C# Developer Contracts in the City of London

C# Developer
Central London > City of London

The median C# Developer daily rate in the City of London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 99 76
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 +26
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 31 28 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.77% 1.27% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.34% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 73
10th Percentile £402 £399 £500
25th Percentile £625 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £613 £688
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -10.91% +5.77%
75th Percentile £823 £747 £775
90th Percentile £868 £823 £825
Central London median daily rate £675 £600 £688
% change year-on-year +12.50% -12.73% +5.77%

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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for C# Developer 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 1 May 2025.

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

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer 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 1 May 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 31 (100.00%) C#
2 19 (61.29%) Finance
3 12 (38.71%) SQL Server
3 12 (38.71%) Banking
4 10 (32.26%) Front Office
4 10 (32.26%) Unit Testing
5 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
6 8 (25.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (25.81%) .NET
6 8 (25.81%) Asset Management
7 7 (22.58%) Derivative
7 7 (22.58%) Redis
8 6 (19.35%) AWS
8 6 (19.35%) NoSQL
8 6 (19.35%) CloudFront
8 6 (19.35%) RESTful
8 6 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (19.35%) Amazon S3
8 6 (19.35%) Route 53
8 6 (19.35%) TDD
8 6 (19.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 6 (19.35%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (19.35%) GraphQL
8 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (19.35%) DocumentDB
8 6 (19.35%) Public Cloud
8 6 (19.35%) Secure Coding
8 6 (19.35%) SOLID
8 6 (19.35%) Amazon Aurora

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (19.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 6 (19.35%) Amazon S3
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
1 6 (19.35%) CloudFront
1 6 (19.35%) Route 53
2 2 (6.45%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) Redis
3 6 (19.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (19.35%) DocumentDB
3 6 (19.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (61.29%) Finance
2 12 (38.71%) Banking
3 10 (32.26%) Front Office
4 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
5 6 (19.35%) Retail Banking
6 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (16.13%) Investment Banking
7 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (6.45%) Back Office
9 1 (3.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) .NET
2 6 (19.35%) GraphQL
2 6 (19.35%) RESTful
3 5 (16.13%) WPF
4 4 (12.90%) Kafka
5 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (6.45%) Reactive Extensions
6 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.23%) React
6 1 (3.23%) Spring
6 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.23%) WCF
6 1 (3.23%) Web Services
6 1 (3.23%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (22.58%) Derivative
3 6 (19.35%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (19.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Unit Testing
2 8 (25.81%) Asset Management
3 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) Secure Coding
3 6 (19.35%) SOLID
3 6 (19.35%) TDD
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (12.90%) Low Latency
5 4 (12.90%) Microservices
6 3 (9.68%) Agile
6 3 (9.68%) Investment Management
7 2 (6.45%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (6.45%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (6.45%) Electronic Trading
7 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
7 2 (6.45%) Multithreading
7 2 (6.45%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (16.13%) C++
3 3 (9.68%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) EMIR
2 2 (6.45%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) Google