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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 360 292
Rank change year-on-year -120 -68 -45
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 207 204 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.62% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.68% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 158 223
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £456 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% -5.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £706 £750 £719
90th Percentile £738 £800 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +1.05% +2.70% -2.63%
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 50,623 30,078 35,169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.98% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,851 19,013 21,316
10th Percentile £325 £276 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,956 1,609 1,552
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.30 £20.94
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -2.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.31 £74.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.87 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.97% -41.69% -2.05%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -113 175 £586 +11.67% 110
London -93 135 £600 -7.69% 60
Work from Home -61 75 £540 +6.93% 55
UK excluding London -91 41 £480 +1.05% 48
North of England -68 13 £618 +30.00% 14
East of England -15 12 £525 +5.00% 9
Midlands -46 8 £488 -5.34% 7
Yorkshire -38 7 £725 +45.00%
East Midlands -15 5 £550 +6.80%
North West -46 5 £480 +28.00% 10
South East -65 5 £475 -4.23% 15
West Midlands - 3 £475 - 7
Scotland - 2 £368 - 1
South West -39 1 £625 +48.90% 2
North East - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 207 (100.00%) C#
2 146 (70.53%) .NET
3 83 (40.10%) SQL
4 77 (37.20%) SQL Server
5 63 (30.43%) Azure
6 59 (28.50%) Agile
7 57 (27.54%) CI/CD
8 55 (26.57%) DevOps
9 49 (23.67%) .NET Framework
10 47 (22.71%) Oracle
11 43 (20.77%) Software Engineering
12 34 (16.43%) Microservices
12 34 (16.43%) Microsoft
12 34 (16.43%) RESTful
12 34 (16.43%) Windows
13 33 (15.94%) .NET Core
14 31 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (14.98%) REST
15 30 (14.49%) Degree
15 30 (14.49%) JavaScript
16 29 (14.01%) QA
16 29 (14.01%) WPF
17 28 (13.53%) Test Automation
18 27 (13.04%) T-SQL
18 27 (13.04%) WinForms
19 26 (12.56%) PL/SQL
20 25 (12.08%) Citrix
21 23 (11.11%) ASP.NET
21 23 (11.11%) AWS
21 23 (11.11%) 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 22 (10.63%) IIS
2 6 (2.90%) Confluence
3 2 (0.97%) 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 13 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.97%) Findur
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.43%) Azure
2 23 (11.11%) AWS
3 22 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.28%) GitHub
5 11 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.93%) SaaS
9 4 (1.93%) Serverless
10 3 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.28%) Internet
2 3 (1.45%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.97%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (37.20%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.66%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.73%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.86%) Redis
7 7 (3.38%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.42%) ClickHouse
10 4 (1.93%) Power BI
10 4 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.45%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.97%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.97%) Db2
12 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.97%) MS Access
12 2 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.14%) Git
2 17 (8.21%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.80%) JIRA
4 8 (3.86%) SpecFlow
4 8 (3.86%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.90%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.42%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.93%) GitLab
8 3 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.45%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.45%) Postman
8 3 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.97%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.97%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.48%) Crucible
10 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 73 (35.27%) Finance
2 57 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 51 (24.64%) Front Office
4 41 (19.81%) Banking
5 29 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (10.63%) Investment Banking
7 14 (6.76%) Financial Institution
8 12 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.45%) Military
9 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Legal
10 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.97%) Retail
10 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) French Language
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (70.53%) .NET
2 49 (23.67%) .NET Framework
3 34 (16.43%) RESTful
4 33 (15.94%) .NET Core
5 31 (14.98%) REST
6 29 (14.01%) WPF
7 27 (13.04%) WinForms
8 23 (11.11%) ASP.NET
9 22 (10.63%) React
10 21 (10.14%) Web Services
11 19 (9.18%) AngularJS
12 15 (7.25%) Kafka
13 14 (6.76%) XML
14 11 (5.31%) Entity Framework
14 11 (5.31%) Swagger
15 8 (3.86%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (3.86%) Blazor
15 8 (3.86%) OpenAPI
16 7 (3.38%) ASP.NET Web API
16 7 (3.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.04%) Derivative
2 24 (11.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (7.73%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.35%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.38%) Equities
8 5 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.93%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.93%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.97%) FMCG
11 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.97%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.97%) Replication
11 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.43%) Windows
2 9 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.38%) Linux
4 2 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.50%) Agile
2 57 (27.54%) CI/CD
3 55 (26.57%) DevOps
4 43 (20.77%) Software Engineering
5 34 (16.43%) Microservices
6 31 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (13.53%) Test Automation
8 23 (11.11%) Unit Testing
9 22 (10.63%) Data Analysis
10 21 (10.14%) Computer Science
11 20 (9.66%) AI
11 20 (9.66%) API Development
11 20 (9.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (9.66%) Event-Driven
11 20 (9.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (9.66%) Scrum
12 18 (8.70%) SDLC
13 17 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (7.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 207 (100.00%) C#
2 83 (40.10%) SQL
3 30 (14.49%) JavaScript
4 27 (13.04%) T-SQL
5 26 (12.56%) PL/SQL
6 21 (10.14%) Python
7 17 (8.21%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.25%) VBA
9 13 (6.28%) C++
10 12 (5.80%) VB
11 8 (3.86%) Java
12 4 (1.93%) XAML
13 3 (1.45%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.97%) Go
14 2 (0.97%) VBScript
14 2 (0.97%) XPath
15 1 (0.48%) Bash
15 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.48%) VB6
Qualifications
1 30 (14.49%) Degree
2 16 (7.73%) SC Cleared
2 16 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.86%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.86%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.86%) PhD
5 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.01%) QA
2 2 (0.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.48%) GMP
3 1 (0.48%) GxP
3 1 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 13 (6.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.45%) Grafana
2 3 (1.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.48%) Ansible
3 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (22.71%) Oracle
2 34 (16.43%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.08%) Citrix
4 5 (2.42%) IBM
5 4 (1.93%) Murex
6 2 (0.97%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.97%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.48%) Sage
7 1 (0.48%) Solace
7 1 (0.48%) Trayport
7 1 (0.48%) Workday