Senior C# Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £710, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 516 582
Rank change year-on-year -10 +66 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 42 43 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 56
10th Percentile £508 £522 £465
25th Percentile £550 £570 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £788 £759 £750
90th Percentile £815 £838 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £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 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

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
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 18 September 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 9 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 18 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
England +13 39 £750 +11.11% 6
London +18 33 £763 +12.96% 1
Work from Home +27 22 £775 +10.71% 4
UK excluding London -5 6 £525 - 5
South West - 3 - -
North of England - 2 £525 -
Yorkshire - 2 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £520 -
Midlands - 1 £520 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 42 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (71.43%) .NET
3 24 (57.14%) DevOps
4 23 (54.76%) Azure
5 22 (52.38%) Finance
6 19 (45.24%) SQL Server
7 17 (40.48%) SQL
7 17 (40.48%) Microservices
8 16 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (35.71%) Software Engineering
10 14 (33.33%) Agile
11 11 (26.19%) .NET Core
11 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
12 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
12 10 (23.81%) GitHub
12 10 (23.81%) Git
12 10 (23.81%) RESTful
13 9 (21.43%) AngularJS
13 9 (21.43%) Terraform
13 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
14 8 (19.05%) Clean Code
14 8 (19.05%) Degree
14 8 (19.05%) Banking
14 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
15 7 (16.67%) OO
15 7 (16.67%) .NET Framework
15 7 (16.67%) BDD
15 7 (16.67%) Analytics
15 7 (16.67%) Kafka
15 7 (16.67%) Docker

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 3 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 16 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (23.81%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) AWS
4 6 (14.29%) Serverless
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Functions
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (9.52%) GCP
5 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (9.52%) SaaS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.76%) ChatGPT
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (45.24%) SQL Server
2 6 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.76%) ClickHouse
4 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.38%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) Redis
5 1 (2.38%) Sisense
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Git
2 6 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 4 (9.52%) JIRA
3 4 (9.52%) SpecFlow
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (52.38%) Finance
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Banking
4 6 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.90%) Electronics
5 5 (11.90%) Front Office
5 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
5 5 (11.90%) Marketing
5 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
6 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (71.43%) .NET
2 11 (26.19%) .NET Core
3 10 (23.81%) RESTful
4 9 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 7 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 7 (16.67%) Kafka
6 6 (14.29%) React
7 5 (11.90%) ASP.NET
8 4 (9.52%) Entity Framework
8 4 (9.52%) NHibernate
8 4 (9.52%) Playwright
8 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (9.52%) REST
9 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (7.14%) Vue
10 2 (4.76%) ARM Templates
10 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
10 2 (4.76%) Gherkin
10 2 (4.76%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Hedge funds
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) Data Fabric
2 4 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.38%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Android
2 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) DevOps
2 17 (40.48%) Microservices
3 15 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 14 (33.33%) Agile
5 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
6 8 (19.05%) Clean Code
7 7 (16.67%) Analytics
7 7 (16.67%) BDD
7 7 (16.67%) OO
8 6 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (14.29%) Fintech
8 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.29%) TDD
9 5 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
9 5 (11.90%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) C#
2 17 (40.48%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.14%) Python
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) PHP
5 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.38%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) C++
6 1 (2.38%) F#
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 9 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Confluent