C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 309 243
Rank change year-on-year -79 -66 -68
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 227 233 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.79% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.85% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 196 352
10th Percentile £329 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £684 £750 £741
90th Percentile £779 £825 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £26.25 - £57.13
25th Percentile £36.13 - £58.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile - - £73.44
90th Percentile £68.70 - £74.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.92%

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 39,756 27,258 41,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 92.98% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,823 17,712 27,111
10th Percentile £313 £300 £273
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.02%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,465 888 2,497
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.96
25th Percentile £19.10 £21.04 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% - -23.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.92 £77.28 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -18.75%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -115 198 £506 -22.12% 66
London -58 164 £550 -18.52% 30
Work from Home -50 70 £525 -25.00% 31
UK excluding London -82 39 £450 +12.50% 48
North of England -57 12 £413 +3.13% 17
North West -28 11 £385 -5.17% 9
Midlands - 9 £600 - 8
East Midlands - 7 £600 - 4
Northern Ireland -2 5 - -
South East -56 5 £584 +6.18% 16
Scotland +10 3 £388 -22.50% 2
East of England -23 3 - - 4
South West -28 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 4
Yorkshire -60 1 £500 +90.48% 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 227 (100.00%) C#
2 162 (71.37%) .NET
3 112 (49.34%) SQL
4 86 (37.89%) SQL Server
5 75 (33.04%) Azure
6 69 (30.40%) .NET Framework
7 63 (27.75%) CI/CD
8 59 (25.99%) Agile
9 55 (24.23%) Oracle
10 50 (22.03%) DevOps
11 46 (20.26%) Microservices
12 45 (19.82%) PL/SQL
13 39 (17.18%) Windows
14 37 (16.30%) QA
14 37 (16.30%) T-SQL
15 33 (14.54%) Oracle Database
16 32 (14.10%) AngularJS
16 32 (14.10%) Data Analysis
17 31 (13.66%) JavaScript
17 31 (13.66%) REST
17 31 (13.66%) Unit Testing
18 30 (13.22%) Citrix
18 30 (13.22%) Microsoft
19 29 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
19 29 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
20 28 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
20 28 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
21 27 (11.89%) .NET Core
21 27 (11.89%) Docker
21 27 (11.89%) Python

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 17 (7.49%) IIS
2 5 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (2.20%) CMS
2 5 (2.20%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.20%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (2.20%) Umbraco
3 4 (1.76%) Confluence
3 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.04%) Azure
2 29 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.57%) GitHub
4 20 (8.81%) AWS
5 18 (7.93%) Serverless
6 15 (6.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.73%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.85%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.52%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.52%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.64%) Collibra
12 6 (2.64%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.20%) Contentful
13 5 (2.20%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.20%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.85%) Internet
2 3 (1.32%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.88%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.88%) HTTP
3 2 (0.88%) RTCP
3 2 (0.88%) RTP
3 2 (0.88%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (37.89%) SQL Server
2 33 (14.54%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.05%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.96%) Redis
6 7 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.64%) Metadata
8 5 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.88%) MySQL
10 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.44%) DataStage
11 1 (0.44%) Power BI
11 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.93%) Git
2 15 (6.61%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.41%) JIRA
3 10 (4.41%) TeamCity
4 8 (3.52%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (3.52%) SpecFlow
5 5 (2.20%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.76%) NUnit
7 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.32%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.88%) MSTest
8 2 (0.88%) Selenium
9 1 (0.44%) Crucible
9 1 (0.44%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 72 (31.72%) Finance
2 59 (25.99%) Social Skills
3 47 (20.70%) Banking
4 25 (11.01%) Front Office
5 20 (8.81%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.64%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.20%) Back Office
10 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.32%) Military
11 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Law
12 2 (0.88%) Police
12 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.44%) Legal
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (71.37%) .NET
2 69 (30.40%) .NET Framework
3 32 (14.10%) AngularJS
4 31 (13.66%) REST
5 27 (11.89%) .NET Core
6 25 (11.01%) HTML
6 25 (11.01%) RESTful
7 23 (10.13%) Entity Framework
8 22 (9.69%) ASP.NET
8 22 (9.69%) WPF
9 20 (8.81%) React
10 16 (7.05%) WinForms
11 15 (6.61%) CSS
12 13 (5.73%) OAuth
13 11 (4.85%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (4.85%) OAuth2
14 10 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (4.41%) JWT
15 8 (3.52%) NHibernate
15 8 (3.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.73%) Derivative
2 13 (5.73%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.64%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.76%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.32%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.32%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.88%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.18%) Windows
2 18 (7.93%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.32%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.75%) CI/CD
2 59 (25.99%) Agile
3 50 (22.03%) DevOps
4 46 (20.26%) Microservices
5 32 (14.10%) Data Analysis
6 31 (13.66%) Unit Testing
7 29 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (11.01%) AI
10 21 (9.25%) Software Engineering
11 20 (8.81%) OOP
12 19 (8.37%) Change Management
13 18 (7.93%) SOLID
14 17 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (7.49%) Clean Code
15 16 (7.05%) Containerisation
16 15 (6.61%) Performance Tuning
17 14 (6.17%) MVC
17 14 (6.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 227 (100.00%) C#
2 112 (49.34%) SQL
3 45 (19.82%) PL/SQL
4 37 (16.30%) T-SQL
5 31 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.89%) Python
7 20 (8.81%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.29%) VB
8 12 (5.29%) VBA
9 8 (3.52%) Bicep
10 7 (3.08%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.64%) Java
12 4 (1.76%) C++
13 3 (1.32%) PHP
14 2 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.44%) F#
15 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (9.25%) Degree
2 17 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) CISSP
6 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.30%) QA
2 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) MiFID
3 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (11.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (8.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (24.23%) Oracle
2 30 (13.22%) Citrix
2 30 (13.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.64%) Sitecore
4 5 (2.20%) Adobe
5 2 (0.88%) Concur
5 2 (0.88%) Foundry
5 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.88%) Trayport
6 1 (0.44%) Databricks
6 1 (0.44%) Google
6 1 (0.44%) SAP
6 1 (0.44%) Workday