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 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 292 261
Rank change year-on-year -117 -31 -80
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 232 248 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.85% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.92% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 210 346
10th Percentile £327 £376 £400
25th Percentile £404 £389 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £638
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £738
90th Percentile £788 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £26.25 - £57.13
25th Percentile £36.13 - £58.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile - - £73.44
90th Percentile £68.70 - £74.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.92%

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 42,225 27,079 40,770
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.67% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,249 17,802 26,661
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,659 969 2,573
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.06 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% -9.60% -21.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.13 £30.20 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -13.71% -16.82%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -122 202 £500 -25.93% 61
London -98 166 £550 -21.43% 28
Work from Home -56 71 £600 -25.00% 38
UK excluding London -94 42 £450 +12.50% 40
North of England -61 14 £431 +9.18% 17
North West -22 11 £385 -3.69% 10
South East -57 9 £525 -1.59% 9
Northern Ireland -2 5 - -
Midlands - 5 £600 - 8
Scotland +7 3 £388 -22.50% 1
East of England -29 3 - - 4
South West -35 3 £450 +21.62%
Yorkshire -50 3 £500 +90.48% 4
East Midlands - 3 £600 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 232 (100.00%) C#
2 168 (72.41%) .NET
3 112 (48.28%) SQL
4 89 (38.36%) SQL Server
5 83 (35.78%) Azure
6 70 (30.17%) CI/CD
7 67 (28.88%) .NET Framework
8 58 (25.00%) Agile
9 55 (23.71%) Oracle
10 51 (21.98%) DevOps
11 44 (18.97%) PL/SQL
12 43 (18.53%) Microservices
13 39 (16.81%) QA
13 39 (16.81%) T-SQL
13 39 (16.81%) Windows
14 35 (15.09%) Oracle Database
15 34 (14.66%) Data Analysis
15 34 (14.66%) JavaScript
15 34 (14.66%) Microsoft
16 33 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
17 32 (13.79%) Citrix
17 32 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (12.93%) .NET Core
18 30 (12.93%) AngularJS
18 30 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
19 29 (12.50%) Docker
19 29 (12.50%) Python
19 29 (12.50%) REST
19 29 (12.50%) Unit Testing
20 27 (11.64%) 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 19 (8.19%) IIS
2 6 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.72%) CMS
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (1.29%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.29%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Endur
1 1 (0.43%) Findur
1 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 83 (35.78%) Azure
2 33 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.34%) GitHub
4 23 (9.91%) AWS
5 17 (7.33%) Serverless
6 16 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.60%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.74%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.45%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.45%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.59%) Collibra
12 6 (2.59%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.16%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.60%) Internet
2 3 (1.29%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.86%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.86%) HTTP
3 2 (0.86%) RTCP
3 2 (0.86%) RTP
3 2 (0.86%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (38.36%) SQL Server
2 35 (15.09%) Oracle Database
3 15 (6.47%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.88%) Redis
6 8 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.59%) Metadata
8 4 (1.72%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.86%) MySQL
10 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.43%) DataStage
11 1 (0.43%) Power BI
11 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (8.19%) Git
2 15 (6.47%) Visual Studio
3 11 (4.74%) TeamCity
4 9 (3.88%) JIRA
5 7 (3.02%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.16%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.72%) NUnit
8 3 (1.29%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.29%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.29%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.86%) MSTest
9 2 (0.86%) Selenium
10 1 (0.43%) Crucible
10 1 (0.43%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 72 (31.03%) Finance
2 57 (24.57%) Social Skills
3 46 (19.83%) Banking
4 25 (10.78%) Front Office
5 21 (9.05%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.02%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.72%) Back Office
9 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Military
10 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.86%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.86%) Law
11 2 (0.86%) Police
11 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (72.41%) .NET
2 67 (28.88%) .NET Framework
3 30 (12.93%) .NET Core
3 30 (12.93%) AngularJS
4 29 (12.50%) REST
5 26 (11.21%) RESTful
6 24 (10.34%) ASP.NET
7 23 (9.91%) HTML
7 23 (9.91%) WPF
8 20 (8.62%) React
9 19 (8.19%) Entity Framework
10 18 (7.76%) WinForms
11 13 (5.60%) CSS
11 13 (5.60%) OAuth
12 11 (4.74%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (4.74%) OAuth2
13 10 (4.31%) JWT
14 9 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (3.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.74%) Derivative
4 10 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.59%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.72%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.29%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.29%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.29%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.86%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.81%) Windows
2 18 (7.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.29%) Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (30.17%) CI/CD
2 58 (25.00%) Agile
3 51 (21.98%) DevOps
4 43 (18.53%) Microservices
5 34 (14.66%) Data Analysis
6 32 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
8 29 (12.50%) Unit Testing
9 27 (11.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (10.34%) Software Engineering
11 21 (9.05%) AI
12 20 (8.62%) OOP
13 19 (8.19%) Change Management
13 19 (8.19%) SOLID
14 18 (7.76%) Containerisation
14 18 (7.76%) Test Automation
15 17 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
17 15 (6.47%) Clean Code
18 14 (6.03%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 232 (100.00%) C#
2 112 (48.28%) SQL
3 44 (18.97%) PL/SQL
4 39 (16.81%) T-SQL
5 34 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 29 (12.50%) Python
7 22 (9.48%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.03%) VB
8 14 (6.03%) VBA
9 8 (3.45%) Bicep
9 8 (3.45%) Java
9 8 (3.45%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.72%) C++
11 2 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) F#
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 22 (9.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.05%) Degree
2 21 (9.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) CISSP
6 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (16.81%) QA
2 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) MiFID
3 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.88%) Terraform
3 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (23.71%) Oracle
2 34 (14.66%) Microsoft
3 32 (13.79%) Citrix
4 4 (1.72%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.29%) Adobe
6 2 (0.86%) Concur
6 2 (0.86%) Foundry
6 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.43%) Databricks
7 1 (0.43%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.43%) SAP
7 1 (0.43%) Trayport
7 1 (0.43%) Workday