Senior C# Developer Contracts in England

Senior C# Developer
UK > England

The median Senior C# Developer daily rate in England is £700, 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 453 497 561
Rank change year-on-year +44 +64 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 32 45 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 70
10th Percentile £450 £507 £500
25th Percentile £599 £545 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £800
90th Percentile £838 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £710 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +9.23% - -

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%

Senior C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Developer in England

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior C# Developer in England

Senior C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior C# Developer in England

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior C# Developer in England

Senior 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 Senior C# 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 +29 30 £720 +6.67% 16
South West +45 1 £655 - 1
North of England - 1 £400 - 14
North West - 1 £400 - 8
Senior C# Developer
UK

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

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

1 32 (100.00%) C#
2 24 (75.00%) .NET
3 18 (56.25%) Finance
3 18 (56.25%) Azure
4 13 (40.63%) SQL
5 11 (34.38%) SQL Server
6 10 (31.25%) ASP.NET
6 10 (31.25%) .NET Framework
6 10 (31.25%) .NET Core
7 9 (28.13%) React
7 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
8 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
8 8 (25.00%) OO
8 8 (25.00%) AngularJS
8 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.88%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (21.88%) DevOps
9 7 (21.88%) HTML
9 7 (21.88%) CSS
9 7 (21.88%) Agile
9 7 (21.88%) Front Office
10 6 (18.75%) Banking
10 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
10 6 (18.75%) Analytics
10 6 (18.75%) Entity Framework
10 6 (18.75%) Vue
10 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
11 5 (15.63%) Renewable Energy

Senior 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 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) HTTP
1 2 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.38%) Redis
3 2 (6.25%) ClickHouse
3 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
2 3 (9.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.13%) NUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (56.25%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Front Office
4 6 (18.75%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Billing
6 2 (6.25%) Electronics
6 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing
6 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) .NET
2 10 (31.25%) .NET Core
2 10 (31.25%) .NET Framework
2 10 (31.25%) ASP.NET
3 9 (28.13%) React
4 8 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 7 (21.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 7 (21.88%) CSS
5 7 (21.88%) HTML
6 6 (18.75%) Entity Framework
6 6 (18.75%) Vue
7 5 (15.63%) Node.js
7 5 (15.63%) RESTful
7 5 (15.63%) Web Services
8 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (12.50%) Kafka
9 3 (9.38%) WCF
10 2 (6.25%) OAuth
10 2 (6.25%) OpenID
10 2 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (15.63%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Android
2 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
2 8 (25.00%) OO
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) Analytics
4 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
5 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
5 5 (15.63%) OOP
5 5 (15.63%) SOLID
6 4 (12.50%) BDD
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Microservices
6 4 (12.50%) Scrum
6 4 (12.50%) TDD
6 4 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (12.50%) Web Development
7 3 (9.38%) OWASP
7 3 (9.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.63%) C++
5 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
6 3 (9.38%) RPG
6 3 (9.38%) RPG IV
6 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.25%) Python
8 1 (3.13%) Bicep
8 1 (3.13%) F#
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Murex
4 1 (3.13%) Solace
4 1 (3.13%) TIBCO