C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 349 279
Rank change year-on-year -131 -70 -33
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 200 210 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.65% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.71% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 173 244
10th Percentile £404 £381 £363
25th Percentile £456 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £713 £763 £700
90th Percentile £773 £838 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £447 £460
% change year-on-year +9.06% -2.83% -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 49,563 29,654 35,643
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.23% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,606 18,697 22,460
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 £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 3,581 1,558 1,825
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.68 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.02 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.95
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.78% +11.13%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -146 171 £600 +9.09% 134
London -91 135 £645 -6.52% 95
Work from Home -52 70 £550 -21.43% 45
UK excluding London -97 39 £488 +9.06% 45
North of England -53 14 £500 +14.29% 10
Yorkshire -35 10 £725 +45.00% 1
South East -68 8 £475 -8.12% 22
East of England -16 7 £525 +6.06% 9
East Midlands -16 5 £550 +21.55% 1
Midlands -46 5 £550 +21.55% 4
North West -45 4 £413 +7.84% 6
Northern Ireland +2 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £368 -
South West -47 1 £450 +21.62%

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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.

1 200 (100.00%) C#
2 141 (70.50%) .NET
3 84 (42.00%) SQL
4 80 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 63 (31.50%) Azure
6 57 (28.50%) Agile
7 52 (26.00%) CI/CD
8 51 (25.50%) DevOps
9 50 (25.00%) .NET Framework
10 45 (22.50%) Oracle
11 37 (18.50%) Software Engineering
12 33 (16.50%) RESTful
13 32 (16.00%) Microservices
13 32 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (15.50%) .NET Core
14 31 (15.50%) Microsoft
15 30 (15.00%) JavaScript
16 29 (14.50%) Degree
16 29 (14.50%) QA
17 28 (14.00%) REST
17 28 (14.00%) T-SQL
18 27 (13.50%) Windows
19 26 (13.00%) PL/SQL
19 26 (13.00%) Test Automation
20 25 (12.50%) Citrix
21 24 (12.00%) ASP.NET
21 24 (12.00%) WinForms
21 24 (12.00%) WPF
22 22 (11.00%) IIS
23 21 (10.50%) AI

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 22 (11.00%) IIS
2 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.50%) Findur
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 63 (31.50%) Azure
2 21 (10.50%) AWS
3 20 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.00%) GitHub
5 11 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.50%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.50%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.50%) Serverless
11 2 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) Internet
2 2 (1.00%) Intranet
3 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.50%) Oracle Database
3 16 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.50%) Redis
5 8 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.00%) ClickHouse
9 4 (2.00%) Power BI
10 2 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.00%) Db2
10 2 (1.00%) MS Access
10 2 (1.00%) MySQL
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (9.00%) Git
2 11 (5.50%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.50%) JIRA
3 9 (4.50%) SpecFlow
4 8 (4.00%) TeamCity
5 7 (3.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (3.00%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.50%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.00%) GitLab
9 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.00%) NUnit
10 2 (1.00%) Postman
11 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.50%) Crucible
11 1 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.50%) MSTest
11 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 71 (35.50%) Finance
2 55 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 52 (26.00%) Front Office
4 44 (22.00%) Banking
5 29 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (11.00%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Legal
9 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
9 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (70.50%) .NET
2 50 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 33 (16.50%) RESTful
4 31 (15.50%) .NET Core
5 28 (14.00%) REST
6 24 (12.00%) ASP.NET
6 24 (12.00%) WinForms
6 24 (12.00%) WPF
7 21 (10.50%) React
8 20 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.50%) Web Services
10 13 (6.50%) XML
11 11 (5.50%) Kafka
12 10 (5.00%) Entity Framework
13 9 (4.50%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (4.50%) Swagger
14 7 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (3.50%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (3.50%) Blazor
14 7 (3.50%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.50%) Derivative
2 25 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (7.00%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.50%) Fixed Income
6 8 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.50%) Equities
8 5 (2.50%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.00%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.50%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.00%) FMCG
11 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.00%) Replication
11 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.50%) Windows
2 9 (4.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.50%) Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (28.50%) Agile
2 52 (26.00%) CI/CD
3 51 (25.50%) DevOps
4 37 (18.50%) Software Engineering
5 32 (16.00%) Microservices
5 32 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (13.00%) Test Automation
7 21 (10.50%) AI
7 21 (10.50%) Data Analysis
8 20 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 20 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (10.00%) Unit Testing
9 17 (8.50%) API Development
9 17 (8.50%) Scrum
10 14 (7.00%) Event-Driven
10 14 (7.00%) Mathematics
11 13 (6.50%) SDLC
11 13 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (6.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 200 (100.00%) C#
2 84 (42.00%) SQL
3 30 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 28 (14.00%) T-SQL
5 26 (13.00%) PL/SQL
6 20 (10.00%) Python
7 19 (9.50%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.50%) VBA
9 12 (6.00%) VB
10 11 (5.50%) C++
11 8 (4.00%) Java
12 4 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.50%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.00%) VBScript
14 2 (1.00%) XAML
14 2 (1.00%) XPath
15 1 (0.50%) Bash
15 1 (0.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (14.50%) Degree
2 20 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.00%) PhD
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.50%) QA
2 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.50%) GMP
2 1 (0.50%) GxP
System Software
1 15 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Grafana
2 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (22.50%) Oracle
2 31 (15.50%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.50%) Citrix
4 5 (2.50%) IBM
5 4 (2.00%) Murex
6 2 (1.00%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (1.00%) Foundry
6 2 (1.00%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.50%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.50%) Trayport
7 1 (0.50%) Workday