C# Developer Contracts in London

C# Developer
England > London

The median C# Developer daily rate in London 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 162 136 116
Rank change year-on-year -26 -20 +24
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 211 318 601
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.68% 1.78% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 1.91% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 283 513
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £504 £550 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £825 £750 £800
90th Percentile £850 £825 £825
England median daily rate £690 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +6.15% +4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +14.04% -2.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in London

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in London

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in London

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in London

C# Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +4 31 £675 +12.50% 8
C# Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 211 (100.00%) C#
2 149 (70.62%) .NET
3 111 (52.61%) Finance
4 87 (41.23%) SQL
5 82 (38.86%) Social Skills
6 75 (35.55%) Oracle
7 67 (31.75%) Agile
8 66 (31.28%) SQL Server
9 65 (30.81%) Front Office
10 60 (28.44%) Banking
11 58 (27.49%) .NET Framework
12 51 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
13 48 (22.75%) DevOps
14 45 (21.33%) WPF
15 44 (20.85%) Azure
16 41 (19.43%) Windows
17 40 (18.96%) ASP.NET
17 40 (18.96%) Microsoft Excel
18 38 (18.01%) PL/SQL
19 36 (17.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 35 (16.59%) .NET Core
21 34 (16.11%) OO
21 34 (16.11%) Kafka
21 34 (16.11%) AngularJS
22 33 (15.64%) Derivative
23 32 (15.17%) C++
23 32 (15.17%) WCF
24 31 (14.69%) Oracle Database
25 30 (14.22%) Analytics
25 30 (14.22%) VBA

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (6.64%) IIS
2 4 (1.90%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (18.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (20.85%) Azure
2 17 (8.06%) AWS
3 10 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (2.84%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 6 (2.84%) Amazon S3
4 6 (2.84%) CloudFront
4 6 (2.84%) Route 53
5 3 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (1.42%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.47%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (0.47%) GCP
7 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.21%) Internet
2 2 (0.95%) Firewall
2 2 (0.95%) HTTP
2 2 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (31.28%) SQL Server
2 31 (14.69%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.58%) Redis
4 11 (5.21%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.84%) DocumentDB
6 6 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.42%) Big Data
9 3 (1.42%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (9.48%) JIRA
2 9 (4.27%) Git
3 8 (3.79%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (3.32%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.84%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.37%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.37%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.95%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.47%) Ant
8 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.47%) GitLab
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) Moq
8 1 (0.47%) NUnit
8 1 (0.47%) Subversion
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (52.61%) Finance
2 82 (38.86%) Social Skills
3 65 (30.81%) Front Office
4 60 (28.44%) Banking
5 51 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (14.22%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.27%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.84%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Back Office
10 3 (1.42%) Billing
10 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Legal
10 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.95%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.47%) Electronics
12 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.47%) Marketing
12 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (70.62%) .NET
2 58 (27.49%) .NET Framework
3 45 (21.33%) WPF
4 40 (18.96%) ASP.NET
5 35 (16.59%) .NET Core
6 34 (16.11%) AngularJS
6 34 (16.11%) Kafka
7 32 (15.17%) WCF
8 24 (11.37%) Reactive Extensions
9 23 (10.90%) Web Services
10 20 (9.48%) React
11 14 (6.64%) WinForms
12 12 (5.69%) RESTful
13 11 (5.21%) CSS
13 11 (5.21%) HTML
14 10 (4.74%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (4.27%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (4.27%) Entity Framework
16 7 (3.32%) GraphQL
16 7 (3.32%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (15.64%) Derivative
3 18 (8.53%) Legacy Applications
4 15 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (5.21%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.79%) Fixed Income
8 7 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.84%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.37%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.37%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.95%) Equities
12 2 (0.95%) Equity Derivative
12 2 (0.95%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.43%) Windows
2 4 (1.90%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Android
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.75%) Agile
2 48 (22.75%) DevOps
3 34 (16.11%) OO
4 30 (14.22%) Analytics
5 25 (11.85%) Design Patterns
5 25 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (10.90%) TDD
7 22 (10.43%) Microservices
8 19 (9.00%) Electronic Trading
9 18 (8.53%) Low Latency
9 18 (8.53%) OOP
10 17 (8.06%) Computer Science
10 17 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (7.58%) Economics
11 16 (7.58%) SOA
11 16 (7.58%) Software Engineering
11 16 (7.58%) Unit Testing
12 15 (7.11%) Data Analysis
12 15 (7.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (100.00%) C#
2 87 (41.23%) SQL
3 38 (18.01%) PL/SQL
4 32 (15.17%) C++
5 30 (14.22%) VBA
6 29 (13.74%) VB
7 28 (13.27%) JavaScript
8 24 (11.37%) Java
9 23 (10.90%) TypeScript
10 19 (9.00%) Python
11 17 (8.06%) VB.NET
12 15 (7.11%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.84%) F#
14 5 (2.37%) RPG
14 5 (2.37%) RPG IV
15 4 (1.90%) Haskell
15 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.95%) Bicep
17 1 (0.47%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (5.21%) Degree
2 4 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.42%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.48%) QA
2 3 (1.42%) EMIR
2 3 (1.42%) MiFID
3 1 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (5.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 75 (35.55%) Oracle
2 19 (9.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.21%) Citrix
4 4 (1.90%) Databricks
4 4 (1.90%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.95%) Solace
5 2 (0.95%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.47%) Google
6 1 (0.47%) Murex
6 1 (0.47%) SAP