Senior C# Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 496 539
Rank change year-on-year -80 +43 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 25 31 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.099% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 32
10th Percentile £425 £516 £478
25th Percentile £463 £575 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £655 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £741 £719 £725
90th Percentile £761 £808 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £528 £575
% change year-on-year -3.32% -8.26% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 35,834 28,947 41,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 92.90% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,581 17,764 27,572
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,159 838 2,289
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.98 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.54 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £61.25 £62.64 £61.60
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £73.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.77 £31.76 £36.00
% change year-on-year -12.56% -11.78% +10.77%

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 6 February 2026.

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 6 February 2026. 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 -73 22 £675 +3.05% 9
London -40 19 £700 +6.87% 6
Work from Home -33 11 £475 -27.48% 6
UK excluding London -75 3 £510 -3.32% 4
East Midlands - 2 £513 - 1
Midlands - 2 £513 - 1
South East - 1 £425 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, 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 25 (100.00%) C#
2 21 (84.00%) .NET
3 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (36.00%) .NET Framework
4 9 (36.00%) GitHub
4 9 (36.00%) Microservices
5 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (28.00%) Agile
6 7 (28.00%) Entity Framework
7 6 (24.00%) AngularJS
7 6 (24.00%) AWS
7 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (24.00%) Degree
7 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) JIRA
8 5 (20.00%) NHibernate
8 5 (20.00%) Playwright
8 5 (20.00%) RESTful
8 5 (20.00%) SpecFlow
8 5 (20.00%) SQL
9 4 (16.00%) AI
9 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (16.00%) Clean Code
9 4 (16.00%) Docker
9 4 (16.00%) Git
9 4 (16.00%) REST
9 4 (16.00%) Serverless

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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) GitHub
3 6 (24.00%) AWS
4 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (8.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure App Service
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.00%) Azure WebJobs
7 1 (4.00%) ChatGPT
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Sisense
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
1 5 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 4 (16.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Health Technology
4 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (84.00%) .NET
2 9 (36.00%) .NET Framework
3 7 (28.00%) Entity Framework
4 6 (24.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 5 (20.00%) Playwright
5 5 (20.00%) RESTful
6 4 (16.00%) REST
7 3 (12.00%) AWS CDK
7 3 (12.00%) Kafka
8 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
8 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (8.00%) React
9 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (4.00%) CSS
9 1 (4.00%) CSS3
9 1 (4.00%) HTML
9 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
9 1 (4.00%) SOAP
9 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Data Fabric
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Hedge funds
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) Microservices
3 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (28.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) AI
6 4 (16.00%) Clean Code
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) B2B
7 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (8.00%) Mathematics
8 2 (8.00%) Migration
8 2 (8.00%) Physics
8 2 (8.00%) Project Management
8 2 (8.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) PHP
3 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Confluent
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft