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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 302 254
Rank change year-on-year -99 -48 -105
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 190 258 409
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.78% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.84% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 186 338
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £738
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +6.32% - -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £51.70 - £61.25
25th Percentile £60.25 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.32 - -
90th Percentile £71.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 33,835 30,753 40,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.71% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,431 18,857 26,859
10th Percentile £300 £298 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 949 1,554
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.52 £46.18
% change year-on-year -20.21% -31.75% +80.14%

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 1 January 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 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 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 -97 167 £500 -14.89% 54
London -58 136 £500 -23.08% 23
Work from Home -30 54 £475 -9.52% 31
UK excluding London -60 34 £505 +6.32% 45
South East -12 9 £475 -13.64% 14
Midlands -31 8 £600 +4.35% 5
North of England -61 8 £450 +1.41% 10
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 3
North West -31 6 £450 +9.09% 6
Northern Ireland -3 5 - - 2
East of England -19 3 £500 +3.09% 2
Yorkshire -52 2 £475 -13.64% 3
Scotland +8 1 £455 -4.21% 7

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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.

1 190 (100.00%) C#
2 140 (73.68%) .NET
3 89 (46.84%) SQL
4 74 (38.95%) SQL Server
5 61 (32.11%) Azure
6 60 (31.58%) .NET Framework
7 52 (27.37%) Microservices
8 51 (26.84%) Agile
9 48 (25.26%) CI/CD
9 48 (25.26%) DevOps
10 43 (22.63%) Oracle
11 41 (21.58%) PL/SQL
12 39 (20.53%) Windows
13 31 (16.32%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (15.26%) Oracle Database
15 27 (14.21%) T-SQL
16 26 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (13.68%) GitHub
17 25 (13.16%) RESTful
18 24 (12.63%) Degree
18 24 (12.63%) Docker
18 24 (12.63%) REST
18 24 (12.63%) WPF
19 23 (12.11%) AWS
19 23 (12.11%) Software Engineering
20 22 (11.58%) Entity Framework
20 22 (11.58%) Kubernetes
20 22 (11.58%) Microsoft
20 22 (11.58%) QA

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 14 (7.37%) IIS
2 7 (3.68%) Confluence
3 5 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.63%) CMS
3 5 (2.63%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.63%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.63%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.53%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.53%) Mendix
Applications
1 20 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.05%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.53%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 61 (32.11%) Azure
2 31 (16.32%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (13.68%) GitHub
4 23 (12.11%) AWS
5 16 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (8.42%) Serverless
6 11 (5.79%) Azure Functions
6 11 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (4.74%) Azure AKS
7 9 (4.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (4.74%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (4.21%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.16%) Azure API Management
10 6 (3.16%) GCP
11 5 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.63%) Contentful
11 5 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.63%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.74%) Internet
2 2 (1.05%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (38.95%) SQL Server
2 29 (15.26%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.79%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.68%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.68%) Redis
6 6 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.11%) Power BI
8 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.05%) Metadata
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.53%) DataStage
9 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.53%) Sisense
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.00%) Git
2 13 (6.84%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.79%) SpecFlow
4 8 (4.21%) JIRA
5 6 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.16%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (3.16%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.05%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Crucible
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 69 (36.32%) Finance
2 56 (29.47%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.42%) Banking
4 23 (12.11%) Front Office
5 21 (11.05%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.74%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.58%) Back Office
8 3 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.58%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.05%) Military
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (73.68%) .NET
2 60 (31.58%) .NET Framework
3 25 (13.16%) RESTful
4 24 (12.63%) REST
4 24 (12.63%) WPF
5 22 (11.58%) Entity Framework
6 21 (11.05%) AngularJS
7 18 (9.47%) .NET Core
8 12 (6.32%) ASP.NET
8 12 (6.32%) NHibernate
8 12 (6.32%) WinForms
9 11 (5.79%) Kafka
10 10 (5.26%) HTML
10 10 (5.26%) Playwright
11 9 (4.74%) CSS
12 8 (4.21%) OAuth
12 8 (4.21%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.21%) React
13 7 (3.68%) JWT
13 7 (3.68%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.84%) Cloud Native
1 13 (6.84%) Derivative
2 11 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.68%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.63%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.58%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.05%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.05%) Equities
9 2 (1.05%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.05%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.53%) Windows
2 10 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.37%) Microservices
2 51 (26.84%) Agile
3 48 (25.26%) CI/CD
3 48 (25.26%) DevOps
4 31 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (12.11%) Software Engineering
7 22 (11.58%) Unit Testing
8 20 (10.53%) Clean Code
9 18 (9.47%) Data Analysis
10 17 (8.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (7.89%) API Development
11 15 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (7.89%) Containerisation
11 15 (7.89%) Scrum
12 14 (7.37%) AI
12 14 (7.37%) Computer Science
12 14 (7.37%) OOP
13 13 (6.84%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (6.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 190 (100.00%) C#
2 89 (46.84%) SQL
3 41 (21.58%) PL/SQL
4 27 (14.21%) T-SQL
5 18 (9.47%) VB
5 18 (9.47%) VBA
6 14 (7.37%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.37%) Python
7 9 (4.74%) VB.NET
8 7 (3.68%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.16%) Bicep
10 5 (2.63%) PHP
11 3 (1.58%) C++
11 3 (1.58%) Java
12 2 (1.05%) Ada
12 2 (1.05%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.05%) C
12 2 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (12.63%) Degree
2 10 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.16%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.58%) QA
2 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (12.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (22.63%) Oracle
2 22 (11.58%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.53%) Citrix
4 5 (2.63%) Adobe
4 5 (2.63%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.05%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.05%) Concur
5 2 (1.05%) Confluent
5 2 (1.05%) FactSet
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.05%) Trayport
6 1 (0.53%) Adyen
6 1 (0.53%) Databricks
6 1 (0.53%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.53%) Google
6 1 (0.53%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.53%) Kofax
6 1 (0.53%) Lotus
6 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.53%) Workday