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 £396, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 338 302
Rank change year-on-year +42 -36 +4
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 40 48 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.23% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.25% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 118
10th Percentile £319 £356 £350
25th Percentile £348 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £494 £531 £600
90th Percentile £575 £573 £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 11,828 18,946 22,031
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 92.51% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,531 11,551 15,391
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,261 1,134
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.33 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +112.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.73% -16.67% +88.21%

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 12 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 12 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
North of England +19 11 £400 -17.95% 66
South East +39 10 £517 +11.78% 37
South West +44 9 £370 +9.63% 8
North West +10 5 £400 -20.00% 36
Northern Ireland - 5 £325 -
Yorkshire +16 4 £475 +18.75% 16
East of England +21 2 £490 +13.29% 18
Scotland +13 2 £500 - 4
North East -5 2 £413 - 14
Midlands +9 1 £385 -21.03% 16
East Midlands +7 1 £385 -30.00% 10
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 40 (100.00%) C#
2 33 (82.50%) .NET
3 27 (67.50%) Azure
4 16 (40.00%) Finance
5 15 (37.50%) Agile
5 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
6 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
6 13 (32.50%) HTML
6 13 (32.50%) SQL
6 13 (32.50%) CSS
7 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 11 (27.50%) AWS
9 10 (25.00%) Git
9 10 (25.00%) TDD
9 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
9 10 (25.00%) DevOps
9 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
9 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
10 9 (22.50%) .NET Core
10 9 (22.50%) Telecoms
10 9 (22.50%) Web Development
11 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 8 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (20.00%) Python
11 8 (20.00%) SDLC
11 8 (20.00%) GCP
11 8 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
11 8 (20.00%) Azure Certification

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 (5.00%) CMS
1 2 (5.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (67.50%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) AWS
3 8 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.50%) dbt
6 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
1 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.00%) Redis
2 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.50%) Visual Studio
4 4 (10.00%) Ant
4 4 (10.00%) Maven
4 4 (10.00%) Subversion
5 2 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.50%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Telecoms
4 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (17.50%) Electronics
5 7 (17.50%) Manufacturing
5 7 (17.50%) Marketing
6 4 (10.00%) Banking
6 4 (10.00%) Front Office
6 4 (10.00%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (5.00%) French Language
8 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Law
8 1 (2.50%) Military
8 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (82.50%) .NET
2 13 (32.50%) CSS
2 13 (32.50%) HTML
3 9 (22.50%) .NET Core
4 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (10.00%) RESTful
6 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (7.50%) Blazor
6 3 (7.50%) REST
7 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (5.00%) Web Services
8 1 (2.50%) ADO
8 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (2.50%) CSS3
8 1 (2.50%) OpenID
8 1 (2.50%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (2.50%) WCF
8 1 (2.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.00%) Derivative
3 4 (10.00%) Equities
3 4 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.00%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.50%) NHS
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Agile
1 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 10 (25.00%) DevOps
3 10 (25.00%) TDD
4 9 (22.50%) Web Development
5 8 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (20.00%) SDLC
5 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (17.50%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (17.50%) MVC
6 7 (17.50%) OO
6 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.50%) Programme Management
6 7 (17.50%) Service Management
7 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (15.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
2 13 (32.50%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.00%) C++
5 2 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.50%) VB
6 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) MIIS
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Google
2 7 (17.50%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.00%) New Relic
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Sitecore