C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 302 273
Rank change year-on-year -106 -29 -60
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 248 241 374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.82% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.89% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 206 317
10th Percentile £330 £379 £377
25th Percentile £406 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £713 £800 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £801
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £388 £475
% change year-on-year +16.13% -18.42% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £58.00
25th Percentile £26.25 - £60.63
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £73.75
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 45,686 27,116 40,535
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.32% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,799 17,461 26,079
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,132 2,932
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.87 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.65 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.70 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -26.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.13% -5.88%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -118 220 £580 -14.07% 34
London -84 177 £600 -15.49% 19
Work from Home -57 78 £600 -25.00% 13
UK excluding London -82 47 £450 +16.13% 17
North of England -69 15 £431 +7.81% 9
South East -64 11 £500 +5.26% 4
North West -34 10 £358 -9.37% 2
Midlands -57 7 £350 -9.09% 2
Northern Ireland +3 5 - -
East Midlands -23 5 £550 +42.86%
Yorkshire -54 5 £500 - 4
East of England -22 4 - - 3
South West -31 3 £450 +21.62%
Scotland -11 2 £373 -25.45%
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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.

1 248 (100.00%) C#
2 177 (71.37%) .NET
3 107 (43.15%) SQL
4 88 (35.48%) Azure
4 88 (35.48%) SQL Server
5 65 (26.21%) CI/CD
6 63 (25.40%) .NET Framework
7 62 (25.00%) Agile
8 55 (22.18%) Oracle
9 53 (21.37%) DevOps
10 49 (19.76%) Microservices
11 38 (15.32%) Microsoft
12 36 (14.52%) QA
13 35 (14.11%) PL/SQL
14 34 (13.71%) JavaScript
14 34 (13.71%) Python
15 32 (12.90%) Oracle Database
15 32 (12.90%) Software Engineering
16 31 (12.50%) Data Analysis
16 31 (12.50%) Windows
17 30 (12.10%) .NET Core
17 30 (12.10%) AngularJS
17 30 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
17 30 (12.10%) T-SQL
18 29 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
19 28 (11.29%) Security Cleared
20 27 (10.89%) Citrix
20 27 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
20 27 (10.89%) SC Cleared
20 27 (10.89%) Unit Testing

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 17 (6.85%) IIS
2 5 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.21%) Confluence
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.81%) Findur
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 88 (35.48%) Azure
2 30 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (8.87%) AWS
4 21 (8.47%) GitHub
5 14 (5.65%) Serverless
6 12 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.44%) Azure Functions
7 11 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.42%) Collibra
11 5 (2.02%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.02%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.02%) Azure API Management
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.02%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.44%) Internet
2 2 (0.81%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.81%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.81%) HTTP
2 2 (0.81%) RTCP
2 2 (0.81%) RTP
2 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.81%) XCAP
3 1 (0.40%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 32 (12.90%) Oracle Database
3 18 (7.26%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.84%) Redis
5 9 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.42%) Metadata
6 6 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.61%) Power BI
8 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.21%) MySQL
10 2 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.40%) MS Access
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (6.85%) Git
2 14 (5.65%) TeamCity
3 12 (4.84%) JIRA
3 12 (4.84%) Visual Studio
4 11 (4.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.02%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.21%) GitLab
6 3 (1.21%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
6 3 (1.21%) NUnit
7 2 (0.81%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.81%) MSTest
7 2 (0.81%) Selenium
7 2 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.40%) Rational Robot
General
1 86 (34.68%) Finance
2 58 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 50 (20.16%) Banking
4 43 (17.34%) Front Office
5 22 (8.87%) Investment Banking
6 19 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Back Office
10 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.21%) Retail
11 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.81%) Military
11 2 (0.81%) Police
11 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (71.37%) .NET
2 63 (25.40%) .NET Framework
3 30 (12.10%) .NET Core
3 30 (12.10%) AngularJS
4 26 (10.48%) React
4 26 (10.48%) REST
5 25 (10.08%) RESTful
6 24 (9.68%) ASP.NET
7 21 (8.47%) WPF
8 19 (7.66%) HTML
9 17 (6.85%) Entity Framework
10 15 (6.05%) WinForms
11 14 (5.65%) XML
12 10 (4.03%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (3.63%) CSS
13 9 (3.63%) OAuth
14 8 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (3.23%) Blazor
14 8 (3.23%) Web Services
15 7 (2.82%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.48%) Derivative
2 22 (8.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (6.05%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.42%) Equities
7 6 (2.42%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.02%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.61%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.21%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.81%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.81%) FMCG
11 2 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.50%) Windows
2 15 (6.05%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.21%) Linux
4 2 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.21%) CI/CD
2 62 (25.00%) Agile
3 53 (21.37%) DevOps
4 49 (19.76%) Microservices
5 32 (12.90%) Software Engineering
6 31 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 29 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (10.89%) Unit Testing
9 24 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (8.47%) AI
10 21 (8.47%) Test Automation
11 18 (7.26%) SOLID
12 16 (6.45%) Containerisation
13 15 (6.05%) OOP
13 15 (6.05%) Refactoring
14 14 (5.65%) Change Management
14 14 (5.65%) Computer Science
14 14 (5.65%) Scrum
14 14 (5.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 248 (100.00%) C#
2 107 (43.15%) SQL
3 35 (14.11%) PL/SQL
4 34 (13.71%) JavaScript
4 34 (13.71%) Python
5 30 (12.10%) T-SQL
6 24 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.65%) VBA
8 12 (4.84%) VB
9 9 (3.63%) C++
10 7 (2.82%) Java
11 6 (2.42%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.02%) Bicep
13 2 (0.81%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.81%) VB6
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.40%) VBScript
14 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.68%) Degree
4 8 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.21%) PhD
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.52%) QA
2 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (10.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.42%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (22.18%) Oracle
2 38 (15.32%) Microsoft
3 27 (10.89%) Citrix
4 2 (0.81%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (0.81%) Foundry
4 2 (0.81%) Murex
4 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.81%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.40%) Google
5 1 (0.40%) IBM
5 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.40%) SAP
5 1 (0.40%) Workday