C# Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

C#
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing C# 400 907 1,600
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.04% 5.91% 6.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.81% 17.67% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 624 1,211
10th Percentile £351 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £807
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 52
10th Percentile £62.38 - £45.13
25th Percentile £64.06 £20.77 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £65.75
90th Percentile - £65.75 £83.38
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +25.82%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

C#
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C# trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

C#
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing C#.

C# daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

C#
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing C# over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

C# daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C#
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing C#.

C# hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.50%) Confluence
3 5 (1.25%) IIS
3 5 (1.25%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.00%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.50%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) CMS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.25%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.50%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) Trello
4 1 (0.25%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 24 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.75%) Endur
3 2 (0.50%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 194 (48.50%) Azure
2 93 (23.25%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (15.00%) AWS
4 48 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
5 45 (11.25%) Power Platform
6 33 (8.25%) PowerApps
7 31 (7.75%) Power Automate
8 29 (7.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 26 (6.50%) Serverless
10 20 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 20 (5.00%) GitHub
11 17 (4.25%) Azure Functions
11 17 (4.25%) GCP
12 16 (4.00%) Entra ID
13 13 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.00%) Azure API Management
14 12 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 9 (2.25%) Azure AKS
17 8 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.25%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.00%) HTTP
3 6 (1.50%) DNS
3 6 (1.50%) SSL
4 5 (1.25%) Firewall
5 4 (1.00%) Ethernet
5 4 (1.00%) FTP
5 4 (1.00%) Network Security
5 4 (1.00%) SMTP
6 2 (0.50%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.25%) NAS
7 1 (0.25%) RS-232
7 1 (0.25%) SAN
7 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (18.25%) SQL Server
2 34 (8.50%) Relational Database
3 21 (5.25%) Power BI
4 13 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.75%) Redis
8 5 (1.25%) MySQL
9 4 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.75%) Big Data
10 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.75%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (18.00%) JIRA
2 60 (15.00%) Git
3 41 (10.25%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.50%) Visual Studio
5 17 (4.25%) Selenium
6 11 (2.75%) JMeter
6 11 (2.75%) SpecFlow
7 10 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.25%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.25%) NUnit
9 8 (2.00%) Postman
9 8 (2.00%) Subversion
9 8 (2.00%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.75%) GitLab
10 7 (1.75%) LoadRunner
10 7 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (1.50%) Appium
12 5 (1.25%) Ant
12 5 (1.25%) Gatling
12 5 (1.25%) Serenity BDD
General
1 123 (30.75%) Social Skills
2 87 (21.75%) Finance
3 65 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (13.25%) Banking
5 39 (9.75%) Front Office
5 39 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.75%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.75%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.75%) Back Office
9 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.25%) Marketing
11 5 (1.25%) Wholesale Banking
12 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Electronics
12 4 (1.00%) French Language
12 4 (1.00%) Military
12 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) German Language
Job Titles
1 268 (67.00%) Developer
2 96 (24.00%) C# Developer
3 81 (20.25%) .NET Developer
4 45 (11.25%) Senior
5 39 (9.75%) C# .NET Developer
6 31 (7.75%) Software Engineer
7 30 (7.50%) Python Developer
8 28 (7.00%) Senior Developer
9 27 (6.75%) Lead
10 21 (5.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 21 (5.25%) C++ Developer
10 21 (5.25%) C++/C# Developer
11 20 (5.00%) Gen AI Developer
12 19 (4.75%) Software Developer
13 18 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (4.50%) Senior C# Developer
14 15 (3.75%) Azure Developer
14 15 (3.75%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
14 15 (3.75%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 15 (3.75%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (62.00%) .NET
2 74 (18.50%) .NET Core
3 55 (13.75%) React
4 51 (12.75%) AngularJS
5 50 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 49 (12.25%) REST
7 42 (10.50%) .NET Framework
7 42 (10.50%) HTML
8 40 (10.00%) Web Services
9 35 (8.75%) CSS
9 35 (8.75%) Kafka
10 30 (7.50%) WCF
11 28 (7.00%) RESTful
12 27 (6.75%) SOAP
13 24 (6.00%) FastAPI
14 21 (5.25%) Django
15 20 (5.00%) Reactive Extensions
16 16 (4.00%) Node.js
17 15 (3.75%) ASP.NET Web API
17 15 (3.75%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 27 (6.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
5 15 (3.75%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.75%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.75%) Equities
9 6 (1.50%) Derivative
10 5 (1.25%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.25%) NHS
10 5 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.75%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.75%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.25%) Windows
2 20 (5.00%) Linux
3 10 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.00%) Unix
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.50%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (50.00%) Agile
2 186 (46.50%) DevOps
3 106 (26.50%) CI/CD
4 80 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (16.00%) Software Engineering
6 62 (15.50%) Test Automation
7 52 (13.00%) Microservices
8 49 (12.25%) OO
9 46 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (10.50%) Design Patterns
11 40 (10.00%) SDLC
11 40 (10.00%) TDD
12 39 (9.75%) Containerisation
13 34 (8.50%) Scrum
14 30 (7.50%) Analytics
14 30 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence
15 27 (6.75%) CRM
16 25 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
17 24 (6.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 177 (44.25%) SQL
2 121 (30.25%) JavaScript
3 97 (24.25%) Python
4 83 (20.75%) Java
5 65 (16.25%) TypeScript
6 49 (12.25%) PowerShell
7 46 (11.50%) C++
8 20 (5.00%) PL/SQL
9 14 (3.50%) Delphi
10 10 (2.50%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.75%) PHP
11 7 (1.75%) Ruby
12 6 (1.50%) Bicep
12 6 (1.50%) F#
12 6 (1.50%) VB
13 4 (1.00%) Scala
14 3 (0.75%) VBA
14 3 (0.75%) VBScript
15 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 57 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.50%) Degree
4 8 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.75%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.50%) ISEB
8 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.50%) OCP
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) MCAD
9 1 (0.25%) MCPD
9 1 (0.25%) MCSD
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.00%) QA
2 14 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
5 2 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.50%) HL7
6 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) EMIR
6 1 (0.25%) MiFID
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (14.75%) Docker
2 12 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Platform Symphony
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.25%) Terraform
3 29 (7.25%) Ansible
4 6 (1.50%) Perfmon
5 5 (1.25%) Grafana
5 5 (1.25%) Kibana
6 4 (1.00%) MIIS
6 4 (1.00%) Puppet
7 3 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) Netcool
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.25%) SCOM
8 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 93 (23.25%) Microsoft
2 68 (17.00%) Oracle
3 8 (2.00%) Google
4 7 (1.75%) SAP
4 7 (1.75%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.50%) New Relic
5 6 (1.50%) PayPal
6 5 (1.25%) Bloomberg
6 5 (1.25%) Reuters
6 5 (1.25%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.00%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.00%) IBM
7 4 (1.00%) OpenLink
7 4 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.00%) Splunk
8 3 (0.75%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.75%) UiPath
9 2 (0.50%) Solace