Lead C# Developer Contracts in London

Lead C# Developer
England > London

The median Lead C# Developer daily rate in London is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 393 470
Rank change year-on-year +14 +77 +148
Contract jobs requiring a Lead C# Developer 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.036% 0.012% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.013% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £696
25th Percentile - - £747
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £400 £838
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -52.24% +52.27%
75th Percentile - - £922
90th Percentile - - £969
England median daily rate £550 £475 £675
% change year-on-year +15.79% -29.63% +37.40%

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 12,754 15,330 22,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 94.23% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,634 10,896 16,762
10th Percentile £325 £344 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 201 241
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £22.00 £23.46
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.07 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -11.44% +12.30%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

Lead C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead C# Developer in London

Lead C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead C# Developer in London

Lead C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead C# Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring Lead C# Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) SAP
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) B2C
4 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Android
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) Marketing
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Electronics
4 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (40.00%) Finance

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) B2C
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
2 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (40.00%) SOLID
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Bicep
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) SAP