C# Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

C# Developer
Central London > City of London

The median C# Developer daily rate in the City of London is £441, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 107 91
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 -24
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 11 23 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.62% 1.10% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.16% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 55
10th Percentile £397 £379 £568
25th Percentile £404 £625 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -34.63% -6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £683 £744 £838
90th Percentile £833 £838 £858
Central London median daily rate £441 £663 £725
% change year-on-year -33.40% -8.62% +11.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,653 1,976 2,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 94.18% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,248 1,946
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.97%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the City of London

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the City of London

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the City of London

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the City of London

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 across the City of London region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle
4 3 (27.27%) QA
4 3 (27.27%) WPF
4 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Windows
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (27.27%) Front Office
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
5 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) Reactive Extensions
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
6 1 (9.09%) Confluent
6 1 (9.09%) Blazor
6 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
6 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) REST

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Front Office
3 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
5 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) WPF
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
3 2 (18.18%) Reactive Extensions
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) Blazor
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Derivative
1 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (9.09%) API Development
3 1 (9.09%) API Integration
3 1 (9.09%) Facilities Management
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (9.09%) Microservices
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Confluent