C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 317 276
Rank change year-on-year -102 -41 -43
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 251 237 350
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.73% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.79% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 202 287
10th Percentile £400 £385 £375
25th Percentile £416 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £715 £788 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £396 £465
% change year-on-year +19.87% -14.78% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £32.42 - £60.63
25th Percentile £41.66 - -
Median hourly rate £55.90 - £65.00
75th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.90 - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 48,733 29,823 39,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.69% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,478 18,993 25,331
10th Percentile £325 £287 £288
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,268 1,412 2,586
10th Percentile £15.92 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £25.31 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.82% -36.73% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.02 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.63% +5.15%

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 17 July 2026.

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 17 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 14 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 17 July 2026. 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 -119 218 £600 -8.05% 45
London -88 175 £635 -8.63% 14
Work from Home -56 86 £600 -22.58% 17
UK excluding London -84 47 £475 +19.87% 36
North of England -67 17 £475 +18.75% 12
Yorkshire -38 10 £725 +52.63% 5
South East -62 9 £475 -4.23% 15
East of England -15 7 - - 5
North West -46 7 £360 -7.63% 3
East Midlands -11 5 £550 +21.55% 3
Midlands -54 5 £550 +21.55% 5
Scotland - 4 £368 -
Northern Ireland +2 3 - -
South West -52 2 £450 +21.62%

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2026, 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.

1 251 (100.00%) C#
2 178 (70.92%) .NET
3 116 (46.22%) SQL
4 99 (39.44%) SQL Server
5 88 (35.06%) Azure
6 70 (27.89%) CI/CD
7 69 (27.49%) .NET Framework
7 69 (27.49%) Agile
8 64 (25.50%) DevOps
9 61 (24.30%) Oracle
10 40 (15.94%) Microservices
11 39 (15.54%) JavaScript
12 38 (15.14%) Microsoft
12 38 (15.14%) Software Engineering
13 37 (14.74%) .NET Core
13 37 (14.74%) QA
14 36 (14.34%) PL/SQL
15 35 (13.94%) T-SQL
15 35 (13.94%) Windows
16 34 (13.55%) AngularJS
17 33 (13.15%) Oracle Database
17 33 (13.15%) RESTful
18 31 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
18 31 (12.35%) Security Cleared
18 31 (12.35%) Unit Testing
19 30 (11.95%) Citrix
19 30 (11.95%) Data Analysis
19 30 (11.95%) Degree
19 30 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
19 30 (11.95%) SC Cleared

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 22 (8.76%) IIS
2 6 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.59%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.99%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.20%) Findur
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 88 (35.06%) Azure
2 31 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (9.16%) AWS
4 20 (7.97%) GitHub
5 13 (5.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.59%) Serverless
8 7 (2.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.39%) Azure Functions
9 6 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (1.99%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.20%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.20%) Collibra
12 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.80%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.80%) Azure API Management
13 2 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.18%) Internet
2 2 (0.80%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.80%) HTTP
2 2 (0.80%) Intranet
2 2 (0.80%) RTCP
2 2 (0.80%) RTP
2 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.80%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (39.44%) SQL Server
2 33 (13.15%) Oracle Database
3 20 (7.97%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.78%) Redis
5 11 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.79%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.59%) Power BI
9 3 (1.20%) Metadata
9 3 (1.20%) MySQL
10 2 (0.80%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.80%) MS Access
10 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.40%) Db2
Development Applications
1 23 (9.16%) Git
2 15 (5.98%) JIRA
2 15 (5.98%) TeamCity
3 14 (5.58%) Visual Studio
4 10 (3.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (3.59%) SpecFlow
6 5 (1.99%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.20%) GitLab
8 3 (1.20%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.20%) NUnit
8 3 (1.20%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.80%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.80%) MSTest
9 2 (0.80%) Postman
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 90 (35.86%) Finance
2 59 (23.51%) Social Skills
3 53 (21.12%) Banking
3 53 (21.12%) Front Office
4 24 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.76%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.58%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.19%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.20%) Back Office
8 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.20%) Retail
9 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Legal
9 2 (0.80%) Military
9 2 (0.80%) Police
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (70.92%) .NET
2 69 (27.49%) .NET Framework
3 37 (14.74%) .NET Core
4 34 (13.55%) AngularJS
5 33 (13.15%) RESTful
6 29 (11.55%) ASP.NET
7 28 (11.16%) React
7 28 (11.16%) WPF
8 27 (10.76%) REST
9 23 (9.16%) WinForms
10 20 (7.97%) HTML
11 17 (6.77%) Entity Framework
12 16 (6.37%) XML
13 15 (5.98%) Web Services
14 12 (4.78%) ASP.NET Core
15 11 (4.38%) ASP.NET Web API
16 10 (3.98%) ASP.NET MVC
17 9 (3.59%) Blazor
17 9 (3.59%) CSS
18 8 (3.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.95%) Derivative
2 22 (8.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (5.98%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.79%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.39%) Equities
7 6 (2.39%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.80%) FMCG
11 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.94%) Windows
2 15 (5.98%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.59%) Linux
4 3 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.89%) CI/CD
2 69 (27.49%) Agile
3 64 (25.50%) DevOps
4 40 (15.94%) Microservices
5 38 (15.14%) Software Engineering
6 31 (12.35%) Unit Testing
7 30 (11.95%) Data Analysis
7 30 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (10.76%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (10.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (9.96%) Test Automation
11 24 (9.56%) AI
12 20 (7.97%) Computer Science
12 20 (7.97%) Scrum
13 18 (7.17%) OOP
14 16 (6.37%) Multithreading
14 16 (6.37%) Refactoring
15 15 (5.98%) MVC
16 14 (5.58%) Mathematics
16 14 (5.58%) OO
Programming Languages
1 251 (100.00%) C#
2 116 (46.22%) SQL
3 39 (15.54%) JavaScript
4 36 (14.34%) PL/SQL
5 35 (13.94%) T-SQL
6 28 (11.16%) Python
7 24 (9.56%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.98%) VBA
9 13 (5.18%) VB
10 10 (3.98%) C++
11 7 (2.79%) Java
11 7 (2.79%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.20%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.80%) Bicep
13 2 (0.80%) VB6
13 2 (0.80%) VBScript
13 2 (0.80%) XAML
13 2 (0.80%) XPath
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.95%) Degree
2 30 (11.95%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.79%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.39%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.39%) PhD
6 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) CISSP
7 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.74%) QA
2 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.40%) GMP
3 1 (0.40%) GxP
3 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (9.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (24.30%) Oracle
2 38 (15.14%) Microsoft
3 30 (11.95%) Citrix
4 4 (1.59%) IBM
4 4 (1.59%) Murex
5 3 (1.20%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.80%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.80%) Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) Google
7 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.40%) Trayport
7 1 (0.40%) Workday