C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 289 266
Rank change year-on-year -114 -23 -58
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 247 249 384
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.87% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.94% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 209 326
10th Percentile £330 £380 £375
25th Percentile £404 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £713 £800 £725
90th Percentile £771 £850 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £391 £475
% change year-on-year +15.02% -17.63% -
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 45,155 26,550 39,743
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.33% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,543 17,231 25,865
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £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 3,003 1,045 2,776
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.84% -24.72% -17.38%
75th Percentile £66.38 £59.90 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.38% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -133 216 £550 -18.52% 32
London -85 174 £600 -15.49% 16
Work from Home -53 78 £600 -25.00% 16
UK excluding London -95 46 £450 +15.02% 18
North of England -68 15 £431 +7.81% 9
North West -28 11 £385 -2.47% 3
South East -48 11 £500 +5.26% 6
Midlands -53 6 £350 -9.09% 3
Northern Ireland +3 5 - -
East Midlands -23 4 £550 +42.86% 1
East of England -26 4 - -
Yorkshire -54 4 £500 - 3
South West -39 3 £450 +21.62%
Scotland -3 2 £373 -25.45%
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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.

1 247 (100.00%) C#
2 177 (71.66%) .NET
3 112 (45.34%) SQL
4 92 (37.25%) Azure
4 92 (37.25%) SQL Server
5 68 (27.53%) CI/CD
6 63 (25.51%) .NET Framework
7 60 (24.29%) Agile
8 56 (22.67%) DevOps
8 56 (22.67%) Oracle
9 51 (20.65%) Microservices
10 38 (15.38%) PL/SQL
10 38 (15.38%) QA
11 37 (14.98%) Microsoft
12 35 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (14.17%) Oracle Database
13 34 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (13.77%) Windows
14 33 (13.36%) Data Analysis
14 33 (13.36%) T-SQL
15 32 (12.96%) JavaScript
15 32 (12.96%) Python
16 31 (12.55%) .NET Core
16 31 (12.55%) AngularJS
17 30 (12.15%) Citrix
18 29 (11.74%) Disaster Recovery
18 29 (11.74%) REST
19 28 (11.34%) Unit Testing
20 27 (10.93%) Docker
20 27 (10.93%) Software Engineering

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 (7.29%) 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 13 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Endur
2 1 (0.40%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 92 (37.25%) Azure
2 35 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (9.72%) GitHub
4 22 (8.91%) AWS
5 17 (6.88%) Serverless
6 15 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (5.67%) Azure Functions
7 14 (5.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.24%) Azure AKS
9 8 (3.24%) Azure API Management
9 8 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.24%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (2.43%) Collibra
11 5 (2.02%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.02%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.45%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (37.25%) SQL Server
2 35 (14.17%) Oracle Database
3 16 (6.48%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (4.86%) Redis
5 6 (2.43%) Metadata
5 6 (2.43%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.43%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.21%) MySQL
7 3 (1.21%) Power BI
8 2 (0.81%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.40%) MS Access
9 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.48%) Git
2 14 (5.67%) TeamCity
3 13 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 11 (4.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 10 (4.05%) JIRA
6 5 (2.02%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.21%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.21%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.21%) NUnit
8 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.81%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.81%) GitLab
8 2 (0.81%) MSTest
8 2 (0.81%) Selenium
8 2 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.40%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.40%) Rational Robot
9 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 86 (34.82%) Finance
2 58 (23.48%) Social Skills
3 50 (20.24%) Banking
4 41 (16.60%) Front Office
5 22 (8.91%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.45%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.64%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.62%) 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%) Law
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%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (71.66%) .NET
2 63 (25.51%) .NET Framework
3 31 (12.55%) .NET Core
3 31 (12.55%) AngularJS
4 29 (11.74%) REST
5 26 (10.53%) RESTful
6 23 (9.31%) ASP.NET
7 22 (8.91%) WPF
8 21 (8.50%) React
9 19 (7.69%) Entity Framework
9 19 (7.69%) HTML
10 17 (6.88%) WinForms
11 12 (4.86%) OAuth
11 12 (4.86%) XML
12 10 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (4.05%) OAuth2
13 9 (3.64%) CSS
13 9 (3.64%) JWT
14 8 (3.24%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (3.24%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.10%) Derivative
2 18 (7.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (6.88%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.43%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.02%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.02%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.62%) Equities
9 4 (1.62%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.21%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.81%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (0.81%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.77%) Windows
2 17 (6.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.81%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.53%) CI/CD
2 60 (24.29%) Agile
3 56 (22.67%) DevOps
4 51 (20.65%) Microservices
5 34 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (13.36%) Data Analysis
7 29 (11.74%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (11.34%) Unit Testing
9 27 (10.93%) Software Engineering
10 25 (10.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (8.50%) AI
12 20 (8.10%) SOLID
13 19 (7.69%) Test Automation
14 18 (7.29%) Containerisation
15 16 (6.48%) OOP
16 15 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
16 15 (6.07%) Change Management
16 15 (6.07%) Clean Code
17 14 (5.67%) Computer Science
17 14 (5.67%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 247 (100.00%) C#
2 112 (45.34%) SQL
3 38 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 33 (13.36%) T-SQL
5 32 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 32 (12.96%) Python
6 23 (9.31%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.07%) VBA
8 13 (5.26%) VB
9 8 (3.24%) Bicep
10 7 (2.83%) Java
11 6 (2.43%) C++
11 6 (2.43%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.81%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.81%) VB6
13 1 (0.40%) Bash
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.40%) VBScript
13 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.72%) Degree
2 24 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.62%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.81%) PhD
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) CISSP
7 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.40%) GDPR
2 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (10.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.64%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (22.67%) Oracle
2 37 (14.98%) Microsoft
3 30 (12.15%) Citrix
4 2 (0.81%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (0.81%) Foundry
4 2 (0.81%) Murex
4 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.40%) Google
5 1 (0.40%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.40%) SAP
5 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.40%) Workday