C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £445, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 297 259
Rank change year-on-year -93 -38 -100
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 204 247 422
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.79% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.86% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 184 353
10th Percentile £330 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £398 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £593 £650
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% -8.85% -
75th Percentile £678 £700 £750
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £26.25 - £60.50
25th Percentile £31.19 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile £69.63 - £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 35,158 28,873 41,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.93% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,167 17,619 27,765
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £495
% change year-on-year -0.84% -3.23% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,109 850 2,268
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.86
Median hourly rate £29.61 £33.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -8.21% +2.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £62.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.77 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -12.99% +15.54%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -114 180 £445 -25.83% 62
London -61 149 £415 -36.15% 27
Work from Home -42 57 £463 -22.59% 39
UK excluding London -72 35 £450 -5.26% 44
Midlands -44 9 £600 +4.35% 11
North West -28 8 £350 -21.13% 7
North of England -53 8 £350 -21.13% 10
South East -30 7 £475 -13.64% 17
East Midlands - 7 £600 - 5
Northern Ireland +1 6 - - 1
South West -21 2 - - 3
East of England -24 2 - - 1
West Midlands -39 2 £350 -39.13% 6
Scotland +4 1 £455 -9.00%

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

For the 6 months to 2 February 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.

1 204 (100.00%) C#
2 148 (72.55%) .NET
3 94 (46.08%) SQL
4 82 (40.20%) SQL Server
5 67 (32.84%) .NET Framework
6 61 (29.90%) Azure
7 51 (25.00%) Microservices
8 50 (24.51%) Oracle
9 49 (24.02%) CI/CD
10 47 (23.04%) Agile
11 44 (21.57%) DevOps
12 43 (21.08%) PL/SQL
13 41 (20.10%) Windows
14 33 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (15.69%) T-SQL
16 31 (15.20%) Oracle Database
17 30 (14.71%) QA
18 29 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
18 29 (14.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 29 (14.22%) REST
19 26 (12.75%) Docker
19 26 (12.75%) Python
20 25 (12.25%) Citrix
20 25 (12.25%) Data Analysis
20 25 (12.25%) Degree
20 25 (12.25%) GitHub
20 25 (12.25%) Unit Testing
21 24 (11.76%) .NET Core
21 24 (11.76%) RESTful
22 23 (11.27%) AngularJS

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 15 (7.35%) IIS
2 8 (3.92%) Confluence
3 5 (2.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.45%) CMS
3 5 (2.45%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.45%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.45%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.49%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.90%) Azure
2 29 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.25%) GitHub
4 23 (11.27%) AWS
5 19 (9.31%) Serverless
6 15 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (6.37%) Azure Functions
7 13 (6.37%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (5.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (5.39%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (4.90%) Azure AKS
9 10 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.92%) Azure API Management
10 8 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.94%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.45%) Collibra
12 5 (2.45%) Contentful
12 5 (2.45%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.90%) Internet
2 2 (0.98%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (40.20%) SQL Server
2 31 (15.20%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.92%) Redis
7 6 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.45%) Metadata
8 5 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.47%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.49%) DataStage
10 1 (0.49%) MySQL
10 1 (0.49%) Power BI
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.49%) Sisense
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.84%) Visual Studio
2 15 (7.35%) Git
3 12 (5.88%) SpecFlow
4 10 (4.90%) JIRA
5 7 (3.43%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.96%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.98%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.49%) Crucible
9 1 (0.49%) NUnit
9 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 64 (31.37%) Finance
2 56 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 41 (20.10%) Banking
4 21 (10.29%) Investment Banking
5 19 (9.31%) Front Office
6 9 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.41%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.47%) Back Office
8 3 (1.47%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.47%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.98%) Law
9 2 (0.98%) Military
9 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (72.55%) .NET
2 67 (32.84%) .NET Framework
3 29 (14.22%) REST
4 24 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 24 (11.76%) RESTful
5 23 (11.27%) AngularJS
5 23 (11.27%) Entity Framework
6 22 (10.78%) WPF
7 14 (6.86%) ASP.NET
7 14 (6.86%) NHibernate
7 14 (6.86%) React
7 14 (6.86%) WinForms
8 11 (5.39%) HTML
8 11 (5.39%) OAuth
8 11 (5.39%) OAuth2
8 11 (5.39%) Playwright
9 10 (4.90%) CSS
10 9 (4.41%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (4.41%) JWT
11 8 (3.92%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.86%) Derivative
3 13 (6.37%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.47%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.47%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.98%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.98%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.10%) Windows
2 15 (7.35%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.96%) Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.00%) Microservices
2 49 (24.02%) CI/CD
3 47 (23.04%) Agile
4 44 (21.57%) DevOps
5 33 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (14.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (12.25%) Data Analysis
7 25 (12.25%) Unit Testing
8 22 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (10.29%) Software Engineering
10 20 (9.80%) Clean Code
11 19 (9.31%) AI
12 17 (8.33%) Change Management
13 16 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (7.84%) Containerisation
13 16 (7.84%) Scrum
14 15 (7.35%) API Development
15 14 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (6.86%) SOLID
16 13 (6.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 204 (100.00%) C#
2 94 (46.08%) SQL
3 43 (21.08%) PL/SQL
4 32 (15.69%) T-SQL
5 26 (12.75%) Python
6 18 (8.82%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.84%) VBA
8 15 (7.35%) VB
9 14 (6.86%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.92%) Bicep
11 5 (2.45%) Java
11 5 (2.45%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.47%) C++
12 3 (1.47%) PHP
13 2 (0.98%) Ada
13 2 (0.98%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.98%) C
13 2 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.98%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (12.25%) Degree
2 7 (3.43%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.43%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.49%) CISSP
5 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.71%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.49%) GDPR
2 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 26 (12.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (24.51%) Oracle
2 25 (12.25%) Citrix
3 22 (10.78%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.45%) Adobe
4 5 (2.45%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.98%) Concur
5 2 (0.98%) Confluent
5 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.98%) Trayport
6 1 (0.49%) Adyen
6 1 (0.49%) Apple
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) Google
6 1 (0.49%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.49%) Workday