C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 326 274
Rank change year-on-year -94 -52 -52
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 249 236 368
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.75% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.81% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 200 307
10th Percentile £358 £385 £375
25th Percentile £415 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £655 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +9.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £713 £791 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £390 £475
% change year-on-year +21.79% -17.89% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% - -

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 47,708 29,033 40,392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.03% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,866 18,550 25,972
10th Percentile £325 £288 £287
25th Percentile £416 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,233 1,310 2,837
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.78 £12.87
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +62.26% -29.80% -12.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +1.01%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -108 222 £600 -11.11% 42
London -74 176 £613 -12.50% 19
Work from Home -63 83 £600 -22.58% 20
UK excluding London -77 49 £475 +21.79% 29
North of England -67 16 £450 +12.50% 15
South East -51 10 £475 -4.23% 9
Yorkshire -49 9 £725 +45.00% 7
East of England -24 7 - - 3
North West -38 7 £360 -7.63% 2
Midlands -49 7 £350 -9.09% 1
East Midlands -11 5 £550 +42.86%
Northern Ireland +1 3 - - 1
South West -41 3 £450 +21.62%
Scotland - 3 £373 -
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 249 (100.00%) C#
2 174 (69.88%) .NET
3 112 (44.98%) SQL
4 96 (38.55%) SQL Server
5 85 (34.14%) Azure
6 69 (27.71%) .NET Framework
6 69 (27.71%) Agile
7 68 (27.31%) CI/CD
8 62 (24.90%) Oracle
9 61 (24.50%) DevOps
10 40 (16.06%) Microservices
11 38 (15.26%) QA
12 37 (14.86%) Microsoft
12 37 (14.86%) PL/SQL
12 37 (14.86%) Software Engineering
13 36 (14.46%) JavaScript
14 35 (14.06%) T-SQL
14 35 (14.06%) Windows
15 34 (13.65%) .NET Core
15 34 (13.65%) Oracle Database
16 32 (12.85%) AngularJS
16 32 (12.85%) Data Analysis
16 32 (12.85%) Python
16 32 (12.85%) Unit Testing
17 31 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
18 30 (12.05%) Citrix
19 29 (11.65%) Degree
19 29 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (11.65%) Security Cleared
20 28 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery

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 20 (8.03%) IIS
2 5 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.61%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.20%) Findur
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 85 (34.14%) Azure
2 31 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (8.03%) AWS
3 20 (8.03%) GitHub
4 11 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
5 10 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (3.61%) Serverless
7 6 (2.41%) Azure Functions
7 6 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (2.01%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.61%) Collibra
10 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.20%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.80%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.80%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.22%) Internet
2 2 (0.80%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.80%) HTTP
2 2 (0.80%) Intranet
2 2 (0.80%) RTCP
2 2 (0.80%) RTP
2 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.80%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (38.55%) SQL Server
2 34 (13.65%) Oracle Database
3 23 (9.24%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.82%) Redis
5 8 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.21%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.61%) Metadata
7 4 (1.61%) Power BI
8 3 (1.20%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.80%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.40%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 22 (8.84%) Git
2 15 (6.02%) TeamCity
3 14 (5.62%) JIRA
4 13 (5.22%) Visual Studio
5 11 (4.42%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (2.81%) SpecFlow
7 5 (2.01%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.20%) GitLab
8 3 (1.20%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.20%) NUnit
9 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.80%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.80%) MSTest
9 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.80%) Selenium
9 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 86 (34.54%) Finance
2 57 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 55 (22.09%) Banking
4 50 (20.08%) Front Office
5 23 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.24%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.81%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.20%) Back Office
8 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.20%) Retail
9 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.80%) Legal
9 2 (0.80%) Military
9 2 (0.80%) Police
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (69.88%) .NET
2 69 (27.71%) .NET Framework
3 34 (13.65%) .NET Core
4 32 (12.85%) AngularJS
5 28 (11.24%) React
5 28 (11.24%) RESTful
6 27 (10.84%) WPF
7 25 (10.04%) ASP.NET
8 21 (8.43%) WinForms
9 19 (7.63%) HTML
9 19 (7.63%) REST
10 16 (6.43%) Entity Framework
11 13 (5.22%) Web Services
11 13 (5.22%) XML
12 9 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (3.61%) Blazor
12 9 (3.61%) CSS
13 8 (3.21%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (2.81%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (2.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.05%) Derivative
2 23 (9.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.81%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.41%) Equities
7 6 (2.41%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.61%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.80%) FMCG
11 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.06%) Windows
2 16 (6.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.61%) Linux
4 3 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.71%) Agile
2 68 (27.31%) CI/CD
3 61 (24.50%) DevOps
4 40 (16.06%) Microservices
5 37 (14.86%) Software Engineering
6 32 (12.85%) Data Analysis
6 32 (12.85%) Unit Testing
7 29 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (10.44%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (8.84%) AI
10 22 (8.84%) Test Automation
11 21 (8.43%) Scrum
12 17 (6.83%) Computer Science
12 17 (6.83%) OOP
13 16 (6.43%) Multithreading
13 16 (6.43%) Refactoring
14 14 (5.62%) Mathematics
14 14 (5.62%) OO
14 14 (5.62%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 249 (100.00%) C#
2 112 (44.98%) SQL
3 37 (14.86%) PL/SQL
4 36 (14.46%) JavaScript
5 35 (14.06%) T-SQL
6 32 (12.85%) Python
7 25 (10.04%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.02%) VBA
9 13 (5.22%) VB
10 10 (4.02%) C++
11 7 (2.81%) Java
11 7 (2.81%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.80%) Bicep
12 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.80%) VB6
12 2 (0.80%) XAML
13 1 (0.40%) Bash
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.40%) VBScript
13 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (11.65%) Degree
1 29 (11.65%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.81%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.41%) PhD
6 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.26%) QA
2 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (8.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.61%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (24.90%) Oracle
2 37 (14.86%) Microsoft
3 30 (12.05%) Citrix
4 3 (1.20%) Murex
4 3 (1.20%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.80%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (0.80%) Foundry
5 2 (0.80%) IBM
6 1 (0.40%) Google
6 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.40%) SAP
6 1 (0.40%) Workday