Lead C# Developer Contracts in England

Lead C# Developer
UK > England

The median Lead C# Developer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 520 613
Rank change year-on-year +27 +93 +166
Contract jobs requiring a Lead C# Developer 10 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.015% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.016% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile - £413 £563
25th Percentile - £431 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £675
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -29.63% +37.40%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £775
90th Percentile £750 £538 £843
UK median daily rate £550 £400 £675
% change year-on-year +37.50% -40.74% +45.95%

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 25,466 30,983 42,910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,521 20,498 30,243
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,827 1,342
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

Lead C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead C# Developer in England

Lead C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead C# Developer in England

Lead C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead C# Developer in England over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead C# Developer in England

Lead C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead C# Developer in England

Lead 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 Lead C# Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 August 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 +14 5 £800 +100.00% 5
South West +28 3 - - 1
South East - 2 £550 - 3
Lead C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Lead 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 Lead C# Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) TDD
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) .NET Core
3 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (50.00%) OWASP
4 5 (50.00%) BDD
4 5 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (50.00%) SOLID
4 5 (50.00%) Terraform
4 5 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (50.00%) OO
4 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) SAP
4 5 (50.00%) Pair Programming
4 5 (50.00%) Marketing
4 5 (50.00%) Programme Management
4 5 (50.00%) Electronics
4 5 (50.00%) Telecoms

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
General
1 5 (50.00%) Electronics
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (50.00%) Marketing
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) BDD
3 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (50.00%) OO
3 5 (50.00%) OWASP
3 5 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 5 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 5 (50.00%) SOLID
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) B2C
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Bicep
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) SAP