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 £408, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 104 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 -20 -32
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 10 24 65
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.59% 1.14% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.21% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 55
10th Percentile £395 £420 £553
25th Percentile £404 £619 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £675 £688
Median % change year-on-year -39.63% -1.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £566 £738 £825
90th Percentile £706 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £408 £663 £694
% change year-on-year -38.49% -4.50% +6.73%

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 1,582 1,978 2,674
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 93.57% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,213 1,861
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 14
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £26.57 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.79% +55.41% -8.64%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.48 £137.50 £63.88
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.09% -2.78% -11.11%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'C# Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

C# Developer job vacancy trend 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 23 October 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 & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 10 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (60.00%) .NET
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle
4 3 (30.00%) Redis
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) QA
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) WPF
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) API Development
6 1 (10.00%) API Integration
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Blazor
6 1 (10.00%) Confluent
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) CSS
6 1 (10.00%) Docker
6 1 (10.00%) Facilities Management
6 1 (10.00%) HTML

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Blazor
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (10.00%) API Development
3 1 (10.00%) API Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Facilities Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Confluent