C# Developer Contract Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 301 253
Rank change year-on-year -88 -48 -100
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 194 251 409
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.78% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.84% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 180 340
10th Percentile £336 £363 £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £716 £738
90th Percentile £760 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £51.70 - £61.25
25th Percentile £60.25 - £66.88
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 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 33,792 29,885 39,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 92.67% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,415 18,301 26,575
10th Percentile £300 £293 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 924 1,607
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.56 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.78 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -26.97% +36.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -20.16% -31.34% +69.89%

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 7 January 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 7 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 14 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 7 January 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 -99 171 £488 -18.41% 57
London -60 138 £500 -23.08% 20
Work from Home -26 56 £475 -9.52% 29
UK excluding London -65 37 £488 +2.63% 50
South East -23 9 £475 -13.64% 17
Midlands -34 9 £600 +4.35% 5
North of England -54 9 £450 +9.09% 13
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 1
North West -29 7 £400 -3.03% 10
Northern Ireland -3 6 - -
East of England -23 3 £500 +3.09% 1
Yorkshire -48 2 £475 - 1
Scotland -1 1 £455 -4.21% 9
West Midlands -38 1 £350 -39.13% 4

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

For the 6 months to 7 January 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.

1 194 (100.00%) C#
2 144 (74.23%) .NET
3 89 (45.88%) SQL
4 74 (38.14%) SQL Server
5 62 (31.96%) Azure
6 61 (31.44%) .NET Framework
7 55 (28.35%) Microservices
8 52 (26.80%) Agile
9 49 (25.26%) CI/CD
10 48 (24.74%) DevOps
11 44 (22.68%) Oracle
12 42 (21.65%) PL/SQL
13 40 (20.62%) Windows
14 32 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (15.98%) Azure DevOps
16 29 (14.95%) Oracle Database
17 28 (14.43%) T-SQL
18 26 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
18 26 (13.40%) GitHub
18 26 (13.40%) REST
18 26 (13.40%) RESTful
19 25 (12.89%) AWS
19 25 (12.89%) Docker
20 24 (12.37%) Degree
20 24 (12.37%) WPF
21 23 (11.86%) Microsoft
21 23 (11.86%) QA
21 23 (11.86%) Unit Testing
22 22 (11.34%) Entity Framework
22 22 (11.34%) Kubernetes

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 14 (7.22%) IIS
2 7 (3.61%) Confluence
3 5 (2.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.58%) CMS
3 5 (2.58%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.58%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (2.58%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.52%) Mendix
Applications
1 20 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.52%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.96%) Azure
2 31 (15.98%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (13.40%) GitHub
4 25 (12.89%) AWS
5 17 (8.76%) Serverless
6 16 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (6.19%) Azure Functions
8 11 (5.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (5.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (4.64%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.12%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.09%) Azure API Management
13 6 (3.09%) GCP
14 5 (2.58%) Contentful
14 5 (2.58%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.64%) Internet
2 2 (1.03%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (38.14%) SQL Server
2 29 (14.95%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.19%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.15%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.61%) Redis
6 6 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.55%) Power BI
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.03%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.52%) DataStage
9 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.52%) Sisense
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Git
2 14 (7.22%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.67%) SpecFlow
4 8 (4.12%) JIRA
5 6 (3.09%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.09%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (3.09%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Crucible
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) NUnit
General
1 69 (35.57%) Finance
2 57 (29.38%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.56%) Banking
4 22 (11.34%) Front Office
5 21 (10.82%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.64%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Back Office
8 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.03%) Military
9 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (74.23%) .NET
2 61 (31.44%) .NET Framework
3 26 (13.40%) REST
3 26 (13.40%) RESTful
4 24 (12.37%) WPF
5 22 (11.34%) Entity Framework
6 21 (10.82%) AngularJS
7 18 (9.28%) .NET Core
8 13 (6.70%) NHibernate
9 12 (6.19%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.19%) WinForms
10 11 (5.67%) Kafka
11 10 (5.15%) HTML
11 10 (5.15%) Playwright
12 9 (4.64%) CSS
13 8 (4.12%) OAuth
13 8 (4.12%) OAuth2
13 8 (4.12%) React
14 7 (3.61%) JWT
14 7 (3.61%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.70%) Cloud Native
1 13 (6.70%) Derivative
2 11 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.09%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.09%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.58%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.03%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.03%) Equities
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.03%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.62%) Windows
2 11 (5.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.35%) Microservices
2 52 (26.80%) Agile
3 49 (25.26%) CI/CD
4 48 (24.74%) DevOps
5 32 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (11.86%) Unit Testing
8 22 (11.34%) Software Engineering
9 20 (10.31%) Clean Code
10 19 (9.79%) Data Analysis
11 18 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (8.25%) Containerisation
13 15 (7.73%) AI
13 15 (7.73%) API Development
13 15 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (7.73%) Scrum
14 14 (7.22%) Computer Science
14 14 (7.22%) OOP
15 13 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (6.19%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 194 (100.00%) C#
2 89 (45.88%) SQL
3 42 (21.65%) PL/SQL
4 28 (14.43%) T-SQL
5 18 (9.28%) VB
5 18 (9.28%) VBA
6 14 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.22%) Python
7 9 (4.64%) VB.NET
8 7 (3.61%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.09%) Bicep
10 5 (2.58%) PHP
11 3 (1.55%) C++
11 3 (1.55%) Java
12 2 (1.03%) Ada
12 2 (1.03%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.03%) C
12 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.03%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (12.37%) Degree
2 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.61%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.58%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.86%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (12.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (22.68%) Oracle
2 23 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.82%) Citrix
4 5 (2.58%) Adobe
4 5 (2.58%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.03%) Concur
5 2 (1.03%) Confluent
5 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.03%) Trayport
6 1 (0.52%) Adyen
6 1 (0.52%) Apple
6 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.52%) Databricks
6 1 (0.52%) FactSet
6 1 (0.52%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.52%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.52%) Kofax
6 1 (0.52%) Lotus
6 1 (0.52%) Workday