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 5 April 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 296 252
Rank change year-on-year -114 -44 -69
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 229 251 415
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.86% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.93% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 210 345
10th Percentile £326 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £706 £797 £738
90th Percentile £788 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £380 £475
% change year-on-year +18.42% -20.00% -2.56%
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 41,784 27,118 40,940
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.78% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,031 17,841 26,815
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,612 956 2,534
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.06 £31.29 £34.61
% change year-on-year +31.21% -9.58% -18.32%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -137 200 £525 -22.22% 61
London -82 165 £563 -18.48% 28
Work from Home -57 70 £600 -21.31% 38
UK excluding London -90 41 £450 +18.42% 40
North of England -69 14 £431 +9.18% 17
North West -38 11 £385 -3.69% 10
South East -52 7 £568 +3.18% 9
Midlands - 6 £600 - 8
Northern Ireland -4 5 - -
East Midlands - 4 £600 - 3
Scotland +9 3 £388 -22.50% 1
East of England -29 3 - - 4
South West -31 3 £450 +21.62%
Yorkshire -56 3 £500 +90.48% 4
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 5 April 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.

1 229 (100.00%) C#
2 165 (72.05%) .NET
3 113 (49.34%) SQL
4 87 (37.99%) SQL Server
5 81 (35.37%) Azure
6 68 (29.69%) .NET Framework
7 67 (29.26%) CI/CD
8 57 (24.89%) Agile
9 53 (23.14%) Oracle
10 49 (21.40%) DevOps
11 43 (18.78%) Microservices
11 43 (18.78%) PL/SQL
12 38 (16.59%) QA
12 38 (16.59%) T-SQL
12 38 (16.59%) Windows
13 34 (14.85%) Microsoft
13 34 (14.85%) Oracle Database
14 33 (14.41%) Data Analysis
15 32 (13.97%) JavaScript
16 31 (13.54%) AngularJS
16 31 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
16 31 (13.54%) Citrix
16 31 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (13.10%) .NET Core
18 29 (12.66%) Disaster Recovery
18 29 (12.66%) REST
18 29 (12.66%) Unit Testing
19 28 (12.23%) Full-Stack Development
20 27 (11.79%) Docker
20 27 (11.79%) Python

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 18 (7.86%) IIS
2 6 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.18%) CMS
4 4 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.75%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (1.75%) Umbraco
5 3 (1.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Endur
1 1 (0.44%) Findur
1 1 (0.44%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 81 (35.37%) Azure
2 31 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.48%) GitHub
4 21 (9.17%) AWS
5 17 (7.42%) Serverless
6 16 (6.99%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.68%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.49%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.49%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.62%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.62%) Collibra
12 6 (2.62%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.18%) Contentful
13 5 (2.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.24%) Internet
2 3 (1.31%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.87%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.87%) HTTP
3 2 (0.87%) RTCP
3 2 (0.87%) RTP
3 2 (0.87%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (37.99%) SQL Server
2 34 (14.85%) Oracle Database
3 15 (6.55%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.37%) Redis
6 7 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.62%) Metadata
8 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.87%) MySQL
10 2 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.44%) DataStage
11 1 (0.44%) Power BI
11 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.86%) Git
2 15 (6.55%) Visual Studio
3 11 (4.80%) TeamCity
4 9 (3.93%) JIRA
5 8 (3.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.62%) SpecFlow
7 5 (2.18%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.75%) NUnit
9 3 (1.31%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.31%) Jasmine
9 3 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.87%) MSTest
10 2 (0.87%) Selenium
11 1 (0.44%) Crucible
11 1 (0.44%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 72 (31.44%) Finance
2 59 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 49 (21.40%) Banking
4 26 (11.35%) Front Office
5 23 (10.04%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.62%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.75%) Back Office
9 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Military
10 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.87%) Law
11 2 (0.87%) Police
11 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (72.05%) .NET
2 68 (29.69%) .NET Framework
3 31 (13.54%) AngularJS
4 30 (13.10%) .NET Core
5 29 (12.66%) REST
6 27 (11.79%) RESTful
7 23 (10.04%) HTML
8 22 (9.61%) ASP.NET
8 22 (9.61%) WPF
9 21 (9.17%) React
10 20 (8.73%) Entity Framework
11 17 (7.42%) WinForms
12 13 (5.68%) CSS
12 13 (5.68%) OAuth
13 11 (4.80%) OAuth2
14 10 (4.37%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (4.37%) JWT
15 9 (3.93%) ASP.NET Web API
16 7 (3.06%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (3.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.55%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.68%) Derivative
3 12 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.62%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.18%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.75%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.31%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.31%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.87%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.59%) Windows
2 18 (7.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.31%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (29.26%) CI/CD
2 57 (24.89%) Agile
3 49 (21.40%) DevOps
4 43 (18.78%) Microservices
5 33 (14.41%) Data Analysis
6 31 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (12.66%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (12.66%) Unit Testing
8 28 (12.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (10.04%) Software Engineering
10 21 (9.17%) AI
11 20 (8.73%) OOP
12 19 (8.30%) Change Management
13 18 (7.86%) SOLID
14 17 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (7.42%) Test Automation
15 16 (6.99%) Clean Code
15 16 (6.99%) Containerisation
15 16 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
16 13 (5.68%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 229 (100.00%) C#
2 113 (49.34%) SQL
3 43 (18.78%) PL/SQL
4 38 (16.59%) T-SQL
5 32 (13.97%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.79%) Python
7 22 (9.61%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.68%) VB
8 13 (5.68%) VBA
9 8 (3.49%) Bicep
9 8 (3.49%) Java
9 8 (3.49%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.18%) C++
11 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) F#
12 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 22 (9.61%) Degree
2 21 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.87%) 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%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.59%) QA
2 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) MiFID
3 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (11.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (23.14%) Oracle
2 34 (14.85%) Microsoft
3 31 (13.54%) Citrix
4 5 (2.18%) Sitecore
5 4 (1.75%) Adobe
6 2 (0.87%) Concur
6 2 (0.87%) Foundry
6 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) Databricks
7 1 (0.44%) Google
7 1 (0.44%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.44%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) Trayport
7 1 (0.44%) Workday