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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 41 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 -14 -11
Contract jobs citing C# 102 98 143
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.24% 5.25% 6.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.20% 13.59% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 74 99
10th Percentile £420 £404 £400
25th Percentile £510 £458 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £738 £754 £731
90th Percentile £938 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £625 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -11.11%

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 671 721 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.87% 38.64% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 495 509
10th Percentile £374 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -1.87% -5.00%
75th Percentile £668 £696 £706
90th Percentile £765 £775 £819
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +11.77% -3.00% -37.36%

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 8 August 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#
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the City of London region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Moorgate - 1 £875 -
C#
Central London

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 3 (2.94%) IIS
2 1 (0.98%) Apache
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.96%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.98%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.29%) Azure
2 20 (19.61%) AWS
3 19 (18.63%) GitHub
4 16 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (14.71%) Power Platform
6 12 (11.76%) Serverless
7 11 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.86%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (6.86%) Power Automate
9 7 (6.86%) PowerApps
10 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.90%) Azure AKS
10 5 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.90%) SaaS
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) Internet
1 2 (1.96%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.86%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.90%) Power BI
5 4 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.92%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.96%) Redis
7 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.96%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.98%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.98%) Big Data
8 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Git
2 10 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.82%) GitLab
3 9 (8.82%) JIRA
4 5 (4.90%) Postman
4 5 (4.90%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.90%) Visual Studio
5 4 (3.92%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.92%) JUnit
5 4 (3.92%) Mockito
6 3 (2.94%) Selenium
7 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.98%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.98%) Newman
8 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
General
1 34 (33.33%) Finance
2 33 (32.35%) Banking
3 26 (25.49%) Social Skills
4 21 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (18.63%) Front Office
6 11 (10.78%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.92%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.94%) Legal
8 3 (2.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Back Office
9 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (61.76%) Developer
2 24 (23.53%) Senior
3 23 (22.55%) C# Developer
4 19 (18.63%) Senior Developer
5 9 (8.82%) Software Developer
6 8 (7.84%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 8 (7.84%) UI Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Backend Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.86%) React Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Senior React Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Senior UI Developer
8 6 (5.88%) Front Office Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Junior
10 4 (3.92%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 4 (3.92%) Lead
10 4 (3.92%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (43.14%) .NET
2 17 (16.67%) React
3 11 (10.78%) .NET Framework
4 10 (9.80%) REST
5 9 (8.82%) Redux
6 8 (7.84%) AngularJS
7 7 (6.86%) .NET Core
7 7 (6.86%) Kafka
7 7 (6.86%) XML
8 6 (5.88%) Playwright
8 6 (5.88%) RESTful
8 6 (5.88%) SOAP
8 6 (5.88%) Web Services
9 5 (4.90%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.90%) HTML
9 5 (4.90%) Spring
9 5 (4.90%) Spring Boot
9 5 (4.90%) YAML
10 4 (3.92%) Gherkin
10 4 (3.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (10.78%) Derivative
3 9 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (7.84%) Fixed Income
5 7 (6.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (6.86%) Equities
6 6 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.94%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.96%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.98%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.78%) Windows
2 7 (6.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.92%) Linux
3 4 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 30 (29.41%) DevOps
3 28 (27.45%) Agile
4 19 (18.63%) Software Engineering
5 18 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 17 (16.67%) AI
7 14 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.73%) Unit Testing
8 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (10.78%) Microservices
9 10 (9.80%) Low Latency
10 9 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.82%) Electronic Trading
10 9 (8.82%) LLM
10 9 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (7.84%) Analytics
11 8 (7.84%) Prompt Engineering
11 8 (7.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 8 (7.84%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (41.18%) SQL
2 28 (27.45%) TypeScript
3 25 (24.51%) JavaScript
4 23 (22.55%) Python
5 19 (18.63%) Java
6 11 (10.78%) PL/SQL
7 8 (7.84%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.86%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.90%) C++
10 2 (1.96%) Bicep
10 2 (1.96%) C
10 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.96%) Korn
10 2 (1.96%) ProC
11 1 (0.98%) Go
11 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.98%) R
11 1 (0.98%) VBA
11 1 (0.98%) X++
Qualifications
1 20 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.84%) Degree
4 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.73%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.82%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.78%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) Ansible
3 1 (0.98%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.75%) Oracle
3 5 (4.90%) Citrix
4 4 (3.92%) Databricks
4 4 (3.92%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.94%) IBM
6 2 (1.96%) VMware
7 1 (0.98%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.98%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.98%) Google
7 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.98%) SAP
7 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow