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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 293 256
Rank change year-on-year -95 -37 -55
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 245 254 389
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.87% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.94% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 212 332
10th Percentile £330 £380 £377
25th Percentile £404 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £703 £800 £738
90th Percentile £774 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £393 £475
% change year-on-year +14.65% -17.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £58.00
25th Percentile £26.25 - £60.63
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% - +14.04%

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 44,449 26,943 39,487
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.37% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,215 17,536 25,722
10th Percentile £325 £293 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,895 1,057 2,674
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.45% -23.29% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.13 £61.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £77.80 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.96% -32.50% -5.88%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -134 212 £535 -20.74% 58
London -67 176 £593 -17.71% 28
Work from Home -65 76 £600 -25.00% 30
UK excluding London -88 41 £450 +14.65% 36
North of England -61 14 £431 +7.81% 8
North West -35 11 £385 -2.47% 4
South East -63 10 £525 +5.85% 18
Northern Ireland -2 5 - -
Midlands -62 4 £350 -9.09% 8
Scotland -8 3 £388 -22.50%
South West -45 3 £450 +21.62%
Yorkshire -59 3 £500 - 1
East Midlands -28 2 £550 +42.86% 6
East of England -29 2 - - 4
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 245 (100.00%) C#
2 175 (71.43%) .NET
3 111 (45.31%) SQL
4 93 (37.96%) SQL Server
5 91 (37.14%) Azure
6 69 (28.16%) CI/CD
7 66 (26.94%) .NET Framework
8 62 (25.31%) Agile
9 57 (23.27%) DevOps
10 56 (22.86%) Oracle
11 50 (20.41%) Microservices
12 42 (17.14%) QA
13 41 (16.73%) PL/SQL
14 37 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (15.10%) Microsoft
14 37 (15.10%) Windows
15 36 (14.69%) Oracle Database
15 36 (14.69%) T-SQL
16 34 (13.88%) Data Analysis
17 33 (13.47%) Citrix
17 33 (13.47%) JavaScript
18 32 (13.06%) AngularJS
18 32 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
18 32 (13.06%) Python
19 30 (12.24%) .NET Core
19 30 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
20 29 (11.84%) REST
21 28 (11.43%) Docker
21 28 (11.43%) Unit Testing
22 26 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development

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 21 (8.57%) IIS
2 5 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Endur
2 1 (0.41%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 91 (37.14%) Azure
2 37 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (10.20%) GitHub
4 22 (8.98%) AWS
5 18 (7.35%) Serverless
6 16 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (5.71%) Azure Functions
9 10 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (3.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (3.67%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.27%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.27%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.45%) Collibra
13 5 (2.04%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.90%) Internet
2 2 (0.82%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.82%) HTTP
2 2 (0.82%) RTCP
2 2 (0.82%) RTP
2 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.82%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (37.96%) SQL Server
2 36 (14.69%) Oracle Database
3 16 (6.53%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (4.49%) Redis
6 7 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.45%) Metadata
8 5 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.22%) Power BI
11 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.82%) MySQL
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.41%) MS Access
12 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (6.12%) Git
1 15 (6.12%) Visual Studio
2 13 (5.31%) TeamCity
3 10 (4.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 9 (3.67%) JIRA
5 5 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.04%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.63%) NUnit
7 3 (1.22%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.82%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.82%) GitLab
8 2 (0.82%) MSTest
8 2 (0.82%) Selenium
8 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.41%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.41%) Rational Robot
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 87 (35.51%) Finance
2 62 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 52 (21.22%) Banking
4 38 (15.51%) Front Office
5 22 (8.98%) Investment Banking
6 15 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.31%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.49%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Back Office
11 2 (0.82%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.82%) Law
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Military
11 2 (0.82%) Police
11 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
11 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (71.43%) .NET
2 66 (26.94%) .NET Framework
3 32 (13.06%) AngularJS
4 30 (12.24%) .NET Core
5 29 (11.84%) REST
6 26 (10.61%) RESTful
7 23 (9.39%) WPF
8 22 (8.98%) React
9 21 (8.57%) ASP.NET
10 20 (8.16%) Entity Framework
10 20 (8.16%) HTML
10 20 (8.16%) WinForms
11 12 (4.90%) OAuth
12 11 (4.49%) XML
13 10 (4.08%) OAuth2
14 9 (3.67%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (3.67%) CSS
14 9 (3.67%) JWT
15 8 (3.27%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (3.27%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.35%) Derivative
2 17 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.45%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.63%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.63%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.22%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.22%) Equities
11 3 (1.22%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.82%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.10%) Windows
2 19 (7.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.82%) Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.16%) CI/CD
2 62 (25.31%) Agile
3 57 (23.27%) DevOps
4 50 (20.41%) Microservices
5 34 (13.88%) Data Analysis
6 32 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (11.43%) Unit Testing
9 26 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (10.20%) Software Engineering
11 21 (8.57%) AI
12 20 (8.16%) SOLID
12 20 (8.16%) Test Automation
13 19 (7.76%) Containerisation
14 18 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (7.35%) OOP
15 16 (6.53%) Change Management
15 16 (6.53%) Clean Code
15 16 (6.53%) Performance Tuning
16 14 (5.71%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 245 (100.00%) C#
2 111 (45.31%) SQL
3 41 (16.73%) PL/SQL
4 36 (14.69%) T-SQL
5 33 (13.47%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.06%) Python
7 24 (9.80%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.71%) VB
8 14 (5.71%) VBA
9 8 (3.27%) Bicep
10 7 (2.86%) Java
11 6 (2.45%) C++
11 6 (2.45%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.82%) VB6
13 1 (0.41%) Bash
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
13 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.80%) Degree
2 24 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.41%) CISSP
6 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.14%) QA
2 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.41%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.67%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (22.86%) Oracle
2 37 (15.10%) Microsoft
3 33 (13.47%) Citrix
4 2 (0.82%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (0.82%) Foundry
4 2 (0.82%) Murex
4 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.41%) Google
5 1 (0.41%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.41%) SAP
5 1 (0.41%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.41%) Workday