C# Developer Contracts

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £655, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 269 222
Rank change year-on-year -50 -47 -2
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 235 367 664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.85% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.91% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 306 577
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £788 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £800 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £475 £473
% change year-on-year -17.89% +0.53% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £60.63 £43.58
25th Percentile - - £54.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £66.56
90th Percentile - £71.88 £71.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -

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 29,294 40,276 53,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 93.01% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,671 25,908 37,253
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,326 2,804 1,565
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C# Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# Developer.

Daily rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# Developer.

Hourly rate trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 13 Contract 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 6 July 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 -32 221 £675 +8.43% 190
London -19 190 £700 +7.69% 62
Work from Home -30 92 £775 +24.50% 126
UK excluding London +33 32 £390 -17.89% 135
South West +44 12 £370 +9.63% 11
North of England -3 9 £400 -13.51% 46
South East +37 5 £496 -3.22% 39
North West +6 5 £390 -17.89% 30
Yorkshire +1 4 £500 +16.28% 9
Northern Ireland - 3 £325 -
East of England +24 2 £490 - 15
Midlands +7 1 £385 -21.03% 21
East Midlands 0 1 £385 -30.00% 13

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 235 (100.00%) C#
2 178 (75.74%) .NET
3 113 (48.09%) Finance
4 107 (45.53%) SQL
5 79 (33.62%) Azure
6 77 (32.77%) SQL Server
6 77 (32.77%) Social Skills
7 76 (32.34%) Agile
8 74 (31.49%) Oracle
9 64 (27.23%) .NET Framework
10 62 (26.38%) Front Office
11 60 (25.53%) DevOps
12 53 (22.55%) WPF
13 49 (20.85%) Windows
14 47 (20.00%) Banking
15 46 (19.57%) .NET Core
16 43 (18.30%) Microsoft Excel
16 43 (18.30%) JavaScript
17 42 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
18 38 (16.17%) PL/SQL
19 36 (15.32%) OO
19 36 (15.32%) TDD
20 34 (14.47%) VBA
21 33 (14.04%) VB
21 33 (14.04%) Microsoft
22 32 (13.62%) AngularJS
22 32 (13.62%) Oracle Database
23 31 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
23 31 (13.19%) ASP.NET
24 29 (12.34%) CI/CD

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.53%) IIS
2 4 (1.70%) Confluence
2 4 (1.70%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 43 (18.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Eikon
2 1 (0.43%) Maximo
2 1 (0.43%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 79 (33.62%) Azure
2 28 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.21%) AWS
4 8 (3.40%) GCP
5 6 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (2.55%) Serverless
6 4 (1.70%) Azure Functions
6 4 (1.70%) GitHub
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.28%) CloudFront
7 3 (1.28%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.28%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.28%) Route 53
7 3 (1.28%) SaaS
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.11%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (32.77%) SQL Server
2 32 (13.62%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.68%) Redis
4 7 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.70%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.28%) Big Data
8 3 (1.28%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.28%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.85%) Power BI
10 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (10.21%) JIRA
2 18 (7.66%) Git
3 11 (4.68%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.55%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.85%) Ant
7 2 (0.85%) Maven
7 2 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.85%) Subversion
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.43%) GitLab
8 1 (0.43%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.43%) Moq
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (48.09%) Finance
2 77 (32.77%) Social Skills
3 62 (26.38%) Front Office
4 47 (20.00%) Banking
5 42 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (11.91%) Investment Banking
7 15 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.38%) Telecoms
8 14 (5.96%) Manufacturing
9 13 (5.53%) Electronics
9 13 (5.53%) Marketing
10 8 (3.40%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.28%) Billing
11 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Legal
11 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Back Office
12 2 (0.85%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (75.74%) .NET
2 64 (27.23%) .NET Framework
3 53 (22.55%) WPF
4 46 (19.57%) .NET Core
5 32 (13.62%) AngularJS
6 31 (13.19%) ASP.NET
7 26 (11.06%) Reactive Extensions
8 25 (10.64%) WCF
9 21 (8.94%) CSS
9 21 (8.94%) HTML
9 21 (8.94%) React
10 19 (8.09%) Kafka
11 16 (6.81%) Web Services
12 14 (5.96%) WinForms
13 13 (5.53%) REST
13 13 (5.53%) RESTful
14 11 (4.68%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (4.68%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (3.83%) Entity Framework
16 7 (2.98%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.91%) Derivative
2 23 (9.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.83%) Fixed Income
4 9 (3.83%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.55%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.70%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.70%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.70%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.28%) Equities
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.28%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 49 (20.85%) Windows
2 6 (2.55%) Linux
3 3 (1.28%) Android
3 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.34%) Agile
2 60 (25.53%) DevOps
3 36 (15.32%) OO
3 36 (15.32%) TDD
4 31 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (12.34%) CI/CD
5 29 (12.34%) Design Patterns
5 29 (12.34%) Microservices
6 28 (11.91%) Software Engineering
7 27 (11.49%) Computer Science
8 23 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (8.51%) Continuous Delivery
9 20 (8.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (8.51%) Unit Testing
10 19 (8.09%) Analytics
10 19 (8.09%) Electronic Trading
11 18 (7.66%) Data Analysis
11 18 (7.66%) Multithreading
11 18 (7.66%) Scrum
11 18 (7.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 235 (100.00%) C#
2 107 (45.53%) SQL
3 43 (18.30%) JavaScript
4 38 (16.17%) PL/SQL
5 34 (14.47%) VBA
6 33 (14.04%) VB
7 25 (10.64%) TypeScript
8 22 (9.36%) Java
9 21 (8.94%) Python
10 20 (8.51%) VB.NET
11 19 (8.09%) C++
12 16 (6.81%) T-SQL
13 12 (5.11%) PowerShell
14 6 (2.55%) F#
15 5 (2.13%) RPG
15 5 (2.13%) RPG IV
16 4 (1.70%) Haskell
17 3 (1.28%) Bicep
18 1 (0.43%) Korn
18 1 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (8.51%) Degree
2 11 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.40%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.55%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (1.70%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.79%) QA
2 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.85%) EMIR
3 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (5.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.11%) Terraform
2 9 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 74 (31.49%) Oracle
2 33 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.53%) SAP
4 12 (5.11%) Citrix
5 7 (2.98%) Google
6 4 (1.70%) Databricks
7 3 (1.28%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.85%) FactSet
8 2 (0.85%) Solace
8 2 (0.85%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.43%) Confluent
9 1 (0.43%) Murex
9 1 (0.43%) Reuters
9 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.43%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.43%) UiPath