C# Contract Job Trends in London

C#
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 44 25
Rank change year-on-year -18 -19 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 734 641 1,251
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 5.25% 7.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.57% 13.24% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 477 983
10th Percentile £400 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £825
England median daily rate £545 £521 £575
% change year-on-year +4.71% -9.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £28.11 -
25th Percentile - £29.17 £40.82
Median hourly rate £67.70 £30.94 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +118.81% -29.43% -13.05%
75th Percentile - £32.71 £46.86
90th Percentile - £33.77 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Programming Languages
London

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,838 4,840 6,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.39% 39.61% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,907 3,376 5,028
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £440 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £523 £540
% change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 39 53
10th Percentile £32.66 £28.68 £23.80
25th Percentile £39.25 £33.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £38.11 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.50% -24.53% -17.89%
75th Percentile £73.00 £54.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £86.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.00% -2.80% -

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

C# job vacancy trend in London

C#
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing C#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in London

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing C#

C#
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# within the London region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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 -30 84 £645 +3.20% 74
West London -6 20 £603 +8.75% 6
South London -2 15 £441 -29.44% 6
East London -8 4 £688 +44.74% 2
North London - 1 £400 - 1
C#
England

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 36 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.00%) IIS
3 18 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.91%) Apache
5 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.09%) HCL Notes
6 8 (1.09%) Mendix
7 7 (0.95%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.41%) Appian
9 3 (0.41%) Camunda
9 3 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.41%) WordPress
10 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.27%) Drupal
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.14%) Mingle
2 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.36%) Findur
3 9 (1.23%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.68%) Orchestrade
5 4 (0.54%) Shopify
6 3 (0.41%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.14%) Actimize
8 1 (0.14%) Endur
8 1 (0.14%) Magento
8 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 339 (46.19%) Azure
2 139 (18.94%) Azure DevOps
3 118 (16.08%) AWS
4 100 (13.62%) Power Platform
5 91 (12.40%) GitHub
6 82 (11.17%) Serverless
7 66 (8.99%) Power Automate
8 57 (7.77%) Azure Service Bus
9 56 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
10 47 (6.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 47 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (6.27%) Azure Functions
12 44 (5.99%) PowerApps
13 41 (5.59%) Amazon S3
14 32 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (4.36%) GCP
15 31 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
16 30 (4.09%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.81%) Entra ID
18 26 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.77%) HTTP
1 13 (1.77%) Internet
2 6 (0.82%) SMS
3 5 (0.68%) Intranet
4 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) NAS
5 1 (0.14%) RTMP
5 1 (0.14%) SAN
5 1 (0.14%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (21.25%) SQL Server
2 52 (7.08%) Oracle Database
3 42 (5.72%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.59%) Power BI
5 26 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.72%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 17 (2.32%) NoSQL
9 16 (2.18%) Metadata
9 16 (2.18%) Redis
10 13 (1.77%) BigQuery
10 13 (1.77%) Mixpanel
11 12 (1.63%) OLAP
11 12 (1.63%) OLTP
12 11 (1.50%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.36%) Weaviate
14 9 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 76 (10.35%) Git
2 55 (7.49%) JIRA
3 24 (3.27%) Selenium
3 24 (3.27%) Visual Studio
4 23 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 21 (2.86%) SpecFlow
5 21 (2.86%) TeamCity
6 18 (2.45%) GitLab
7 17 (2.32%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.63%) Postman
9 11 (1.50%) MSTest
9 11 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 10 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.36%) JMeter
11 8 (1.09%) JUnit
12 7 (0.95%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.95%) NUnit
12 7 (0.95%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.82%) Mocha
13 6 (0.82%) tSQLt
General
1 316 (43.05%) Finance
2 163 (22.21%) Social Skills
3 145 (19.75%) Banking
4 86 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (11.31%) Front Office
6 65 (8.86%) Investment Banking
7 38 (5.18%) Public Sector
8 27 (3.68%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.09%) Back Office
10 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.95%) Marketing
12 6 (0.82%) Retail
13 5 (0.68%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.54%) Legal
14 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.27%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.27%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 398 (54.22%) Developer
2 178 (24.25%) C# Developer
3 134 (18.26%) Senior
4 67 (9.13%) Senior Developer
5 66 (8.99%) .NET Developer
6 61 (8.31%) Software Engineer
7 40 (5.45%) Lead
8 39 (5.31%) C# .NET Developer
9 36 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (4.22%) Architect
10 31 (4.22%) Software Developer
11 28 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 26 (3.54%) SQL Developer
13 25 (3.41%) Data Engineer
14 24 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 23 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 23 (3.13%) Front Office Developer
15 23 (3.13%) IT Support
15 23 (3.13%) React Developer
15 23 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (55.31%) .NET
2 102 (13.90%) React
3 100 (13.62%) .NET Framework
4 89 (12.13%) REST
5 76 (10.35%) RESTful
6 66 (8.99%) AngularJS
7 60 (8.17%) HTML
8 52 (7.08%) Kafka
9 51 (6.95%) ASP.NET
10 38 (5.18%) .NET Core
10 38 (5.18%) CSS
11 36 (4.90%) JSON
12 32 (4.36%) Playwright
13 27 (3.68%) ASP.NET Core
14 26 (3.54%) Node.js
15 25 (3.41%) XML
16 24 (3.27%) OAuth
17 23 (3.13%) WPF
18 20 (2.72%) Redux
18 20 (2.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.13%) Derivative
3 44 (5.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.68%) AI Agents
6 27 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.72%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.59%) Equities
10 18 (2.45%) Data Structures
10 18 (2.45%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.91%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.63%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.63%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.09%) Equity Derivative
16 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (10.76%) Windows
2 30 (4.09%) Linux
3 26 (3.54%) Unix
4 18 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (35.01%) DevOps
2 255 (34.74%) CI/CD
3 208 (28.34%) Agile
4 154 (20.98%) AI
5 149 (20.30%) Software Engineering
6 116 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (13.76%) Test Automation
8 96 (13.08%) Microservices
9 94 (12.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 72 (9.81%) Analytics
11 65 (8.86%) Data Modelling
12 63 (8.58%) Scrum
13 59 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 57 (7.77%) Observability
15 55 (7.49%) Unit Testing
16 54 (7.36%) SDLC
17 53 (7.22%) Data Analysis
18 52 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
19 50 (6.81%) LLM
20 49 (6.68%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 309 (42.10%) SQL
2 211 (28.75%) Python
3 158 (21.53%) JavaScript
4 117 (15.94%) TypeScript
5 65 (8.86%) PowerShell
6 62 (8.45%) Java
7 52 (7.08%) T-SQL
8 51 (6.95%) PL/SQL
9 50 (6.81%) C++
10 15 (2.04%) Bicep
10 15 (2.04%) VBA
11 11 (1.50%) VB
12 8 (1.09%) Formula Language
12 8 (1.09%) LotusScript
12 8 (1.09%) R
12 8 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.95%) X++
14 6 (0.82%) Rust
15 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 99 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 84 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.31%) Degree
4 18 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.54%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.27%) PhD
11 1 (0.14%) CFA
11 1 (0.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.14%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.14%) GWAPT
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (10.90%) QA
2 29 (3.95%) GDPR
3 17 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.36%) WCAG
6 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.27%) Basel III
7 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.27%) PSD2
8 1 (0.14%) EMIR
8 1 (0.14%) ITGC
8 1 (0.14%) MiFID
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 76 (10.35%) Docker
2 17 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.27%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 2 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (8.99%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.45%) Terraform
3 5 (0.68%) Grafana
3 5 (0.68%) Packer
3 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.54%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) Ansible
5 2 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 120 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 106 (14.44%) Oracle
3 36 (4.90%) Citrix
4 31 (4.22%) Databricks
5 25 (3.41%) OpenAI
6 22 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.59%) Google
8 13 (1.77%) Foundry
9 8 (1.09%) Kofax
9 8 (1.09%) Lotus
9 8 (1.09%) UiPath
10 6 (0.82%) OpenLink
11 5 (0.68%) IBM
11 5 (0.68%) SAP
12 4 (0.54%) Splunk
12 4 (0.54%) VMware
13 3 (0.41%) OpenText
13 3 (0.41%) Pega
13 3 (0.41%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.41%) Sybase