Senior C# Developer Contracts

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 538 600
Rank change year-on-year +49 +62 +159
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 41 49 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 37 69
10th Percentile £450 £472 £495
25th Percentile £563 £545 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £800 £725 £825
90th Percentile £838 £785 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £544
% change year-on-year +10.53% -12.64% +8.70%

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 28,543 40,362 52,705
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.00% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,235 25,935 36,627
10th Percentile £288 £285 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,277 2,865 1,533
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.58 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +95.12%

Senior C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior C# Developer over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# 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# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +50 39 £750 +15.38% 87
London +27 32 £750 +13.21% 42
Work from Home +33 23 £775 +12.73% 55
UK excluding London +48 7 £525 +10.53% 46
South West +40 4 £655 - 1
North of England - 3 £525 - 15
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 1
North West - 1 £400 - 12

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Senior C# 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# Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (73.17%) .NET
3 25 (60.98%) Finance
4 24 (58.54%) Azure
5 21 (51.22%) SQL
6 17 (41.46%) DevOps
7 16 (39.02%) .NET Core
8 14 (34.15%) Agile
9 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
9 13 (31.71%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (29.27%) Mentoring
10 12 (29.27%) OO
10 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
11 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
11 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (24.39%) Terraform
12 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
13 9 (21.95%) Product Ownership
13 9 (21.95%) SOLID
13 9 (21.95%) TDD
13 9 (21.95%) ASP.NET
13 9 (21.95%) BDD
13 9 (21.95%) PowerShell
13 9 (21.95%) .NET Framework
14 8 (19.51%) OWASP
14 8 (19.51%) Pair Programming
14 8 (19.51%) Continuous Delivery
14 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
14 8 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (19.51%) Project Delivery

Senior C# 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) Azure
2 13 (31.71%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (7.32%) AWS
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Functions
4 3 (7.32%) Serverless
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.88%) ClickHouse
3 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Redis
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (60.98%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Electronics
3 7 (17.07%) Manufacturing
3 7 (17.07%) Marketing
3 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.07%) Telecoms
4 6 (14.63%) Front Office
5 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Banking
7 3 (7.32%) Billing
8 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
8 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (73.17%) .NET
2 16 (39.02%) .NET Core
3 9 (21.95%) .NET Framework
3 9 (21.95%) ASP.NET
4 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
5 7 (17.07%) React
6 6 (14.63%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (12.20%) RESTful
7 5 (12.20%) Vue
8 4 (9.76%) CSS
8 4 (9.76%) Entity Framework
8 4 (9.76%) HTML
8 4 (9.76%) Web Services
9 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (7.32%) Kafka
10 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
10 2 (4.88%) Node.js
10 2 (4.88%) REST
10 2 (4.88%) Sass
10 2 (4.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Product Ownership
2 6 (14.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (9.76%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.88%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Android
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) DevOps
2 14 (34.15%) Agile
3 12 (29.27%) Mentoring
3 12 (29.27%) OO
4 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) BDD
5 9 (21.95%) SOLID
5 9 (21.95%) TDD
6 8 (19.51%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (19.51%) OWASP
6 8 (19.51%) Pair Programming
6 8 (19.51%) Project Delivery
6 8 (19.51%) Service-Level Objective
7 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.07%) Digital Marketing
7 7 (17.07%) Microservices
7 7 (17.07%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) C#
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 9 (21.95%) PowerShell
4 6 (14.63%) C++
5 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.32%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.32%) RPG
6 3 (7.32%) RPG IV
6 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.88%) Python
8 1 (2.44%) Bicep
8 1 (2.44%) F#
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Terraform
2 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.07%) SAP
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Murex
4 1 (2.44%) Solace
4 1 (2.44%) TIBCO