C# Contracts in the City of London

C#
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +19
Contract jobs citing C# 103 155 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.08% 7.19% 8.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.12% 20.13% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 104 202
10th Percentile £404 £425 £463
25th Percentile £488 £491 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.43% +10.42%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £750
90th Percentile £838 £850 £825
Central London median daily rate £638 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +6.25% -7.69% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
City of London

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 681 770 1,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.20% 35.71% 41.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 540 946
10th Percentile £406 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £738
90th Percentile £800 £789 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £21.35
25th Percentile £16.50 £46.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.95% -7.62% -1.87%
75th Percentile £17.50 £50.25 £83.75
90th Percentile - - £84.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.04 £48.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.51% -7.62% -1.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the City of London

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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 4 (3.88%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Endur
2 3 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.94%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (1.94%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.97%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 38 (36.89%) Azure
2 15 (14.56%) AWS
3 13 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.74%) GitHub
5 7 (6.80%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 5 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.85%) CloudFront
7 5 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.85%) Route 53
8 4 (3.88%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.88%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.91%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) DNS
1 3 (2.91%) Firewall
2 2 (1.94%) FTP
2 2 (1.94%) HTTP
2 2 (1.94%) SMTP
2 2 (1.94%) SSL
2 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.97%) Network Security
3 1 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.13%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.65%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (5.83%) Redis
5 5 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.85%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.91%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.94%) Power BI
7 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.97%) Big Data
8 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.97%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.74%) Git
3 8 (7.77%) JIRA
4 6 (5.83%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.88%) Selenium
6 3 (2.91%) Postman
7 2 (1.94%) Ant
7 2 (1.94%) Babel
7 2 (1.94%) JMeter
7 2 (1.94%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.94%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.94%) webpack
8 1 (0.97%) GitLab
8 1 (0.97%) Maven
8 1 (0.97%) NUnit
8 1 (0.97%) Serena SBM
8 1 (0.97%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.97%) Subversion
8 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (52.43%) Finance
2 28 (27.18%) Banking
3 22 (21.36%) Front Office
4 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.80%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.85%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.85%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.91%) Back Office
8 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.94%) Publishing
10 1 (0.97%) Advertising
10 1 (0.97%) Billing
10 1 (0.97%) Legal
10 1 (0.97%) Marketing
10 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (65.05%) Developer
2 27 (26.21%) C# Developer
3 12 (11.65%) .NET Developer
4 9 (8.74%) Senior
4 9 (8.74%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) OpenLink Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Applications Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Architect
7 5 (4.85%) C++ Developer
7 5 (4.85%) C++/C# Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Algorithm Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Automation Developer
8 4 (3.88%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (59.22%) .NET
2 11 (10.68%) .NET Core
2 11 (10.68%) WPF
3 10 (9.71%) RESTful
4 9 (8.74%) REST
5 7 (6.80%) AngularJS
5 7 (6.80%) CSS
5 7 (6.80%) HTML
6 6 (5.83%) ASP.NET
6 6 (5.83%) Node.js
6 6 (5.83%) React
6 6 (5.83%) Web Services
7 5 (4.85%) .NET Framework
7 5 (4.85%) Blazor
7 5 (4.85%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.88%) Kafka
9 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (2.91%) Entity Framework
9 3 (2.91%) HTML5
9 3 (2.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 10 (9.71%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (6.80%) Derivative
3 5 (4.85%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.88%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.91%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.94%) Equities
6 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.94%) TWAP
6 2 (1.94%) VWAP
7 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.97%) Clustering
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.97%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Windows
2 8 (7.77%) Linux
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.97%) Solaris
4 1 (0.97%) SUSE
4 1 (0.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (32.04%) CI/CD
2 30 (29.13%) DevOps
3 24 (23.30%) Agile
4 19 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (16.50%) Software Engineering
6 16 (15.53%) Test Automation
6 16 (15.53%) Unit Testing
7 15 (14.56%) Microservices
8 12 (11.65%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (10.68%) Data Analysis
10 10 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (9.71%) SOLID
11 9 (8.74%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (7.77%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (7.77%) Low Latency
12 8 (7.77%) Multithreading
12 8 (7.77%) TDD
13 7 (6.80%) Code Quality
13 7 (6.80%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.13%) Python
1 30 (29.13%) SQL
2 24 (23.30%) JavaScript
3 18 (17.48%) Java
4 9 (8.74%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.77%) C++
6 4 (3.88%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.88%) Ruby
6 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.91%) Bash
7 3 (2.91%) VBA
8 2 (1.94%) Perl
8 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.97%) Bicep
9 1 (0.97%) C
9 1 (0.97%) Go
9 1 (0.97%) Groovy
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.85%) Degree
3 4 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.59%) QA
2 3 (2.91%) EMIR
2 3 (2.91%) MiFID
3 2 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (11.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.97%) Platform Symphony
2 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.77%) Terraform
3 3 (2.91%) Ansible
4 2 (1.94%) Control-M
4 2 (1.94%) Grafana
4 2 (1.94%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.97%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.97%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.97%) Istio
5 1 (0.97%) Kibana
5 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.97%) QRadar
5 1 (0.97%) Rancher
5 1 (0.97%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.97%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (13.59%) Oracle
2 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) OpenLink
4 4 (3.88%) Databricks
4 4 (3.88%) IBM
5 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.94%) OpenText
5 2 (1.94%) SAP
5 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.94%) Splunk
5 2 (1.94%) UiPath
6 1 (0.97%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.97%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.97%) CQG
6 1 (0.97%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.97%) Google
6 1 (0.97%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.97%) Qualys
6 1 (0.97%) Serena
6 1 (0.97%) VMware