C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 291 250
Rank change year-on-year -98 -41 -63
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 236 253 419
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.92% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 216 350
10th Percentile £327 £385 £385
25th Percentile £404 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £811 £738
90th Percentile £788 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £26.25 - £58.00
25th Percentile £41.06 - £60.63
Median hourly rate £55.90 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £71.88
90th Percentile £67.78 - £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 42,836 27,359 40,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.64% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,486 17,911 26,489
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 1,013 2,627
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.44 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £28.88 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.38% -22.34% -12.52%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -130 205 £490 -27.41% 49
London -76 168 £550 -21.43% 20
Work from Home -51 76 £600 -25.00% 35
UK excluding London -101 43 £450 +12.50% 32
North of England -58 15 £431 +7.81% 7
North West -30 12 £385 -3.69% 6
South East -54 9 £525 -1.59% 15
Northern Ireland +3 5 - -
Midlands - 5 £600 - 3
Scotland +5 3 £388 -22.50%
East of England -25 3 - - 6
South West -36 3 £450 +21.62% 1
Yorkshire -51 3 £500 +90.48% 1
East Midlands - 3 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 236 (100.00%) C#
2 170 (72.03%) .NET
3 115 (48.73%) SQL
4 90 (38.14%) SQL Server
5 86 (36.44%) Azure
6 70 (29.66%) CI/CD
7 69 (29.24%) .NET Framework
8 59 (25.00%) Agile
9 57 (24.15%) Oracle
10 54 (22.88%) DevOps
11 45 (19.07%) PL/SQL
12 44 (18.64%) Microservices
13 41 (17.37%) QA
14 40 (16.95%) Windows
15 39 (16.53%) T-SQL
16 37 (15.68%) Oracle Database
17 36 (15.25%) Microsoft
18 34 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
18 34 (14.41%) Data Analysis
18 34 (14.41%) JavaScript
19 33 (13.98%) Citrix
20 31 (13.14%) AngularJS
21 30 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
21 30 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
21 30 (12.71%) Unit Testing
22 29 (12.29%) Docker
22 29 (12.29%) Python
23 28 (11.86%) .NET Core
23 28 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
23 28 (11.86%) REST

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 19 (8.05%) IIS
2 6 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.69%) CMS
5 3 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.27%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.27%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (1.27%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Endur
1 1 (0.42%) Findur
1 1 (0.42%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 86 (36.44%) Azure
2 34 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.17%) GitHub
4 22 (9.32%) AWS
5 17 (7.20%) Serverless
6 16 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.51%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.39%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.39%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.54%) Collibra
12 6 (2.54%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.12%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.08%) Internet
2 3 (1.27%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.85%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.85%) HTTP
3 2 (0.85%) RTCP
3 2 (0.85%) RTP
3 2 (0.85%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (38.14%) SQL Server
2 37 (15.68%) Oracle Database
3 15 (6.36%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.81%) Redis
6 8 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.54%) Metadata
8 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.85%) MySQL
10 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.42%) DataStage
11 1 (0.42%) Power BI
11 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (8.47%) Git
2 16 (6.78%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.08%) TeamCity
4 8 (3.39%) JIRA
4 8 (3.39%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.12%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.69%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.69%) NUnit
7 3 (1.27%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.27%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.85%) MSTest
8 2 (0.85%) Selenium
9 1 (0.42%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.42%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.42%) Rational Robot
9 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 76 (32.20%) Finance
2 59 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 49 (20.76%) Banking
4 27 (11.44%) Front Office
5 23 (9.75%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Back Office
10 3 (1.27%) Military
10 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Police
11 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (72.03%) .NET
2 69 (29.24%) .NET Framework
3 31 (13.14%) AngularJS
4 28 (11.86%) .NET Core
4 28 (11.86%) REST
5 25 (10.59%) RESTful
6 23 (9.75%) ASP.NET
6 23 (9.75%) HTML
6 23 (9.75%) WPF
7 20 (8.47%) Entity Framework
7 20 (8.47%) React
8 18 (7.63%) WinForms
9 13 (5.51%) CSS
9 13 (5.51%) OAuth
10 11 (4.66%) ASP.NET MVC
10 11 (4.66%) OAuth2
11 10 (4.24%) JWT
12 9 (3.81%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (2.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.66%) Derivative
4 9 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.12%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.69%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.27%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.27%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.95%) Windows
2 19 (8.05%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.27%) Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.66%) CI/CD
2 59 (25.00%) Agile
3 54 (22.88%) DevOps
4 44 (18.64%) Microservices
5 34 (14.41%) Data Analysis
6 30 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 30 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (12.71%) Unit Testing
7 28 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (11.44%) Software Engineering
9 23 (9.75%) OOP
10 22 (9.32%) AI
11 20 (8.47%) Change Management
11 20 (8.47%) SOLID
12 18 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (7.63%) Containerisation
12 18 (7.63%) Test Automation
13 17 (7.20%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (6.78%) Clean Code
15 15 (6.36%) OO
Programming Languages
1 236 (100.00%) C#
2 115 (48.73%) SQL
3 45 (19.07%) PL/SQL
4 39 (16.53%) T-SQL
5 34 (14.41%) JavaScript
6 29 (12.29%) Python
7 23 (9.75%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.93%) VB
9 13 (5.51%) VBA
10 8 (3.39%) Bicep
10 8 (3.39%) Java
10 8 (3.39%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.69%) C++
12 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.85%) VB6
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) F#
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (9.75%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.32%) Degree
2 22 (9.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.42%) CISSP
6 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.37%) QA
2 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (12.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (9.32%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.81%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (24.15%) Oracle
2 36 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 33 (13.98%) Citrix
4 4 (1.69%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.27%) Adobe
6 2 (0.85%) Concur
6 2 (0.85%) Foundry
6 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.42%) Databricks
7 1 (0.42%) Google
7 1 (0.42%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.42%) SAP
7 1 (0.42%) Workday