C# Software Developer Contracts

C# Software Developer
UK

The median C# Software Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 555 647
Rank change year-on-year +50 +92 +135
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 15 27 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.062% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.067% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 60
10th Percentile - £500 £350
25th Percentile £325 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £719 £713 £695
90th Percentile £825 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -35.00% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

C# Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C# Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# Software Developer.

Daily rate trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# Software Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# Software Developer.

Hourly rate trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Work from Home +37 10 £325 -51.85% 40
England +42 9 £650 +8.33% 64
London +25 8 £663 +10.42% 5
UK excluding London +66 6 £325 -35.00% 60
Northern Ireland - 5 £325 -
South East - 1 £475 - 7

C# Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, C# Software Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring C# Software Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (80.00%) Finance
3 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 9 (60.00%) Banking
4 9 (60.00%) .NET
5 8 (53.33%) SQL
6 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (40.00%) Git
6 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
7 5 (33.33%) Equities
7 5 (33.33%) High Availability
7 5 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
7 5 (33.33%) SDLC
7 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
7 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
7 5 (33.33%) Derivative
7 5 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (33.33%) Wholesale Banking
7 5 (33.33%) Subversion
7 5 (33.33%) Maven
7 5 (33.33%) Front Office
7 5 (33.33%) Unix
7 5 (33.33%) Windows
7 5 (33.33%) Linux
7 5 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
7 5 (33.33%) OO
7 5 (33.33%) Ant
8 4 (26.67%) C++
8 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree

C# Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Ant
2 5 (33.33%) Maven
2 5 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
2 9 (60.00%) Banking
3 5 (33.33%) Front Office
3 5 (33.33%) Wholesale Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) CSS3
3 1 (6.67%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) WCF
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Derivative
1 5 (33.33%) Equities
1 5 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
3 1 (6.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Unix
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
2 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 5 (33.33%) High Availability
2 5 (33.33%) OO
2 5 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 5 (33.33%) SDLC
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 1 (6.67%) API Development
6 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
6 1 (6.67%) MVC
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Speech Recognition
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) VB
4 1 (6.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft