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 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 363 286
Rank change year-on-year -111 -77 -38
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 199 200 298
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.61% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.67% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 156 226
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £456 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £713 £750 £710
90th Percentile £738 £800 £806
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 50,147 29,864 35,507
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.01% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,583 18,880 21,565
10th Percentile £325 £275 £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 £623 £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 3,922 1,610 1,584
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.50
Median hourly rate £41.72 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.89% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.57 £74.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.69% -2.27%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -134 168 £594 +13.10% 99
London -100 129 £625 -5.66% 44
Work from Home -53 72 £550 +10.00% 52
UK excluding London -84 40 £475 - 53
East of England -10 12 £525 +5.00% 9
North of England -64 12 £725 +52.63% 14
Midlands -38 8 £488 -5.34% 8
Yorkshire -38 7 £725 +45.00%
East Midlands -13 5 £550 +6.80%
South East -65 5 £475 -4.23% 18
North West -54 4 £475 +26.67% 12
West Midlands - 3 £475 - 8
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 28 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.

1 199 (100.00%) C#
2 141 (70.85%) .NET
3 81 (40.70%) SQL
4 75 (37.69%) SQL Server
5 60 (30.15%) Azure
6 59 (29.65%) Agile
7 54 (27.14%) CI/CD
8 53 (26.63%) DevOps
9 50 (25.13%) .NET Framework
10 45 (22.61%) Oracle
11 40 (20.10%) Software Engineering
12 33 (16.58%) .NET Core
12 33 (16.58%) Microsoft
12 33 (16.58%) RESTful
12 33 (16.58%) Windows
13 32 (16.08%) Microservices
14 30 (15.08%) Degree
15 29 (14.57%) JavaScript
15 29 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (14.57%) Test Automation
16 28 (14.07%) QA
16 28 (14.07%) REST
17 27 (13.57%) T-SQL
17 27 (13.57%) WPF
18 26 (13.07%) PL/SQL
18 26 (13.07%) WinForms
19 25 (12.56%) Citrix
20 23 (11.56%) ASP.NET
20 23 (11.56%) Unit Testing
21 22 (11.06%) Azure DevOps

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 (11.06%) IIS
2 6 (3.02%) Confluence
3 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Orchestrade
2 2 (1.01%) Findur
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.15%) Azure
2 22 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (10.55%) AWS
4 14 (7.04%) GitHub
5 12 (6.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.51%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.51%) SaaS
10 3 (1.51%) Serverless
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.01%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.01%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.01%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.50%) Azure AI
12 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.53%) Internet
2 3 (1.51%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.51%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.01%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (37.69%) SQL Server
2 20 (10.05%) Oracle Database
3 16 (8.04%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.02%) Redis
7 7 (3.52%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.51%) ClickHouse
10 4 (2.01%) Power BI
11 3 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.01%) Couchbase
12 2 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.01%) Db2
12 2 (1.01%) MS Access
12 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (10.05%) Git
2 17 (8.54%) Visual Studio
3 12 (6.03%) JIRA
4 8 (4.02%) SpecFlow
4 8 (4.02%) TeamCity
5 6 (3.02%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.02%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.51%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.01%) GitLab
8 3 (1.51%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.51%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.01%) Postman
10 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.50%) Crucible
10 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 70 (35.18%) Finance
2 55 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 51 (25.63%) Front Office
4 40 (20.10%) Banking
5 28 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (10.55%) Investment Banking
7 13 (6.53%) Financial Institution
8 11 (5.53%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.51%) Military
9 3 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Legal
10 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.01%) Retail
10 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.50%) Back Office
11 1 (0.50%) French Language
11 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (70.85%) .NET
2 50 (25.13%) .NET Framework
3 33 (16.58%) .NET Core
3 33 (16.58%) RESTful
4 28 (14.07%) REST
5 27 (13.57%) WPF
6 26 (13.07%) WinForms
7 23 (11.56%) ASP.NET
8 21 (10.55%) React
8 21 (10.55%) Web Services
9 18 (9.05%) AngularJS
10 13 (6.53%) Kafka
10 13 (6.53%) XML
11 11 (5.53%) Entity Framework
12 10 (5.03%) Swagger
13 8 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (4.02%) OpenAPI
14 7 (3.52%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (3.52%) Blazor
15 6 (3.02%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.57%) Derivative
2 24 (12.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (8.54%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.52%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.52%) Equities
7 4 (2.01%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.01%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.01%) FMCG
9 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.01%) Replication
9 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.50%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.50%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.58%) Windows
2 9 (4.52%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.02%) Linux
4 2 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.65%) Agile
2 54 (27.14%) CI/CD
3 53 (26.63%) DevOps
4 40 (20.10%) Software Engineering
5 32 (16.08%) Microservices
6 29 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (14.57%) Test Automation
7 23 (11.56%) Unit Testing
8 22 (11.06%) Data Analysis
9 21 (10.55%) Computer Science
10 20 (10.05%) AI
10 20 (10.05%) API Development
10 20 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (10.05%) Scrum
11 19 (9.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (8.54%) Event-Driven
13 16 (8.04%) SDLC
14 14 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.04%) Mathematics
14 14 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (100.00%) C#
2 81 (40.70%) SQL
3 29 (14.57%) JavaScript
4 27 (13.57%) T-SQL
5 26 (13.07%) PL/SQL
6 21 (10.55%) Python
7 16 (8.04%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.54%) VBA
9 13 (6.53%) C++
10 12 (6.03%) VB
11 7 (3.52%) Java
12 4 (2.01%) XAML
13 3 (1.51%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.01%) VBScript
14 2 (1.01%) XPath
15 1 (0.50%) Bash
15 1 (0.50%) Go
15 1 (0.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 30 (15.08%) Degree
2 16 (8.04%) SC Cleared
2 16 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.02%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.02%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.02%) PhD
5 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.07%) QA
2 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.50%) GDPR
2 1 (0.50%) GMP
2 1 (0.50%) GxP
2 1 (0.50%) ITGC
System Software
1 13 (6.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.01%) Grafana
2 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.50%) Ansible
3 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (22.61%) Oracle
2 33 (16.58%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.56%) Citrix
4 5 (2.51%) IBM
5 4 (2.01%) Murex
6 2 (1.01%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (1.01%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.50%) Sage
7 1 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.50%) Trayport
7 1 (0.50%) Workday