C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 300 264
Rank change year-on-year -98 -36 -51
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 253 240 375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.81% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.88% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 205 317
10th Percentile £330 £379 £377
25th Percentile £406 £385 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £714 £800 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £801
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £385 £475
% change year-on-year +23.38% -18.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £58.00
25th Percentile £26.25 - £60.63
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% - -

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 46,221 27,241 40,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.30% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,120 17,531 26,073
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,085 1,148 2,936
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.70 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.10% -26.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -37.13% -4.94%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -120 225 £594 -12.04% 34
London -70 181 £600 -14.29% 19
Work from Home -80 78 £600 -25.00% 20
UK excluding London -95 48 £475 +23.38% 18
North of England -54 16 £450 +12.50% 12
South East -56 11 £500 +5.26% 5
North West -33 9 £354 -10.38% 4
Yorkshire -50 7 £725 +45.00% 5
Midlands -51 7 £350 -9.09%
Northern Ireland +2 5 - -
East Midlands -15 5 £550 +42.86%
East of England -25 4 - - 3
South West -29 3 £450 +21.62%
West Midlands - 2 £350 -
Scotland - 2 £373 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 253 (100.00%) C#
2 180 (71.15%) .NET
3 109 (43.08%) SQL
4 91 (35.97%) SQL Server
5 87 (34.39%) Azure
6 65 (25.69%) CI/CD
7 64 (25.30%) .NET Framework
8 63 (24.90%) Agile
9 59 (23.32%) Oracle
10 53 (20.95%) DevOps
11 49 (19.37%) Microservices
12 38 (15.02%) Microsoft
13 37 (14.62%) PL/SQL
13 37 (14.62%) QA
14 34 (13.44%) JavaScript
14 34 (13.44%) Python
15 33 (13.04%) Oracle Database
16 32 (12.65%) Data Analysis
16 32 (12.65%) Software Engineering
16 32 (12.65%) T-SQL
16 32 (12.65%) Windows
17 30 (11.86%) .NET Core
17 30 (11.86%) AngularJS
17 30 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
18 29 (11.46%) Citrix
18 29 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (11.46%) Security Cleared
19 28 (11.07%) Disaster Recovery
19 28 (11.07%) SC Cleared
19 28 (11.07%) Unit Testing

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 (6.72%) IIS
2 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) Confluence
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.19%) Findur
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 87 (34.39%) Azure
2 30 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (8.70%) AWS
4 21 (8.30%) GitHub
5 14 (5.53%) Serverless
6 12 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 11 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (3.16%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.37%) Collibra
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.98%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.98%) Azure API Management
11 5 (1.98%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.98%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.35%) Internet
2 2 (0.79%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.79%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.79%) RTCP
2 2 (0.79%) RTP
2 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.79%) XCAP
3 1 (0.40%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (35.97%) SQL Server
2 33 (13.04%) Oracle Database
3 19 (7.51%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.74%) Redis
5 9 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.37%) Metadata
6 6 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.98%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.58%) Power BI
8 4 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.19%) MySQL
10 2 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.79%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.40%) MS Access
11 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.11%) Git
2 14 (5.53%) TeamCity
3 13 (5.14%) JIRA
4 12 (4.74%) Visual Studio
5 11 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.98%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.19%) GitLab
7 3 (1.19%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.19%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.19%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.19%) NUnit
8 2 (0.79%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.79%) MSTest
8 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.79%) Selenium
8 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.40%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.40%) Rational Robot
General
1 89 (35.18%) Finance
2 58 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 53 (20.95%) Banking
4 45 (17.79%) Front Office
5 22 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 19 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.56%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Back Office
10 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.19%) Retail
11 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
11 2 (0.79%) Military
11 2 (0.79%) Police
11 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (71.15%) .NET
2 64 (25.30%) .NET Framework
3 30 (11.86%) .NET Core
3 30 (11.86%) AngularJS
4 26 (10.28%) React
4 26 (10.28%) REST
4 26 (10.28%) RESTful
5 24 (9.49%) ASP.NET
6 23 (9.09%) WPF
7 19 (7.51%) HTML
8 17 (6.72%) Entity Framework
8 17 (6.72%) WinForms
9 14 (5.53%) XML
10 10 (3.95%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (3.56%) CSS
11 9 (3.56%) OAuth
11 9 (3.56%) Web Services
12 8 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (3.16%) Blazor
13 7 (2.77%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.07%) Derivative
2 22 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (5.93%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.37%) Equities
7 6 (2.37%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.98%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.58%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.58%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.19%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.79%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.79%) FMCG
11 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.65%) Windows
2 16 (6.32%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.19%) Linux
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.69%) CI/CD
2 63 (24.90%) Agile
3 53 (20.95%) DevOps
4 49 (19.37%) Microservices
5 32 (12.65%) Data Analysis
5 32 (12.65%) Software Engineering
6 29 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (11.07%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (11.07%) Unit Testing
8 24 (9.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (8.70%) AI
10 21 (8.30%) Test Automation
11 18 (7.11%) SOLID
12 16 (6.32%) Containerisation
12 16 (6.32%) OOP
13 15 (5.93%) Refactoring
14 14 (5.53%) Change Management
14 14 (5.53%) Computer Science
14 14 (5.53%) Scrum
14 14 (5.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 253 (100.00%) C#
2 109 (43.08%) SQL
3 37 (14.62%) PL/SQL
4 34 (13.44%) JavaScript
4 34 (13.44%) Python
5 32 (12.65%) T-SQL
6 24 (9.49%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.53%) VBA
8 12 (4.74%) VB
9 9 (3.56%) C++
10 7 (2.77%) Java
11 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.98%) Bicep
13 2 (0.79%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.79%) VB6
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.40%) VBScript
14 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.07%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.49%) Degree
4 8 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.19%) PhD
7 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.62%) QA
2 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (9.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (23.32%) Oracle
2 38 (15.02%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.46%) Citrix
4 2 (0.79%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (0.79%) Foundry
4 2 (0.79%) Murex
4 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.79%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.40%) Google
5 1 (0.40%) IBM
5 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.40%) SAP
5 1 (0.40%) Workday