C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 316 257
Rank change year-on-year -79 -59 -100
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 179 255 452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.70% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.76% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 190 368
10th Percentile £385 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -6.37%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £785 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +14.84% -4.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £51.70 - £62.50
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.04%
75th Percentile £67.32 - -
90th Percentile £71.48 £67.25 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +10.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 31,941 33,701 43,995
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.86% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,258 20,316 29,858
10th Percentile £278 £300 £293
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,871 1,257 1,563
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.20 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +60.48%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.42%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 13 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 17 November 2025. 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 -104 164 £501 -12.83% 158
London -43 134 £475 -21.65% 53
Work from Home -25 53 £510 +5.15% 91
UK excluding London -51 30 £523 +14.84% 113
South East -1 9 £488 -7.14% 30
Midlands -23 8 £600 +4.35% 39
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 21
North of England -50 5 £475 +7.34% 26
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
East of England -21 3 £500 +3.09% 6
Yorkshire -38 3 £500 +8.70% 6
North West -32 2 £310 -27.06% 17
South West +3 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, 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.

1 179 (100.00%) C#
2 138 (77.09%) .NET
3 87 (48.60%) SQL
4 69 (38.55%) SQL Server
5 61 (34.08%) .NET Framework
6 53 (29.61%) Azure
7 47 (26.26%) Agile
8 46 (25.70%) Microservices
9 44 (24.58%) DevOps
9 44 (24.58%) Oracle
10 41 (22.91%) Windows
11 37 (20.67%) CI/CD
11 37 (20.67%) WPF
12 36 (20.11%) PL/SQL
13 28 (15.64%) Oracle Database
14 26 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
16 24 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (13.41%) Software Engineering
16 24 (13.41%) VBA
17 23 (12.85%) VB
18 21 (11.73%) .NET Core
18 21 (11.73%) AngularJS
18 21 (11.73%) T-SQL
19 20 (11.17%) RESTful
20 19 (10.61%) AWS
20 19 (10.61%) Git
21 18 (10.06%) Degree
21 18 (10.06%) GitHub

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 12 (6.70%) IIS
2 7 (3.91%) Confluence
3 5 (2.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.79%) CMS
3 5 (2.79%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.79%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.79%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.56%) Mendix
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.68%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.56%) Eikon
2 1 (0.56%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.56%) Maximo
2 1 (0.56%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 53 (29.61%) Azure
2 25 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (10.61%) AWS
4 18 (10.06%) GitHub
5 11 (6.15%) Serverless
6 7 (3.91%) Azure Functions
6 7 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.79%) Contentful
8 5 (2.79%) GCP
8 5 (2.79%) Kontent
8 5 (2.79%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.23%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.23%) SaaS
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.68%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.59%) Internet
2 2 (1.12%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (38.55%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.64%) Oracle Database
3 10 (5.59%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.91%) Redis
6 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.79%) Power BI
8 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.56%) DataStage
10 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.56%) Sisense
10 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.61%) Git
2 11 (6.15%) JIRA
2 11 (6.15%) SpecFlow
3 9 (5.03%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.91%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.79%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.12%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.56%) Crucible
8 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.56%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 69 (38.55%) Finance
2 48 (26.82%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.76%) Banking
4 23 (12.85%) Front Office
5 19 (10.61%) Investment Banking
6 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.79%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.23%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.68%) Back Office
9 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.68%) Marketing
9 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Electronics
10 2 (1.12%) Military
10 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (77.09%) .NET
2 61 (34.08%) .NET Framework
3 37 (20.67%) WPF
4 21 (11.73%) .NET Core
4 21 (11.73%) AngularJS
5 20 (11.17%) RESTful
6 15 (8.38%) ASP.NET
6 15 (8.38%) Entity Framework
7 11 (6.15%) NHibernate
7 11 (6.15%) REST
8 10 (5.59%) Kafka
8 10 (5.59%) Playwright
8 10 (5.59%) WCF
8 10 (5.59%) WinForms
9 9 (5.03%) CSS
9 9 (5.03%) HTML
9 9 (5.03%) React
10 7 (3.91%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (3.35%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.70%) Derivative
2 8 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.47%) Hedge funds
2 8 (4.47%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.23%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.23%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.12%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.56%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.91%) Windows
2 4 (2.23%) Linux
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.26%) Agile
2 46 (25.70%) Microservices
3 44 (24.58%) DevOps
4 37 (20.67%) CI/CD
5 26 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (13.41%) Software Engineering
7 18 (10.06%) Unit Testing
8 16 (8.94%) Scrum
9 15 (8.38%) Clean Code
9 15 (8.38%) Data Analysis
9 15 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (7.82%) Computer Science
11 13 (7.26%) AI
11 13 (7.26%) API Development
11 13 (7.26%) TDD
12 12 (6.70%) OOP
13 11 (6.15%) OO
13 11 (6.15%) SDLC
13 11 (6.15%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 179 (100.00%) C#
2 87 (48.60%) SQL
3 36 (20.11%) PL/SQL
4 24 (13.41%) VBA
5 23 (12.85%) VB
6 21 (11.73%) T-SQL
7 17 (9.50%) JavaScript
8 13 (7.26%) VB.NET
9 11 (6.15%) Python
10 5 (2.79%) PHP
11 3 (1.68%) C++
11 3 (1.68%) Java
11 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.68%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.12%) Ada
12 2 (1.12%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.12%) C
12 2 (1.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.56%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.56%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.06%) Degree
2 10 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.23%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.23%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.68%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.38%) QA
2 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) EMIR
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (7.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (24.58%) Oracle
2 18 (10.06%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.26%) Citrix
4 5 (2.79%) Adobe
4 5 (2.79%) Sitecore
5 4 (2.23%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.68%) FactSet
7 2 (1.12%) Concur
7 2 (1.12%) Confluent
7 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.12%) SAP
7 2 (1.12%) Trayport
8 1 (0.56%) Adyen
8 1 (0.56%) Apple
8 1 (0.56%) Databricks
8 1 (0.56%) Kofax
8 1 (0.56%) Lotus
8 1 (0.56%) Reuters
8 1 (0.56%) UiPath
8 1 (0.56%) Workday