C# Developer Contracts in England

C# Developer
UK > England

The median C# Developer daily rate in England is £683, 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 257 234 180
Rank change year-on-year -23 -54 +29
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 245 369 740
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.00% 0.99% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.07% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 313 625
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £406 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £815 £738 £750
90th Percentile £850 £825 £813
UK median daily rate £675 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £58.00 £39.75
25th Percentile - £60.63 £45.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -2.98%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £65.00
90th Percentile - £73.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

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# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in England

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in England

C# 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# 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 -16 213 £700 +7.69% 60
North of England +22 11 £400 -17.95% 66
South East +42 10 £517 +14.89% 45
South West +44 8 £370 +9.63% 8
North West +12 6 £400 -20.00% 35
Yorkshire +8 3 £394 -1.56% 12
East of England +27 2 £490 +13.29% 24
North East -2 2 £413 - 21
East Midlands +13 1 £385 -30.00% 12
Midlands +11 1 £385 -21.03% 25
C# Developer
UK

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

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

1 245 (100.00%) C#
2 177 (72.24%) .NET
3 122 (49.80%) Finance
4 97 (39.59%) SQL
5 92 (37.55%) Social Skills
6 79 (32.24%) Agile
7 78 (31.84%) Oracle
8 76 (31.02%) SQL Server
9 69 (28.16%) Azure
10 66 (26.94%) Front Office
11 64 (26.12%) .NET Framework
12 60 (24.49%) Banking
13 54 (22.04%) DevOps
14 52 (21.22%) Analytical Skills
15 47 (19.18%) WPF
16 44 (17.96%) ASP.NET
16 44 (17.96%) .NET Core
17 43 (17.55%) Windows
18 42 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
19 40 (16.33%) JavaScript
19 40 (16.33%) PL/SQL
20 37 (15.10%) OO
21 36 (14.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 36 (14.69%) AngularJS
22 34 (13.88%) Kafka
22 34 (13.88%) Derivative
23 33 (13.47%) WCF
23 33 (13.47%) C++
23 33 (13.47%) TDD
24 32 (13.06%) Problem-Solving

C# 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 15 (6.12%) IIS
2 4 (1.63%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) CMS
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 42 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (28.16%) Azure
2 27 (11.02%) AWS
3 13 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.67%) GCP
5 7 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 6 (2.45%) CloudFront
6 6 (2.45%) Route 53
7 3 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.22%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.82%) SaaS
8 2 (0.82%) Serverless
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.41%) dbt
9 1 (0.41%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.90%) Internet
2 2 (0.82%) Firewall
2 2 (0.82%) HTTP
2 2 (0.82%) SSL
3 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (31.02%) SQL Server
2 32 (13.06%) Oracle Database
3 18 (7.35%) Redis
4 11 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.45%) DocumentDB
8 5 (2.04%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.22%) Big Data
10 3 (1.22%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (8.98%) JIRA
2 15 (6.12%) Git
3 10 (4.08%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (2.86%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.45%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.82%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.41%) Ant
10 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.41%) GitLab
10 1 (0.41%) Maven
10 1 (0.41%) Moq
10 1 (0.41%) NUnit
10 1 (0.41%) Subversion
10 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 122 (49.80%) Finance
2 92 (37.55%) Social Skills
3 66 (26.94%) Front Office
4 60 (24.49%) Banking
5 52 (21.22%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (12.24%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.67%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.27%) Electronics
9 8 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.27%) Marketing
10 6 (2.45%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.63%) Back Office
12 3 (1.22%) Billing
12 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Legal
12 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.82%) French Language
14 1 (0.41%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (72.24%) .NET
2 64 (26.12%) .NET Framework
3 47 (19.18%) WPF
4 44 (17.96%) .NET Core
4 44 (17.96%) ASP.NET
5 36 (14.69%) AngularJS
6 34 (13.88%) Kafka
7 33 (13.47%) WCF
8 25 (10.20%) Web Services
9 24 (9.80%) CSS
9 24 (9.80%) HTML
9 24 (9.80%) Reactive Extensions
10 20 (8.16%) React
11 16 (6.53%) RESTful
12 14 (5.71%) WinForms
13 11 (4.49%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (4.08%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (3.67%) Entity Framework
15 9 (3.67%) REST
16 8 (3.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (13.88%) Derivative
3 18 (7.35%) Legacy Applications
4 16 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.49%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.27%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.45%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.45%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.82%) Equities
13 2 (0.82%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.55%) Windows
2 6 (2.45%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (32.24%) Agile
2 54 (22.04%) DevOps
3 37 (15.10%) OO
4 33 (13.47%) TDD
5 32 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (12.24%) Analytics
6 30 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (11.02%) Microservices
8 26 (10.61%) Design Patterns
9 24 (9.80%) CI/CD
9 24 (9.80%) Software Engineering
10 23 (9.39%) Computer Science
11 19 (7.76%) Electronic Trading
11 19 (7.76%) Test Automation
12 18 (7.35%) Low Latency
12 18 (7.35%) OOP
12 18 (7.35%) Unit Testing
13 17 (6.94%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (6.94%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 245 (100.00%) C#
2 97 (39.59%) SQL
3 40 (16.33%) JavaScript
3 40 (16.33%) PL/SQL
4 33 (13.47%) C++
5 31 (12.65%) VB
5 31 (12.65%) VBA
6 26 (10.61%) Python
7 25 (10.20%) Java
8 24 (9.80%) TypeScript
9 18 (7.35%) VB.NET
10 16 (6.53%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.45%) F#
11 6 (2.45%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.04%) RPG
12 5 (2.04%) RPG IV
13 4 (1.63%) Haskell
14 2 (0.82%) Bicep
15 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (6.94%) Degree
2 8 (3.27%) Azure Certification
2 8 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.04%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.22%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.98%) QA
2 3 (1.22%) EMIR
2 3 (1.22%) MiFID
3 1 (0.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (5.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) MIIS
Vendors
1 78 (31.84%) Oracle
2 28 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.49%) Citrix
4 8 (3.27%) Google
4 8 (3.27%) SAP
5 4 (1.63%) Databricks
5 4 (1.63%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.82%) New Relic
7 2 (0.82%) Solace
7 2 (0.82%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.41%) Murex
8 1 (0.41%) Sitecore