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 £685, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 93 96
Rank change year-on-year -25 +3 -21
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 13 26 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 1.56% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.67% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 27
10th Percentile £325 £400 £375
25th Percentile £513 £663 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £825 £738
90th Percentile £879 £888 £838
Central London median daily rate £685 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,195 1,555 2,046
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 93.34% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,481 972 1,434
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £453 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.23% -8.29%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 14
10th Percentile £17.99 £19.25 £14.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.31 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.33 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +24.51% -35.00%
75th Percentile £53.44 £45.00 £28.91
90th Percentile £65.00 £81.88 £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £27.30 £26.78
% change year-on-year -2.73% +1.94% -23.49%

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 28 May 2026.

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 28 May 2026, 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 13 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 2 (15.38%) Citrix
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (15.38%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (15.38%) QA
4 2 (15.38%) Redis
4 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
4 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
5 1 (7.69%) Change Management
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Front Office
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Microservices
1 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
2 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
3 1 (7.69%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.69%) Low Latency
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Citrix
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle