C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 335 277
Rank change year-on-year -88 -58 -36
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 241 232 347
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.71% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.78% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 196 284
10th Percentile £402 £385 £375
25th Percentile £423 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £396 £465
% change year-on-year +19.87% -14.78% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £32.42 - £60.63
25th Percentile £41.66 - -
Median hourly rate £55.90 - £65.00
75th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.90 - £65.00

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 48,822 29,919 38,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.60% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,449 19,032 24,743
10th Percentile £325 £285 £298
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,293 1,436 2,397
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -37.63% -7.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% +6.78%

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 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -121 210 £618 -6.79% 45
London -77 168 £645 -7.86% 10
Work from Home -58 85 £600 -22.58% 22
UK excluding London -84 45 £475 +19.87% 40
North of England -66 16 £500 +25.00% 12
Yorkshire -45 10 £725 +52.63% 3
South East -65 9 £475 -8.12% 15
East of England -19 7 - - 8
North West -44 6 £363 -7.05% 3
East Midlands -9 5 £550 +21.55% 3
Midlands -52 5 £550 +21.55% 6
Scotland - 4 £368 -
Northern Ireland +7 2 - -
South West -47 2 £450 +21.62%

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 241 (100.00%) C#
2 170 (70.54%) .NET
3 111 (46.06%) SQL
4 95 (39.42%) SQL Server
5 83 (34.44%) Azure
6 70 (29.05%) Agile
7 66 (27.39%) CI/CD
8 64 (26.56%) .NET Framework
9 63 (26.14%) DevOps
10 56 (23.24%) Oracle
11 39 (16.18%) Software Engineering
12 37 (15.35%) Microservices
13 36 (14.94%) Microsoft
14 35 (14.52%) JavaScript
15 34 (14.11%) .NET Core
15 34 (14.11%) PL/SQL
15 34 (14.11%) QA
15 34 (14.11%) T-SQL
16 33 (13.69%) AngularJS
16 33 (13.69%) RESTful
16 33 (13.69%) Windows
17 31 (12.86%) Oracle Database
17 31 (12.86%) Security Cleared
18 30 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
18 30 (12.45%) SC Cleared
18 30 (12.45%) Unit Testing
19 29 (12.03%) Citrix
19 29 (12.03%) Degree
20 28 (11.62%) ASP.NET
20 28 (11.62%) Data Analysis

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 22 (9.13%) IIS
2 6 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.66%) Confluence
4 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.24%) Findur
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 83 (34.44%) Azure
2 30 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (8.71%) AWS
4 18 (7.47%) GitHub
5 12 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (2.90%) Serverless
8 6 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (2.07%) Azure Functions
9 5 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (2.07%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.24%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.24%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.24%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Stack
12 2 (0.83%) Collibra
13 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.39%) Internet
2 2 (0.83%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
2 2 (0.83%) Intranet
2 2 (0.83%) RTCP
2 2 (0.83%) RTP
2 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.83%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (39.42%) SQL Server
2 31 (12.86%) Oracle Database
3 16 (6.64%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.98%) Redis
5 10 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.66%) Power BI
9 2 (0.83%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.83%) Metadata
9 2 (0.83%) MS Access
9 2 (0.83%) MySQL
9 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.41%) Db2
Development Applications
1 23 (9.54%) Git
2 15 (6.22%) JIRA
2 15 (6.22%) TeamCity
3 13 (5.39%) Visual Studio
4 10 (4.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (3.73%) SpecFlow
6 5 (2.07%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.66%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.24%) GitLab
8 3 (1.24%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.24%) NUnit
8 3 (1.24%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.83%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.83%) MSTest
9 2 (0.83%) Postman
10 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 89 (36.93%) Finance
2 57 (23.65%) Social Skills
3 54 (22.41%) Front Office
4 52 (21.58%) Banking
5 26 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (9.54%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.81%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.32%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.24%) Back Office
9 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.24%) Retail
10 2 (0.83%) Legal
10 2 (0.83%) Military
10 2 (0.83%) Police
10 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (70.54%) .NET
2 64 (26.56%) .NET Framework
3 34 (14.11%) .NET Core
4 33 (13.69%) AngularJS
4 33 (13.69%) RESTful
5 28 (11.62%) ASP.NET
6 26 (10.79%) WPF
7 25 (10.37%) REST
8 24 (9.96%) React
9 22 (9.13%) WinForms
10 20 (8.30%) HTML
11 16 (6.64%) Entity Framework
11 16 (6.64%) XML
12 15 (6.22%) Web Services
13 12 (4.98%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (3.73%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (3.73%) Blazor
15 9 (3.73%) CSS
16 8 (3.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.03%) Derivative
2 22 (9.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (5.81%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.90%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.49%) Equities
7 6 (2.49%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.24%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.24%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.83%) FMCG
11 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.69%) Windows
2 13 (5.39%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.66%) Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.05%) Agile
2 66 (27.39%) CI/CD
3 63 (26.14%) DevOps
4 39 (16.18%) Software Engineering
5 37 (15.35%) Microservices
6 30 (12.45%) Unit Testing
7 28 (11.62%) Data Analysis
7 28 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (10.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (9.96%) AI
9 24 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (9.96%) Test Automation
10 20 (8.30%) Computer Science
11 19 (7.88%) Scrum
12 18 (7.47%) OOP
13 16 (6.64%) Multithreading
14 15 (6.22%) Refactoring
15 14 (5.81%) Mathematics
15 14 (5.81%) MVC
15 14 (5.81%) OO
Programming Languages
1 241 (100.00%) C#
2 111 (46.06%) SQL
3 35 (14.52%) JavaScript
4 34 (14.11%) PL/SQL
4 34 (14.11%) T-SQL
5 22 (9.13%) Python
6 21 (8.71%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.22%) VBA
8 13 (5.39%) VB
9 10 (4.15%) C++
10 7 (2.90%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.07%) Java
12 3 (1.24%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.83%) VB6
13 2 (0.83%) VBScript
13 2 (0.83%) XAML
13 2 (0.83%) XPath
14 1 (0.41%) Bash
14 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 31 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.03%) Degree
4 14 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.49%) PhD
7 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.11%) QA
2 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.41%) GMP
3 1 (0.41%) GxP
3 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (8.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.24%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (23.24%) Oracle
2 36 (14.94%) Microsoft
3 29 (12.03%) Citrix
4 4 (1.66%) IBM
4 4 (1.66%) Murex
5 3 (1.24%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.83%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.83%) Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) Google
7 1 (0.41%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.41%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Trayport
7 1 (0.41%) Workday