C# Software Engineer Contracts in England

C# Software Engineer
UK > England

The median C# Software Engineer daily rate in England is £663, 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 448 486 544
Rank change year-on-year +38 +58 +119
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 37 56 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 82
10th Percentile £355 £523 £488
25th Percentile £456 £551 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - +36.84%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £700
90th Percentile £825 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £588 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -6.00% -3.85% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 11
10th Percentile £62.38 £63.50 -
25th Percentile £64.06 - £50.42
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65.19 - £65.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +12.24%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer in England

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C# Software Engineer in England

C# Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for C# Software Engineer in England

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Software Engineer in England

C# Software Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +20 22 £700 +7.69% 30
Midlands - 6 £375 - 4
East of England +29 5 £515 - 8
South East +44 3 - - 19
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
South West +42 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 3
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

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

1 37 (100.00%) C#
1 37 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (64.86%) .NET
3 13 (35.14%) Finance
3 13 (35.14%) Azure
4 12 (32.43%) Agile
5 10 (27.03%) Windows
6 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
6 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
7 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
7 8 (21.62%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (21.62%) Visual Studio
8 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
8 7 (18.92%) Linux
8 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
8 7 (18.92%) Front Office
8 7 (18.92%) Python
8 7 (18.92%) .NET Core
8 7 (18.92%) REST
9 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (16.22%) AWS
9 6 (16.22%) Unit Testing
9 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
9 6 (16.22%) C++
9 6 (16.22%) Banking
9 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven
10 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (13.51%) Synthetic Environment
10 5 (13.51%) Blazor
10 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving

C# Software Engineer 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 13 (35.14%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Azure AKS
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Ethernet
1 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Visual Studio
2 5 (13.51%) Eclipse
3 4 (10.81%) Git
4 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.11%) JIRA
5 2 (5.41%) GitLab
6 1 (2.70%) Ant
6 1 (2.70%) Maven
6 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Front Office
4 6 (16.22%) Banking
5 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (10.81%) Investment Banking
6 4 (10.81%) Military
7 3 (8.11%) Law
8 1 (2.70%) Advertising
8 1 (2.70%) Local Government
8 1 (2.70%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (64.86%) .NET
2 7 (18.92%) .NET Core
2 7 (18.92%) REST
3 5 (13.51%) Blazor
3 5 (13.51%) Node.js
4 4 (10.81%) Kafka
4 4 (10.81%) NumPy
4 4 (10.81%) OAuth
4 4 (10.81%) OAuth2
4 4 (10.81%) OpenID
4 4 (10.81%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (10.81%) Pandas
4 4 (10.81%) Web Services
4 4 (10.81%) WPF
5 3 (8.11%) React
6 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (5.41%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
6 2 (5.41%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.70%) Derivative
3 1 (2.70%) Equities
3 1 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) TWAP
3 1 (2.70%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (32.43%) Agile
3 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
3 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
4 8 (21.62%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven
5 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (16.22%) Unit Testing
6 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (13.51%) Digital Twin
6 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.51%) Scrum
6 5 (13.51%) Synthetic Environment
7 4 (10.81%) Microservices
7 4 (10.81%) Migration
7 4 (10.81%) Quantitative Finance
7 4 (10.81%) TDD
7 4 (10.81%) Validation
7 4 (10.81%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (10.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.92%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) C++
4 4 (10.81%) Bicep
5 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.11%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.41%) PHP
6 2 (5.41%) VB
6 2 (5.41%) VB6
7 1 (2.70%) C
7 1 (2.70%) Go
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle