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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 294 260
Rank change year-on-year -111 -34 -86
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 227 240 408
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.83% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.89% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 204 341
10th Percentile £330 £357 £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £753 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £801
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £380 £475
% change year-on-year +19.08% -20.00% -8.65%
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% +6.00%
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 40,363 27,024 41,118
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 92.92% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,200 17,764 26,931
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £412 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.47% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,503 906 2,513
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.20 £12.87
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.95% - -24.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.25 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.86 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.40% - -20.36%

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 25 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 25 March 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 25 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 -138 197 £515 -20.77% 61
London -86 162 £550 -18.52% 28
Work from Home -48 70 £600 -14.29% 38
UK excluding London -94 42 £453 +19.08% 40
North of England -63 14 £431 +9.18% 17
North West -30 11 £385 -3.69% 10
Midlands - 9 £600 - 8
East Midlands - 7 £600 - 3
Northern Ireland -2 6 - -
South East -52 5 £584 +6.18% 9
Scotland +11 3 £388 -22.50% 1
East of England -33 3 - - 4
Yorkshire -58 3 £500 +90.48% 4
South West -26 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 227 (100.00%) C#
2 163 (71.81%) .NET
3 113 (49.78%) SQL
4 85 (37.44%) SQL Server
5 75 (33.04%) Azure
6 67 (29.52%) .NET Framework
7 64 (28.19%) CI/CD
8 57 (25.11%) Agile
9 54 (23.79%) Oracle
10 49 (21.59%) DevOps
11 44 (19.38%) Microservices
11 44 (19.38%) PL/SQL
12 38 (16.74%) Windows
13 37 (16.30%) QA
13 37 (16.30%) T-SQL
14 32 (14.10%) AngularJS
14 32 (14.10%) Data Analysis
14 32 (14.10%) Oracle Database
15 31 (13.66%) JavaScript
15 31 (13.66%) Microsoft
15 31 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (13.22%) Citrix
16 30 (13.22%) REST
16 30 (13.22%) Unit Testing
17 29 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
18 28 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
18 28 (12.33%) Docker
19 27 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
19 27 (11.89%) Python
19 27 (11.89%) RESTful

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 (7.49%) IIS
2 5 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (2.20%) CMS
2 5 (2.20%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.20%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (2.20%) Umbraco
3 4 (1.76%) Confluence
3 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.04%) Azure
2 29 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.57%) GitHub
4 22 (9.69%) AWS
5 17 (7.49%) Serverless
6 15 (6.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.29%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.85%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.52%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.52%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.64%) Collibra
12 6 (2.64%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.20%) Contentful
13 5 (2.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.85%) Internet
2 3 (1.32%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.88%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.88%) HTTP
3 2 (0.88%) RTCP
3 2 (0.88%) RTP
3 2 (0.88%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (37.44%) SQL Server
2 32 (14.10%) Oracle Database
3 17 (7.49%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.52%) Redis
6 7 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.64%) Metadata
8 5 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.76%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.88%) MySQL
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.44%) DataStage
12 1 (0.44%) Power BI
12 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.93%) Git
2 15 (6.61%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.41%) JIRA
3 10 (4.41%) TeamCity
4 8 (3.52%) SpecFlow
5 7 (3.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.20%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.76%) NUnit
8 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.32%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.88%) MSTest
9 2 (0.88%) Selenium
10 1 (0.44%) Crucible
10 1 (0.44%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 71 (31.28%) Finance
2 58 (25.55%) Social Skills
3 45 (19.82%) Banking
4 25 (11.01%) Front Office
5 19 (8.37%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.64%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.76%) Back Office
9 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Military
10 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.88%) Law
11 2 (0.88%) Police
11 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (71.81%) .NET
2 67 (29.52%) .NET Framework
3 32 (14.10%) AngularJS
4 30 (13.22%) REST
5 27 (11.89%) RESTful
6 26 (11.45%) .NET Core
7 24 (10.57%) HTML
8 23 (10.13%) ASP.NET
9 22 (9.69%) WPF
10 21 (9.25%) Entity Framework
11 20 (8.81%) React
12 16 (7.05%) WinForms
13 14 (6.17%) CSS
14 13 (5.73%) OAuth
15 11 (4.85%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (4.85%) OAuth2
16 10 (4.41%) JWT
17 9 (3.96%) ASP.NET Web API
18 7 (3.08%) ASP.NET Core
18 7 (3.08%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.73%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.29%) Derivative
4 11 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.64%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.20%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.32%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.32%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.88%) Equities
11 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.74%) Windows
2 18 (7.93%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.32%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.19%) CI/CD
2 57 (25.11%) Agile
3 49 (21.59%) DevOps
4 44 (19.38%) Microservices
5 32 (14.10%) Data Analysis
6 31 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (13.22%) Unit Testing
8 28 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 27 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (11.01%) AI
11 23 (10.13%) Software Engineering
12 19 (8.37%) Change Management
12 19 (8.37%) OOP
13 18 (7.93%) SOLID
14 17 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (7.49%) Containerisation
15 16 (7.05%) Clean Code
15 16 (7.05%) Performance Tuning
16 15 (6.61%) Test Automation
17 14 (6.17%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 227 (100.00%) C#
2 113 (49.78%) SQL
3 44 (19.38%) PL/SQL
4 37 (16.30%) T-SQL
5 31 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.89%) Python
7 21 (9.25%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.29%) VB
8 12 (5.29%) VBA
9 8 (3.52%) Bicep
9 8 (3.52%) Java
10 7 (3.08%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.20%) C++
12 3 (1.32%) PHP
13 2 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.44%) F#
14 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (9.25%) Degree
2 18 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.88%) 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
6 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.30%) QA
2 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) MiFID
3 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (12.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (23.79%) Oracle
2 31 (13.66%) Microsoft
3 30 (13.22%) Citrix
4 6 (2.64%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.20%) Adobe
6 2 (0.88%) Concur
6 2 (0.88%) Foundry
6 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) Databricks
7 1 (0.44%) Google
7 1 (0.44%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) Trayport