C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £445, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 295 248
Rank change year-on-year -104 -47 -90
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 200 242 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.78% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.84% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 183 364
10th Percentile £330 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.83% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £650 £719 £750
90th Percentile £763 £825 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £26.25 - £59.75
25th Percentile £31.19 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £71.25
90th Percentile £69.63 - £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 35,687 28,709 41,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 92.95% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,471 17,591 27,699
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £489
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.45% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 837 2,322
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.91 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.76 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £61.54 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.85 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.23% -7.14% -

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 9 February 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 9 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 14 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 9 February 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 -112 177 £445 -27.35% 53
London -71 146 £415 -36.15% 21
Work from Home -34 54 £475 -27.48% 33
UK excluding London -73 34 £450 -5.26% 39
North West -21 9 £400 -9.86% 12
Midlands -39 9 £600 +4.35% 5
North of England -56 9 £400 -9.86% 16
East Midlands - 7 £600 - 1
South East -32 6 £425 -22.73% 12
Northern Ireland -2 5 - - 1
South West -18 2 - - 3
East of England -22 2 - -
West Midlands -47 2 £350 -39.13% 4
Scotland +9 1 £455 -9.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 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.

1 200 (100.00%) C#
2 143 (71.50%) .NET
3 93 (46.50%) SQL
4 78 (39.00%) SQL Server
5 68 (34.00%) .NET Framework
6 57 (28.50%) Azure
7 51 (25.50%) Oracle
8 48 (24.00%) Microservices
9 44 (22.00%) Agile
9 44 (22.00%) PL/SQL
10 43 (21.50%) CI/CD
11 41 (20.50%) Windows
12 40 (20.00%) DevOps
13 32 (16.00%) Oracle Database
14 31 (15.50%) QA
14 31 (15.50%) T-SQL
15 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (14.50%) REST
17 28 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
18 27 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
18 27 (13.50%) Data Analysis
19 26 (13.00%) Citrix
19 26 (13.00%) Docker
19 26 (13.00%) Python
20 25 (12.50%) GitHub
20 25 (12.50%) Unit Testing
21 23 (11.50%) .NET Core
21 23 (11.50%) Degree
21 23 (11.50%) Disaster Recovery
21 23 (11.50%) Entity Framework

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 16 (8.00%) IIS
2 8 (4.00%) Confluence
3 5 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.50%) CMS
3 5 (2.50%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.50%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.50%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 57 (28.50%) Azure
2 27 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.50%) GitHub
4 22 (11.00%) AWS
5 18 (9.00%) Serverless
6 14 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (6.00%) Azure Functions
7 12 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (5.50%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (5.00%) Azure AKS
9 10 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.00%) Azure API Management
10 8 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.00%) Collibra
11 6 (3.00%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.50%) Contentful
12 5 (2.50%) Kontent
13 4 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.50%) Internet
2 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (39.00%) SQL Server
2 32 (16.00%) Oracle Database
3 16 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.00%) Redis
5 6 (3.00%) Metadata
5 6 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.50%) DataStage
8 1 (0.50%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) Power BI
8 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.50%) Sisense
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 15 (7.50%) Git
3 12 (6.00%) SpecFlow
4 11 (5.50%) JIRA
5 7 (3.50%) Jenkins
6 6 (3.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.00%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.00%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.50%) Crucible
9 1 (0.50%) NUnit
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 59 (29.50%) Finance
2 53 (26.50%) Social Skills
3 41 (20.50%) Banking
4 20 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 16 (8.00%) Front Office
6 8 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Back Office
9 3 (1.50%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.50%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.00%) Law
10 2 (1.00%) Military
10 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (71.50%) .NET
2 68 (34.00%) .NET Framework
3 29 (14.50%) REST
4 23 (11.50%) .NET Core
4 23 (11.50%) Entity Framework
5 22 (11.00%) AngularJS
5 22 (11.00%) RESTful
6 21 (10.50%) WPF
7 16 (8.00%) ASP.NET
8 15 (7.50%) React
8 15 (7.50%) WinForms
9 14 (7.00%) NHibernate
10 12 (6.00%) HTML
11 11 (5.50%) ASP.NET MVC
11 11 (5.50%) CSS
11 11 (5.50%) OAuth
11 11 (5.50%) OAuth2
11 11 (5.50%) Playwright
12 9 (4.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (4.50%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.50%) Derivative
2 13 (6.50%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.00%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.00%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.00%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.00%) Equities
8 2 (1.00%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.00%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.00%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.50%) Windows
2 15 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.00%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.00%) Microservices
2 44 (22.00%) Agile
3 43 (21.50%) CI/CD
4 40 (20.00%) DevOps
5 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (13.50%) Data Analysis
8 25 (12.50%) Unit Testing
9 23 (11.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (10.50%) Software Engineering
11 20 (10.00%) AI
11 20 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 17 (8.50%) Change Management
13 16 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (8.00%) Containerisation
14 14 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (7.00%) Scrum
15 13 (6.50%) Performance Tuning
16 12 (6.00%) API Development
16 12 (6.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 200 (100.00%) C#
2 93 (46.50%) SQL
3 44 (22.00%) PL/SQL
4 31 (15.50%) T-SQL
5 26 (13.00%) Python
6 18 (9.00%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.00%) VBA
8 15 (7.50%) VB
9 14 (7.00%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.00%) Bicep
11 5 (2.50%) Java
12 4 (2.00%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.50%) C++
13 3 (1.50%) PHP
13 3 (1.50%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.00%) Ada
14 2 (1.00%) Assembly Language
14 2 (1.00%) C
14 2 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (1.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (11.50%) Degree
2 7 (3.50%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.50%) CISSP
5 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.50%) QA
2 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.50%) GDPR
2 1 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 26 (13.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (9.50%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (25.50%) Oracle
2 26 (13.00%) Citrix
3 22 (11.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.00%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.50%) Adobe
6 2 (1.00%) Concur
6 2 (1.00%) Confluent
6 2 (1.00%) Google
6 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.00%) Trayport
7 1 (0.50%) Adyen
7 1 (0.50%) Apple
7 1 (0.50%) Databricks
7 1 (0.50%) Workday