C# Contracts in London

C#
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 640 1,277 1,873
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.13% 7.22% 7.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.03% 19.89% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 1,012 1,496
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £632
Median % change year-on-year - -1.15% +1.16%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £750
90th Percentile £850 £837 £850
England median daily rate £538 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -6.52% -2.54% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £36.80
25th Percentile - £40.82 -
Median hourly rate - £43.84 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - -13.05% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £46.86 £52.97
90th Percentile - - £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.12%

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 4,913 6,419 10,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.39% 36.30% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,467 4,908 7,938
10th Percentile £380 £381 £413
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £700 £731
90th Percentile £832 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.54% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 82
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.33
25th Percentile £35.00 £40.80 £50.11
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -14.79% +20.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £63.01 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £72.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.13%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C# in London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C# in London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in London

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 9 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 -11 111 £650 +8.33% 101
East London +1 7 £538 +23.56% 12
West London +7 6 £554 -3.65% 25
South London +3 5 £500 +16.28% 5
C#
England

C#
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 20 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.50%) IIS
3 9 (1.41%) Confluence
4 8 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.78%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.63%) Apache
6 4 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.16%) DataSynapse
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) WinCC
Applications
1 49 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.41%) Endur
3 2 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.31%) Shopify
4 1 (0.16%) Actimize
4 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.16%) FastStats
4 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle TCA
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 256 (40.00%) Azure
2 100 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (14.38%) AWS
4 57 (8.91%) Dynamics 365
4 57 (8.91%) Power Platform
5 40 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 36 (5.63%) PowerApps
7 32 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 31 (4.84%) Azure AKS
8 31 (4.84%) Serverless
9 29 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 29 (4.53%) Entra ID
10 28 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 26 (4.06%) GitHub
12 24 (3.75%) Azure Functions
13 20 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 20 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (2.50%) PaaS
15 14 (2.19%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.75%) DNS
2 11 (1.72%) HTTP
3 10 (1.56%) Internet
3 10 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.41%) SSL
5 7 (1.09%) FTP
5 7 (1.09%) SMTP
6 6 (0.94%) DHCP
6 6 (0.94%) Firewall
7 5 (0.78%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.47%) SAN
9 2 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.31%) Network Security
10 1 (0.16%) Modbus
10 1 (0.16%) NAS
10 1 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.63%) NoSQL
2 36 (5.63%) Oracle Database
3 30 (4.69%) Relational Database
4 29 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (3.59%) Redis
6 22 (3.44%) Power BI
7 21 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.19%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.03%) Big Data
10 13 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (1.88%) DocumentDB
12 11 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.94%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 59 (9.22%) Jenkins
2 51 (7.97%) Git
3 41 (6.41%) JIRA
4 28 (4.38%) TeamCity
5 26 (4.06%) Bitbucket
6 20 (3.13%) GitLab
7 18 (2.81%) Selenium
8 13 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
8 13 (2.03%) SpecFlow
9 12 (1.88%) JMeter
10 8 (1.25%) LoadRunner
10 8 (1.25%) Postman
10 8 (1.25%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.09%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.94%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.78%) Ant
13 5 (0.78%) NUnit
13 5 (0.78%) webpack
14 4 (0.63%) JUnit
14 4 (0.63%) WinRunner
General
1 219 (34.22%) Finance
2 183 (28.59%) Social Skills
3 147 (22.97%) Banking
4 101 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (15.31%) Front Office
6 77 (12.03%) Investment Banking
7 28 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 27 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (3.13%) Back Office
10 15 (2.34%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.88%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.41%) Marketing
13 8 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.09%) Legal
15 6 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.78%) Billing
16 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.78%) Publishing
17 3 (0.47%) Law
17 3 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 408 (63.75%) Developer
2 201 (31.41%) C# Developer
3 118 (18.44%) .NET Developer
4 77 (12.03%) C# .NET Developer
5 72 (11.25%) Senior
6 48 (7.50%) Lead
7 47 (7.34%) Senior Developer
8 45 (7.03%) Software Engineer
9 41 (6.41%) Architect
9 41 (6.41%) Python Developer
10 34 (5.31%) WPF Developer
11 33 (5.16%) C# WPF Developer
12 29 (4.53%) Senior C# Developer
13 27 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (4.06%) C++ Developer
15 24 (3.75%) C++/C# Developer
15 24 (3.75%) Front Office Developer
16 23 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
16 23 (3.59%) Senior .NET Developer
17 22 (3.44%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (62.81%) .NET
2 108 (16.88%) .NET Framework
3 79 (12.34%) .NET Core
3 79 (12.34%) React
4 75 (11.72%) ASP.NET
4 75 (11.72%) HTML
5 70 (10.94%) CSS
6 64 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 55 (8.59%) WPF
8 54 (8.44%) Kafka
9 52 (8.13%) REST
10 50 (7.81%) WCF
11 46 (7.19%) Web Services
12 41 (6.41%) ASP.NET Web API
13 38 (5.94%) RESTful
14 33 (5.16%) Entity Framework
15 30 (4.69%) FastAPI
16 27 (4.22%) HTML5
17 26 (4.06%) JSON
17 26 (4.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 46 (7.19%) Derivative
3 31 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (2.81%) Legacy Applications
5 18 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.19%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.88%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.88%) Hedge funds
9 11 (1.72%) Market Risk
9 11 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.41%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.25%) Grid Computing
11 8 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (0.94%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.66%) Windows
2 25 (3.91%) Linux
3 18 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.63%) Android
7 3 (0.47%) CentOS
8 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.31%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.31%) Solaris
8 2 (0.31%) Unix
8 2 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (35.16%) Agile
2 220 (34.38%) DevOps
3 150 (23.44%) CI/CD
4 109 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 89 (13.91%) Microservices
7 77 (12.03%) Test Automation
8 68 (10.63%) OO
9 67 (10.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 62 (9.69%) TDD
11 60 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (8.44%) Design Patterns
13 50 (7.81%) Scrum
14 47 (7.34%) Analytics
15 46 (7.19%) CRM
15 46 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (7.19%) SDLC
16 40 (6.25%) Containerisation
16 40 (6.25%) Unit Testing
17 39 (6.09%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 269 (42.03%) SQL
2 201 (31.41%) JavaScript
3 158 (24.69%) Python
4 142 (22.19%) Java
5 87 (13.59%) TypeScript
6 72 (11.25%) C++
6 72 (11.25%) PowerShell
7 52 (8.13%) PL/SQL
8 37 (5.78%) VB
9 33 (5.16%) VBA
10 32 (5.00%) T-SQL
11 18 (2.81%) VB.NET
12 13 (2.03%) Bicep
13 11 (1.72%) RPG
13 11 (1.72%) RPG IV
13 11 (1.72%) Ruby
14 9 (1.41%) Go
14 9 (1.41%) PHP
14 9 (1.41%) Scala
15 8 (1.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 55 (8.59%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.41%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.47%) Degree
4 11 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.78%) MCPD
7 5 (0.78%) MCSD
8 4 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.16%) MCAD
11 1 (0.16%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.13%) QA
2 12 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 9 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.94%) MiFID
6 5 (0.78%) EMIR
7 4 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.31%) GDPR
8 2 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.31%) WCAG
9 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 87 (13.59%) Docker
2 23 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.63%) Platform Symphony
5 3 (0.47%) vCloud
5 3 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.47%) vSphere
6 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 105 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 50 (7.81%) Terraform
3 30 (4.69%) Ansible
4 11 (1.72%) Kibana
5 8 (1.25%) Grafana
6 6 (0.94%) Perfmon
7 5 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.31%) Control-M
8 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.16%) Netcool
9 1 (0.16%) Plesk
9 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 123 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 101 (15.78%) Oracle
3 20 (3.13%) Databricks
4 13 (2.03%) TIBCO
5 11 (1.72%) Citrix
5 11 (1.72%) Cloudera
5 11 (1.72%) OutSystems
6 10 (1.56%) IBM
6 10 (1.56%) OpenLink
6 10 (1.56%) SAP
7 7 (1.09%) VMware
8 6 (0.94%) Bloomberg
8 6 (0.94%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.94%) Splunk
9 5 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.78%) Reuters
9 5 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.78%) Solace
10 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.63%) New Relic