C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 319 252
Rank change year-on-year -73 -67 -90
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 176 265 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.71% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.77% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 200 391
10th Percentile £383 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £385 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £691 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +10.99% -9.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.04%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £67.25 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +10.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 30,435 34,526 44,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.91% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,258 20,814 30,499
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,682 1,372 1,517
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.07 £14.77
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.25%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% -9.09% +91.30%

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 23 October 2025.

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
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 23 October 2025. 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 -88 160 £501 -12.83% 114
London -44 128 £538 -10.42% 50
Work from Home -17 57 £500 +3.09% 65
UK excluding London -32 31 £505 +10.99% 89
South East +14 9 £488 - 48
North of England -39 7 £475 +3.26% 19
East Midlands -3 6 £518 -5.91% 2
Midlands -26 6 £518 -10.00% 11
Yorkshire -28 5 £500 +8.70% 5
South West +13 4 £393 +4.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
North West -25 2 £343 -23.89% 8
East of England -15 1 £500 +3.09% 9

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, 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.

1 176 (100.00%) C#
2 137 (77.84%) .NET
3 81 (46.02%) SQL
4 70 (39.77%) SQL Server
5 62 (35.23%) Azure
6 54 (30.68%) .NET Framework
7 53 (30.11%) DevOps
8 52 (29.55%) Agile
9 48 (27.27%) Microservices
10 40 (22.73%) Oracle
11 38 (21.59%) WPF
12 35 (19.89%) CI/CD
13 34 (19.32%) Windows
14 32 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (17.05%) PL/SQL
16 29 (16.48%) .NET Core
17 28 (15.91%) Microsoft Excel
18 27 (15.34%) Oracle Database
19 25 (14.20%) VB
19 25 (14.20%) VBA
20 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
21 22 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
21 22 (12.50%) Software Engineering
22 21 (11.93%) Microsoft
22 21 (11.93%) Scrum
23 20 (11.36%) AWS
24 19 (10.80%) RESTful
25 18 (10.23%) AngularJS
25 18 (10.23%) ASP.NET
25 18 (10.23%) GitHub

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 8 (4.55%) IIS
2 7 (3.98%) Confluence
3 3 (1.70%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.14%) CMS
4 2 (1.14%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.57%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.57%) Mendix
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (15.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.70%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.57%) Eikon
2 1 (0.57%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.57%) Maximo
2 1 (0.57%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 62 (35.23%) Azure
2 32 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (11.36%) AWS
4 18 (10.23%) GitHub
5 13 (7.39%) Serverless
6 8 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.41%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.84%) GCP
9 5 (2.84%) SaaS
10 4 (2.27%) ChatGPT
10 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.70%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.55%) Internet
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (39.77%) SQL Server
2 27 (15.34%) Oracle Database
3 10 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.11%) Redis
5 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.84%) Power BI
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.57%) Sisense
9 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (7.39%) Git
2 12 (6.82%) SpecFlow
3 11 (6.25%) JIRA
4 7 (3.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.41%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.27%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.57%) Crucible
7 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.57%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.57%) NUnit
General
1 69 (39.20%) Finance
2 44 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 28 (15.91%) Banking
4 24 (13.64%) Front Office
5 17 (9.66%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.98%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.41%) Marketing
8 6 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.84%) Electronics
9 5 (2.84%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.14%) Back Office
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (77.84%) .NET
2 54 (30.68%) .NET Framework
3 38 (21.59%) WPF
4 29 (16.48%) .NET Core
5 19 (10.80%) RESTful
6 18 (10.23%) AngularJS
6 18 (10.23%) ASP.NET
7 16 (9.09%) Entity Framework
8 12 (6.82%) NHibernate
9 11 (6.25%) Kafka
9 11 (6.25%) Playwright
9 11 (6.25%) React
9 11 (6.25%) REST
10 9 (5.11%) CSS
10 9 (5.11%) HTML
11 8 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (4.55%) WCF
11 8 (4.55%) WinForms
12 6 (3.41%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (2.84%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.52%) Derivative
2 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.84%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.27%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.14%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.14%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.32%) Windows
2 3 (1.70%) Android
2 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.11%) DevOps
2 52 (29.55%) Agile
3 48 (27.27%) Microservices
4 35 (19.89%) CI/CD
5 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 21 (11.93%) Scrum
8 15 (8.52%) Clean Code
9 14 (7.95%) Computer Science
9 14 (7.95%) Risk Management
10 13 (7.39%) TDD
10 13 (7.39%) Unit Testing
11 11 (6.25%) API Development
11 11 (6.25%) OO
11 11 (6.25%) SDLC
12 10 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (5.68%) Mathematics
12 10 (5.68%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 176 (100.00%) C#
2 81 (46.02%) SQL
3 30 (17.05%) PL/SQL
4 25 (14.20%) VB
4 25 (14.20%) VBA
5 17 (9.66%) VB.NET
6 16 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.95%) T-SQL
8 10 (5.68%) Python
9 8 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.84%) PHP
10 5 (2.84%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.70%) Bicep
11 3 (1.70%) Java
12 2 (1.14%) Ada
12 2 (1.14%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.14%) C
12 2 (1.14%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.57%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.57%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 16 (9.09%) Degree
2 9 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) QA
2 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) EMIR
4 1 (0.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (7.39%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.95%) Terraform
2 11 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (22.73%) Oracle
2 21 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.55%) Citrix
4 5 (2.84%) SAP
5 4 (2.27%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.70%) Confluent
6 3 (1.70%) FactSet
7 2 (1.14%) Adobe
7 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.14%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.14%) Trayport
8 1 (0.57%) Adyen
8 1 (0.57%) Apple
8 1 (0.57%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.57%) Kofax
8 1 (0.57%) Lotus
8 1 (0.57%) Reuters
8 1 (0.57%) UiPath
8 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.57%) Workday