C# Developer Contracts

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 257 193
Rank change year-on-year -34 -64 +33
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 251 408 819
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.94% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.01% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 344 691
10th Percentile £385 £377 £400
25th Percentile £404 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -
75th Percentile £811 £728 £750
90th Percentile £850 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -15.79% - +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £58.00 £42.25
25th Percentile - £60.63 £51.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £64.69
90th Percentile - £73.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C# Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# Developer.

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# Developer.

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 13 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 -26 239 £690 +6.15% 151
London -23 209 £700 +7.69% 34
Work from Home -30 95 £800 +23.08% 109
UK excluding London +43 37 £400 -15.79% 120
South East +39 10 £517 +14.89% 24
North of England +25 10 £400 -17.95% 47
South West +46 8 £370 +9.63% 6
North West +9 6 £400 -20.00% 26
Northern Ireland - 5 £325 - 1
East of England +31 2 £490 +13.29% 17
Yorkshire +15 2 £263 -34.38% 8
North East -1 2 £413 - 13
Scotland - 2 £500 - 1

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 251 (100.00%) C#
2 180 (71.71%) .NET
3 128 (51.00%) Finance
4 98 (39.04%) SQL
5 92 (36.65%) Social Skills
6 79 (31.47%) Agile
7 77 (30.68%) Oracle
8 72 (28.69%) SQL Server
9 70 (27.89%) Azure
10 68 (27.09%) Front Office
11 64 (25.50%) Banking
11 64 (25.50%) .NET Framework
12 57 (22.71%) DevOps
13 52 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
14 48 (19.12%) Windows
15 46 (18.33%) WPF
16 44 (17.53%) ASP.NET
17 43 (17.13%) .NET Core
18 41 (16.33%) OO
19 40 (15.94%) Microsoft Excel
20 39 (15.54%) PL/SQL
21 38 (15.14%) JavaScript
22 37 (14.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 37 (14.74%) AngularJS
23 36 (14.34%) Derivative
24 35 (13.94%) C++
25 34 (13.55%) Kafka
25 34 (13.55%) WCF
26 33 (13.15%) TDD
27 32 (12.75%) Problem-Solving

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.98%) IIS
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) CMS
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 40 (15.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (27.89%) Azure
2 29 (11.55%) AWS
3 15 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.59%) GCP
5 7 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (2.79%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 6 (2.39%) CloudFront
6 6 (2.39%) Route 53
7 3 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.20%) GitHub
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.80%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.80%) Serverless
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) Internet
2 2 (0.80%) Firewall
2 2 (0.80%) HTTP
2 2 (0.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (28.69%) SQL Server
2 31 (12.35%) Oracle Database
3 17 (6.77%) Redis
4 11 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.39%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.99%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.20%) Big Data
10 3 (1.20%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (8.76%) Git
1 22 (8.76%) JIRA
2 11 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.19%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (2.79%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.99%) Ant
7 5 (1.99%) Maven
7 5 (1.99%) Subversion
8 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.80%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.40%) GitLab
10 1 (0.40%) Moq
10 1 (0.40%) NUnit
10 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 128 (51.00%) Finance
2 92 (36.65%) Social Skills
3 68 (27.09%) Front Office
4 64 (25.50%) Banking
5 52 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (11.95%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.98%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.59%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.19%) Electronics
9 8 (3.19%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.19%) Marketing
10 6 (2.39%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.99%) Wholesale Banking
12 4 (1.59%) Back Office
13 3 (1.20%) Billing
13 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Legal
13 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.80%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (71.71%) .NET
2 64 (25.50%) .NET Framework
3 46 (18.33%) WPF
4 44 (17.53%) ASP.NET
5 43 (17.13%) .NET Core
6 37 (14.74%) AngularJS
7 34 (13.55%) Kafka
7 34 (13.55%) WCF
8 26 (10.36%) Web Services
9 24 (9.56%) Reactive Extensions
10 23 (9.16%) CSS
10 23 (9.16%) HTML
11 18 (7.17%) React
12 17 (6.77%) RESTful
13 14 (5.58%) WinForms
14 11 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
15 10 (3.98%) ASP.NET Web API
15 10 (3.98%) Entity Framework
16 9 (3.59%) REST
17 8 (3.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (14.34%) Derivative
3 18 (7.17%) Legacy Applications
4 15 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.38%) Market Risk
5 11 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.19%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.39%) Equities
8 6 (2.39%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.39%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.39%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.99%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.12%) Windows
2 11 (4.38%) Linux
3 5 (1.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (31.47%) Agile
2 57 (22.71%) DevOps
3 41 (16.33%) OO
4 33 (13.15%) TDD
5 32 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (12.35%) Analytics
6 31 (12.35%) Design Patterns
7 30 (11.95%) Software Engineering
8 29 (11.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (11.55%) Microservices
9 25 (9.96%) Computer Science
10 23 (9.16%) CI/CD
11 20 (7.97%) Unit Testing
12 19 (7.57%) Electronic Trading
12 19 (7.57%) Low Latency
12 19 (7.57%) Test Automation
13 18 (7.17%) OOP
14 17 (6.77%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (6.77%) Multithreading
14 17 (6.77%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 251 (100.00%) C#
2 98 (39.04%) SQL
3 39 (15.54%) PL/SQL
4 38 (15.14%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.94%) C++
6 30 (11.95%) VBA
7 29 (11.55%) VB
8 28 (11.16%) Python
9 25 (9.96%) Java
10 24 (9.56%) TypeScript
11 17 (6.77%) VB.NET
12 15 (5.98%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.39%) F#
14 5 (1.99%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.99%) RPG
14 5 (1.99%) RPG IV
15 4 (1.59%) Haskell
16 1 (0.40%) Bicep
16 1 (0.40%) VB6
16 1 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 19 (7.57%) Degree
2 9 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.19%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.79%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.99%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.76%) QA
2 3 (1.20%) EMIR
2 3 (1.20%) MiFID
3 1 (0.40%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (5.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.20%) MIIS
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 77 (30.68%) Oracle
2 29 (11.55%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.38%) Citrix
4 8 (3.19%) Google
4 8 (3.19%) SAP
5 4 (1.59%) Databricks
5 4 (1.59%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.80%) New Relic
7 2 (0.80%) Solace
7 2 (0.80%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.40%) Murex
8 1 (0.40%) Sitecore