C# Contracts in the City of London

C#
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 22 16
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing C# 105 160 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.78% 7.48% 8.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.50% 20.36% 21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 107 207
10th Percentile £404 £420 £463
25th Percentile £485 £478 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £768 £725 £788
90th Percentile £833 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +8.42% -11.19% +12.50%

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 724 786 1,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.85% 36.75% 40.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 547 914
10th Percentile £404 £406 £420
25th Percentile £467 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £698 £689 £738
90th Percentile £775 £805 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.20 - £23.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +6.06% -26.79% +26.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for C# in the City of London

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Endur
2 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.86%) OpenText MBPM
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (1.90%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.95%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.95%) Maximo
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.95%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.95%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.90%) Azure
2 17 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.43%) AWS
4 10 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (7.62%) GitHub
6 6 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.81%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.86%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.86%) Azure App Service
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.86%) CloudFront
9 3 (2.86%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.86%) Route 53
9 3 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) DNS
1 3 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (1.90%) FTP
2 2 (1.90%) HTTP
2 2 (1.90%) SMTP
2 2 (1.90%) SSL
2 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.95%) Network Security
3 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (30.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.81%) Redis
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.86%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.90%) Power BI
7 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.95%) Big Data
8 1 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.95%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.62%) Git
3 6 (5.71%) JIRA
4 5 (4.76%) Selenium
4 5 (4.76%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.81%) Postman
6 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.90%) Ant
7 2 (1.90%) Babel
7 2 (1.90%) JMeter
7 2 (1.90%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.90%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.90%) webpack
8 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.95%) Crucible
8 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.95%) GitLab
8 1 (0.95%) Maven
8 1 (0.95%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (57.14%) Finance
2 24 (22.86%) Banking
3 21 (20.00%) Front Office
4 20 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.62%) Investment Banking
7 7 (6.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.81%) Back Office
8 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.86%) Legal
9 3 (2.86%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Marketing
11 1 (0.95%) Billing
11 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (62.86%) Developer
2 20 (19.05%) C# Developer
3 16 (15.24%) Senior
4 15 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 11 (10.48%) Senior Developer
6 8 (7.62%) OpenLink Developer
6 8 (7.62%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Angular Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Applications Developer
8 5 (4.76%) C++ Developer
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Architect
9 4 (3.81%) Automation Developer
9 4 (3.81%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (3.81%) C++/C# Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Lead
10 3 (2.86%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (65.71%) .NET
2 11 (10.48%) .NET Core
2 11 (10.48%) REST
3 10 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 9 (8.57%) WPF
5 8 (7.62%) CSS
5 8 (7.62%) HTML
5 8 (7.62%) RESTful
6 7 (6.67%) React
7 6 (5.71%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.71%) Blazor
8 5 (4.76%) Web Services
9 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.81%) Entity Framework
9 4 (3.81%) Kafka
9 4 (3.81%) Vue
10 3 (2.86%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.86%) HTML5
10 3 (2.86%) Node.js
11 2 (1.90%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.67%) Derivative
4 6 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.81%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.86%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.90%) Equities
8 2 (1.90%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Linux
3 2 (1.90%) Unix
3 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.38%) DevOps
2 33 (31.43%) CI/CD
3 28 (26.67%) Agile
4 21 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (16.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 14 (13.33%) Microservices
8 14 (13.33%) Unit Testing
9 11 (10.48%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (10.48%) Data Analysis
10 10 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (8.57%) Code Quality
11 9 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (7.62%) Design Patterns
12 8 (7.62%) Front End Development
13 7 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
13 7 (6.67%) Low Latency
13 7 (6.67%) Multithreading
13 7 (6.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.43%) SQL
2 26 (24.76%) Python
3 24 (22.86%) JavaScript
4 18 (17.14%) Java
5 8 (7.62%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.67%) C++
7 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.81%) VBA
9 2 (1.90%) Bash
9 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.90%) Ruby
10 1 (0.95%) Bicep
10 1 (0.95%) C
10 1 (0.95%) Go
10 1 (0.95%) Groovy
10 1 (0.95%) Perl
10 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (7.62%) Degree
2 4 (3.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.14%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) MiFID
3 4 (3.81%) EMIR
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (7.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 13 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (1.90%) Ansible
3 2 (1.90%) Grafana
3 2 (1.90%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.95%) Control-M
4 1 (0.95%) Istio
4 1 (0.95%) Kibana
4 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (16.19%) Oracle
2 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.62%) OpenLink
4 7 (6.67%) Databricks
5 3 (2.86%) IBM
5 3 (2.86%) OpenText
5 3 (2.86%) UiPath
6 2 (1.90%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.90%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.95%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.95%) CQG
7 1 (0.95%) Informatica
7 1 (0.95%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.95%) Portware
7 1 (0.95%) Reuters
7 1 (0.95%) SAP
7 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.95%) Splunk
7 1 (0.95%) TIBCO