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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 360 285
Rank change year-on-year -113 -75 -39
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 202 207 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.63% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.69% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 165 243
10th Percentile £404 £384 £363
25th Percentile £463 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £713 £763 £700
90th Percentile £771 £838 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £447 £470
% change year-on-year +10.18% -4.89% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £48.62 - -
25th Percentile £51.35 - -
Median hourly rate £55.90 - £65.00
75th Percentile £60.45 - -
90th Percentile £63.18 - £66.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.90 - £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 50,382 30,069 35,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.09% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,936 18,968 22,276
10th Percentile £325 £280 £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 £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,746 1,571 1,738
10th Percentile £14.58 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.04 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.59
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.83% +12.32%

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 12 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 12 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 16 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 12 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 -146 172 £600 +9.09% 73
London -95 133 £645 -6.18% 46
Work from Home -64 71 £550 -21.43% 30
UK excluding London -99 41 £493 +10.18% 32
North of England -67 15 £500 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire -39 10 £725 +45.00%
South East -61 8 £475 -8.12% 16
East of England -15 7 £525 +5.00% 3
Midlands -45 7 £500 +10.50% 7
East Midlands -14 5 £550 +21.55% 2
North West -47 4 £475 +26.67% 5
West Midlands - 2 £425 - 5
Scotland - 2 £368 -
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -
South West -48 1 £450 +18.03%
North East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 202 (100.00%) C#
2 142 (70.30%) .NET
3 86 (42.57%) SQL
4 80 (39.60%) SQL Server
5 61 (30.20%) Azure
6 56 (27.72%) Agile
7 54 (26.73%) CI/CD
8 52 (25.74%) DevOps
9 49 (24.26%) .NET Framework
10 44 (21.78%) Oracle
11 40 (19.80%) Software Engineering
12 34 (16.83%) RESTful
13 33 (16.34%) .NET Core
14 32 (15.84%) Microservices
14 32 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (14.85%) Degree
15 30 (14.85%) Microsoft
16 29 (14.36%) JavaScript
17 28 (13.86%) QA
17 28 (13.86%) Test Automation
17 28 (13.86%) T-SQL
17 28 (13.86%) Windows
18 27 (13.37%) REST
19 26 (12.87%) PL/SQL
20 25 (12.38%) Citrix
21 24 (11.88%) ASP.NET
21 24 (11.88%) WinForms
21 24 (11.88%) WPF
22 22 (10.89%) IIS
23 21 (10.40%) AWS

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 (10.89%) IIS
2 5 (2.48%) Confluence
3 4 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.49%) Findur
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Endur
3 1 (0.50%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.20%) Azure
2 21 (10.40%) AWS
3 20 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.43%) GitHub
5 12 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (2.48%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.99%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Stack
8 2 (0.99%) Serverless
9 1 (0.50%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.50%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.50%) Contentful
9 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.50%) SAP Fieldglass
9 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.44%) Internet
2 2 (0.99%) Intranet
3 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (39.60%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.40%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.92%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.46%) Redis
6 7 (3.47%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.48%) ClickHouse
8 5 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.98%) Power BI
10 2 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.99%) Db2
10 2 (0.99%) MS Access
10 2 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.50%) Metadata
11 1 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (8.91%) Git
2 12 (5.94%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.95%) JIRA
4 9 (4.46%) SpecFlow
5 8 (3.96%) TeamCity
6 7 (3.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (2.97%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.48%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.98%) GitLab
10 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.99%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.99%) Postman
12 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.50%) ClearCase
12 1 (0.50%) Crucible
12 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.50%) Fiddler
12 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 70 (34.65%) Finance
2 57 (28.22%) Social Skills
3 53 (26.24%) Front Office
4 43 (21.29%) Banking
5 29 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (10.89%) Investment Banking
7 12 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.45%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.99%) Legal
9 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.99%) Retail
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) French Language
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (70.30%) .NET
2 49 (24.26%) .NET Framework
3 34 (16.83%) RESTful
4 33 (16.34%) .NET Core
5 27 (13.37%) REST
6 24 (11.88%) ASP.NET
6 24 (11.88%) WinForms
6 24 (11.88%) WPF
7 21 (10.40%) React
8 19 (9.41%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.42%) Web Services
10 13 (6.44%) XML
11 12 (5.94%) Kafka
12 10 (4.95%) Entity Framework
12 10 (4.95%) Swagger
13 9 (4.46%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (3.96%) OpenAPI
15 7 (3.47%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (3.47%) ASP.NET Web API
15 7 (3.47%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.37%) Derivative
2 25 (12.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (7.92%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.46%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.47%) Equities
7 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.98%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.49%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.99%) FMCG
10 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.99%) Replication
10 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.86%) Windows
2 9 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.98%) Linux
4 2 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.72%) Agile
2 54 (26.73%) CI/CD
3 52 (25.74%) DevOps
4 40 (19.80%) Software Engineering
5 32 (15.84%) Microservices
5 32 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (13.86%) Test Automation
7 21 (10.40%) Computer Science
7 21 (10.40%) Data Analysis
8 20 (9.90%) AI
8 20 (9.90%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (9.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (9.41%) API Development
9 19 (9.41%) Unit Testing
10 18 (8.91%) Scrum
11 14 (6.93%) Event-Driven
11 14 (6.93%) Mathematics
12 13 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (5.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 202 (100.00%) C#
2 86 (42.57%) SQL
3 29 (14.36%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.86%) T-SQL
5 26 (12.87%) PL/SQL
6 21 (10.40%) Python
7 18 (8.91%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.43%) VBA
9 12 (5.94%) VB
10 11 (5.45%) C++
11 8 (3.96%) Java
12 3 (1.49%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.99%) VBScript
13 2 (0.99%) XAML
13 2 (0.99%) XPath
14 1 (0.50%) Bash
14 1 (0.50%) Go
14 1 (0.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 30 (14.85%) Degree
2 19 (9.41%) SC Cleared
2 19 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.97%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.97%) PhD
6 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.86%) QA
2 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.50%) GMP
2 1 (0.50%) GxP
System Software
1 15 (7.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Grafana
2 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (21.78%) Oracle
2 30 (14.85%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.38%) Citrix
4 5 (2.48%) IBM
5 4 (1.98%) Murex
6 2 (0.99%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.99%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.50%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.50%) Sage
7 1 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.50%) Trayport
7 1 (0.50%) Workday