C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £586, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 337 282
Rank change year-on-year -114 -55 -43
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 222 222 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.68% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.74% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 185 250
10th Percentile £404 £384 £363
25th Percentile £456 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £725 £763 £700
90th Percentile £788 £838 £800
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 49,605 29,863 36,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.22% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,683 18,859 22,977
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% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £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 3,539 1,568 1,933
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.21 £19.50
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -41.51% -1.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -128 190 £605 +10.00% 35
London -84 154 £645 -6.52% 15
Work from Home -56 83 £575 -23.33% 12
UK excluding London -94 38 £500 +8.46% 27
North of England -61 13 £613 +40.00% 3
Yorkshire -33 10 £725 +45.00%
South East -67 8 £475 -13.64% 17
East of England -16 7 £525 +6.06% 4
East Midlands -15 5 £550 +21.55% 1
Midlands -59 5 £550 +21.55% 3
North West -39 3 £388 +1.31% 2
Northern Ireland +1 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £368 -
South West -51 1 £450 +21.62%

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 222 (100.00%) C#
2 154 (69.37%) .NET
3 99 (44.59%) SQL
4 88 (39.64%) SQL Server
5 73 (32.88%) Azure
6 64 (28.83%) Agile
7 60 (27.03%) CI/CD
8 59 (26.58%) DevOps
9 54 (24.32%) .NET Framework
10 49 (22.07%) Oracle
11 37 (16.67%) Microservices
11 37 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 36 (16.22%) JavaScript
12 36 (16.22%) Microsoft
13 34 (15.32%) RESTful
14 31 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (13.96%) QA
14 31 (13.96%) T-SQL
15 30 (13.51%) .NET Core
16 29 (13.06%) AngularJS
16 29 (13.06%) Degree
16 29 (13.06%) PL/SQL
16 29 (13.06%) Windows
17 28 (12.61%) REST
17 28 (12.61%) Security Cleared
18 27 (12.16%) Citrix
18 27 (12.16%) SC Cleared
19 25 (11.26%) Unit Testing
20 24 (10.81%) ASP.NET
20 24 (10.81%) Azure DevOps

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 (9.46%) IIS
2 6 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.35%) Findur
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 73 (32.88%) Azure
2 24 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (9.46%) AWS
4 15 (6.76%) GitHub
5 11 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.25%) Serverless
9 4 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.35%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.35%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.41%) Internet
2 2 (0.90%) Intranet
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (39.64%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.36%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.21%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.41%) Redis
5 10 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.15%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.80%) Power BI
10 3 (1.35%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.90%) Db2
11 2 (0.90%) MS Access
11 2 (0.90%) MySQL
11 2 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.45%) Big Data
12 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (9.01%) Git
2 11 (4.95%) TeamCity
2 11 (4.95%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 9 (4.05%) JIRA
4 9 (4.05%) SpecFlow
5 5 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.25%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.80%) GitLab
7 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.90%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.90%) MSTest
8 2 (0.90%) NUnit
8 2 (0.90%) Postman
9 1 (0.45%) Crucible
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 84 (37.84%) Finance
2 60 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 56 (25.23%) Front Office
4 48 (21.62%) Banking
5 29 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (11.26%) Investment Banking
7 16 (7.21%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.95%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.90%) Legal
9 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.90%) Retail
9 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Back Office
10 1 (0.45%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (69.37%) .NET
2 54 (24.32%) .NET Framework
3 34 (15.32%) RESTful
4 30 (13.51%) .NET Core
5 29 (13.06%) AngularJS
6 28 (12.61%) REST
7 24 (10.81%) ASP.NET
7 24 (10.81%) WPF
8 23 (10.36%) React
8 23 (10.36%) WinForms
9 16 (7.21%) Web Services
10 14 (6.31%) HTML
11 13 (5.86%) XML
12 11 (4.95%) Entity Framework
13 10 (4.50%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (4.50%) Kafka
14 8 (3.60%) Blazor
14 8 (3.60%) Swagger
15 7 (3.15%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (3.15%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.51%) Derivative
2 22 (9.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (6.31%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.60%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.15%) Equities
7 6 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.25%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.80%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.80%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.35%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.90%) FMCG
11 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.90%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.06%) Windows
2 11 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.35%) Linux
4 2 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.83%) Agile
2 60 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 59 (26.58%) DevOps
4 37 (16.67%) Microservices
4 37 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 31 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (11.26%) Unit Testing
7 24 (10.81%) Data Analysis
7 24 (10.81%) Test Automation
8 23 (10.36%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (9.46%) AI
9 21 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (9.01%) Computer Science
11 17 (7.66%) Scrum
12 16 (7.21%) API Development
13 15 (6.76%) Mathematics
13 15 (6.76%) OO
14 14 (6.31%) Event-Driven
14 14 (6.31%) OOP
15 13 (5.86%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 222 (100.00%) C#
2 99 (44.59%) SQL
3 36 (16.22%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.96%) T-SQL
5 29 (13.06%) PL/SQL
6 20 (9.01%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.66%) Python
8 14 (6.31%) VBA
9 12 (5.41%) VB
10 11 (4.95%) C++
10 11 (4.95%) Java
11 5 (2.25%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.35%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.90%) VB6
13 2 (0.90%) VBScript
13 2 (0.90%) XAML
13 2 (0.90%) XPath
14 1 (0.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (13.06%) Degree
2 28 (12.61%) Security Cleared
3 27 (12.16%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.70%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.70%) PhD
6 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.96%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.45%) GMP
2 1 (0.45%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (7.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) Ansible
2 1 (0.45%) Grafana
2 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (22.07%) Oracle
2 36 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 27 (12.16%) Citrix
4 5 (2.25%) IBM
5 4 (1.80%) Murex
6 2 (0.90%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.90%) Foundry
6 2 (0.90%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.45%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.45%) Trayport
7 1 (0.45%) Workday