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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 36 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 -5
Contract jobs citing C# 91 103 146
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.74% 5.53% 6.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.02% 14.05% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 74 98
10th Percentile £420 £404 £411
25th Percentile £510 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £763 £771 £734
90th Percentile £923 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 649 733 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.66% 39.35% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 497 540
10th Percentile £363 £404 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £668 £696 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £26.32 £20.20 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.87% -26.79%
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 £78.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £51.44 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% +14.31% -32.08%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 (3.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.10%) Apache
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.10%) CMS
2 1 (1.10%) Kentico
2 1 (1.10%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.10%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.20%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.37%) Azure
2 16 (17.58%) AWS
2 16 (17.58%) GitHub
3 12 (13.19%) Serverless
4 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.49%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.40%) SaaS
11 3 (3.30%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) Internet
1 2 (2.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 6 (6.59%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.59%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.49%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.40%) Power BI
6 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.20%) Redis
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.20%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (12.09%) Git
2 10 (10.99%) JIRA
3 8 (8.79%) GitLab
3 8 (8.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.49%) JUnit
4 5 (5.49%) Mockito
4 5 (5.49%) Postman
5 4 (4.40%) TeamCity
6 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.10%) Selenium
8 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 35 (38.46%) Banking
2 34 (37.36%) Finance
3 21 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 19 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (20.88%) Front Office
5 11 (12.09%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Back Office
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 61 (67.03%) Developer
2 23 (25.27%) C# Developer
2 23 (25.27%) Senior
3 19 (20.88%) Senior Developer
4 9 (9.89%) Software Developer
5 8 (8.79%) C# Developer - Commodities
5 8 (8.79%) Front Office Developer
5 8 (8.79%) UI Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Backend Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.69%) React Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Senior React Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Senior UI Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Junior
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Lead
8 4 (4.40%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (40.66%) .NET
2 18 (19.78%) React
3 9 (9.89%) .NET Framework
3 9 (9.89%) AngularJS
3 9 (9.89%) Redux
4 8 (8.79%) REST
5 7 (7.69%) Kafka
5 7 (7.69%) SOAP
6 6 (6.59%) Spring
6 6 (6.59%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.59%) Web Services
6 6 (6.59%) XML
6 6 (6.59%) YAML
7 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET
7 5 (5.49%) Gherkin
7 5 (5.49%) HTML
7 5 (5.49%) Playwright
7 5 (5.49%) RESTful
7 5 (5.49%) WireMock
8 4 (4.40%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (10.99%) Derivative
3 9 (9.89%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (7.69%) Equities
4 7 (7.69%) Fixed Income
5 6 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.20%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.20%) Market Risk
8 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Windows
2 7 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.40%) Linux
3 4 (4.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.67%) Agile
1 27 (29.67%) CI/CD
2 23 (25.27%) DevOps
3 15 (16.48%) AI
3 15 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 14 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 14 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 10 (10.99%) Low Latency
5 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (9.89%) Electronic Trading
6 9 (9.89%) Microservices
7 8 (8.79%) Data Modelling
7 8 (8.79%) LLM
7 8 (8.79%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (7.69%) API Testing
8 7 (7.69%) Clean Code
8 7 (7.69%) Prompt Engineering
8 7 (7.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 7 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) SQL
2 24 (26.37%) TypeScript
3 20 (21.98%) JavaScript
3 20 (21.98%) Python
4 16 (17.58%) Java
5 10 (10.99%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.49%) C++
8 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.20%) C
9 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.20%) ProC
10 1 (1.10%) Bicep
10 1 (1.10%) Go
10 1 (1.10%) Korn
10 1 (1.10%) R
10 1 (1.10%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (9.89%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Oracle
2 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.49%) Citrix
4 4 (4.40%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.30%) IBM
6 2 (2.20%) Databricks
6 2 (2.20%) VMware
7 1 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow