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 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 533 550
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 29 28 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.078% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.084% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 38
10th Percentile £440 £559 £471
25th Percentile £494 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £635 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £759 £725 £738
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 33,199 33,522 42,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.79% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 20,434 28,329
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £723 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,922 1,156 1,511
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.42 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.97 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +39.68%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -34 26 £700 +10.24% 8
London +1 22 £700 +10.24%
Work from Home +9 16 £583 -3.72% 6
UK excluding London -42 4 £513 - 8
East Midlands - 3 £515 -
Midlands - 3 £515 - 3
South East - 1 £425 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 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 29 (100.00%) C#
2 21 (72.41%) .NET
3 13 (44.83%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) GitHub
3 13 (44.83%) Microservices
4 12 (41.38%) Software Engineering
5 11 (37.93%) SQL Server
6 9 (31.03%) Azure
7 8 (27.59%) Agile
7 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
7 8 (27.59%) Degree
7 8 (27.59%) SQL
8 7 (24.14%) .NET Framework
8 7 (24.14%) AngularJS
8 7 (24.14%) AWS
8 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (24.14%) Docker
8 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
8 7 (24.14%) RESTful
9 6 (20.69%) AI
9 6 (20.69%) Analytics
9 6 (20.69%) Entity Framework
9 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (20.69%) Git
9 6 (20.69%) Kafka
10 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
10 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (17.24%) JIRA
10 5 (17.24%) MongoDB

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 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) GitHub
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.34%) ChatGPT
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (10.34%) SaaS
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) Sisense
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) SpecFlow
3 4 (13.79%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Banking
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
4 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (72.41%) .NET
2 7 (24.14%) .NET Framework
2 7 (24.14%) AngularJS
2 7 (24.14%) RESTful
3 6 (20.69%) Entity Framework
3 6 (20.69%) Kafka
4 5 (17.24%) NHibernate
4 5 (17.24%) Playwright
5 4 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (13.79%) REST
6 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
7 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (3.45%) CSS3
7 1 (3.45%) gRPC
7 1 (3.45%) HTML5
7 1 (3.45%) JSON Schema
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Fabric
1 4 (13.79%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (13.79%) Hedge funds
1 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) DevOps
1 13 (44.83%) Microservices
2 12 (41.38%) Software Engineering
3 8 (27.59%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) AI
4 6 (20.69%) Analytics
4 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
5 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (13.79%) Clean Code
6 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.79%) Fintech
6 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
6 4 (13.79%) Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Multithreading
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.79%) Physics
6 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) PHP
3 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Confluent
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft