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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 368 288
Rank change year-on-year -117 -80 -40
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 204 204 304
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.62% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.68% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 159 232
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £459 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £713 £756 £701
90th Percentile £745 £838 £811
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £54.08 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £72.80 - £66.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 50,616 30,052 35,689
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.07% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,900 18,989 21,757
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,913 1,614 1,619
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.88
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.70 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.95 £69.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +69.02% -42.72% +0.34%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -135 172 £600 +9.09% 156
London -116 132 £625 -7.41% 99
Work from Home -52 76 £550 - 67
UK excluding London -92 41 £475 - 58
East of England -22 12 £525 +5.00% 8
North of England -56 12 £725 +52.63% 13
Midlands -39 8 £488 +7.73% 10
Yorkshire -35 7 £725 +45.00%
South East -75 6 £475 -4.23% 23
East Midlands -8 5 £550 +21.55% 1
North West -52 4 £475 +26.67% 11
West Midlands - 3 £475 - 9
Scotland - 2 £368 - 1
South West -41 1 £450 +7.21% 3
North East - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 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.

1 204 (100.00%) C#
2 144 (70.59%) .NET
3 83 (40.69%) SQL
4 77 (37.75%) SQL Server
5 62 (30.39%) Azure
6 59 (28.92%) Agile
7 56 (27.45%) CI/CD
8 54 (26.47%) DevOps
9 52 (25.49%) .NET Framework
10 46 (22.55%) Oracle
11 40 (19.61%) Software Engineering
12 36 (17.65%) .NET Core
13 34 (16.67%) Microservices
13 34 (16.67%) RESTful
14 33 (16.18%) Microsoft
14 33 (16.18%) Windows
15 31 (15.20%) Degree
16 30 (14.71%) JavaScript
16 30 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (14.22%) Test Automation
18 28 (13.73%) QA
18 28 (13.73%) REST
19 27 (13.24%) WPF
20 26 (12.75%) PL/SQL
20 26 (12.75%) T-SQL
20 26 (12.75%) WinForms
21 25 (12.25%) Citrix
22 23 (11.27%) ASP.NET
22 23 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
22 23 (11.27%) 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 22 (10.78%) IIS
2 6 (2.94%) Confluence
3 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.47%) Findur
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Endur
3 1 (0.49%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.39%) Azure
2 23 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (10.78%) AWS
4 14 (6.86%) GitHub
5 12 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.45%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.47%) SaaS
9 3 (1.47%) Serverless
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.49%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.49%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.37%) Internet
2 3 (1.47%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.98%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (37.75%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.29%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.41%) Redis
6 6 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.45%) ClickHouse
8 4 (1.96%) Power BI
9 3 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.98%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.98%) Db2
10 2 (0.98%) MS Access
10 2 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (9.80%) Git
2 17 (8.33%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.39%) JIRA
4 8 (3.92%) SpecFlow
4 8 (3.92%) TeamCity
5 7 (3.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.94%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.45%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.96%) GitLab
9 3 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.47%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.98%) Postman
11 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.49%) Crucible
11 1 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.49%) Rational Robot
11 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 71 (34.80%) Finance
2 58 (28.43%) Social Skills
3 51 (25.00%) Front Office
4 42 (20.59%) Banking
5 29 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (11.27%) Investment Banking
7 13 (6.37%) Financial Institution
8 11 (5.39%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.47%) Military
9 3 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Legal
10 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.98%) Retail
10 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) French Language
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (70.59%) .NET
2 52 (25.49%) .NET Framework
3 36 (17.65%) .NET Core
4 34 (16.67%) RESTful
5 28 (13.73%) REST
6 27 (13.24%) WPF
7 26 (12.75%) WinForms
8 23 (11.27%) ASP.NET
9 22 (10.78%) React
10 21 (10.29%) Web Services
11 17 (8.33%) AngularJS
12 13 (6.37%) Kafka
12 13 (6.37%) XML
13 12 (5.88%) Entity Framework
14 10 (4.90%) Swagger
15 8 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (3.92%) OpenAPI
16 7 (3.43%) ASP.NET Web API
16 7 (3.43%) Blazor
17 6 (2.94%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.24%) Derivative
2 25 (12.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.41%) Fixed Income
5 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.43%) Equities
7 4 (1.96%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.47%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.98%) FMCG
9 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.98%) Replication
9 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.18%) Windows
2 9 (4.41%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.94%) Linux
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.92%) Agile
2 56 (27.45%) CI/CD
3 54 (26.47%) DevOps
4 40 (19.61%) Software Engineering
5 34 (16.67%) Microservices
6 30 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.22%) Test Automation
8 23 (11.27%) Unit Testing
9 22 (10.78%) Computer Science
9 22 (10.78%) Data Analysis
10 21 (10.29%) API Development
11 20 (9.80%) AI
11 20 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (9.80%) Scrum
12 16 (7.84%) Event-Driven
13 15 (7.35%) Mathematics
13 15 (7.35%) SDLC
14 14 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 204 (100.00%) C#
2 83 (40.69%) SQL
3 30 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.75%) PL/SQL
4 26 (12.75%) T-SQL
5 21 (10.29%) Python
6 16 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 15 (7.35%) VBA
8 13 (6.37%) C++
9 12 (5.88%) VB
10 7 (3.43%) Java
11 4 (1.96%) XAML
12 3 (1.47%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.98%) VBScript
13 2 (0.98%) XPath
14 1 (0.49%) Bash
14 1 (0.49%) Go
14 1 (0.49%) VB6
Qualifications
1 31 (15.20%) Degree
2 17 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 17 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.92%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.92%) PhD
5 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.73%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) GDPR
2 1 (0.49%) GMP
2 1 (0.49%) GxP
System Software
1 13 (6.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.98%) Grafana
2 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.49%) Ansible
3 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (22.55%) Oracle
2 33 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.25%) Citrix
4 5 (2.45%) IBM
5 4 (1.96%) Murex
6 2 (0.98%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.49%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.49%) Sage
7 1 (0.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.49%) Trayport
7 1 (0.49%) Workday