C# Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, 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 299 352 314
Rank change year-on-year +53 -38 -11
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 37 47 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.23% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.24% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 121
10th Percentile £315 £352 £350
25th Percentile £325 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% - +3.26%
75th Percentile £488 £519 £600
90th Percentile £575 £580 £675
UK median daily rate £675 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £58.00 £51.80
25th Percentile - £60.63 £56.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £71.88 -
90th Percentile - £73.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

C# 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# Developer within the UK excluding 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
South East +42 10 £517 +14.89% 43
North of England +17 10 £400 -17.95% 57
South West +47 8 £370 +9.63% 8
North West +15 6 £400 -20.00% 30
Northern Ireland - 5 £325 - 1
East of England +28 2 £490 +13.29% 19
Yorkshire +8 2 £263 -34.38% 12
North East 0 2 £413 - 17
Scotland - 2 £500 - 1
C# Developer
UK

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (81.08%) .NET
3 24 (64.86%) Azure
4 16 (43.24%) Finance
5 13 (35.14%) Agile
5 13 (35.14%) HTML
5 13 (35.14%) CSS
6 12 (32.43%) Software Engineering
6 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
7 11 (29.73%) AWS
7 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
7 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
7 11 (29.73%) SQL
8 10 (27.03%) TDD
8 10 (27.03%) Git
8 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
9 9 (24.32%) Telecoms
9 9 (24.32%) Web Development
10 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
10 8 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
10 8 (21.62%) Azure Certification
10 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
10 8 (21.62%) .NET Core
10 8 (21.62%) GCP
10 8 (21.62%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (21.62%) SDLC
11 7 (18.92%) DevOps
11 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (18.92%) Marketing

C# 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 2 (5.41%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) IIS
2 1 (2.70%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (64.86%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) AWS
3 8 (21.62%) GCP
4 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.70%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.70%) Internet
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.41%) Redis
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.81%) Ant
3 4 (10.81%) Maven
3 4 (10.81%) Subversion
3 4 (10.81%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.41%) JIRA
4 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.70%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (43.24%) Finance
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Telecoms
4 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
5 7 (18.92%) Electronics
5 7 (18.92%) Manufacturing
5 7 (18.92%) Marketing
6 4 (10.81%) Banking
6 4 (10.81%) Front Office
6 4 (10.81%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (5.41%) French Language
8 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Military
8 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (81.08%) .NET
2 13 (35.14%) CSS
2 13 (35.14%) HTML
3 8 (21.62%) .NET Core
4 5 (13.51%) .NET Framework
4 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
5 4 (10.81%) RESTful
6 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.11%) REST
7 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (5.41%) Blazor
7 2 (5.41%) Web Services
8 1 (2.70%) ADO
8 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (2.70%) CSS3
8 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.70%) HTML5
8 1 (2.70%) Node.js
8 1 (2.70%) OpenID
8 1 (2.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.22%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.81%) Derivative
3 4 (10.81%) Equities
3 4 (10.81%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.41%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.70%) NHS
6 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Windows
3 4 (10.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Agile
2 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
2 12 (32.43%) Software Engineering
3 10 (27.03%) TDD
4 9 (24.32%) Web Development
5 8 (21.62%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (21.62%) SDLC
5 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
6 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (18.92%) DevOps
6 7 (18.92%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (18.92%) OO
6 7 (18.92%) Programme Management
7 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
7 6 (16.22%) MVC
7 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Service Delivery
7 6 (16.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
2 11 (29.73%) SQL
3 7 (18.92%) Python
4 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.41%) C++
5 2 (5.41%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Azure Certification
2 6 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (16.22%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) MIIS
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Google
2 7 (18.92%) SAP
3 3 (8.11%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.41%) New Relic
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Sitecore