C# Software Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

C# Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C# Software Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 385 426
Rank change year-on-year +37 +41 +59
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 7 1 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.005% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.005% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 11
10th Percentile £304 - £350
25th Percentile £325 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 - £488
90th Percentile £543 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +26.32%

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 12,895 19,573 21,654
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.13% 92.40% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,996 11,727 14,916
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 £594 £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 1,034 2,438 1,150
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.75 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +96.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.68 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

C# Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

C# Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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

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

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

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

C# Software 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# Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Northern Ireland - 3 £325 -
North of England - 2 £525 - 19
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 6
South East - 2 £513 - 13
C# Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, C# Software 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# Software Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) SaaS
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Finance
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Derivative
5 2 (28.57%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (28.57%) Wholesale Banking
5 2 (28.57%) Equities
5 2 (28.57%) Front Office
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (28.57%) Ant
5 2 (28.57%) Unix
5 2 (28.57%) Windows
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
5 2 (28.57%) OOA/OOD
5 2 (28.57%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Concurrent Programming
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC

C# Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Ant
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Front Office
2 2 (28.57%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
2 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) WCF
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Derivative
1 2 (28.57%) Equities
1 2 (28.57%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Concurrent Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) API Integration
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (14.29%) Speech Recognition
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft