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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 302 255
Rank change year-on-year -98 -47 -87
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 229 238 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.81% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.87% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 199 357
10th Percentile £327 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £678 £763 £738
90th Percentile £771 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £406 £475
% change year-on-year +10.77% -14.47% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £26.25 - £57.13
25th Percentile £36.13 - £58.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% +3.92%
75th Percentile - - £73.44
90th Percentile £68.70 - £74.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.92%

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 39,127 27,402 41,559
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 92.96% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,467 17,684 27,246
10th Percentile £312 £293 £270
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 859 2,507
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +2.17% -22.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.16 £76.44 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.95 £32.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +7.52% -0.60% -18.26%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -108 198 £510 -21.54% 62
London -65 165 £550 -18.52% 26
Work from Home -39 72 £515 -26.43% 27
UK excluding London -82 37 £450 +10.77% 44
North West -27 12 £358 -13.21% 7
North of England -62 12 £358 -11.88% 11
Midlands - 9 £600 - 7
East Midlands - 7 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland -4 4 - -
South East -50 4 £584 +6.18% 19
Scotland +17 3 £388 -22.50% 1
East of England -25 3 - - 1
South West -21 2 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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.

1 229 (100.00%) C#
2 166 (72.49%) .NET
3 111 (48.47%) SQL
4 86 (37.55%) SQL Server
5 73 (31.88%) Azure
6 72 (31.44%) .NET Framework
7 63 (27.51%) CI/CD
8 60 (26.20%) Agile
9 56 (24.45%) Oracle
10 51 (22.27%) DevOps
11 47 (20.52%) Microservices
12 46 (20.09%) PL/SQL
13 41 (17.90%) Windows
14 36 (15.72%) QA
14 36 (15.72%) T-SQL
15 34 (14.85%) Oracle Database
16 32 (13.97%) Data Analysis
16 32 (13.97%) Unit Testing
17 31 (13.54%) Microsoft
17 31 (13.54%) REST
18 30 (13.10%) AngularJS
18 30 (13.10%) Citrix
19 29 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
19 29 (12.66%) JavaScript
20 28 (12.23%) .NET Core
20 28 (12.23%) Disaster Recovery
20 28 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
21 27 (11.79%) Full-Stack Development
21 27 (11.79%) Python
22 26 (11.35%) AI

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 (7.42%) IIS
2 5 (2.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (2.18%) CMS
2 5 (2.18%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.18%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (2.18%) Umbraco
3 4 (1.75%) Confluence
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 73 (31.88%) Azure
2 29 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (10.04%) GitHub
4 22 (9.61%) AWS
5 20 (8.73%) Serverless
6 15 (6.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.68%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.49%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.49%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (3.06%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.62%) Collibra
14 5 (2.18%) Contentful
14 5 (2.18%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.18%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.80%) Internet
2 3 (1.31%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.87%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.87%) HTTP
3 2 (0.87%) RTCP
3 2 (0.87%) RTP
3 2 (0.87%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (37.55%) SQL Server
2 34 (14.85%) Oracle Database
3 16 (6.99%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.93%) Redis
6 7 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.62%) Metadata
7 6 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.31%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.87%) Power BI
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.44%) DataStage
10 1 (0.44%) MySQL
10 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.44%) Sisense
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.86%) Git
2 15 (6.55%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.37%) JIRA
3 10 (4.37%) TeamCity
4 9 (3.93%) SpecFlow
5 8 (3.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.18%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.75%) NUnit
8 3 (1.31%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.31%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.87%) MSTest
9 2 (0.87%) Selenium
10 1 (0.44%) Crucible
10 1 (0.44%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 74 (32.31%) Finance
2 59 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 47 (20.52%) Banking
4 24 (10.48%) Front Office
5 20 (8.73%) Investment Banking
6 11 (4.80%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.06%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.18%) Back Office
10 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.31%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.31%) Military
11 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Law
12 2 (0.87%) Police
13 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.44%) Legal
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Retail
13 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (72.49%) .NET
2 72 (31.44%) .NET Framework
3 31 (13.54%) REST
4 30 (13.10%) AngularJS
5 28 (12.23%) .NET Core
6 24 (10.48%) Entity Framework
6 24 (10.48%) HTML
6 24 (10.48%) RESTful
7 22 (9.61%) ASP.NET
7 22 (9.61%) WPF
8 20 (8.73%) React
9 16 (6.99%) WinForms
10 15 (6.55%) CSS
11 13 (5.68%) OAuth
12 11 (4.80%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (4.80%) OAuth2
13 10 (4.37%) ASP.NET Web API
13 10 (4.37%) JWT
14 9 (3.93%) NHibernate
15 8 (3.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.55%) Cloud Native
1 15 (6.55%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (5.68%) Derivative
3 10 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.62%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.18%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.31%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.31%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.87%) Equities
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.90%) Windows
2 18 (7.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.31%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.51%) CI/CD
2 60 (26.20%) Agile
3 51 (22.27%) DevOps
4 47 (20.52%) Microservices
5 32 (13.97%) Data Analysis
5 32 (13.97%) Unit Testing
6 28 (12.23%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (11.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 26 (11.35%) AI
9 23 (10.04%) Software Engineering
10 20 (8.73%) OOP
11 19 (8.30%) Change Management
11 19 (8.30%) Clean Code
12 18 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (7.86%) SOLID
13 17 (7.42%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (6.99%) Containerisation
15 14 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (6.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 229 (100.00%) C#
2 111 (48.47%) SQL
3 46 (20.09%) PL/SQL
4 36 (15.72%) T-SQL
5 29 (12.66%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.79%) Python
7 19 (8.30%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.68%) VB
8 13 (5.68%) VBA
9 8 (3.49%) Bicep
10 7 (3.06%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.62%) Java
12 4 (1.75%) C++
13 3 (1.31%) PHP
14 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.44%) F#
15 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (8.73%) Degree
2 16 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) CISSP
6 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.72%) QA
2 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) MiFID
3 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (11.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (24.45%) Oracle
2 31 (13.54%) Microsoft
3 30 (13.10%) Citrix
4 6 (2.62%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.18%) Adobe
6 2 (0.87%) Concur
6 2 (0.87%) Foundry
6 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.87%) Trayport
7 1 (0.44%) Databricks
7 1 (0.44%) Google
7 1 (0.44%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) Workday