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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 356 292
Rank change year-on-year -127 -64 -49
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 205 192 292
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.58% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.64% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 148 221
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £463 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £713 £750 £713
90th Percentile £738 £800 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £465
% change year-on-year -0.51% +4.84% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £54.08 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £72.80 - £66.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £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 50,330 30,144 35,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 90.83% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,591 19,030 21,429
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £636 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,999 1,630 1,541
10th Percentile £14.42 £13.75 £14.99
25th Percentile £19.77 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.91
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.39% -3.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.28 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.74 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.44% -41.69% -2.82%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -127 173 £594 +15.07% 160
London -93 133 £600 +2.13% 103
Work from Home -65 76 £550 +10.00% 74
UK excluding London -96 41 £485 -0.51% 61
North of England -61 13 £618 +30.00% 14
East of England -9 12 £525 +5.00% 9
Midlands -40 8 £488 -5.34% 11
Yorkshire -38 7 £725 +45.00%
East Midlands -9 5 £550 +6.80% 1
North West -41 5 £480 +28.00% 9
South East -65 5 £475 -4.23% 23
West Midlands - 3 £475 - 10
Scotland - 2 £368 - 1
South West -35 1 £625 +59.24% 3
North East - 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 205 (100.00%) C#
2 144 (70.24%) .NET
3 81 (39.51%) SQL
4 77 (37.56%) SQL Server
5 61 (29.76%) Azure
6 58 (28.29%) Agile
7 56 (27.32%) CI/CD
7 56 (27.32%) DevOps
8 49 (23.90%) .NET Framework
9 47 (22.93%) Oracle
10 43 (20.98%) Software Engineering
11 34 (16.59%) .NET Core
11 34 (16.59%) RESTful
11 34 (16.59%) Windows
12 33 (16.10%) Microservices
13 32 (15.61%) Microsoft
14 31 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (15.12%) REST
15 30 (14.63%) Degree
15 30 (14.63%) JavaScript
16 29 (14.15%) QA
16 29 (14.15%) WPF
17 27 (13.17%) Test Automation
17 27 (13.17%) T-SQL
17 27 (13.17%) WinForms
18 26 (12.68%) PL/SQL
19 25 (12.20%) Citrix
20 23 (11.22%) ASP.NET
20 23 (11.22%) AWS
20 23 (11.22%) Unit Testing

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 (10.73%) IIS
2 6 (2.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.98%) Findur
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.76%) Azure
2 23 (11.22%) AWS
3 22 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (5.85%) GitHub
5 11 (5.37%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.95%) SaaS
10 3 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.46%) Serverless
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.49%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.34%) Internet
2 3 (1.46%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.98%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (37.56%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.76%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.80%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.41%) Redis
7 6 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.44%) ClickHouse
9 4 (1.95%) Power BI
9 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.46%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.98%) Db2
11 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.98%) MS Access
11 2 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.24%) Git
2 17 (8.29%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.85%) JIRA
4 8 (3.90%) SpecFlow
4 8 (3.90%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.93%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.44%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.95%) GitLab
8 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.46%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.46%) Postman
8 3 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.98%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.49%) Crucible
10 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 73 (35.61%) Finance
2 55 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 51 (24.88%) Front Office
4 40 (19.51%) Banking
5 29 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (10.24%) Investment Banking
7 14 (6.83%) Financial Institution
8 12 (5.85%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.46%) Military
9 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Legal
10 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.98%) Retail
10 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) French Language
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (70.24%) .NET
2 49 (23.90%) .NET Framework
3 34 (16.59%) .NET Core
3 34 (16.59%) RESTful
4 31 (15.12%) REST
5 29 (14.15%) WPF
6 27 (13.17%) WinForms
7 23 (11.22%) ASP.NET
8 22 (10.73%) React
9 21 (10.24%) Web Services
10 18 (8.78%) AngularJS
11 15 (7.32%) Kafka
12 14 (6.83%) XML
13 11 (5.37%) Entity Framework
13 11 (5.37%) Swagger
14 8 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (3.90%) OpenAPI
15 7 (3.41%) ASP.NET Web API
15 7 (3.41%) Blazor
15 7 (3.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.17%) Derivative
2 24 (11.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.39%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.41%) Equities
7 5 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.95%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.95%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.98%) FMCG
10 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.98%) Replication
10 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.59%) Windows
2 9 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.41%) Linux
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.29%) Agile
2 56 (27.32%) CI/CD
2 56 (27.32%) DevOps
3 43 (20.98%) Software Engineering
4 33 (16.10%) Microservices
5 31 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (13.17%) Test Automation
7 23 (11.22%) Unit Testing
8 22 (10.73%) Data Analysis
9 20 (9.76%) API Development
9 20 (9.76%) Computer Science
9 20 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (9.76%) Event-Driven
9 20 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (9.76%) Scrum
10 19 (9.27%) AI
11 18 (8.78%) SDLC
12 17 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (7.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 205 (100.00%) C#
2 81 (39.51%) SQL
3 30 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 27 (13.17%) T-SQL
5 26 (12.68%) PL/SQL
6 22 (10.73%) Python
7 17 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.32%) VBA
9 13 (6.34%) C++
10 12 (5.85%) VB
11 8 (3.90%) Java
12 4 (1.95%) XAML
13 3 (1.46%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.98%) Go
14 2 (0.98%) VBScript
14 2 (0.98%) XPath
15 1 (0.49%) Bash
15 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.49%) VB6
Qualifications
1 30 (14.63%) Degree
2 15 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (7.32%) SC Cleared
2 15 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.90%) Azure Certification
3 8 (3.90%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.90%) PhD
4 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.15%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.49%) GMP
3 1 (0.49%) GxP
3 1 (0.49%) ITGC
System Software
1 13 (6.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.46%) Grafana
2 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.49%) Ansible
3 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (22.93%) Oracle
2 32 (15.61%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.20%) Citrix
4 5 (2.44%) IBM
5 4 (1.95%) Murex
6 2 (0.98%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.49%) Sage
7 1 (0.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.49%) Trayport