C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 318 260
Rank change year-on-year -100 -58 -104
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 180 263 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.72% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.77% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 196 354
10th Percentile £383 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -10.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +11.89% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 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 £67.25 £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 32,848 33,983 42,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 92.83% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,819 20,547 28,844
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,914 1,249 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +79.00%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -89 164 £490 -14.78% 84
London -39 136 £450 -26.98% 20
Work from Home -22 53 £500 -4.76% 47
UK excluding London -54 29 £518 +11.89% 68
South East 0 9 £488 -9.30% 27
Midlands -18 8 £600 +4.35% 18
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 7
North of England -57 4 £393 -14.67% 16
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -23 3 £500 +3.09% 5
North West -28 2 £310 -27.06% 10
Yorkshire -45 2 £475 +2.70% 6
Scotland -4 1 £455 +1.11% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 180 (100.00%) C#
2 138 (76.67%) .NET
3 85 (47.22%) SQL
4 70 (38.89%) SQL Server
5 66 (36.67%) .NET Framework
6 54 (30.00%) Azure
7 46 (25.56%) Agile
8 45 (25.00%) Microservices
9 44 (24.44%) DevOps
9 44 (24.44%) Oracle
10 42 (23.33%) Windows
11 38 (21.11%) CI/CD
11 38 (21.11%) PL/SQL
12 33 (18.33%) WPF
13 28 (15.56%) Oracle Database
14 27 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (13.33%) Software Engineering
16 24 (13.33%) T-SQL
17 23 (12.78%) Microsoft Excel
18 22 (12.22%) RESTful
18 22 (12.22%) VBA
19 21 (11.67%) Microsoft
19 21 (11.67%) Unit Testing
19 21 (11.67%) VB
20 20 (11.11%) Degree
20 20 (11.11%) GitHub
21 19 (10.56%) .NET Core
21 19 (10.56%) AngularJS

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 13 (7.22%) IIS
2 7 (3.89%) Confluence
3 5 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.78%) CMS
3 5 (2.78%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.78%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.78%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.56%) Mendix
Applications
1 23 (12.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.67%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.56%) Eikon
2 1 (0.56%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.56%) Maximo
2 1 (0.56%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 54 (30.00%) Azure
2 27 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (11.11%) GitHub
4 19 (10.56%) AWS
5 11 (6.11%) Serverless
6 9 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.33%) Azure Functions
7 6 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.78%) Contentful
8 5 (2.78%) GCP
8 5 (2.78%) Kontent
9 4 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.22%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.67%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.00%) Internet
2 2 (1.11%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.56%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.11%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.89%) Redis
6 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.78%) Power BI
8 3 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.56%) DataStage
10 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.56%) Sisense
10 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.56%) Git
2 12 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 11 (6.11%) SpecFlow
4 9 (5.00%) JIRA
5 7 (3.89%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (3.33%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.78%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.11%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.11%) NUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Crucible
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 69 (38.33%) Finance
2 50 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.78%) Banking
4 20 (11.11%) Front Office
5 19 (10.56%) Investment Banking
6 9 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.89%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.67%) Back Office
10 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.11%) Marketing
10 2 (1.11%) Military
10 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (76.67%) .NET
2 66 (36.67%) .NET Framework
3 33 (18.33%) WPF
4 22 (12.22%) RESTful
5 19 (10.56%) .NET Core
5 19 (10.56%) AngularJS
6 16 (8.89%) Entity Framework
7 15 (8.33%) ASP.NET
8 14 (7.78%) REST
9 11 (6.11%) NHibernate
9 11 (6.11%) WinForms
10 10 (5.56%) HTML
10 10 (5.56%) Kafka
10 10 (5.56%) Playwright
11 9 (5.00%) CSS
11 9 (5.00%) React
11 9 (5.00%) WCF
12 8 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (3.89%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Derivative
2 9 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.44%) Hedge funds
3 8 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.22%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.22%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.11%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.56%) Equities
10 1 (0.56%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 42 (23.33%) Windows
2 6 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (25.56%) Agile
2 45 (25.00%) Microservices
3 44 (24.44%) DevOps
4 38 (21.11%) CI/CD
5 25 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 21 (11.67%) Unit Testing
8 16 (8.89%) Data Analysis
8 16 (8.89%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (8.89%) Scrum
9 15 (8.33%) Clean Code
10 14 (7.78%) API Development
10 14 (7.78%) Computer Science
10 14 (7.78%) OOP
11 13 (7.22%) AI
11 13 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (7.22%) SDLC
12 12 (6.67%) OO
12 12 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 180 (100.00%) C#
2 85 (47.22%) SQL
3 38 (21.11%) PL/SQL
4 24 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 22 (12.22%) VBA
6 21 (11.67%) VB
7 16 (8.89%) JavaScript
8 12 (6.67%) VB.NET
9 11 (6.11%) Python
10 5 (2.78%) PHP
11 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.67%) C++
12 3 (1.67%) Java
12 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.11%) Ada
13 2 (1.11%) Assembly Language
13 2 (1.11%) C
13 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.11%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.56%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 20 (11.11%) Degree
2 10 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.22%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.56%) QA
2 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) EMIR
3 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (24.44%) Oracle
2 21 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.89%) Citrix
4 5 (2.78%) Adobe
4 5 (2.78%) Sitecore
5 4 (2.22%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.67%) FactSet
7 2 (1.11%) Concur
7 2 (1.11%) Confluent
7 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.11%) Trayport
8 1 (0.56%) Adyen
8 1 (0.56%) Apple
8 1 (0.56%) Databricks
8 1 (0.56%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.56%) Kofax
8 1 (0.56%) Lotus
8 1 (0.56%) Reuters
8 1 (0.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) Workday