Senior C# Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 539 562
Rank change year-on-year -24 +23 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 31 27 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.074% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.079% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 37
10th Percentile £440 £568 £472
25th Percentile £494 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - -
75th Percentile £759 £725 £775
90th Percentile £788 £815 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%

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 32,848 33,983 42,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 92.83% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,819 20,547 28,844
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,914 1,249 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +79.00%

Senior C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior C# Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior C# Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior C# Developer over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Senior C# Developer
Top 7 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# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 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 -20 28 £700 +7.69% 10
London +11 24 £700 +7.69%
Work from Home +18 17 £583 -4.90% 7
UK excluding London -34 4 £513 - 10
East Midlands - 3 £515 -
Midlands - 3 £515 - 3
South East - 1 £425 - 2

Senior C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, Senior C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior C# Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) C#
2 23 (74.19%) .NET
3 15 (48.39%) DevOps
4 14 (45.16%) Microservices
5 13 (41.94%) GitHub
6 12 (38.71%) Software Engineering
7 11 (35.48%) Azure
7 11 (35.48%) SQL Server
8 10 (32.26%) SQL
9 9 (29.03%) Agile
9 9 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (25.81%) .NET Framework
10 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
10 8 (25.81%) Degree
10 8 (25.81%) RESTful
11 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
11 7 (22.58%) AWS
11 7 (22.58%) Docker
11 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
12 6 (19.35%) AI
12 6 (19.35%) Analytics
12 6 (19.35%) Entity Framework
12 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (19.35%) Git
12 6 (19.35%) Kafka
13 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
13 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven
13 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 5 (16.13%) Fintech
13 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions

Senior C# Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) GitHub
2 11 (35.48%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) AWS
5 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (16.13%) Serverless
6 4 (12.90%) GCP
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.68%) ChatGPT
7 3 (9.68%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (9.68%) SaaS
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) MongoDB
2 5 (16.13%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (3.23%) Sisense
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) JIRA
2 5 (16.13%) SpecFlow
3 4 (12.90%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (45.16%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Front Office
5 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (74.19%) .NET
2 8 (25.81%) .NET Framework
2 8 (25.81%) RESTful
3 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
4 6 (19.35%) Entity Framework
4 6 (19.35%) Kafka
5 5 (16.13%) NHibernate
5 5 (16.13%) Playwright
5 5 (16.13%) REST
6 4 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (9.68%) AWS CDK
8 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
8 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
9 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (3.23%) CSS
9 1 (3.23%) HTML
9 1 (3.23%) HTML5
9 1 (3.23%) JSON
9 1 (3.23%) SOAP
9 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Fabric
1 4 (12.90%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (12.90%) Hedge funds
1 4 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.23%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) DevOps
2 14 (45.16%) Microservices
3 12 (38.71%) Software Engineering
4 9 (29.03%) Agile
5 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
6 6 (19.35%) AI
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
7 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven
7 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (16.13%) Fintech
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) Clean Code
8 4 (12.90%) Mathematics
8 4 (12.90%) Migration
8 4 (12.90%) Multithreading
8 4 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.90%) Physics
9 3 (9.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (32.26%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) PHP
3 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Confluent
3 1 (3.23%) SAP