C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 301 259
Rank change year-on-year -105 -42 -105
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 181 263 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.77% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.83% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 193 350
10th Percentile £378 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £774 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +7.37% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.32 - -
90th Percentile £71.48 - £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 33,513 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,975 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -98 162 £475 -17.39% 53
London -60 132 £450 -30.77% 16
Work from Home -27 54 £488 -7.14% 28
UK excluding London -50 32 £510 +7.37% 51
South East -27 9 £488 -9.30% 11
Midlands -35 8 £600 +4.35% 6
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 3
North of England -59 7 £450 -4.26% 19
North West -31 5 £450 +1.41% 12
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -23 3 £500 +3.09% 1
Yorkshire -44 2 £475 -5.00% 5
Scotland +1 1 £455 -4.21% 9

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 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.

1 181 (100.00%) C#
2 131 (72.38%) .NET
3 87 (48.07%) SQL
4 71 (39.23%) SQL Server
5 59 (32.60%) .NET Framework
5 59 (32.60%) Azure
6 47 (25.97%) Agile
7 46 (25.41%) Microservices
8 45 (24.86%) DevOps
9 42 (23.20%) CI/CD
10 41 (22.65%) Oracle
11 39 (21.55%) PL/SQL
12 38 (20.99%) Windows
13 29 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (16.02%) Oracle Database
13 29 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (14.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (13.81%) T-SQL
15 25 (13.81%) WPF
16 23 (12.71%) Degree
16 23 (12.71%) GitHub
16 23 (12.71%) RESTful
16 23 (12.71%) Software Engineering
17 22 (12.15%) Microsoft
18 21 (11.60%) Microsoft Excel
19 20 (11.05%) AngularJS
19 20 (11.05%) AWS
19 20 (11.05%) QA
20 19 (10.50%) Docker
20 19 (10.50%) Unit Testing

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 14 (7.73%) IIS
2 7 (3.87%) Confluence
3 5 (2.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.76%) CMS
3 5 (2.76%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.76%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.76%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.55%) Mendix
Applications
1 21 (11.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.66%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.55%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.60%) Azure
2 29 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (12.71%) GitHub
4 20 (11.05%) AWS
5 13 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (7.18%) Serverless
6 8 (4.42%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.42%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.31%) Azure AKS
7 6 (3.31%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (3.31%) GCP
8 5 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.76%) Contentful
8 5 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.76%) Kontent
9 4 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.21%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.97%) Internet
2 2 (1.10%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (39.23%) SQL Server
2 29 (16.02%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.52%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.87%) Redis
6 6 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.76%) Power BI
8 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.55%) DataStage
11 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.55%) Sisense
11 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (9.94%) Git
2 11 (6.08%) SpecFlow
2 11 (6.08%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.97%) JIRA
4 7 (3.87%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.31%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.10%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.55%) Crucible
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 67 (37.02%) Finance
2 53 (29.28%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.89%) Banking
4 22 (12.15%) Front Office
5 21 (11.60%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.42%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.66%) Back Office
8 3 (1.66%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Military
9 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Advertising
10 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Legal
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (72.38%) .NET
2 59 (32.60%) .NET Framework
3 25 (13.81%) WPF
4 23 (12.71%) RESTful
5 20 (11.05%) AngularJS
6 18 (9.94%) Entity Framework
7 17 (9.39%) REST
8 16 (8.84%) .NET Core
9 12 (6.63%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.63%) WinForms
10 11 (6.08%) Kafka
10 11 (6.08%) NHibernate
11 10 (5.52%) HTML
11 10 (5.52%) Playwright
12 9 (4.97%) CSS
12 9 (4.97%) React
13 7 (3.87%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (3.87%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (3.87%) WCF
14 6 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.63%) Derivative
2 11 (6.08%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.97%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.97%) Hedge funds
4 8 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.31%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.76%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.21%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.10%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.99%) Windows
2 8 (4.42%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.97%) Agile
2 46 (25.41%) Microservices
3 45 (24.86%) DevOps
4 42 (23.20%) CI/CD
5 29 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (14.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (12.71%) Software Engineering
8 19 (10.50%) Unit Testing
9 17 (9.39%) Clean Code
10 15 (8.29%) API Development
10 15 (8.29%) Data Analysis
10 15 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (8.29%) Scrum
11 14 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.73%) Computer Science
11 14 (7.73%) OOP
12 13 (7.18%) AI
12 13 (7.18%) SDLC
13 12 (6.63%) Analytics
14 11 (6.08%) OO
Programming Languages
1 181 (100.00%) C#
2 87 (48.07%) SQL
3 39 (21.55%) PL/SQL
4 25 (13.81%) T-SQL
5 19 (10.50%) VB
5 19 (10.50%) VBA
6 14 (7.73%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.63%) Python
8 10 (5.52%) VB.NET
9 6 (3.31%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.76%) PHP
11 3 (1.66%) Bicep
11 3 (1.66%) C++
11 3 (1.66%) Java
12 2 (1.10%) Ada
12 2 (1.10%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.10%) C
12 2 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.10%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (12.71%) Degree
2 11 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.21%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.21%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.05%) QA
2 3 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) EMIR
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (10.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (22.65%) Oracle
2 22 (12.15%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.94%) Citrix
4 5 (2.76%) Adobe
4 5 (2.76%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.66%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.66%) FactSet
6 2 (1.10%) Concur
6 2 (1.10%) Confluent
6 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.10%) Trayport
7 1 (0.55%) Adyen
7 1 (0.55%) Apple
7 1 (0.55%) Databricks
7 1 (0.55%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.55%) Google
7 1 (0.55%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.55%) Kofax
7 1 (0.55%) Lotus
7 1 (0.55%) Workday