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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 382 292
Rank change year-on-year -88 -90 -39
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 208 182 280
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.55% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.61% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 139 210
10th Percentile £404 £384 £363
25th Percentile £459 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £689 £700 £700
90th Percentile £738 £788 £814
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.81%
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 50,528 29,913 34,877
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 90.84% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,639 18,895 21,041
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,102 1,645 1,439
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.43 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -39.05% -8.30%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £68.15 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.18% -4.49%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -111 176 £581 +13.97% 126
London -80 133 £600 +7.87% 75
Work from Home -44 80 £529 +5.80% 53
UK excluding London -75 44 £480 -4.00% 46
North of England -52 14 £510 +7.37% 14
East of England -13 12 £525 +5.00% 5
Midlands -39 10 £475 -8.21% 9
Yorkshire -31 8 £725 +45.00% 2
East Midlands -12 5 £550 +6.28%
North West -47 5 £480 +28.00% 8
South East -70 5 £475 -2.56% 15
West Midlands - 5 £475 - 9
Scotland - 2 £368 - 1
South West -35 1 £625 +59.24% 2
North East - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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.

1 208 (100.00%) C#
2 147 (70.67%) .NET
3 82 (39.42%) SQL
4 74 (35.58%) SQL Server
5 63 (30.29%) Azure
6 59 (28.37%) Agile
7 56 (26.92%) DevOps
8 54 (25.96%) CI/CD
9 47 (22.60%) .NET Framework
10 45 (21.63%) Oracle
11 42 (20.19%) Software Engineering
12 37 (17.79%) .NET Core
13 34 (16.35%) Microsoft
14 33 (15.87%) REST
14 33 (15.87%) RESTful
15 32 (15.38%) Windows
16 31 (14.90%) Microservices
17 30 (14.42%) Degree
17 30 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (13.46%) WPF
19 27 (12.98%) JavaScript
19 27 (12.98%) QA
19 27 (12.98%) Test Automation
20 26 (12.50%) T-SQL
20 26 (12.50%) WinForms
21 25 (12.02%) React
22 24 (11.54%) PL/SQL
23 23 (11.06%) Citrix
23 23 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
24 22 (10.58%) API Development

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 20 (9.62%) IIS
2 7 (3.37%) Confluence
3 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.96%) Findur
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.29%) Azure
2 22 (10.58%) AWS
3 21 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (5.29%) GitHub
5 9 (4.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.92%) SaaS
9 3 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.44%) Serverless
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.96%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.48%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.48%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.29%) Internet
2 3 (1.44%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.96%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (35.58%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.65%) Oracle Database
3 17 (8.17%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.37%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.37%) Redis
7 6 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.40%) ClickHouse
9 4 (1.92%) Power BI
9 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.44%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.96%) Db2
11 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.96%) MS Access
11 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (9.13%) Git
2 17 (8.17%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.77%) JIRA
4 8 (3.85%) SpecFlow
4 8 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.88%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.40%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.92%) GitLab
8 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.44%) Postman
8 3 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.96%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.48%) ClearCase
10 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.48%) NUnit
10 1 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.48%) Rational Robot
General
1 75 (36.06%) Finance
2 56 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 52 (25.00%) Front Office
4 42 (20.19%) Banking
5 30 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (10.58%) Investment Banking
7 15 (7.21%) Financial Institution
8 13 (6.25%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.44%) Military
9 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Legal
10 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) French Language
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (70.67%) .NET
2 47 (22.60%) .NET Framework
3 37 (17.79%) .NET Core
4 33 (15.87%) REST
4 33 (15.87%) RESTful
5 28 (13.46%) WPF
6 26 (12.50%) WinForms
7 25 (12.02%) React
8 21 (10.10%) Web Services
9 20 (9.62%) ASP.NET
10 17 (8.17%) AngularJS
11 15 (7.21%) Kafka
12 14 (6.73%) XML
13 11 (5.29%) Entity Framework
13 11 (5.29%) Swagger
14 8 (3.85%) Blazor
14 8 (3.85%) OpenAPI
15 7 (3.37%) ASP.NET Core
15 7 (3.37%) ASP.NET Web API
15 7 (3.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.98%) Derivative
2 24 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (7.21%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.85%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.37%) Equities
8 6 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.40%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.92%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.96%) FMCG
12 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.96%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.96%) Replication
12 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.48%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.38%) Windows
2 9 (4.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.37%) Linux
4 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.37%) Agile
2 56 (26.92%) DevOps
3 54 (25.96%) CI/CD
4 42 (20.19%) Software Engineering
5 31 (14.90%) Microservices
6 30 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (12.98%) Test Automation
8 23 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (10.58%) API Development
9 22 (10.58%) Unit Testing
10 21 (10.10%) Data Analysis
10 21 (10.10%) SDLC
11 20 (9.62%) Computer Science
11 20 (9.62%) Event-Driven
11 20 (9.62%) Scrum
12 18 (8.65%) AI
12 18 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (7.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 208 (100.00%) C#
2 82 (39.42%) SQL
3 27 (12.98%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 24 (11.54%) PL/SQL
6 22 (10.58%) Python
7 17 (8.17%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.25%) C++
8 13 (6.25%) VBA
9 10 (4.81%) VB
10 8 (3.85%) Java
11 4 (1.92%) XAML
12 3 (1.44%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.96%) Go
13 2 (0.96%) VBScript
13 2 (0.96%) XPath
14 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.48%) VB6
Qualifications
1 30 (14.42%) Degree
2 15 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.73%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.73%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.85%) PhD
5 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.98%) QA
2 2 (0.96%) GDPR
2 2 (0.96%) ITGC
3 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.48%) GMP
3 1 (0.48%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (5.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.44%) Grafana
2 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (21.63%) Oracle
2 34 (16.35%) Microsoft
3 23 (11.06%) Citrix
4 5 (2.40%) IBM
5 4 (1.92%) Murex
6 2 (0.96%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.96%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.48%) Sage
7 1 (0.48%) Solace
7 1 (0.48%) Trayport