C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 293 247
Rank change year-on-year -107 -46 -91
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 191 248 421
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.79% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.85% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 183 351
10th Percentile £330 £363 £400
25th Percentile £403 £385 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year -19.13% -8.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £678 £706 £738
90th Percentile £756 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +0.53% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £34.15 - £61.25
25th Percentile £46.00 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £70.56 - -
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 33,788 29,232 40,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 92.85% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,356 17,863 26,715
10th Percentile £300 £295 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,002 885 1,834
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.99
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.76
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.32
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -19.39% +18.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +46.55%

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 19 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 19 January 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 19 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 -105 169 £463 -22.76% 66
London -59 137 £450 -30.77% 21
Work from Home -33 54 £475 -13.64% 38
UK excluding London -53 36 £478 +0.53% 51
Midlands -32 9 £600 +4.35% 10
South East -21 8 £525 -4.55% 19
North of England -48 8 £400 -15.79% 17
North West -26 7 £400 -15.79% 10
East Midlands - 7 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland -1 6 - -
East of England -17 3 £500 +3.09%
West Midlands -34 2 £350 -39.13% 8
Scotland +8 1 £455 -9.00% 2
South West -10 1 - - 3
Yorkshire -44 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 191 (100.00%) C#
2 139 (72.77%) .NET
3 86 (45.03%) SQL
4 75 (39.27%) SQL Server
5 59 (30.89%) .NET Framework
6 57 (29.84%) Azure
7 51 (26.70%) Microservices
8 49 (25.65%) Agile
9 47 (24.61%) CI/CD
10 42 (21.99%) DevOps
10 42 (21.99%) Oracle
11 40 (20.94%) PL/SQL
12 39 (20.42%) Windows
13 31 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (15.18%) T-SQL
15 28 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (14.14%) Oracle Database
17 25 (13.09%) QA
17 25 (13.09%) REST
18 24 (12.57%) AWS
18 24 (12.57%) Degree
18 24 (12.57%) RESTful
19 23 (12.04%) Unit Testing
20 22 (11.52%) Citrix
20 22 (11.52%) Docker
20 22 (11.52%) GitHub
21 21 (10.99%) Data Analysis
21 21 (10.99%) Entity Framework
21 21 (10.99%) Microsoft

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 (7.33%) IIS
2 8 (4.19%) Confluence
3 5 (2.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.62%) CMS
3 5 (2.62%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.62%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.62%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.84%) Azure
2 28 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (12.57%) AWS
4 22 (11.52%) GitHub
5 16 (8.38%) Serverless
6 14 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (5.76%) Azure Functions
7 11 (5.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (4.19%) Azure AKS
9 8 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.14%) Azure API Management
10 6 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.14%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.62%) Contentful
11 5 (2.62%) Kontent
12 4 (2.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.71%) Internet
2 2 (1.05%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (39.27%) SQL Server
2 27 (14.14%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.76%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.76%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.19%) Redis
5 7 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.57%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.57%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.52%) DataStage
9 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.52%) Power BI
9 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.52%) Sisense
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) Git
2 15 (7.85%) Visual Studio
3 12 (6.28%) SpecFlow
4 8 (4.19%) JIRA
5 7 (3.66%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.66%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.62%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.05%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.52%) Crucible
8 1 (0.52%) NUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 62 (32.46%) Finance
2 52 (27.23%) Social Skills
3 39 (20.42%) Banking
4 22 (11.52%) Investment Banking
5 19 (9.95%) Front Office
6 9 (4.71%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Back Office
9 3 (1.57%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.05%) Law
10 2 (1.05%) Military
10 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.52%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (72.77%) .NET
2 59 (30.89%) .NET Framework
3 25 (13.09%) REST
4 24 (12.57%) RESTful
5 21 (10.99%) Entity Framework
5 21 (10.99%) WPF
6 20 (10.47%) AngularJS
7 19 (9.95%) .NET Core
8 13 (6.81%) NHibernate
9 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.28%) WinForms
10 11 (5.76%) Playwright
11 10 (5.24%) HTML
12 9 (4.71%) CSS
12 9 (4.71%) Kafka
12 9 (4.71%) React
13 8 (4.19%) OAuth
13 8 (4.19%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.66%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (3.66%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Cloud Native
1 14 (7.33%) Derivative
2 9 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.14%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.09%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.09%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.57%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
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
10 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.42%) Windows
2 12 (6.28%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (26.70%) Microservices
2 49 (25.65%) Agile
3 47 (24.61%) CI/CD
4 42 (21.99%) DevOps
5 31 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (12.04%) Unit Testing
8 21 (10.99%) Data Analysis
9 20 (10.47%) Clean Code
10 19 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (9.95%) Software Engineering
11 16 (8.38%) API Development
12 15 (7.85%) Scrum
13 14 (7.33%) AI
13 14 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (7.33%) Containerisation
14 13 (6.81%) Change Management
15 12 (6.28%) Computer Science
15 12 (6.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (6.28%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 191 (100.00%) C#
2 86 (45.03%) SQL
3 40 (20.94%) PL/SQL
4 29 (15.18%) T-SQL
5 17 (8.90%) Python
5 17 (8.90%) VBA
6 16 (8.38%) VB
7 13 (6.81%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.71%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.66%) VB.NET
10 6 (3.14%) Bicep
11 3 (1.57%) C++
11 3 (1.57%) Java
11 3 (1.57%) PHP
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 (12.57%) Degree
2 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.66%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.09%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.52%) GDPR
2 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (11.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (21.99%) Oracle
2 22 (11.52%) Citrix
3 21 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.62%) Adobe
4 5 (2.62%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.05%) Concur
5 2 (1.05%) Confluent
5 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.05%) Trayport
6 1 (0.52%) Adyen
6 1 (0.52%) Apple
6 1 (0.52%) Databricks
6 1 (0.52%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.52%) Workday