C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 315 270
Rank change year-on-year -93 -45 -54
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 251 233 365
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.76% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.83% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 198 305
10th Percentile £334 £383 £376
25th Percentile £415 £400 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £659 £620
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +6.25% -0.80%
75th Percentile £715 £797 £725
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £390 £470
% change year-on-year +21.79% -17.02% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £60.63
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £71.88
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 47,123 28,128 40,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.07% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,580 18,010 25,933
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £415 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,165 1,254 2,874
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.76 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.31 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.50% -28.00% -14.50%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 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 28 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 28 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 -121 222 £600 -11.11% 44
London -81 177 £635 -10.56% 16
Work from Home -62 81 £600 -22.58% 19
UK excluding London -92 49 £475 +21.79% 31
North of England -61 16 £450 +12.50% 15
South East -53 10 £475 -4.23% 13
Yorkshire -43 8 £725 +45.00% 5
North West -46 8 £358 -9.37% 3
Midlands -53 7 £350 -9.09% 1
East of England -22 6 - - 4
East Midlands -9 5 £550 +42.86%
Northern Ireland +1 4 - -
South West -45 3 £450 +21.62%
Scotland - 3 £373 -
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 251 (100.00%) C#
2 178 (70.92%) .NET
3 109 (43.43%) SQL
4 96 (38.25%) SQL Server
5 88 (35.06%) Azure
6 68 (27.09%) .NET Framework
7 67 (26.69%) Agile
7 67 (26.69%) CI/CD
8 60 (23.90%) Oracle
9 59 (23.51%) DevOps
10 45 (17.93%) Microservices
11 38 (15.14%) QA
12 37 (14.74%) Microsoft
12 37 (14.74%) Software Engineering
13 36 (14.34%) PL/SQL
14 35 (13.94%) JavaScript
15 34 (13.55%) .NET Core
15 34 (13.55%) Windows
16 33 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
16 33 (13.15%) T-SQL
17 32 (12.75%) Oracle Database
17 32 (12.75%) Unit Testing
18 31 (12.35%) AngularJS
18 31 (12.35%) Data Analysis
18 31 (12.35%) Python
19 30 (11.95%) Security Cleared
20 29 (11.55%) Citrix
20 29 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
20 29 (11.55%) SC Cleared
21 28 (11.16%) Degree

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 18 (7.17%) IIS
2 5 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.59%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.99%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.20%) Findur
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 88 (35.06%) Azure
2 33 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (8.76%) GitHub
4 19 (7.57%) AWS
5 12 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (4.78%) Serverless
6 11 (4.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (3.59%) Azure Functions
8 6 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (2.39%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.59%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.59%) Azure API Management
10 4 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.59%) Collibra
10 4 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) Internet
2 2 (0.80%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.80%) HTTP
2 2 (0.80%) Intranet
2 2 (0.80%) RTCP
2 2 (0.80%) RTP
2 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.80%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (38.25%) SQL Server
2 32 (12.75%) Oracle Database
3 23 (9.16%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.78%) Redis
5 8 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.19%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.59%) Metadata
7 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.59%) Power BI
8 3 (1.20%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.40%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.40%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 22 (8.76%) Git
2 15 (5.98%) TeamCity
3 14 (5.58%) JIRA
3 14 (5.58%) Visual Studio
4 11 (4.38%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.99%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.99%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.20%) GitLab
6 3 (1.20%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
6 3 (1.20%) NUnit
7 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.80%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.80%) MSTest
7 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.80%) Selenium
7 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 88 (35.06%) Finance
2 57 (22.71%) Social Skills
3 56 (22.31%) Banking
4 50 (19.92%) Front Office
5 23 (9.16%) Investment Banking
6 22 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.18%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.20%) Back Office
9 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.80%) Legal
10 2 (0.80%) Military
10 2 (0.80%) Police
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (70.92%) .NET
2 68 (27.09%) .NET Framework
3 34 (13.55%) .NET Core
4 31 (12.35%) AngularJS
5 28 (11.16%) React
6 27 (10.76%) RESTful
7 26 (10.36%) WPF
8 25 (9.96%) ASP.NET
9 21 (8.37%) REST
10 19 (7.57%) HTML
10 19 (7.57%) WinForms
11 18 (7.17%) Entity Framework
12 14 (5.58%) XML
13 13 (5.18%) Web Services
14 9 (3.59%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (3.59%) CSS
15 8 (3.19%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (3.19%) Blazor
15 8 (3.19%) OAuth
16 7 (2.79%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.35%) Derivative
2 24 (9.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (5.58%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.79%) Equities
6 7 (2.79%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.39%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.59%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.80%) FMCG
11 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.80%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.55%) Windows
2 16 (6.37%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.59%) Linux
4 3 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.69%) Agile
1 67 (26.69%) CI/CD
2 59 (23.51%) DevOps
3 45 (17.93%) Microservices
4 37 (14.74%) Software Engineering
5 32 (12.75%) Unit Testing
6 31 (12.35%) Data Analysis
7 29 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (11.16%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (9.16%) AI
11 20 (7.97%) Scrum
11 20 (7.97%) Test Automation
12 16 (6.37%) Computer Science
12 16 (6.37%) Containerisation
12 16 (6.37%) OOP
12 16 (6.37%) Refactoring
12 16 (6.37%) SOLID
13 15 (5.98%) Multithreading
14 14 (5.58%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 251 (100.00%) C#
2 109 (43.43%) SQL
3 36 (14.34%) PL/SQL
4 35 (13.94%) JavaScript
5 33 (13.15%) T-SQL
6 31 (12.35%) Python
7 24 (9.56%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.58%) VBA
9 12 (4.78%) VB
10 10 (3.98%) C++
11 7 (2.79%) Java
11 7 (2.79%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.59%) Bicep
13 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.80%) VB6
13 2 (0.80%) XAML
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.40%) VBScript
14 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.55%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.16%) Degree
4 9 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.39%) PhD
7 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) 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 38 (15.14%) QA
2 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (9.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (23.90%) Oracle
2 37 (14.74%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.55%) Citrix
4 3 (1.20%) Murex
4 3 (1.20%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.80%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (0.80%) Foundry
5 2 (0.80%) IBM
6 1 (0.40%) Google
6 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.40%) SAP
6 1 (0.40%) Workday