C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 354 274
Rank change year-on-year -137 -80 -29
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 196 208 320
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.63% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.69% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 165 246
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £458 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £713 £763 £700
90th Percentile £764 £828 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £54.08 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £72.80 - £66.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 50,223 30,015 35,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 91.09% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,737 18,953 22,040
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £626 £623 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,829 1,585 1,681
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.86%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -126 167 £600 +9.09% 153
London -102 129 £645 -5.15% 103
Work from Home -64 70 £550 -15.38% 59
UK excluding London -101 39 £475 - 55
North of England -59 13 £725 +52.63% 15
East of England -20 10 £525 +5.00% 5
Yorkshire -34 8 £725 +45.00%
Midlands -41 7 £500 +10.50% 11
South East -66 6 £475 -8.12% 23
East Midlands -12 5 £550 +21.55% 3
North West -48 4 £475 +26.67% 9
West Midlands - 2 £425 - 8
Scotland - 2 £368 -
South West -40 1 £450 +14.65% 1
North East - 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 196 (100.00%) C#
2 138 (70.41%) .NET
3 82 (41.84%) SQL
4 78 (39.80%) SQL Server
5 58 (29.59%) Azure
6 57 (29.08%) Agile
7 55 (28.06%) CI/CD
8 51 (26.02%) DevOps
9 50 (25.51%) .NET Framework
10 45 (22.96%) Oracle
11 36 (18.37%) Software Engineering
12 33 (16.84%) .NET Core
13 32 (16.33%) Microservices
13 32 (16.33%) Microsoft
13 32 (16.33%) RESTful
13 32 (16.33%) Windows
14 29 (14.80%) Degree
14 29 (14.80%) JavaScript
14 29 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (14.80%) QA
14 29 (14.80%) Test Automation
15 27 (13.78%) PL/SQL
15 27 (13.78%) REST
15 27 (13.78%) T-SQL
16 26 (13.27%) Citrix
16 26 (13.27%) WinForms
17 25 (12.76%) WPF
18 23 (11.73%) ASP.NET
18 23 (11.73%) IIS
19 22 (11.22%) Data Analysis

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 23 (11.73%) IIS
2 5 (2.55%) Confluence
3 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.53%) Findur
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Endur
3 1 (0.51%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 58 (29.59%) Azure
2 21 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (9.69%) AWS
4 14 (7.14%) GitHub
5 12 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.02%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.02%) Serverless
10 1 (0.51%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.51%) Contentful
10 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.51%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.14%) Internet
2 3 (1.53%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.02%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (39.80%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.22%) Oracle Database
3 14 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.59%) Redis
6 7 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.55%) ClickHouse
9 4 (2.04%) Power BI
10 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.02%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.02%) Db2
11 2 (1.02%) MS Access
11 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.51%) Metadata
12 1 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (9.18%) Git
2 15 (7.65%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.10%) JIRA
4 9 (4.59%) SpecFlow
5 8 (4.08%) TeamCity
6 7 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (3.06%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.55%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.04%) GitLab
10 3 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.53%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (1.02%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.02%) Postman
12 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.51%) Crucible
12 1 (0.51%) Fiddler
12 1 (0.51%) NUnit
12 1 (0.51%) Rational Robot
12 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 68 (34.69%) Finance
2 57 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 52 (26.53%) Front Office
4 42 (21.43%) Banking
5 28 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (11.22%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.61%) Financial Institution
7 11 (5.61%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.53%) Military
8 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Legal
9 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.02%) Retail
9 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) French Language
10 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (70.41%) .NET
2 50 (25.51%) .NET Framework
3 33 (16.84%) .NET Core
4 32 (16.33%) RESTful
5 27 (13.78%) REST
6 26 (13.27%) WinForms
7 25 (12.76%) WPF
8 23 (11.73%) ASP.NET
9 20 (10.20%) React
10 19 (9.69%) Web Services
11 17 (8.67%) AngularJS
12 13 (6.63%) XML
13 12 (6.12%) Kafka
14 10 (5.10%) Entity Framework
14 10 (5.10%) Swagger
15 9 (4.59%) ASP.NET Core
16 8 (4.08%) OpenAPI
17 7 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
17 7 (3.57%) Blazor
18 6 (3.06%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.78%) Derivative
2 25 (12.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.59%) Fixed Income
5 7 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.57%) Equities
5 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.04%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.53%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.02%) FMCG
8 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.33%) Windows
2 9 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.06%) Linux
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (29.08%) Agile
2 55 (28.06%) CI/CD
3 51 (26.02%) DevOps
4 36 (18.37%) Software Engineering
5 32 (16.33%) Microservices
6 29 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (14.80%) Test Automation
7 22 (11.22%) Data Analysis
8 21 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (10.71%) Unit Testing
9 20 (10.20%) AI
9 20 (10.20%) Computer Science
10 19 (9.69%) API Development
11 18 (9.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (9.18%) Scrum
12 14 (7.14%) Event-Driven
13 13 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (6.63%) Mathematics
13 13 (6.63%) OO
13 13 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 196 (100.00%) C#
2 82 (41.84%) SQL
3 29 (14.80%) JavaScript
4 27 (13.78%) PL/SQL
4 27 (13.78%) T-SQL
5 21 (10.71%) Python
6 17 (8.67%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.16%) VBA
8 13 (6.63%) C++
8 13 (6.63%) VB
9 6 (3.06%) Java
10 3 (1.53%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.02%) VBScript
11 2 (1.02%) XAML
11 2 (1.02%) XPath
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) Go
12 1 (0.51%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (14.80%) Degree
2 17 (8.67%) SC Cleared
2 17 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.06%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.06%) PhD
6 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.80%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) GMP
2 1 (0.51%) GxP
System Software
1 14 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.51%) Ansible
2 1 (0.51%) Grafana
2 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (22.96%) Oracle
2 32 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 26 (13.27%) Citrix
4 5 (2.55%) IBM
5 4 (2.04%) Murex
6 2 (1.02%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.51%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.51%) Sage
7 1 (0.51%) Solace
7 1 (0.51%) Trayport
7 1 (0.51%) Workday