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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 28 26
Rank change year-on-year -41 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing C# 66 109 158
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.05% 6.31% 6.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.33% 15.62% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 68 101
10th Percentile £331 £409 £425
25th Percentile £420 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £750
90th Percentile £860 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 639 698 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.54% 40.39% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 460 539
10th Percentile £351 £413 £411
25th Percentile £436 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £693
90th Percentile £763 £776 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £28.31 - £46.30
25th Percentile £31.03 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.52%
75th Percentile £52.49 - £49.88
90th Percentile £56.83 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.00
% change year-on-year +54.80% -39.44% -16.52%

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 3 April 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 2 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) CMS
2 1 (1.52%) Kentico
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.36%) Azure
2 11 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (15.15%) GitHub
4 8 (12.12%) AWS
5 6 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.58%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.58%) Serverless
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.52%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.55%) Redis
4 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.03%) Power BI
4 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Postman
2 7 (10.61%) Git
3 6 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.09%) JIRA
4 5 (7.58%) Selenium
5 4 (6.06%) GitLab
6 3 (4.55%) JUnit
6 3 (4.55%) Mockito
6 3 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.03%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.52%) MSTest
8 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.52%) TestRail
8 1 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (45.45%) Finance
2 15 (22.73%) Banking
3 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (18.18%) Front Office
5 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
6 7 (10.61%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.06%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.03%) Back Office
10 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.52%) Legal
10 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (56.06%) Developer
2 10 (15.15%) C# Developer
3 9 (13.64%) Senior
4 6 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Backend Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Quantitative Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.06%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Junior Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.82%) .NET
2 7 (10.61%) Playwright
3 6 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.58%) .NET Framework
4 5 (7.58%) Kafka
4 5 (7.58%) React
5 4 (6.06%) REST
5 4 (6.06%) SOAP
5 4 (6.06%) YAML
6 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.55%) Gherkin
6 3 (4.55%) HTML
6 3 (4.55%) JSON
6 3 (4.55%) Spring
6 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.55%) WireMock
6 3 (4.55%) WPF
6 3 (4.55%) XML
7 2 (3.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.55%) Derivative
4 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.03%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.52%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.52%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Life Science
5 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.52%) NHS
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Robotics
5 1 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) Agile
1 19 (28.79%) CI/CD
2 18 (27.27%) DevOps
3 14 (21.21%) AI
3 14 (21.21%) Test Automation
4 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (10.61%) Clean Code
7 7 (10.61%) LLM
7 7 (10.61%) Scrum
8 6 (9.09%) Analytics
8 6 (9.09%) API Testing
8 6 (9.09%) ETL
8 6 (9.09%) Prompt Engineering
8 6 (9.09%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (9.09%) Software Testing
8 6 (9.09%) Validation
9 5 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.58%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.82%) SQL
2 17 (25.76%) Python
3 15 (22.73%) Java
4 13 (19.70%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.58%) C++
7 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.03%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.52%) Bicep
9 1 (1.52%) Go
9 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.52%) R
9 1 (1.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.58%) Degree
3 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Grafana
3 1 (1.52%) Istio
3 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Databricks
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (3.03%) UiPath
4 1 (1.52%) Citrix
4 1 (1.52%) IBM
4 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.52%) SAP
4 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.52%) Workday