C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 351 292
Rank change year-on-year -119 -59 -43
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 209 218 315
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.66% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.72% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 180 246
10th Percentile £404 £384 £363
25th Percentile £461 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £728 £763 £700
90th Percentile £788 £839 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £461 £460
% change year-on-year +8.46% +0.22% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £48.62 - -
25th Percentile £51.35 - -
Median hourly rate £55.90 - £65.00
75th Percentile £60.45 - -
90th Percentile £63.18 - £66.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.90 - £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 49,691 30,076 35,928
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.26% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,638 19,002 22,670
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,580 1,568 1,839
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.41 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.04
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.89% +13.95%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -131 179 £625 +13.64% 42
London -87 144 £645 -6.52% 18
Work from Home -49 77 £563 -25.00% 18
UK excluding London -84 38 £500 +8.46% 30
North of England -65 13 £613 +40.00% 3
Yorkshire -39 10 £725 +45.00%
South East -69 8 £475 -10.97% 19
East of England -11 7 £525 +6.06% 6
East Midlands -10 5 £550 +21.55% 1
Midlands -46 5 £550 +21.55% 2
North West -49 3 £388 +1.31% 2
Northern Ireland +2 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £368 -
South West -49 1 £450 +21.62%

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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.

1 209 (100.00%) C#
2 147 (70.33%) .NET
3 90 (43.06%) SQL
4 86 (41.15%) SQL Server
5 66 (31.58%) Azure
6 58 (27.75%) Agile
7 54 (25.84%) CI/CD
8 53 (25.36%) DevOps
9 51 (24.40%) .NET Framework
10 46 (22.01%) Oracle
11 37 (17.70%) Software Engineering
12 36 (17.22%) Microservices
13 34 (16.27%) RESTful
14 32 (15.31%) Microsoft
15 31 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (14.35%) .NET Core
16 30 (14.35%) JavaScript
17 29 (13.88%) Degree
17 29 (13.88%) QA
17 29 (13.88%) T-SQL
18 28 (13.40%) REST
18 28 (13.40%) Windows
19 27 (12.92%) PL/SQL
20 26 (12.44%) Citrix
21 25 (11.96%) ASP.NET
21 25 (11.96%) Test Automation
22 23 (11.00%) AngularJS
22 23 (11.00%) React
22 23 (11.00%) WinForms
22 23 (11.00%) WPF

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 21 (10.05%) IIS
2 6 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.91%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.44%) Findur
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.58%) Azure
2 22 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (10.05%) AWS
4 15 (7.18%) GitHub
5 11 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.91%) Serverless
10 3 (1.44%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.96%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.96%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.74%) Internet
2 2 (0.96%) Intranet
3 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (41.15%) SQL Server
2 22 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.66%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.74%) Redis
5 10 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.35%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.91%) ClickHouse
9 4 (1.91%) Power BI
10 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.96%) Db2
10 2 (0.96%) MS Access
10 2 (0.96%) MySQL
10 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (9.09%) Git
2 12 (5.74%) TeamCity
3 11 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 10 (4.78%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (4.31%) JIRA
6 8 (3.83%) SpecFlow
7 6 (2.87%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.39%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.91%) GitLab
10 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.96%) NUnit
11 2 (0.96%) Postman
12 1 (0.48%) Crucible
12 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.48%) MSTest
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 77 (36.84%) Finance
2 59 (28.23%) Social Skills
3 56 (26.79%) Front Office
4 46 (22.01%) Banking
5 30 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (11.96%) Investment Banking
7 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.26%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.96%) Legal
9 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.96%) Retail
9 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.48%) Back Office
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (70.33%) .NET
2 51 (24.40%) .NET Framework
3 34 (16.27%) RESTful
4 30 (14.35%) .NET Core
5 28 (13.40%) REST
6 25 (11.96%) ASP.NET
7 23 (11.00%) AngularJS
7 23 (11.00%) React
7 23 (11.00%) WinForms
7 23 (11.00%) WPF
8 17 (8.13%) Web Services
9 13 (6.22%) XML
10 11 (5.26%) Entity Framework
11 10 (4.78%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (4.78%) Kafka
12 8 (3.83%) Blazor
12 8 (3.83%) HTML
12 8 (3.83%) Swagger
13 7 (3.35%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (3.35%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.35%) Derivative
2 24 (11.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (6.70%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.83%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.35%) Equities
7 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.91%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.91%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.96%) FMCG
10 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.96%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.40%) Windows
2 11 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.44%) Linux
4 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (27.75%) Agile
2 54 (25.84%) CI/CD
3 53 (25.36%) DevOps
4 37 (17.70%) Software Engineering
5 36 (17.22%) Microservices
6 31 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (11.96%) Test Automation
8 22 (10.53%) Data Analysis
8 22 (10.53%) Unit Testing
9 21 (10.05%) AI
9 21 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (9.57%) Computer Science
10 20 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (8.61%) Scrum
12 16 (7.66%) API Development
13 15 (7.18%) Mathematics
14 14 (6.70%) Event-Driven
14 14 (6.70%) Multithreading
14 14 (6.70%) OO
15 13 (6.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 209 (100.00%) C#
2 90 (43.06%) SQL
3 30 (14.35%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.88%) T-SQL
5 27 (12.92%) PL/SQL
6 19 (9.09%) Python
6 19 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.70%) VBA
8 11 (5.26%) C++
8 11 (5.26%) VB
9 10 (4.78%) Java
10 5 (2.39%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.44%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.96%) VBScript
12 2 (0.96%) XAML
12 2 (0.96%) XPath
13 1 (0.48%) Bash
13 1 (0.48%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (13.88%) Degree
2 21 (10.05%) SC Cleared
2 21 (10.05%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.87%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.87%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.87%) PhD
5 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.88%) QA
2 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.48%) GMP
2 1 (0.48%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (7.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Ansible
2 1 (0.48%) Grafana
2 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (22.01%) Oracle
2 32 (15.31%) Microsoft
3 26 (12.44%) Citrix
4 5 (2.39%) IBM
5 4 (1.91%) Murex
6 2 (0.96%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.96%) Foundry
6 2 (0.96%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.48%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.48%) Trayport
7 1 (0.48%) Workday