C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £433, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 299 255
Rank change year-on-year -90 -44 -95
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 208 242 422
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.78% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.84% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 186 358
10th Percentile £330 £363 £400
25th Percentile £401 £387 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £650 £725 £750
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £26.25 - £59.75
25th Percentile £31.19 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £69.63 - £73.50
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 36,458 28,796 41,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 92.96% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,924 17,765 27,180
10th Percentile £300 £288 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
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 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -0.52% -2.35% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 834 2,292
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.92 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.45
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -2.23%
75th Percentile £62.44 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £32.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.87% -8.20% -

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -115 181 £445 -28.80% 71
London -71 149 £415 -36.15% 24
Work from Home -34 57 £463 -29.92% 49
UK excluding London -58 37 £450 -5.26% 55
North West -21 10 £358 -19.32% 12
North of England -62 10 £358 -19.32% 18
Midlands -44 9 £600 +4.35% 7
East Midlands - 7 £600 - 2
South East -36 6 £425 -22.73% 23
Northern Ireland -2 5 - - 1
Scotland +10 3 £388 -22.50% 1
South West -20 2 - - 3
East of England -26 2 - - 2
West Midlands -48 2 £350 -39.13% 5

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 208 (100.00%) C#
2 151 (72.60%) .NET
3 96 (46.15%) SQL
4 79 (37.98%) SQL Server
5 72 (34.62%) .NET Framework
6 60 (28.85%) Azure
7 52 (25.00%) Oracle
8 49 (23.56%) Microservices
9 48 (23.08%) Agile
9 48 (23.08%) CI/CD
10 44 (21.15%) PL/SQL
11 42 (20.19%) DevOps
12 41 (19.71%) Windows
13 33 (15.87%) Oracle Database
14 31 (14.90%) QA
14 31 (14.90%) T-SQL
15 30 (14.42%) Full-Stack Development
15 30 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
16 29 (13.94%) REST
17 28 (13.46%) Python
18 27 (12.98%) .NET Core
18 27 (12.98%) Data Analysis
18 27 (12.98%) Docker
18 27 (12.98%) Entity Framework
18 27 (12.98%) Unit Testing
19 26 (12.50%) Citrix
20 25 (12.02%) GitHub
21 24 (11.54%) Degree
22 23 (11.06%) 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 16 (7.69%) IIS
2 8 (3.85%) Confluence
3 5 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.40%) CMS
3 5 (2.40%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.40%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.40%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 60 (28.85%) Azure
2 29 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.02%) GitHub
4 22 (10.58%) AWS
5 19 (9.13%) Serverless
6 14 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 13 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (5.29%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (4.81%) Azure AKS
9 10 (4.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.85%) Azure API Management
10 8 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (3.37%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.88%) Collibra
13 5 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.40%) Contentful
13 5 (2.40%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.29%) Internet
2 2 (0.96%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.96%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) RTCP
2 2 (0.96%) RTP
2 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.96%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (37.98%) SQL Server
2 33 (15.87%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.85%) Redis
6 6 (2.88%) Metadata
6 6 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.92%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.96%) Power BI
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.48%) DataStage
10 1 (0.48%) MySQL
10 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.48%) Sisense
10 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 15 (7.21%) Git
3 13 (6.25%) JIRA
4 12 (5.77%) SpecFlow
5 7 (3.37%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (2.40%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.96%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.96%) NUnit
9 1 (0.48%) Crucible
9 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.48%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 60 (28.85%) Finance
2 54 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 41 (19.71%) Banking
4 20 (9.62%) Investment Banking
5 17 (8.17%) Front Office
6 8 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.37%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.92%) Back Office
8 4 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.96%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Military
10 2 (0.96%) Police
10 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (72.60%) .NET
2 72 (34.62%) .NET Framework
3 29 (13.94%) REST
4 27 (12.98%) .NET Core
4 27 (12.98%) Entity Framework
5 23 (11.06%) AngularJS
5 23 (11.06%) RESTful
5 23 (11.06%) WPF
6 20 (9.62%) ASP.NET
7 17 (8.17%) React
8 16 (7.69%) WinForms
9 14 (6.73%) NHibernate
10 13 (6.25%) HTML
11 12 (5.77%) CSS
12 11 (5.29%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (5.29%) ASP.NET Web API
12 11 (5.29%) OAuth
12 11 (5.29%) OAuth2
12 11 (5.29%) Playwright
13 10 (4.81%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.25%) Derivative
4 10 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.88%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.96%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.96%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.96%) Equities
10 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.96%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.96%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.71%) Windows
2 15 (7.21%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.92%) Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (23.56%) Microservices
2 48 (23.08%) Agile
2 48 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 42 (20.19%) DevOps
4 30 (14.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 30 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (12.98%) Data Analysis
5 27 (12.98%) Unit Testing
6 23 (11.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (11.06%) Software Engineering
7 21 (10.10%) AI
7 21 (10.10%) Clean Code
8 17 (8.17%) Change Management
9 16 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 16 (7.69%) Scrum
10 15 (7.21%) SOLID
11 14 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (6.25%) MVC
12 13 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 208 (100.00%) C#
2 96 (46.15%) SQL
3 44 (21.15%) PL/SQL
4 31 (14.90%) T-SQL
5 28 (13.46%) Python
6 18 (8.65%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.69%) VBA
8 15 (7.21%) VB
9 8 (3.85%) Bicep
10 5 (2.40%) Java
11 4 (1.92%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.44%) C++
12 3 (1.44%) PHP
12 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.96%) Ada
13 2 (0.96%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.96%) C
13 2 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.96%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (11.54%) Degree
2 7 (3.37%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.37%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.48%) CISSP
5 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.90%) QA
2 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) MiFID
3 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (12.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (25.00%) Oracle
2 26 (12.50%) Citrix
3 22 (10.58%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.88%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.40%) Adobe
6 2 (0.96%) Concur
6 2 (0.96%) Confluent
6 2 (0.96%) Google
6 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.96%) Trayport
7 1 (0.48%) Adyen
7 1 (0.48%) Apple
7 1 (0.48%) Databricks
7 1 (0.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Workday