C# Software Developer Contracts in England

C# Software Developer
UK > England

The median C# Software Developer daily rate in England is £650, 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 476 518 593
Rank change year-on-year +42 +75 +125
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 9 24 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.065% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.070% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 52
10th Percentile £425 £500 £350
25th Percentile £463 £518 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £695
90th Percentile £825 £738 £723
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +21.05%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £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 £643 £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 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

C# Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Developer in England

C# Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# Software Developer in England

C# Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# Software Developer in England

C# Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Software Developer in England

C# Software 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# Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +25 8 £663 +10.42% 5
South East - 1 £475 - 7
C# Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, C# Software 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# Software Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (66.67%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) .NET
3 5 (55.56%) Banking
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
6 2 (22.22%) REST
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) C++
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
6 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) Degree
6 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
6 2 (22.22%) Git
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 1 (11.11%) QA
7 1 (11.11%) Wiki
7 1 (11.11%) WCF
7 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (11.11%) Derivative
7 1 (11.11%) Equity Derivative

C# Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Ant
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Front Office
5 1 (11.11%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
3 1 (11.11%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) WCF
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Equities
2 1 (11.11%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Reinsurance
2 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
4 1 (11.11%) API Development
4 1 (11.11%) API Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Speech Recognition
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) VB
4 1 (11.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft