C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 282 252
Rank change year-on-year -82 -30 -70
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 205 316 490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.82% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.89% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 242 413
10th Percentile £385 £363 £400
25th Percentile £401 £400 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £763 £700 £750
90th Percentile £835 £800 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £66.88 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +19.66%

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 29,736 35,681 46,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 92.95% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,755 21,927 32,149
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,586 1,658 1,511
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.17 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.13 £43.90 £43.75
% change year-on-year -42.76% +0.34% +98.86%

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
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 21 September 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
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 21 September 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 -66 189 £550 -4.35% 102
London -34 158 £675 +12.50% 35
Work from Home -21 69 £563 +6.13% 70
UK excluding London -9 29 £475 +2.15% 83
South East +24 10 £517 +6.05% 34
North of England -34 8 £475 +2.70% 12
South West +28 5 £420 -1.24% 3
Yorkshire -21 5 £500 +8.70% 2
North West -16 3 £375 -21.05% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -1 2 £453 -17.73% 17
Midlands -19 2 £453 -17.73% 26
East of England -9 1 £500 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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.

1 205 (100.00%) C#
2 151 (73.66%) .NET
3 92 (44.88%) SQL
4 84 (40.98%) Finance
5 82 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 79 (38.54%) Azure
7 64 (31.22%) DevOps
8 58 (28.29%) Agile
9 56 (27.32%) Social Skills
10 55 (26.83%) .NET Framework
11 49 (23.90%) Oracle
12 48 (23.41%) Front Office
12 48 (23.41%) Microservices
13 46 (22.44%) WPF
14 42 (20.49%) Windows
15 38 (18.54%) Azure DevOps
15 38 (18.54%) Banking
16 37 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
17 34 (16.59%) CI/CD
18 32 (15.61%) PL/SQL
19 31 (15.12%) Oracle Database
20 30 (14.63%) .NET Core
21 29 (14.15%) VBA
21 29 (14.15%) VB
22 26 (12.68%) JavaScript
22 26 (12.68%) Microsoft
22 26 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
23 25 (12.20%) Investment Banking
24 24 (11.71%) Software Engineering
24 24 (11.71%) Derivative

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 9 (4.39%) IIS
2 6 (2.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.49%) Mendix
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.46%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.49%) Eikon
2 1 (0.49%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.49%) Maximo
2 1 (0.49%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.54%) Azure
2 38 (18.54%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (8.29%) AWS
4 14 (6.83%) GitHub
5 13 (6.34%) Serverless
6 8 (3.90%) Azure Functions
6 8 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (2.93%) GCP
8 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.93%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.44%) SaaS
10 4 (1.95%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.46%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.98%) ChatGPT
12 2 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 31 (15.12%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.37%) Redis
4 9 (4.39%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.39%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.44%) Power BI
7 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.46%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.49%) MySQL
9 1 (0.49%) Sisense
9 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.24%) Git
2 15 (7.32%) JIRA
3 10 (4.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 9 (4.39%) TeamCity
5 8 (3.90%) SpecFlow
5 8 (3.90%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.44%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.95%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.49%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.49%) NUnit
9 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 84 (40.98%) Finance
2 56 (27.32%) Social Skills
3 48 (23.41%) Front Office
4 38 (18.54%) Banking
5 25 (12.20%) Investment Banking
6 20 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.41%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.93%) Marketing
10 5 (2.44%) Electronics
11 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.49%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.49%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (73.66%) .NET
2 55 (26.83%) .NET Framework
3 46 (22.44%) WPF
4 30 (14.63%) .NET Core
5 23 (11.22%) AngularJS
6 19 (9.27%) ASP.NET
6 19 (9.27%) React
7 17 (8.29%) RESTful
8 14 (6.83%) Kafka
9 13 (6.34%) Reactive Extensions
10 12 (5.85%) CSS
10 12 (5.85%) HTML
11 11 (5.37%) Entity Framework
11 11 (5.37%) REST
12 10 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (4.88%) WCF
12 10 (4.88%) WinForms
13 9 (4.39%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (3.41%) NHibernate
14 7 (3.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.71%) Derivative
2 11 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.39%) Hedge funds
4 8 (3.90%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.95%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.95%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.46%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 42 (20.49%) Windows
2 3 (1.46%) Android
2 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (31.22%) DevOps
2 58 (28.29%) Agile
3 48 (23.41%) Microservices
4 34 (16.59%) CI/CD
5 26 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (11.71%) Software Engineering
7 22 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (10.73%) Scrum
8 20 (9.76%) OO
8 20 (9.76%) TDD
9 19 (9.27%) Risk Management
10 17 (8.29%) Computer Science
11 16 (7.80%) Mathematics
12 15 (7.32%) Clean Code
13 14 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (6.83%) Design Patterns
13 14 (6.83%) Multithreading
14 12 (5.85%) Analytics
14 12 (5.85%) Electronic Trading
14 12 (5.85%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 205 (100.00%) C#
2 92 (44.88%) SQL
3 32 (15.61%) PL/SQL
4 29 (14.15%) VB
4 29 (14.15%) VBA
5 26 (12.68%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.76%) VB.NET
7 19 (9.27%) Python
8 14 (6.83%) T-SQL
8 14 (6.83%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.39%) Java
9 9 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.95%) F#
11 3 (1.46%) Bicep
12 2 (0.98%) Ada
12 2 (0.98%) Assembly Language
12 2 (0.98%) C++
12 2 (0.98%) Haskell
12 2 (0.98%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (8.29%) Degree
2 8 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.93%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.95%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.85%) QA
2 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) EMIR
System Software
1 13 (6.34%) Docker
2 4 (1.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (6.34%) Terraform
2 12 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.46%) MIIS
Vendors
1 49 (23.90%) Oracle
2 26 (12.68%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.39%) Citrix
4 5 (2.44%) SAP
5 4 (1.95%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.46%) Confluent
6 3 (1.46%) FactSet
7 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.98%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.49%) Adyen
8 1 (0.49%) Apple
8 1 (0.49%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.49%) Google
8 1 (0.49%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.49%) Kofax
8 1 (0.49%) Lotus
8 1 (0.49%) Reuters
8 1 (0.49%) Trayport
8 1 (0.49%) UiPath