C# Application Developer Contracts

C# Application Developer
UK

The median C# Application Developer daily rate in the UK is £370, 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 510 570 710
Rank change year-on-year +60 +140 +129
Contract jobs requiring a C# Application Developer 10 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.028% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.030% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 8
10th Percentile - £575 £459
25th Percentile £355 £580 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £725 £560
Median % change year-on-year -48.97% +29.46% +8.90%
75th Percentile £411 £850 £566
90th Percentile £511 - £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 - £463
% change year-on-year - - -2.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

C# Application Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Application Developer in the UK

C# Application Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# Application Developer in the UK

C# Application Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Application Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# Application Developer in the UK

C# Application Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Application Developer in the UK

C# Application Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Application Developer within the UK 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
England +54 9 £370 -48.97% 5
South West - 6 £370 -
UK excluding London - 6 £370 - 4
London +29 3 £508 -30.00% 1
Work from Home +34 1 - - 4

C# Application Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, C# Application 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 featuring C# Application Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) Azure
3 8 (80.00%) Web Development
3 8 (80.00%) HTML
3 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (80.00%) CSS
4 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (60.00%) SAP
4 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
4 6 (60.00%) Programme Management
4 6 (60.00%) Service Management
4 6 (60.00%) Service Delivery
4 6 (60.00%) Electronics
4 6 (60.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (60.00%) Finance
4 6 (60.00%) Manufacturing
4 6 (60.00%) Google
4 6 (60.00%) Marketing
4 6 (60.00%) TDD
4 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Degree
4 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (60.00%) Digital Marketing
4 6 (60.00%) AWS
4 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (60.00%) User Experience
4 6 (60.00%) GCP
4 6 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 6 (60.00%) Software Delivery

C# Application Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Electronics
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Manufacturing
1 6 (60.00%) Marketing
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 8 (80.00%) CSS
2 8 (80.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) Vue
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) WinForms
4 1 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Web Development
2 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (60.00%) Digital Marketing
2 6 (60.00%) Programme Management
2 6 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 6 (60.00%) Service Management
2 6 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Software Delivery
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) TDD
2 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (60.00%) User Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (20.00%) MVVM
3 2 (20.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) MIIS
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Google
1 6 (60.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle