C# Software Engineer Contracts

C# Software Engineer
UK

The median C# Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £588, 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 478 520 608
Rank change year-on-year +42 +88 +110
Contract jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 42 62 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 82
10th Percentile £325 £369 £488
25th Percentile £363 £525 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.85% +36.84%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £700
90th Percentile £825 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -22.22% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 11
10th Percentile £62.38 £63.50 -
25th Percentile £64.06 - £50.42
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65.19 - £65.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £69.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +32.65%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Top 11 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 Engineer 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
England +38 37 £663 +1.92% 66
London +20 22 £700 +7.69% 28
UK excluding London +61 19 £350 -22.22% 48
Work from Home +41 15 £325 -50.00% 55
Midlands - 6 £375 - 4
East of England +29 5 £515 - 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £325 -
South East +44 3 - - 17
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
South West +42 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, C# Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) C#
1 42 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (69.05%) .NET
3 17 (40.48%) Finance
4 14 (33.33%) Windows
4 14 (33.33%) Azure
5 13 (30.95%) Agile
6 11 (26.19%) Linux
6 11 (26.19%) Front Office
7 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
7 10 (23.81%) Banking
8 9 (21.43%) Visual Studio
8 9 (21.43%) Git
8 9 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
9 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
9 8 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (19.05%) .NET Core
9 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
10 7 (16.67%) SQL
10 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
10 7 (16.67%) Python
10 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
10 7 (16.67%) Unit Testing
10 7 (16.67%) REST
11 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (14.29%) AWS
11 6 (14.29%) C++
11 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns

C# Software Engineer 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 14 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) Azure AKS
3 4 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 4 (9.52%) GitHub
3 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Ethernet
1 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Git
1 9 (21.43%) Visual Studio
2 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) Ant
3 5 (11.90%) Eclipse
3 5 (11.90%) Maven
3 5 (11.90%) Subversion
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) GitLab
6 1 (2.38%) ReSharper
General
1 17 (40.48%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Front Office
3 10 (23.81%) Banking
4 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Wholesale Banking
6 4 (9.52%) Investment Banking
6 4 (9.52%) Military
7 3 (7.14%) Law
8 1 (2.38%) Advertising
8 1 (2.38%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (69.05%) .NET
2 8 (19.05%) .NET Core
3 7 (16.67%) REST
4 5 (11.90%) Blazor
4 5 (11.90%) Node.js
4 5 (11.90%) WPF
5 4 (9.52%) Kafka
5 4 (9.52%) NumPy
5 4 (9.52%) OAuth
5 4 (9.52%) OAuth2
5 4 (9.52%) OpenID
5 4 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (9.52%) Pandas
5 4 (9.52%) React
5 4 (9.52%) Web Services
6 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.76%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.76%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.90%) Derivative
2 5 (11.90%) Equities
2 5 (11.90%) Equity Derivative
3 4 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) TWAP
4 1 (2.38%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 14 (33.33%) Windows
2 11 (26.19%) Linux
3 5 (11.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (30.95%) Agile
3 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 8 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (11.90%) Concurrent Programming
7 5 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (11.90%) Digital Twin
7 5 (11.90%) High Availability
7 5 (11.90%) OO
7 5 (11.90%) OOA/OOD
7 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.90%) Scrum
7 5 (11.90%) SDLC
7 5 (11.90%) Synthetic Environment
8 4 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 7 (16.67%) Python
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) C++
5 4 (9.52%) Bicep
6 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.76%) PHP
7 2 (4.76%) VB
7 2 (4.76%) VB6
8 1 (2.38%) C
8 1 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle
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