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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 317 278
Rank change year-on-year -96 -39 -58
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 250 233 361
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.76% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.82% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 197 301
10th Percentile £356 £385 £375
25th Percentile £415 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £655 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £715 £800 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £801
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £390 £470
% change year-on-year +21.79% -17.02% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% - -

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 47,495 28,303 40,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.03% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,760 18,119 25,771
10th Percentile £325 £288 £283
25th Percentile £415 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,210 1,268 2,866
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.77 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.41 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 1 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 1 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 15 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 1 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 -109 222 £600 -11.11% 50
London -81 177 £645 -7.86% 20
Work from Home -59 82 £600 -22.58% 27
UK excluding London -81 49 £475 +21.79% 42
North of England -68 16 £450 +12.50% 21
South East -59 10 £475 -4.23% 10
North West -36 8 £358 -8.21% 3
Yorkshire -46 8 £725 +45.00% 9
Midlands -52 7 £350 -9.09% 1
East of England -17 6 - - 3
East Midlands -8 5 £550 +42.86%
Northern Ireland +3 4 - - 4
South West -39 3 £450 +21.62%
Scotland - 3 £373 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 250 (100.00%) C#
2 177 (70.80%) .NET
3 109 (43.60%) SQL
4 95 (38.00%) SQL Server
5 88 (35.20%) Azure
6 68 (27.20%) .NET Framework
6 68 (27.20%) Agile
6 68 (27.20%) CI/CD
7 60 (24.00%) DevOps
8 59 (23.60%) Oracle
9 44 (17.60%) Microservices
10 38 (15.20%) Software Engineering
11 37 (14.80%) Microsoft
11 37 (14.80%) QA
12 35 (14.00%) JavaScript
12 35 (14.00%) PL/SQL
13 34 (13.60%) .NET Core
14 33 (13.20%) T-SQL
14 33 (13.20%) Windows
15 32 (12.80%) AngularJS
15 32 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (12.80%) Oracle Database
15 32 (12.80%) Unit Testing
16 31 (12.40%) Python
17 30 (12.00%) Data Analysis
17 30 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (12.00%) Security Cleared
18 29 (11.60%) SC Cleared
19 28 (11.20%) Citrix
19 28 (11.20%) Degree

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 18 (7.20%) IIS
2 5 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.60%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.20%) Findur
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 88 (35.20%) Azure
2 32 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (8.40%) GitHub
4 20 (8.00%) AWS
5 11 (4.40%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (4.40%) Serverless
6 8 (3.20%) Azure Functions
7 6 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.60%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.60%) Collibra
9 4 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.20%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.20%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.20%) Azure API Management
10 3 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.80%) 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 95 (38.00%) SQL Server
2 32 (12.80%) Oracle Database
3 23 (9.20%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.80%) Redis
5 8 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.20%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.60%) Metadata
7 4 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.60%) Power BI
8 3 (1.20%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.80%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (8.80%) Git
2 15 (6.00%) TeamCity
3 14 (5.60%) JIRA
4 13 (5.20%) Visual Studio
5 11 (4.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.40%) SpecFlow
7 5 (2.00%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.20%) GitLab
8 3 (1.20%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.20%) NUnit
9 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.80%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.80%) MSTest
9 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.80%) Selenium
9 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 87 (34.80%) Finance
2 58 (23.20%) Social Skills
3 57 (22.80%) Banking
4 51 (20.40%) Front Office
5 24 (9.60%) Investment Banking
6 23 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.20%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.20%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.20%) Back Office
9 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.80%) Legal
10 2 (0.80%) Military
10 2 (0.80%) Police
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (70.80%) .NET
2 68 (27.20%) .NET Framework
3 34 (13.60%) .NET Core
4 32 (12.80%) AngularJS
5 28 (11.20%) React
5 28 (11.20%) RESTful
6 26 (10.40%) WPF
7 25 (10.00%) ASP.NET
8 21 (8.40%) REST
9 20 (8.00%) WinForms
10 19 (7.60%) HTML
11 17 (6.80%) Entity Framework
12 14 (5.60%) XML
13 13 (5.20%) Web Services
14 9 (3.60%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (3.60%) CSS
15 8 (3.20%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (3.20%) Blazor
16 7 (2.80%) ASP.NET MVC
16 7 (2.80%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.40%) Derivative
2 24 (9.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (5.20%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.80%) Equities
6 7 (2.80%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.40%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.60%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
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%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.20%) Windows
2 15 (6.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.60%) Linux
4 3 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.20%) Agile
1 68 (27.20%) CI/CD
2 60 (24.00%) DevOps
3 44 (17.60%) Microservices
4 38 (15.20%) Software Engineering
5 32 (12.80%) Unit Testing
6 30 (12.00%) Data Analysis
6 30 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.80%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (9.20%) AI
10 21 (8.40%) Scrum
10 21 (8.40%) Test Automation
11 17 (6.80%) Computer Science
12 16 (6.40%) Multithreading
12 16 (6.40%) OOP
12 16 (6.40%) Refactoring
13 15 (6.00%) Containerisation
13 15 (6.00%) SOLID
14 14 (5.60%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 250 (100.00%) C#
2 109 (43.60%) SQL
3 35 (14.00%) JavaScript
3 35 (14.00%) PL/SQL
4 33 (13.20%) T-SQL
5 31 (12.40%) Python
6 24 (9.60%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.60%) VBA
8 12 (4.80%) VB
9 10 (4.00%) C++
10 7 (2.80%) Java
10 7 (2.80%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.20%) Bicep
12 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.80%) VB6
12 2 (0.80%) XAML
13 1 (0.40%) Bash
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.40%) VBScript
13 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.20%) Degree
4 10 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.40%) PhD
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.80%) QA
2 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (9.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (23.60%) Oracle
2 37 (14.80%) Microsoft
3 28 (11.20%) Citrix
4 3 (1.20%) Murex
4 3 (1.20%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.80%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (0.80%) Foundry
5 2 (0.80%) IBM
6 1 (0.40%) Google
6 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.40%) SAP
6 1 (0.40%) Workday