C# .NET Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

C# .NET Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C# .NET Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 379 386
Rank change year-on-year +42 +7 +13
Contract jobs requiring a C# .NET Developer 16 16 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.076% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.082% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 52
10th Percentile £325 £337 £350
25th Percentile £353 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +2.70% +1.65%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £542
90th Percentile £549 £550 £638
UK median daily rate £508 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,121 19,456 21,936
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 92.34% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,136 11,686 15,096
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,412 1,169
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.75 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +96.47%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £74.95 £75.53
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%

C# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK excluding London

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK excluding London

C# .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# .NET Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# .NET Developer in the UK excluding London

C# .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK excluding London

C# .NET Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# .NET Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
North of England +7 6 £400 -11.11% 18
South East +37 4 £517 -1.52% 28
South West +37 4 £655 +61.23% 8
North West +5 4 £388 -18.42% 9
Yorkshire +5 2 £525 +31.25% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £325 -
C# .NET Developer
UK

C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, C# .NET 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 UK excluding London region featuring C# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) C#
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (81.25%) Azure
3 12 (75.00%) Agile
4 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
5 10 (62.50%) SQL
5 10 (62.50%) DevOps
6 8 (50.00%) .NET Core
7 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
7 7 (43.75%) OO
7 7 (43.75%) Finance
7 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
8 6 (37.50%) TDD
8 6 (37.50%) Terraform
9 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
9 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
9 5 (31.25%) MVC
9 5 (31.25%) HTML
9 5 (31.25%) CSS
10 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
10 4 (25.00%) SAP
10 4 (25.00%) Electronics
10 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (25.00%) Pair Programming
10 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
10 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
10 4 (25.00%) Marketing
10 4 (25.00%) OWASP
10 4 (25.00%) Git

C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Ant
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
2 2 (12.50%) Subversion
3 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
3 4 (25.00%) Electronics
3 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (25.00%) Marketing
3 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Front Office
4 2 (12.50%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 5 (31.25%) CSS
3 5 (31.25%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 2 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.25%) ADO
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (6.25%) Blazor
5 1 (6.25%) CSS3
5 1 (6.25%) HTML5
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) WCF
5 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Derivative
2 2 (12.50%) Equities
2 2 (12.50%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) OO
4 6 (37.50%) TDD
5 5 (31.25%) MVC
6 4 (25.00%) BDD
6 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (25.00%) OWASP
6 4 (25.00%) Pair Programming
6 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
6 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (25.00%) SOLID
7 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
7 3 (18.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Sitecore