C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 334 273
Rank change year-on-year -85 -61 -46
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 253 233 360
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.72% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.78% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 197 295
10th Percentile £385 £382 £375
25th Percentile £415 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £713 £788 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £388 £475
% change year-on-year +22.58% -18.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £71.88
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 48,674 29,733 40,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.88% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,515 18,978 25,840
10th Percentile £325 £288 £288
25th Percentile £418 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,263 1,368 2,770
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £16.79
Median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -14.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.40 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +0.50%

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 10 July 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 10 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 14 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 10 July 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 -104 221 £600 -10.45% 30
London -69 176 £613 -12.50% 13
Work from Home -58 85 £600 -22.58% 13
UK excluding London -104 49 £475 +22.58% 23
North of England -73 17 £475 +18.75% 11
Yorkshire -42 10 £725 +45.00% 5
South East -55 10 £475 - 8
East of England -27 7 - - 4
North West -40 7 £360 -7.63% 2
East Midlands -10 5 £550 +42.86%
Midlands -51 5 £550 +42.86% 1
Scotland - 4 £368 -
Northern Ireland +4 3 - -
South West -40 3 £450 +21.62%

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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#
2 179 (70.75%) .NET
3 114 (45.06%) SQL
4 99 (39.13%) SQL Server
5 88 (34.78%) Azure
6 71 (28.06%) CI/CD
7 69 (27.27%) .NET Framework
7 69 (27.27%) Agile
8 64 (25.30%) DevOps
9 63 (24.90%) Oracle
10 40 (15.81%) Microservices
11 37 (14.62%) PL/SQL
11 37 (14.62%) QA
11 37 (14.62%) Software Engineering
12 36 (14.23%) .NET Core
12 36 (14.23%) JavaScript
13 35 (13.83%) Microsoft
13 35 (13.83%) T-SQL
13 35 (13.83%) Windows
14 34 (13.44%) Oracle Database
15 32 (12.65%) AngularJS
15 32 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (12.65%) Python
16 31 (12.25%) Data Analysis
16 31 (12.25%) RESTful
16 31 (12.25%) Unit Testing
17 30 (11.86%) Citrix
17 30 (11.86%) Degree
17 30 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (11.86%) Security Cleared

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 (8.70%) IIS
2 6 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.58%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) 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 88 (34.78%) Azure
2 32 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (9.09%) AWS
4 20 (7.91%) GitHub
5 13 (5.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.56%) Serverless
8 6 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (2.37%) Azure Functions
8 6 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.58%) Collibra
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.19%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.79%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.79%) Azure API Management
12 2 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.14%) Internet
2 2 (0.79%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.79%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.79%) Intranet
2 2 (0.79%) RTCP
2 2 (0.79%) RTP
2 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.79%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 34 (13.44%) Oracle Database
3 23 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.74%) Redis
5 10 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.58%) Metadata
8 4 (1.58%) Power BI
8 4 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.19%) MySQL
9 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.79%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.79%) MS Access
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (9.49%) Git
2 15 (5.93%) TeamCity
3 14 (5.53%) JIRA
3 14 (5.53%) Visual Studio
4 11 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (3.56%) SpecFlow
6 6 (2.37%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.58%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.19%) GitLab
8 3 (1.19%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.19%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.19%) NUnit
8 3 (1.19%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.79%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.79%) MSTest
9 2 (0.79%) Selenium
10 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 87 (34.39%) Finance
2 57 (22.53%) Social Skills
3 56 (22.13%) Banking
4 51 (20.16%) Front Office
5 24 (9.49%) Investment Banking
6 23 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.53%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.19%) Back Office
9 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.19%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.79%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Police
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (70.75%) .NET
2 69 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 36 (14.23%) .NET Core
4 32 (12.65%) AngularJS
5 31 (12.25%) RESTful
6 28 (11.07%) React
6 28 (11.07%) WPF
7 27 (10.67%) ASP.NET
8 23 (9.09%) WinForms
9 21 (8.30%) REST
10 20 (7.91%) HTML
11 17 (6.72%) Entity Framework
12 14 (5.53%) Web Services
12 14 (5.53%) XML
13 10 (3.95%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (3.56%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (3.56%) Blazor
14 9 (3.56%) CSS
15 8 (3.16%) ASP.NET MVC
16 7 (2.77%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.25%) Derivative
2 23 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (5.93%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.77%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.37%) Equities
7 6 (2.37%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
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%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.83%) Windows
2 15 (5.93%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.58%) Linux
4 3 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (28.06%) CI/CD
2 69 (27.27%) Agile
3 64 (25.30%) DevOps
4 40 (15.81%) Microservices
5 37 (14.62%) Software Engineering
6 31 (12.25%) Data Analysis
6 31 (12.25%) Unit Testing
7 30 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (9.49%) Test Automation
11 23 (9.09%) AI
12 21 (8.30%) Scrum
13 19 (7.51%) Computer Science
14 18 (7.11%) OOP
15 16 (6.32%) Multithreading
15 16 (6.32%) Refactoring
16 15 (5.93%) OO
16 15 (5.93%) Performance Tuning
17 14 (5.53%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 253 (100.00%) C#
2 114 (45.06%) SQL
3 37 (14.62%) PL/SQL
4 36 (14.23%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.83%) T-SQL
6 32 (12.65%) Python
7 25 (9.88%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.32%) VBA
9 13 (5.14%) VB
10 10 (3.95%) C++
11 7 (2.77%) Java
11 7 (2.77%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.19%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.79%) Bicep
13 2 (0.79%) VB6
13 2 (0.79%) VBScript
13 2 (0.79%) XAML
13 2 (0.79%) XPath
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (11.86%) Degree
1 30 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.77%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.37%) PhD
6 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
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%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.62%) QA
2 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.40%) GMP
3 1 (0.40%) GxP
3 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.58%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (24.90%) Oracle
2 35 (13.83%) Microsoft
3 30 (11.86%) Citrix
4 3 (1.19%) Murex
4 3 (1.19%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.79%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (0.79%) Foundry
5 2 (0.79%) IBM
6 1 (0.40%) Google
6 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.40%) SAP
6 1 (0.40%) Workday