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 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 310 261
Rank change year-on-year -97 -49 -110
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 182 260 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.76% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.82% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 190 350
10th Percentile £383 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £709 £738
90th Percentile £775 £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 33,152 31,803 41,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,996 19,553 27,898
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £410 £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 £724 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,961 1,029 1,466
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.49 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.14
Median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.90 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -103 163 £500 -13.04% 61
London -72 133 £488 -23.53% 17
Work from Home -21 55 £500 -4.76% 32
UK excluding London -60 32 £510 +7.37% 58
South East -8 9 £488 -11.36% 18
Midlands -34 8 £600 +4.35% 5
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 1
North of England -54 7 £450 -2.70% 19
North West -29 5 £450 +5.88% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -23 3 £500 +3.09% 1
Yorkshire -45 2 £475 +2.15% 7
Scotland -2 1 £455 -4.21% 8

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 182 (100.00%) C#
2 132 (72.53%) .NET
3 87 (47.80%) SQL
4 71 (39.01%) SQL Server
5 60 (32.97%) .NET Framework
6 59 (32.42%) Azure
7 47 (25.82%) Agile
7 47 (25.82%) Microservices
8 46 (25.27%) DevOps
9 43 (23.63%) CI/CD
10 41 (22.53%) Oracle
11 40 (21.98%) Windows
12 39 (21.43%) PL/SQL
13 30 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (15.93%) Oracle Database
15 28 (15.38%) WPF
16 26 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
17 25 (13.74%) T-SQL
18 24 (13.19%) Software Engineering
19 23 (12.64%) Degree
19 23 (12.64%) GitHub
19 23 (12.64%) RESTful
20 22 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
21 20 (10.99%) AngularJS
21 20 (10.99%) AWS
21 20 (10.99%) Microsoft
21 20 (10.99%) QA
21 20 (10.99%) VB
21 20 (10.99%) VBA

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 (7.69%) IIS
2 7 (3.85%) Confluence
3 5 (2.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.75%) CMS
3 5 (2.75%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.75%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.75%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.55%) Mendix
Applications
1 22 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.65%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.55%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.42%) Azure
2 30 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (12.64%) GitHub
4 20 (10.99%) AWS
5 13 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (7.14%) Serverless
6 8 (4.40%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (4.40%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.30%) Azure AKS
8 6 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (3.30%) GCP
9 5 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.75%) Contentful
9 5 (2.75%) Kontent
10 4 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.20%) ChatGPT
10 4 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.95%) Internet
2 2 (1.10%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (39.01%) SQL Server
2 29 (15.93%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.04%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.49%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.85%) Redis
6 6 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.75%) Power BI
8 4 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.65%) 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 19 (10.44%) Git
2 11 (6.04%) SpecFlow
2 11 (6.04%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.95%) JIRA
4 7 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (3.30%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.10%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.55%) Crucible
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 68 (37.36%) Finance
2 54 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.78%) Banking
4 23 (12.64%) Front Office
5 21 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.40%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.65%) Back Office
7 3 (1.65%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Military
8 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (72.53%) .NET
2 60 (32.97%) .NET Framework
3 28 (15.38%) WPF
4 23 (12.64%) RESTful
5 20 (10.99%) AngularJS
6 18 (9.89%) Entity Framework
7 16 (8.79%) .NET Core
7 16 (8.79%) REST
8 12 (6.59%) ASP.NET
8 12 (6.59%) WinForms
9 11 (6.04%) Kafka
9 11 (6.04%) NHibernate
10 10 (5.49%) HTML
10 10 (5.49%) Playwright
11 9 (4.95%) CSS
11 9 (4.95%) React
12 7 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (3.85%) WCF
13 6 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.59%) Derivative
2 11 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.95%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.95%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.30%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.75%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.20%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.65%) 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
10 1 (0.55%) Equities
10 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.98%) Windows
2 8 (4.40%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.82%) Agile
1 47 (25.82%) Microservices
2 46 (25.27%) DevOps
3 43 (23.63%) CI/CD
4 30 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (13.19%) Software Engineering
7 19 (10.44%) Unit Testing
8 16 (8.79%) Clean Code
9 15 (8.24%) API Development
9 15 (8.24%) Data Analysis
9 15 (8.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (8.24%) Scrum
10 14 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (7.69%) Computer Science
10 14 (7.69%) OOP
11 13 (7.14%) AI
11 13 (7.14%) SDLC
12 12 (6.59%) Analytics
13 11 (6.04%) OO
Programming Languages
1 182 (100.00%) C#
2 87 (47.80%) SQL
3 39 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 25 (13.74%) T-SQL
5 20 (10.99%) VB
5 20 (10.99%) VBA
6 14 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.04%) Python
7 11 (6.04%) VB.NET
8 6 (3.30%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.75%) PHP
10 3 (1.65%) Bicep
10 3 (1.65%) C++
10 3 (1.65%) Java
11 2 (1.10%) Ada
11 2 (1.10%) Assembly Language
11 2 (1.10%) C
11 2 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.10%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (12.64%) Degree
2 11 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.75%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.20%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.20%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.99%) QA
2 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) EMIR
3 1 (0.55%) GDPR
3 1 (0.55%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (10.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (22.53%) Oracle
2 20 (10.99%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.89%) Citrix
4 5 (2.75%) Adobe
4 5 (2.75%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.65%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.65%) 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