C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 306 257
Rank change year-on-year -100 -49 -105
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 176 262 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.73% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.79% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 189 359
10th Percentile £382 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £779 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.95% - -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £51.70 - £62.50
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.32 - -
90th Percentile £71.48 £67.25 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'C# Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

C# Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 December 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 -103 160 £500 -13.04% 57
London -56 132 £463 -26.00% 15
Work from Home -35 53 £500 -4.76% 34
UK excluding London -58 29 £518 +8.95% 49
South East -16 9 £488 -11.36% 17
Midlands -27 8 £600 +4.35% 7
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 1
North of England -55 4 £393 -15.14% 18
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -19 3 £500 +3.09% 2
North West -24 2 £310 -27.06% 9
Yorkshire -44 2 £475 +2.15% 5
Scotland +4 1 £455 +1.11% 2

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 December 2025, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 176 (100.00%) C#
2 130 (73.86%) .NET
3 82 (46.59%) SQL
4 67 (38.07%) SQL Server
5 61 (34.66%) .NET Framework
6 52 (29.55%) Azure
7 45 (25.57%) Agile
8 43 (24.43%) Microservices
9 41 (23.30%) DevOps
9 41 (23.30%) Oracle
10 40 (22.73%) Windows
11 39 (22.16%) CI/CD
12 38 (21.59%) PL/SQL
13 28 (15.91%) Oracle Database
13 28 (15.91%) WPF
14 25 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (14.20%) T-SQL
15 24 (13.64%) Software Engineering
16 22 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
17 21 (11.93%) Degree
17 21 (11.93%) Microsoft
17 21 (11.93%) RESTful
18 20 (11.36%) GitHub
18 20 (11.36%) VB
18 20 (11.36%) VBA
19 19 (10.80%) AngularJS
19 19 (10.80%) AWS
19 19 (10.80%) QA

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (7.95%) IIS
2 7 (3.98%) Confluence
3 5 (2.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.84%) CMS
3 5 (2.84%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.84%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.84%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.57%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.57%) Mendix
Applications
1 22 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.70%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.57%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.55%) Azure
2 25 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (11.36%) GitHub
4 19 (10.80%) AWS
5 10 (5.68%) Serverless
6 9 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.41%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.84%) Azure Functions
8 5 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.84%) Contentful
8 5 (2.84%) GCP
8 5 (2.84%) Kontent
9 4 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.27%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.70%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.11%) Internet
2 2 (1.14%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (38.07%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.91%) Oracle Database
3 10 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.98%) Redis
6 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.84%) Power BI
8 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.57%) DataStage
10 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.57%) Sisense
10 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (10.23%) Git
2 11 (6.25%) SpecFlow
2 11 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 9 (5.11%) JIRA
4 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.84%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.14%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.57%) Crucible
7 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.57%) NUnit
General
1 66 (37.50%) Finance
2 51 (28.98%) Social Skills
3 34 (19.32%) Banking
4 21 (11.93%) Front Office
5 20 (11.36%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.70%) Back Office
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Military
9 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (73.86%) .NET
2 61 (34.66%) .NET Framework
3 28 (15.91%) WPF
4 21 (11.93%) RESTful
5 19 (10.80%) AngularJS
6 15 (8.52%) .NET Core
6 15 (8.52%) Entity Framework
7 13 (7.39%) ASP.NET
7 13 (7.39%) REST
8 12 (6.82%) WinForms
9 11 (6.25%) NHibernate
10 10 (5.68%) HTML
10 10 (5.68%) Kafka
10 10 (5.68%) Playwright
11 9 (5.11%) CSS
11 9 (5.11%) React
12 8 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (4.55%) WCF
13 7 (3.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.82%) Derivative
2 10 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.98%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.41%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.27%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.27%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.57%) Equities
9 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.73%) Windows
2 8 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.57%) Agile
2 43 (24.43%) Microservices
3 41 (23.30%) DevOps
4 39 (22.16%) CI/CD
5 25 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 18 (10.23%) Unit Testing
8 15 (8.52%) Clean Code
8 15 (8.52%) Data Analysis
8 15 (8.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (7.95%) OOP
9 14 (7.95%) Scrum
10 13 (7.39%) AI
10 13 (7.39%) API Development
10 13 (7.39%) Computer Science
10 13 (7.39%) SDLC
11 11 (6.25%) Analytics
11 11 (6.25%) OO
Programming Languages
1 176 (100.00%) C#
2 82 (46.59%) SQL
3 38 (21.59%) PL/SQL
4 25 (14.20%) T-SQL
5 20 (11.36%) VB
5 20 (11.36%) VBA
6 14 (7.95%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.25%) Python
7 11 (6.25%) VB.NET
8 5 (2.84%) PHP
8 5 (2.84%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.70%) C++
9 3 (1.70%) Java
10 2 (1.14%) Ada
10 2 (1.14%) Assembly Language
10 2 (1.14%) C
10 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.14%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 21 (11.93%) Degree
2 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.80%) QA
2 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.57%) EMIR
3 1 (0.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (23.30%) Oracle
2 21 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.23%) Citrix
4 5 (2.84%) Adobe
4 5 (2.84%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.70%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.70%) FactSet
6 2 (1.14%) Concur
6 2 (1.14%) Confluent
6 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.14%) Trayport
7 1 (0.57%) Adyen
7 1 (0.57%) Apple
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.57%) Google
7 1 (0.57%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.57%) Kofax
7 1 (0.57%) Lotus
7 1 (0.57%) Workday