C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 311 275
Rank change year-on-year -74 -36 -66
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 257 235 370
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.79% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.85% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 200 310
10th Percentile £330 £378 £377
25th Percentile £414 £385 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £715 £800 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £385 £475
% change year-on-year +23.38% -18.95% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% - -

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 46,676 27,509 40,765
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.24% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,368 17,700 26,113
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,110 1,183 2,977
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.88 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.47 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.69 £27.21 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.57% -27.44% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -98 229 £600 -11.11% 28
London -67 183 £635 -9.29% 15
Work from Home -54 79 £600 -22.58% 13
UK excluding London -91 50 £475 +23.38% 17
North of England -62 16 £450 +12.50% 9
South East -58 11 £500 +5.26% 6
North West -34 8 £350 -11.39% 3
Yorkshire -55 8 £725 +45.00% 3
Midlands -51 7 £350 -9.09%
East of England -24 6 - - 2
Northern Ireland +1 5 - -
East Midlands -13 5 £550 +42.86%
South West -32 3 £450 +21.62%
West Midlands - 2 £350 -
Scotland - 2 £373 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 257 (100.00%) C#
2 183 (71.21%) .NET
3 109 (42.41%) SQL
4 93 (36.19%) SQL Server
5 87 (33.85%) Azure
6 67 (26.07%) .NET Framework
6 67 (26.07%) CI/CD
7 65 (25.29%) Agile
8 58 (22.57%) Oracle
9 56 (21.79%) DevOps
10 49 (19.07%) Microservices
11 37 (14.40%) QA
12 36 (14.01%) Microsoft
12 36 (14.01%) PL/SQL
12 36 (14.01%) Software Engineering
13 34 (13.23%) JavaScript
13 34 (13.23%) Windows
14 33 (12.84%) Python
14 33 (12.84%) T-SQL
15 32 (12.45%) .NET Core
15 32 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (12.45%) Data Analysis
15 32 (12.45%) Oracle Database
16 31 (12.06%) AngularJS
16 31 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (12.06%) Unit Testing
17 29 (11.28%) Citrix
17 29 (11.28%) Security Cleared
18 28 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
18 28 (10.89%) RESTful

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 17 (6.61%) IIS
2 5 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) Confluence
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.17%) Findur
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.85%) Azure
2 32 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (8.56%) AWS
4 21 (8.17%) GitHub
5 14 (5.45%) Serverless
6 12 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.28%) Azure Functions
7 11 (4.28%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (2.72%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.95%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.95%) Azure API Management
10 5 (1.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.95%) Collibra
10 5 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.28%) Internet
2 2 (0.78%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.78%) RTCP
2 2 (0.78%) RTP
2 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.78%) XCAP
3 1 (0.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (36.19%) SQL Server
2 32 (12.45%) Oracle Database
3 20 (7.78%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.67%) Redis
5 9 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.72%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.95%) Metadata
8 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.56%) Power BI
9 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.17%) MySQL
11 2 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.39%) ClickHouse
12 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.39%) MS Access
12 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (7.78%) Git
2 14 (5.45%) JIRA
2 14 (5.45%) TeamCity
2 14 (5.45%) Visual Studio
3 11 (4.28%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (1.95%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.17%) GitLab
5 3 (1.17%) Jasmine
5 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
5 3 (1.17%) NUnit
6 2 (0.78%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.78%) MSTest
6 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.78%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.39%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.39%) Rational Robot
General
1 91 (35.41%) Finance
2 59 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 55 (21.40%) Banking
4 51 (19.84%) Front Office
5 24 (9.34%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.28%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.50%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Back Office
10 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.17%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
11 2 (0.78%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Police
11 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (71.21%) .NET
2 67 (26.07%) .NET Framework
3 32 (12.45%) .NET Core
4 31 (12.06%) AngularJS
5 28 (10.89%) RESTful
6 27 (10.51%) React
7 25 (9.73%) REST
7 25 (9.73%) WPF
8 24 (9.34%) ASP.NET
9 19 (7.39%) Entity Framework
9 19 (7.39%) HTML
10 18 (7.00%) WinForms
11 14 (5.45%) XML
12 11 (4.28%) Web Services
13 10 (3.89%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (3.50%) CSS
14 9 (3.50%) OAuth
15 8 (3.11%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (3.11%) Blazor
16 7 (2.72%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.45%) Derivative
2 24 (9.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (5.84%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.72%) Equities
6 7 (2.72%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.33%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.56%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.17%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (0.78%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.23%) Windows
2 16 (6.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.17%) Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.07%) CI/CD
2 65 (25.29%) Agile
3 56 (21.79%) DevOps
4 49 (19.07%) Microservices
5 36 (14.01%) Software Engineering
6 32 (12.45%) Data Analysis
7 31 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.06%) Unit Testing
8 28 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (9.73%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (8.56%) AI
11 21 (8.17%) Test Automation
12 18 (7.00%) SOLID
13 17 (6.61%) Computer Science
13 17 (6.61%) Scrum
14 16 (6.23%) Containerisation
14 16 (6.23%) OOP
15 15 (5.84%) Multithreading
15 15 (5.84%) Refactoring
16 14 (5.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 257 (100.00%) C#
2 109 (42.41%) SQL
3 36 (14.01%) PL/SQL
4 34 (13.23%) JavaScript
5 33 (12.84%) Python
5 33 (12.84%) T-SQL
6 25 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.45%) VBA
8 12 (4.67%) VB
9 9 (3.50%) C++
10 7 (2.72%) Java
11 6 (2.33%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.95%) Bicep
13 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.78%) VB6
13 2 (0.78%) XAML
14 1 (0.39%) Bash
14 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.39%) VBScript
14 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.51%) Degree
4 9 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.33%) PhD
7 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CISSP
9 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.40%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (9.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (22.57%) Oracle
2 36 (14.01%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.28%) Citrix
4 3 (1.17%) Murex
5 2 (0.78%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (0.78%) Foundry
5 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.78%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.39%) Google
6 1 (0.39%) IBM
6 1 (0.39%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.39%) SAP
6 1 (0.39%) Workday