Senior C# .NET Developer Contracts

Senior C# .NET Developer
UK

The median Senior C# .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 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
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 581 649
Rank change year-on-year +55 +68 +189
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# .NET Developer 22 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.028% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.030% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 21
10th Percentile £450 £494 £468
25th Percentile £463 £540 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £574 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -4.38% +11.63%
75th Percentile £671 £646 £688
90th Percentile £739 £725 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

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 30,069 39,775 53,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 93.04% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,151 25,566 36,972
10th Percentile £287 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,393 2,719 1,580
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.00 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £63.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +82.84%

Senior C# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior C# .NET Developer over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C# .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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 +48 22 £575 +0.22% 16
London +39 15 £640 +11.55% 4
Work from Home +41 11 £655 +14.16% 9
UK excluding London - 7 £525 - 15
South West - 4 £655 -
North of England - 3 £525 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 1
North West - 1 £400 - 1

Senior C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, Senior C# .NET 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 Senior C# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) C#
1 22 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (81.82%) SQL
3 16 (72.73%) Finance
3 16 (72.73%) Azure
4 14 (63.64%) DevOps
5 12 (54.55%) .NET Core
5 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 12 (54.55%) Agile
6 11 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (45.45%) Terraform
7 10 (45.45%) OO
8 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
8 9 (40.91%) SOLID
8 9 (40.91%) Product Ownership
9 8 (36.36%) Service-Level Objective
9 8 (36.36%) Project Delivery
9 8 (36.36%) OWASP
9 8 (36.36%) BDD
9 8 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
9 8 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (36.36%) TDD
9 8 (36.36%) Pair Programming
10 7 (31.82%) Programme Management
10 7 (31.82%) Digital Marketing
10 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
10 7 (31.82%) Marketing
10 7 (31.82%) Manufacturing
10 7 (31.82%) Electronics

Senior C# .NET 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 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) ClickHouse
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (72.73%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Electronics
2 7 (31.82%) Manufacturing
2 7 (31.82%) Marketing
2 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
2 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Billing
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (54.55%) .NET Core
3 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
4 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (13.64%) CSS
6 3 (13.64%) Entity Framework
6 3 (13.64%) HTML
6 3 (13.64%) RESTful
7 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
7 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (9.09%) REST
7 2 (9.09%) Web Services
8 1 (4.55%) NgRx
8 1 (4.55%) React
8 1 (4.55%) RxJS
8 1 (4.55%) Sass
8 1 (4.55%) Vue
8 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) DevOps
2 12 (54.55%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) OO
4 9 (40.91%) SOLID
5 8 (36.36%) BDD
5 8 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 8 (36.36%) OWASP
5 8 (36.36%) Pair Programming
5 8 (36.36%) Project Delivery
5 8 (36.36%) Service-Level Objective
5 8 (36.36%) TDD
6 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (31.82%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (31.82%) Programme Management
7 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
8 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
8 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) C#
2 18 (81.82%) SQL
3 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
4 3 (13.64%) RPG
4 3 (13.64%) RPG IV
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Murex
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Solace
3 1 (4.55%) TIBCO