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 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 204 231
Rank change year-on-year -61 +27 -31
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 390 748 1,134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 1.31% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.39% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 635 944
10th Percentile £375 £400 £381
25th Percentile £500 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £763
90th Percentile £820 £813 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.25 £45.55
25th Percentile £60.63 £51.69 £51.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +41.10%
75th Percentile £71.88 £64.69 £61.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +58.62%

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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 16 May 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 16 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 16 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 -55 361 £650 +4.00% 214
London -18 311 £650 -3.70% 80
Work from Home -14 182 £650 +8.33% 158
UK excluding London -35 45 £475 - 146
South East -5 14 £475 -20.83% 24
North of England -1 11 £488 +10.17% 54
Midlands +16 8 £488 +30.00% 35
North West -4 8 £500 +12.99% 34
South West +3 7 £338 -6.90% 15
West Midlands +22 6 £438 +12.90% 17
East of England 0 3 - - 5
Yorkshire +12 2 £400 -11.11% 12
East Midlands +7 2 £550 +61.76% 18
Scotland +19 1 - - 5
Wales +15 1 - - 9
North East +9 1 - - 11

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 390 (100.00%) C#
2 236 (60.51%) .NET
3 164 (42.05%) SQL
4 154 (39.49%) Azure
5 134 (34.36%) Finance
6 123 (31.54%) SQL Server
7 106 (27.18%) Agile
8 94 (24.10%) DevOps
9 93 (23.85%) Front Office
10 87 (22.31%) Social Skills
11 74 (18.97%) Full Stack Development
12 72 (18.46%) .NET Framework
13 70 (17.95%) AngularJS
14 69 (17.69%) .NET Core
15 65 (16.67%) Banking
16 64 (16.41%) Software Engineering
16 64 (16.41%) JavaScript
17 61 (15.64%) Microsoft
17 61 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
17 61 (15.64%) React
18 55 (14.10%) WPF
19 51 (13.08%) Git
19 51 (13.08%) CI/CD
20 48 (12.31%) ASP.NET
21 45 (11.54%) Oracle
22 44 (11.28%) TDD
23 41 (10.51%) Scrum
24 40 (10.26%) Test Automation
24 40 (10.26%) Electronic Trading
24 40 (10.26%) Microservices

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 10 (2.56%) IIS
2 6 (1.54%) CMS
3 4 (1.03%) Apache
4 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) Jadu
6 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
Applications
1 33 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
2 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 154 (39.49%) Azure
2 61 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (9.74%) AWS
4 31 (7.95%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (4.36%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (4.36%) PaaS
6 13 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.08%) Serverless
8 11 (2.82%) Azure Functions
9 10 (2.56%) GCP
10 9 (2.31%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.79%) GitHub
12 7 (1.79%) npm
13 6 (1.54%) Azure API Management
13 6 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.31%) Internet
2 5 (1.28%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.26%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (31.54%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.41%) NoSQL
3 23 (5.90%) Oracle Database
3 23 (5.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (5.38%) Relational Database
5 19 (4.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.31%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.54%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.54%) MySQL
9 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.03%) Redis
10 3 (0.77%) Power BI
10 3 (0.77%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.26%) Big Data
12 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.26%) Flink
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 51 (13.08%) Git
2 26 (6.67%) TeamCity
3 18 (4.62%) Visual Studio
4 16 (4.10%) NUnit
5 15 (3.85%) Moq
6 14 (3.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (3.59%) SpecFlow
7 12 (3.08%) JIRA
8 11 (2.82%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.82%) Selenium
9 10 (2.56%) Jenkins
10 7 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (1.79%) webpack
11 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.03%) GitLab
12 3 (0.77%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.51%) Mercurial
13 2 (0.51%) MSTest
13 2 (0.51%) Postman
13 2 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 134 (34.36%) Finance
2 93 (23.85%) Front Office
3 87 (22.31%) Social Skills
4 65 (16.67%) Banking
5 35 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (8.72%) Investment Banking
7 20 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.85%) Financial Institution
9 12 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.79%) Law
10 7 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.28%) Back Office
11 5 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.03%) Electronics
12 4 (1.03%) Marketing
12 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.77%) Local Government
14 2 (0.51%) Retail
14 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.26%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (60.51%) .NET
2 72 (18.46%) .NET Framework
3 70 (17.95%) AngularJS
4 69 (17.69%) .NET Core
5 61 (15.64%) React
6 55 (14.10%) WPF
7 48 (12.31%) ASP.NET
8 24 (6.15%) WCF
9 22 (5.64%) HTML
10 21 (5.38%) REST
11 19 (4.87%) CSS
11 19 (4.87%) RESTful
11 19 (4.87%) XML
12 18 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
12 18 (4.62%) Entity Framework
12 18 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (4.36%) Web Services
14 15 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
14 15 (3.85%) Kafka
14 15 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.72%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (8.21%) Fixed Income
3 25 (6.41%) Derivative
4 20 (5.13%) Equities
5 17 (4.36%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.10%) Equity Derivative
7 12 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.56%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (2.31%) Hedge funds
10 8 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.54%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.03%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.77%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.77%) Solar Panel
14 2 (0.51%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.15%) Windows
2 15 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (27.18%) Agile
2 94 (24.10%) DevOps
3 74 (18.97%) Full Stack Development
4 64 (16.41%) Software Engineering
5 51 (13.08%) CI/CD
6 44 (11.28%) TDD
7 41 (10.51%) Scrum
8 40 (10.26%) Electronic Trading
8 40 (10.26%) Microservices
8 40 (10.26%) Test Automation
9 35 (8.97%) OO
10 33 (8.46%) Unit Testing
11 32 (8.21%) MVC
12 31 (7.95%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (7.44%) Design Patterns
15 23 (5.90%) Multithreading
16 22 (5.64%) Front End Development
17 20 (5.13%) Analytics
17 20 (5.13%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 390 (100.00%) C#
2 164 (42.05%) SQL
3 64 (16.41%) JavaScript
4 34 (8.72%) Python
5 31 (7.95%) T-SQL
6 28 (7.18%) PL/SQL
7 25 (6.41%) PowerShell
8 23 (5.90%) TypeScript
8 23 (5.90%) VBA
9 20 (5.13%) VB
10 17 (4.36%) Java
11 11 (2.82%) Bicep
11 11 (2.82%) VB.NET
12 6 (1.54%) C++
13 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.03%) PHP
15 3 (0.77%) C
16 2 (0.51%) Ruby
17 1 (0.26%) Groovy
17 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (6.15%) Degree
1 24 (6.15%) Security Cleared
2 22 (5.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.15%) QA
2 5 (1.28%) MiFID
3 4 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.03%) SEPA
3 4 (1.03%) WCAG
4 1 (0.26%) GDPR
4 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (4.36%) Docker
2 14 (3.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (3.85%) Terraform
2 12 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) SCOM
4 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 45 (11.54%) Oracle
3 18 (4.62%) Citrix
4 10 (2.56%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.28%) Okta
6 4 (1.03%) Google
6 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.03%) SAP
7 2 (0.51%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.51%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe
8 1 (0.26%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.26%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.26%) Xamarin