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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 288 257
Rank change year-on-year -123 -31 -63
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 240 251 408
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.86% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.93% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 215 344
10th Percentile £330 £385 £377
25th Percentile £404 £404 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £700 £811 £728
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 7 1 3
10th Percentile £26.25 - £58.00
25th Percentile £36.13 - £60.63
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.90 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.00% - -

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 43,571 27,048 40,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.55% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,878 17,685 26,353
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 £489 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.87% -3.55% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,816 1,030 2,658
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.07 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.36% -19.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £38.50
% change year-on-year +58.12% -25.32% -9.41%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -130 208 £490 -28.99% 38
London -74 173 £550 -21.43% 21
Work from Home -53 80 £600 -25.00% 15
UK excluding London -98 40 £450 +12.50% 21
North of England -72 14 £431 +7.81% 11
North West -33 11 £385 -3.69% 6
South East -51 9 £525 +1.55% 6
Northern Ireland +3 5 - - 1
Scotland 0 3 £388 -22.50%
South West -36 3 £450 +21.62% 1
East of England -37 3 - -
Yorkshire -56 3 £500 +90.48% 2
Midlands - 3 £350 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 240 (100.00%) C#
2 173 (72.08%) .NET
3 114 (47.50%) SQL
4 93 (38.75%) SQL Server
5 87 (36.25%) Azure
6 70 (29.17%) .NET Framework
6 70 (29.17%) CI/CD
7 59 (24.58%) Agile
8 58 (24.17%) Oracle
9 56 (23.33%) DevOps
10 46 (19.17%) Microservices
10 46 (19.17%) PL/SQL
11 43 (17.92%) QA
12 41 (17.08%) Windows
13 40 (16.67%) T-SQL
14 38 (15.83%) Oracle Database
15 37 (15.42%) Microsoft
16 35 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (14.58%) Data Analysis
17 34 (14.17%) Citrix
18 32 (13.33%) AngularJS
18 32 (13.33%) JavaScript
18 32 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
19 31 (12.92%) Disaster Recovery
20 30 (12.50%) Python
20 30 (12.50%) Unit Testing
21 29 (12.08%) .NET Core
21 29 (12.08%) REST
22 28 (11.67%) Docker
22 28 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development

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 23 (9.58%) IIS
2 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Endur
1 1 (0.42%) Findur
1 1 (0.42%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 87 (36.25%) Azure
2 35 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (10.83%) GitHub
4 22 (9.17%) AWS
5 17 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (7.08%) Serverless
6 16 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (5.42%) Azure Functions
8 11 (4.58%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.33%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.33%) Azure API Management
10 8 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.92%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.50%) Collibra
13 5 (2.08%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.42%) Internet
2 3 (1.25%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.83%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.83%) HTTP
3 2 (0.83%) RTCP
3 2 (0.83%) RTP
3 2 (0.83%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (38.75%) SQL Server
2 38 (15.83%) Oracle Database
3 16 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.17%) Redis
6 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.50%) Metadata
8 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.83%) MySQL
10 2 (0.83%) Power BI
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.42%) DataStage
11 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.67%) Git
1 16 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 13 (5.42%) TeamCity
3 9 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (3.33%) JIRA
5 5 (2.08%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.67%) NUnit
7 3 (1.25%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.25%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.83%) MSTest
8 2 (0.83%) Selenium
9 1 (0.42%) GitLab
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 81 (33.75%) Finance
2 60 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 53 (22.08%) Banking
4 30 (12.50%) Front Office
5 25 (10.42%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.25%) Back Office
10 3 (1.25%) Military
10 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.83%) Law
11 2 (0.83%) Police
11 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (72.08%) .NET
2 70 (29.17%) .NET Framework
3 32 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 29 (12.08%) .NET Core
4 29 (12.08%) REST
5 24 (10.00%) WPF
6 23 (9.58%) RESTful
7 21 (8.75%) ASP.NET
7 21 (8.75%) HTML
7 21 (8.75%) React
8 20 (8.33%) Entity Framework
9 19 (7.92%) WinForms
10 12 (5.00%) OAuth
11 11 (4.58%) CSS
12 10 (4.17%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.17%) XML
13 9 (3.75%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (3.75%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (3.75%) JWT
14 8 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.00%) Derivative
2 12 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.67%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.25%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.25%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.25%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.25%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.83%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.83%) Equities
8 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.08%) Windows
2 19 (7.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.25%) Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.17%) CI/CD
2 59 (24.58%) Agile
3 56 (23.33%) DevOps
4 46 (19.17%) Microservices
5 35 (14.58%) Data Analysis
6 32 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.92%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (12.50%) Unit Testing
9 28 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (10.83%) Software Engineering
11 22 (9.17%) OOP
12 20 (8.33%) AI
12 20 (8.33%) Change Management
12 20 (8.33%) SOLID
13 19 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (7.50%) Containerisation
14 18 (7.50%) Test Automation
15 16 (6.67%) Clean Code
15 16 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
16 15 (6.25%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 240 (100.00%) C#
2 114 (47.50%) SQL
3 46 (19.17%) PL/SQL
4 40 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 32 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 30 (12.50%) Python
7 24 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.25%) VB
9 14 (5.83%) VBA
10 8 (3.33%) Bicep
10 8 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.92%) C++
11 7 (2.92%) Java
12 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.83%) VB6
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (9.58%) Degree
2 22 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) CISSP
7 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.92%) QA
2 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (11.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (24.17%) Oracle
2 37 (15.42%) Microsoft
3 34 (14.17%) Citrix
4 2 (0.83%) Foundry
4 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.83%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe
5 1 (0.42%) Concur
5 1 (0.42%) Databricks
5 1 (0.42%) Google
5 1 (0.42%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.42%) SAP
5 1 (0.42%) Workday