Senior C# Application Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior C# Application Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Application Developer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 - 646
Rank change year-on-year - - +189
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Application Developer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.13%
75th Percentile £438 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £575

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 30,101 35,607 46,389
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.92% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,008 21,661 31,742
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,616 1,602 1,499
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.84 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.27% +69.23%
75th Percentile £51.68 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.20 £74.86 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.17
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.38% +96.20%

Senior C# Application Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Application Developer in the UK

Senior C# Application Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior C# Application Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior C# Application Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior C# Application Developer
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C# Application Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 September 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
South East - 1 £425 -
England - 1 £425 -
Work from Home - 1 £425 -
UK excluding London - 1 £425 -

Senior C# Application Developer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 September 2025, Senior C# Application 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# Application Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Health Technology

Senior C# Application 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript