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 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 309 260
Rank change year-on-year -95 -49 -103
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 183 262 459
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.71% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.77% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 196 375
10th Percentile £385 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £392 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -6.37%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £48.83 - £62.50
25th Percentile £53.07 - -
Median hourly rate £60.13 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -7.14% +7.04%
75th Percentile £67.20 - -
90th Percentile £71.43 £67.25 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -7.14% +10.67%

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 31,779 34,114 43,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.88% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,168 20,586 29,825
10th Percentile £278 £300 £298
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,814 1,278 1,528
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.09 £14.98
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.20 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -17.32% +54.84%
75th Percentile £51.19 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +85.42%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -87 167 £500 -13.04% 159
London -51 134 £475 -20.83% 58
Work from Home -14 58 £500 +4.17% 94
UK excluding London -48 32 £518 +15.00% 132
South East +5 9 £488 - 64
Midlands -16 8 £600 +4.35% 26
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 15
North of England -43 7 £475 +7.34% 28
Yorkshire -31 4 £475 +3.26% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
South West +3 3 - - 2
North West -32 3 £343 -19.41% 20
East of England -20 1 £500 +3.09% 10

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 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.

1 183 (100.00%) C#
2 143 (78.14%) .NET
3 90 (49.18%) SQL
4 67 (36.61%) SQL Server
5 61 (33.33%) Azure
6 60 (32.79%) .NET Framework
7 52 (28.42%) Agile
7 52 (28.42%) DevOps
8 49 (26.78%) Microservices
9 42 (22.95%) Oracle
10 37 (20.22%) CI/CD
10 37 (20.22%) Windows
10 37 (20.22%) WPF
11 32 (17.49%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (17.49%) PL/SQL
12 28 (15.30%) Oracle Database
13 27 (14.75%) .NET Core
13 27 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (14.21%) Microsoft Excel
15 25 (13.66%) VBA
16 24 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (13.11%) Software Engineering
16 24 (13.11%) VB
17 23 (12.57%) RESTful
18 22 (12.02%) AngularJS
19 21 (11.48%) AWS
20 20 (10.93%) GitHub
20 20 (10.93%) Microsoft
20 20 (10.93%) Scrum
21 19 (10.38%) ASP.NET

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 10 (5.46%) IIS
2 8 (4.37%) Confluence
3 6 (3.28%) Umbraco
4 5 (2.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (2.73%) CMS
4 5 (2.73%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.73%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.55%) Mendix
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (14.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.64%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.55%) Eikon
2 1 (0.55%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.55%) Maximo
2 1 (0.55%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 61 (33.33%) Azure
2 32 (17.49%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (11.48%) AWS
4 20 (10.93%) GitHub
5 12 (6.56%) Serverless
6 8 (4.37%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.73%) Contentful
8 5 (2.73%) GCP
8 5 (2.73%) Kontent
8 5 (2.73%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.19%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.19%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.19%) SaaS
10 3 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.64%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (36.61%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.30%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.01%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.92%) Redis
5 8 (4.37%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.83%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.73%) Power BI
9 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.55%) Sisense
11 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.38%) Git
2 12 (6.56%) JIRA
2 12 (6.56%) SpecFlow
3 7 (3.83%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.28%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.73%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.55%) Crucible
6 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.55%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 74 (40.44%) Finance
2 48 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.39%) Banking
4 22 (12.02%) Front Office
5 19 (10.38%) Investment Banking
6 13 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.83%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.83%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.28%) Marketing
8 6 (3.28%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.73%) Electronics
9 5 (2.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.09%) Back Office
10 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (78.14%) .NET
2 60 (32.79%) .NET Framework
3 37 (20.22%) WPF
4 27 (14.75%) .NET Core
5 23 (12.57%) RESTful
6 22 (12.02%) AngularJS
7 19 (10.38%) ASP.NET
8 16 (8.74%) Entity Framework
9 12 (6.56%) CSS
9 12 (6.56%) HTML
9 12 (6.56%) NHibernate
9 12 (6.56%) REST
10 11 (6.01%) Playwright
10 11 (6.01%) React
11 10 (5.46%) Kafka
12 9 (4.92%) WCF
12 9 (4.92%) WinForms
13 8 (4.37%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (3.28%) ASP.NET Core
15 5 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.56%) Derivative
2 10 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.37%) Hedge funds
3 8 (4.37%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.19%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.19%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.09%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.09%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.09%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.22%) Windows
2 2 (1.09%) Android
2 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.09%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.42%) Agile
1 52 (28.42%) DevOps
2 49 (26.78%) Microservices
3 37 (20.22%) CI/CD
4 27 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (13.11%) Software Engineering
6 20 (10.93%) Scrum
7 16 (8.74%) Clean Code
8 15 (8.20%) Unit Testing
9 14 (7.65%) API Development
9 14 (7.65%) Computer Science
9 14 (7.65%) TDD
10 12 (6.56%) AI
10 12 (6.56%) Data Analysis
10 12 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (6.56%) OO
10 12 (6.56%) Risk Management
11 11 (6.01%) SDLC
11 11 (6.01%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 183 (100.00%) C#
2 90 (49.18%) SQL
3 32 (17.49%) PL/SQL
4 25 (13.66%) VBA
5 24 (13.11%) VB
6 18 (9.84%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.74%) T-SQL
8 15 (8.20%) VB.NET
9 11 (6.01%) Python
10 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.73%) PHP
11 5 (2.73%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.64%) Java
13 2 (1.09%) Ada
13 2 (1.09%) Assembly Language
13 2 (1.09%) Bicep
13 2 (1.09%) C
13 2 (1.09%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.55%) Cypher
14 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (9.29%) Degree
2 9 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.19%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.19%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.56%) QA
2 3 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) EMIR
4 1 (0.55%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.20%) Docker
2 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (22.95%) Oracle
2 20 (10.93%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.46%) Citrix
4 5 (2.73%) Adobe
4 5 (2.73%) SAP
4 5 (2.73%) Sitecore
5 4 (2.19%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.64%) FactSet
7 2 (1.09%) Concur
7 2 (1.09%) Confluent
7 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.09%) Trayport
8 1 (0.55%) Adyen
8 1 (0.55%) Apple
8 1 (0.55%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.55%) Kofax
8 1 (0.55%) Lotus
8 1 (0.55%) Reuters
8 1 (0.55%) UiPath
8 1 (0.55%) Workday