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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 289 252
Rank change year-on-year -113 -37 -97
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 190 248 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.78% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.84% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 182 351
10th Percentile £330 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £506
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 £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
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 33,229 29,465 40,074
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.70% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,002 18,045 26,741
10th Percentile £300 £291 £280
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,953 888 1,677
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.22 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £44.78
% change year-on-year -20.18% -29.63% +65.05%

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 11 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 11 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 14 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 11 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 -94 169 £488 -18.41% 56
London -47 136 £500 -23.08% 18
Work from Home -34 55 £475 -9.52% 41
UK excluding London -59 37 £488 +2.63% 51
Midlands -31 10 £560 -2.61% 8
North of England -43 9 £450 +9.09% 12
South East -10 8 £525 -4.55% 17
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 2
North West -28 7 £400 -3.03% 10
Northern Ireland -1 6 - -
East of England -20 3 £500 +3.09% 1
West Midlands -29 2 £350 -39.13% 6
Yorkshire -45 2 £475 - 1
Scotland 0 1 £455 -4.21% 8

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

For the 6 months to 11 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#
2 139 (73.16%) .NET
3 87 (45.79%) SQL
4 73 (38.42%) SQL Server
5 59 (31.05%) Azure
6 57 (30.00%) .NET Framework
7 52 (27.37%) Microservices
8 51 (26.84%) Agile
9 48 (25.26%) CI/CD
10 46 (24.21%) DevOps
11 43 (22.63%) Oracle
12 41 (21.58%) PL/SQL
13 39 (20.53%) Windows
14 32 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (14.74%) Oracle Database
16 28 (14.74%) T-SQL
17 26 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
18 25 (13.16%) GitHub
18 25 (13.16%) REST
19 24 (12.63%) AWS
19 24 (12.63%) Docker
19 24 (12.63%) RESTful
20 23 (12.11%) Degree
20 23 (12.11%) Microsoft
20 23 (12.11%) QA
20 23 (12.11%) Unit Testing
21 22 (11.58%) Software Engineering
21 22 (11.58%) WPF
22 21 (11.05%) AngularJS

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 19 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.05%) Azure
2 30 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (13.16%) GitHub
4 24 (12.63%) AWS
5 17 (8.95%) Serverless
6 15 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (6.32%) Azure Functions
8 11 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (4.74%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.21%) Azure AKS
11 8 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.68%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.16%) Azure API Management
14 5 (2.63%) Contentful
14 5 (2.63%) GCP
14 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 73 (38.42%) SQL Server
2 28 (14.74%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.32%) 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 3 (1.58%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.05%) Metadata
8 2 (1.05%) Power BI
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 18 (9.47%) Git
2 14 (7.37%) 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 67 (35.26%) Finance
2 55 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.95%) Banking
4 21 (11.05%) Investment Banking
5 20 (10.53%) Front Office
6 9 (4.74%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.58%) Back Office
8 3 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Military
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
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%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (73.16%) .NET
2 57 (30.00%) .NET Framework
3 25 (13.16%) REST
4 24 (12.63%) RESTful
5 22 (11.58%) WPF
6 21 (11.05%) AngularJS
7 20 (10.53%) Entity Framework
8 18 (9.47%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.84%) NHibernate
10 12 (6.32%) WinForms
11 11 (5.79%) Kafka
12 10 (5.26%) ASP.NET
12 10 (5.26%) HTML
12 10 (5.26%) Playwright
13 9 (4.74%) CSS
14 8 (4.21%) React
15 7 (3.68%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (3.68%) JWT
15 7 (3.68%) OAuth2
15 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
5 6 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.63%) Data Fabric
6 5 (2.63%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.58%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.58%) 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
9 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.53%) Windows
2 11 (5.79%) 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
4 46 (24.21%) DevOps
5 32 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (12.11%) Unit Testing
8 22 (11.58%) Software Engineering
9 20 (10.53%) Clean Code
10 19 (10.00%) Data Analysis
11 18 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (7.89%) AI
12 15 (7.89%) API Development
12 15 (7.89%) Containerisation
13 14 (7.37%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (7.37%) Scrum
14 13 (6.84%) Computer Science
14 13 (6.84%) OOP
15 12 (6.32%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (6.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 190 (100.00%) C#
2 87 (45.79%) SQL
3 41 (21.58%) PL/SQL
4 28 (14.74%) T-SQL
5 17 (8.95%) VB
5 17 (8.95%) VBA
6 14 (7.37%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.37%) Python
7 8 (4.21%) 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 23 (12.11%) Degree
2 8 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.11%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.53%) GDPR
2 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (12.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (11.05%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (22.63%) Oracle
2 23 (12.11%) Microsoft
3 21 (11.05%) Citrix
4 5 (2.63%) Adobe
4 5 (2.63%) 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 (0.53%) Adyen
6 1 (0.53%) Apple
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%) Workday