C# .NET Developer Contracts in England

C# .NET Developer
UK > England

The median C# .NET Developer daily rate in England is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 429 376
Rank change year-on-year +35 -53 +17
Contract jobs requiring a C# .NET Developer 92 112 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.30% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.33% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 90 272
10th Percentile - £363 £376
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £763 £600 £695
90th Percentile £850 £755 £764
UK median daily rate £512 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +2.45% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £37.25
25th Percentile - - £39.13
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £46.13
90th Percentile - - £48.15
UK median hourly rate - - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - -23.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,595 34,453 47,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,023 22,865 33,797
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,434 1,402
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

C# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# .NET Developer in England

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# .NET Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for C# .NET Developer in England

C# .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# .NET Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# .NET Developer in England

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# .NET Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for C# .NET Developer in England

C# .NET Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# .NET Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +30 81 £520 +4.00% 13
South East +49 5 £496 -2.02% 18
North of England +24 5 £400 -15.79% 21
North West +15 3 £400 -17.95% 7
Yorkshire +7 2 £525 +31.25% 3
South West +41 1 £655 +61.23% 6
C# .NET Developer
UK

C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, C# .NET 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 England region featuring C# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 92 (100.00%) C#
1 92 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (63.04%) SQL
3 44 (47.83%) Finance
3 44 (47.83%) .NET Framework
4 39 (42.39%) Oracle
5 37 (40.22%) Agile
6 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
7 28 (30.43%) Windows
8 27 (29.35%) PL/SQL
9 25 (27.17%) Front Office
10 24 (26.09%) SQL Server
10 24 (26.09%) WPF
11 23 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 23 (25.00%) OO
11 23 (25.00%) Azure
11 23 (25.00%) AngularJS
11 23 (25.00%) Design Patterns
12 22 (23.91%) JavaScript
13 21 (22.83%) Banking
13 21 (22.83%) Oracle Database
14 19 (20.65%) Reactive Extensions
14 19 (20.65%) VBA
14 19 (20.65%) VB
15 18 (19.57%) VB.NET
15 18 (19.57%) Microsoft Excel
16 17 (18.48%) ASP.NET
17 16 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
18 14 (15.22%) DevOps
18 14 (15.22%) TypeScript

C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (3.26%) IIS
2 2 (2.17%) CMS
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (19.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (8.70%) AWS
2 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.17%) SaaS
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (1.09%) dbt
5 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.09%) GCP
5 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) Firewall
1 2 (2.17%) HTTP
1 2 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 21 (22.83%) Oracle Database
3 6 (6.52%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.26%) Redis
6 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.09%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.09%) MySQL
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) JIRA
2 7 (7.61%) Git
3 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.09%) Ant
5 1 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (1.09%) Maven
5 1 (1.09%) Subversion
5 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (47.83%) Finance
2 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 25 (27.17%) Front Office
4 21 (22.83%) Banking
5 16 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.26%) Billing
7 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.17%) Electronics
8 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.17%) Marketing
8 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (47.83%) .NET Framework
3 24 (26.09%) WPF
4 23 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 19 (20.65%) Reactive Extensions
6 17 (18.48%) ASP.NET
7 12 (13.04%) .NET Core
8 11 (11.96%) CSS
8 11 (11.96%) HTML
9 8 (8.70%) Entity Framework
10 7 (7.61%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (5.43%) Akka.NET
11 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (5.43%) Node.js
11 5 (5.43%) RESTful
12 4 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 4 (4.35%) React
12 4 (4.35%) Web Services
13 3 (3.26%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.61%) Market Risk
3 6 (6.52%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.17%) Derivative
6 2 (2.17%) Equities
6 2 (2.17%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.09%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.09%) NHS
7 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 28 (30.43%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Android
2 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.22%) Agile
2 23 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 23 (25.00%) OO
3 14 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (15.22%) DevOps
3 14 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (14.13%) Electronic Trading
4 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.96%) MVC
5 11 (11.96%) TDD
6 10 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 10 (10.87%) Economics
6 10 (10.87%) Low Latency
7 9 (9.78%) SOA
8 8 (8.70%) Computer Science
8 8 (8.70%) OOP
8 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
9 6 (6.52%) Requirements Analysis
9 6 (6.52%) Unit Testing
9 6 (6.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (100.00%) C#
2 58 (63.04%) SQL
3 27 (29.35%) PL/SQL
4 22 (23.91%) JavaScript
5 19 (20.65%) VB
5 19 (20.65%) VBA
6 18 (19.57%) VB.NET
7 14 (15.22%) TypeScript
8 11 (11.96%) Java
9 6 (6.52%) PowerShell
10 5 (5.43%) F#
10 5 (5.43%) RPG
10 5 (5.43%) RPG IV
11 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.09%) Bicep
12 1 (1.09%) C++
12 1 (1.09%) Python
12 1 (1.09%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (2.17%) Degree
2 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (42.39%) Oracle
2 23 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (1.09%) Databricks
4 1 (1.09%) Murex
4 1 (1.09%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.09%) Solace
4 1 (1.09%) TIBCO