 173 (8.41%) Windows
2 133 (6.47%) Linux
3 49 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.90%) Unix
5 19 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (0.68%) Android
7 9 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (32.52%) Agile
2 667 (32.43%) DevOps
3 509 (24.74%) Software Engineering
4 312 (15.17%) CI/CD
5 255 (12.40%) Full Stack Development
6 240 (11.67%) TDD
7 232 (11.28%) Test Automation
8 220 (10.70%) Scrum
9 202 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
10 181 (8.80%) OO
11 179 (8.70%) Microservices
12 159 (7.73%) Code Quality
13 158 (7.68%) Artificial Intelligence
14 154 (7.49%) Continuous Integration
15 132 (6.42%) MVC
16 129 (6.27%) Unit Testing
17 125 (6.08%) Design Patterns
18 123 (5.98%) SDLC
19 121 (5.88%) Conversational UI
20 105 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 758 (36.85%) SQL
2 536 (26.06%) JavaScript
3 388 (18.86%) Python
4 276 (13.42%) Java
5 251 (12.20%) PowerShell
6 172 (8.36%) TypeScript
7 171 (8.31%) C++
8 130 (6.32%) Bicep
9 84 (4.08%) T-SQL
10 75 (3.65%) C
11 69 (3.35%) PL/SQL
12 56 (2.72%) VB
13 51 (2.48%) VBA
14 40 (1.94%) VB.NET
15 26 (1.26%) VBScript
16 19 (0.92%) Bash
17 18 (0.88%) PHP
18 16 (0.78%) R
19 14 (0.68%) F#
20 13 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 294 (14.29%) Degree
2 202 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 144 (7.00%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 46 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 19 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 16 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (0.39%) PhD
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.19%) ISEB
13 3 (0.15%) HNC
13 3 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.097%) CCNP
14 2 (0.097%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.097%) GIAC
14 2 (0.097%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (7.68%) QA
2 37 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.26%) WCAG
4 18 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.78%) MiFID
6 13 (0.63%) NIST
7 9 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.39%) GDPR
8 8 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.34%) CDISC
10 6 (0.29%) EMIR
10 6 (0.29%) SLA
11 5 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.19%) SEPA
13 3 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.15%) GxP
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 136 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.21%) Docker
3 24 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.15%) NFS
8 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.097%) vSphere
10 1 (0.049%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 103 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 79 (3.84%) Terraform
3 42 (2.04%) Ansible
4 29 (1.41%) SCCM
5 21 (1.02%) SCOM
6 20 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.97%) WSUS
7 15 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.44%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.34%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.15%) Puppet
12 2 (0.097%) Grafana
12 2 (0.097%) Kibana
12 2 (0.097%) logstash
12 2 (0.097%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.097%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.049%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 428 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 141 (6.85%) Oracle
3 121 (5.88%) PayPal
4 31 (1.51%) Citrix
5 26 (1.26%) SAP
6 23 (1.12%) OpenLink
7 19 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 18 (0.88%) Databricks
9 17 (0.83%) Xamarin
10 15 (0.73%) VMware
11 14 (0.68%) AVEVA
12 13 (0.63%) ION Trading
13 11 (0.53%) Informatica
14 10 (0.49%) TIBCO
15 9 (0.44%) Altiris
15 9 (0.44%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.44%) Google
16 8 (0.39%) IBM
16 8 (0.39%) MuleSoft
17 7 (0.34%) Veeam