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 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 313 264
Rank change year-on-year -71 -49 -104
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 184 260 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.71% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.76% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 195 364
10th Percentile £385 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £455 £479
% change year-on-year +14.29% -5.01% -4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £51.70 - £62.50
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.04%
75th Percentile £67.32 - -
90th Percentile £71.48 £67.25 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £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 32,306 34,076 43,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.86% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,507 20,574 29,610
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,870 1,280 1,541
10th Percentile £14.19 £15.19 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +55.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +83.51%

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 14 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer 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 14 November 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 -90 169 £500 -13.04% 129
London -35 137 £475 -22.45% 36
Work from Home -23 54 £500 +3.09% 65
UK excluding London -41 31 £520 +14.29% 100
South East 0 9 £488 -7.14% 24
Midlands -23 8 £600 +4.35% 42
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 22
North of England -54 6 £425 -3.95% 21
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -22 3 £500 +3.09% 6
North West -27 3 £343 -19.41% 13
Yorkshire -40 3 £500 +8.70% 4
South West -4 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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.

1 184 (100.00%) C#
2 142 (77.17%) .NET
3 90 (48.91%) SQL
4 71 (38.59%) SQL Server
5 63 (34.24%) .NET Framework
6 55 (29.89%) Azure
7 50 (27.17%) Agile
8 48 (26.09%) Microservices
9 47 (25.54%) DevOps
10 45 (24.46%) Oracle
11 41 (22.28%) Windows
12 38 (20.65%) WPF
13 37 (20.11%) CI/CD
14 36 (19.57%) PL/SQL
15 29 (15.76%) Oracle Database
16 28 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
18 26 (14.13%) Microsoft Excel
19 25 (13.59%) VBA
20 24 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
20 24 (13.04%) Software Engineering
20 24 (13.04%) VB
21 22 (11.96%) AngularJS
21 22 (11.96%) RESTful
22 21 (11.41%) .NET Core
23 20 (10.87%) AWS
23 20 (10.87%) T-SQL
24 19 (10.33%) Degree
24 19 (10.33%) Git
24 19 (10.33%) 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 12 (6.52%) IIS
2 8 (4.35%) Confluence
3 5 (2.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.72%) CMS
3 5 (2.72%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.72%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.72%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.54%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.54%) Mendix
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (14.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.63%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.54%) Eikon
2 1 (0.54%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.54%) Maximo
2 1 (0.54%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 55 (29.89%) Azure
2 27 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (10.87%) AWS
4 19 (10.33%) GitHub
5 12 (6.52%) Serverless
6 8 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 7 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.72%) Contentful
8 5 (2.72%) GCP
8 5 (2.72%) Kontent
8 5 (2.72%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.17%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.17%) SaaS
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.63%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.43%) Internet
2 2 (1.09%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (38.59%) SQL Server
2 29 (15.76%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.98%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.35%) Redis
5 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.72%) Power BI
8 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.54%) Sisense
10 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.33%) Git
2 12 (6.52%) JIRA
2 12 (6.52%) SpecFlow
3 9 (4.89%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.80%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.72%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.17%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.09%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.54%) Crucible
8 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.54%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.54%) NUnit
General
1 71 (38.59%) Finance
2 50 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.30%) Banking
4 23 (12.50%) Front Office
5 19 (10.33%) Investment Banking
6 13 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.63%) Back Office
9 3 (1.63%) Marketing
9 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Electronics
10 2 (1.09%) Military
10 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (77.17%) .NET
2 63 (34.24%) .NET Framework
3 38 (20.65%) WPF
4 22 (11.96%) AngularJS
4 22 (11.96%) RESTful
5 21 (11.41%) .NET Core
6 18 (9.78%) ASP.NET
7 16 (8.70%) Entity Framework
8 12 (6.52%) NHibernate
8 12 (6.52%) REST
9 11 (5.98%) CSS
9 11 (5.98%) HTML
9 11 (5.98%) Playwright
10 10 (5.43%) Kafka
10 10 (5.43%) React
10 10 (5.43%) WCF
10 10 (5.43%) WinForms
11 8 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (2.72%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.52%) Derivative
2 8 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.35%) Hedge funds
2 8 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.72%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.17%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.09%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.09%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.28%) Windows
2 4 (2.17%) Linux
3 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.17%) Agile
2 48 (26.09%) Microservices
3 47 (25.54%) DevOps
4 37 (20.11%) CI/CD
5 28 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 19 (10.33%) Unit Testing
8 18 (9.78%) Scrum
9 16 (8.70%) Clean Code
10 15 (8.15%) Computer Science
10 15 (8.15%) Data Analysis
10 15 (8.15%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (7.61%) API Development
12 13 (7.07%) AI
12 13 (7.07%) TDD
13 12 (6.52%) Risk Management
14 11 (5.98%) OOP
14 11 (5.98%) SDLC
14 11 (5.98%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 184 (100.00%) C#
2 90 (48.91%) SQL
3 36 (19.57%) PL/SQL
4 25 (13.59%) VBA
5 24 (13.04%) VB
6 20 (10.87%) T-SQL
7 19 (10.33%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.61%) VB.NET
9 11 (5.98%) Python
10 5 (2.72%) PHP
11 4 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.17%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.63%) C++
12 3 (1.63%) Java
13 2 (1.09%) Ada
13 2 (1.09%) Assembly Language
13 2 (1.09%) C
13 2 (1.09%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.54%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.54%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.33%) Degree
2 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.17%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.17%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.15%) QA
2 3 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.54%) EMIR
4 1 (0.54%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.15%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (24.46%) Oracle
2 18 (9.78%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.07%) Citrix
4 5 (2.72%) Adobe
4 5 (2.72%) Sitecore
5 4 (2.17%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.63%) FactSet
7 2 (1.09%) Concur
7 2 (1.09%) Confluent
7 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 2 (1.09%) Trayport
8 1 (0.54%) Adyen
8 1 (0.54%) Apple
8 1 (0.54%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.54%) Kofax
8 1 (0.54%) Lotus
8 1 (0.54%) Reuters
8 1 (0.54%) UiPath
8 1 (0.54%) Workday