C# Contract Job Trends in the City of London

C#
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -32 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing C# 62 105 165
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.16% 5.73% 6.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.47% 15.24% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 117
10th Percentile £344 £400 £449
25th Percentile £424 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £682 £694 £775
90th Percentile £830 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -

All Programming Languages
City of London

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 592 689 780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.22% 37.61% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 439 564
10th Percentile £356 £407 £401
25th Percentile £425 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £655 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £789 £825
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £76.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -41.37% +59.90% -12.73%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

C# job vacancy trend in the City of London

C#
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing C#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the City of London

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing C#

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.61%) CMS
1 1 (1.61%) Kentico
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.61%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Azure
2 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (11.29%) GitHub
4 5 (8.06%) AWS
4 5 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.84%) Serverless
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.23%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.61%) Apigee
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.61%) Datadog
8 1 (1.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.45%) Redis
3 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Postman
2 5 (8.06%) Git
2 5 (8.06%) Selenium
3 4 (6.45%) Cucumber
3 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.45%) JIRA
3 4 (6.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.23%) GitLab
4 2 (3.23%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.61%) JUnit
5 1 (1.61%) Mockito
5 1 (1.61%) MSTest
5 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.61%) TestRail
5 1 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (50.00%) Finance
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 15 (24.19%) Banking
4 12 (19.35%) Front Office
5 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (14.52%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.06%) Financial Institution
7 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.23%) Back Office
8 2 (3.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Law
9 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (58.06%) Developer
2 9 (14.52%) C# Developer
2 9 (14.52%) Senior
3 5 (8.06%) .NET Developer
3 5 (8.06%) Java Developer
3 5 (8.06%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 4 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Developer
5 3 (4.84%) Senior Developer
5 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Lead
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (40.32%) .NET
2 6 (9.68%) HTML
3 5 (8.06%) Playwright
3 5 (8.06%) XML
4 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.45%) CSS
4 4 (6.45%) jQuery
5 3 (4.84%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.84%) JSON
5 3 (4.84%) Kafka
5 3 (4.84%) REST
6 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (3.23%) HTML5
6 2 (3.23%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.23%) React
6 2 (3.23%) SOAP
6 2 (3.23%) TensorFlow
6 2 (3.23%) XSL
6 2 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (8.06%) Derivative
3 3 (4.84%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.84%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.61%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.61%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Life Science
5 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.61%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.61%) Robotics
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Agile
2 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (25.81%) DevOps
4 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.97%) Scrum
5 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
6 8 (12.90%) AI
6 8 (12.90%) Kanban
7 7 (11.29%) Event-Driven
7 7 (11.29%) SDLC
8 6 (9.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (9.68%) Fintech
8 6 (9.68%) Microservices
9 5 (8.06%) Low Latency
9 5 (8.06%) Software Engineering
9 5 (8.06%) Validation
10 4 (6.45%) Analytics
10 4 (6.45%) Computer Science
10 4 (6.45%) Mathematics
10 4 (6.45%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) SQL
2 16 (25.81%) Java
2 16 (25.81%) Python
3 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.90%) C++
5 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.06%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.84%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.61%) Bicep
7 1 (1.61%) Go
7 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.61%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Degree
2 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) EMIR
3 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
2 1 (1.61%) Istio
2 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) Databricks
4 2 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.23%) OutSystems
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) UiPath
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) Workday