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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 33 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 -7
Contract jobs citing C# 80 118 225
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.52% 5.47% 8.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.14% 15.59% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 77 156
10th Percentile £394 £400 £451
25th Percentile £436 £513 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +9.76%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £788
90th Percentile £778 £825 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £623 £675
% change year-on-year -7.63% -7.78% +9.09%

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 609 757 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.39% 35.10% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 479 655
10th Percentile £379 £406 £400
25th Percentile £456 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -1.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £721
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £26.10 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.73% +135.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +8.43% -12.63% -9.52%

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 30 November 2025.

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 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Apache
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Endur
2 1 (1.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.25%) Maximo
2 1 (1.25%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.25%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 38 (47.50%) Azure
2 12 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.00%) AWS
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.75%) Azure AI
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.75%) Serverless
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.25%) Apigee
8 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.00%) Redis
3 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.50%) Event Store
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Postman
2 4 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (5.00%) Selenium
3 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) MSTest
4 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (52.50%) Finance
2 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.75%) Banking
4 12 (15.00%) Front Office
5 11 (13.75%) Investment Banking
6 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (7.50%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.00%) Back Office
8 4 (5.00%) Legal
8 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.50%) Games
10 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Law
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
10 1 (1.25%) Police
10 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (56.25%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) Senior
3 10 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 10 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 6 (7.50%) Senior Developer
5 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 5 (6.25%) Lead
5 5 (6.25%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Angular Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Architect
7 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Test Engineer
8 2 (2.50%) .NET Architect
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (55.00%) .NET
2 9 (11.25%) HTML
3 7 (8.75%) .NET Framework
3 7 (8.75%) AngularJS
3 7 (8.75%) CSS
3 7 (8.75%) jQuery
4 5 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 5 (6.25%) Kafka
4 5 (6.25%) REST
5 4 (5.00%) XML
6 3 (3.75%) Blazor
6 3 (3.75%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (3.75%) HTML5
6 3 (3.75%) LangChain
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (3.75%) React
7 2 (2.50%) Playwright
7 2 (2.50%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (2.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Derivative
2 6 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (6.25%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.00%) Hedge funds
5 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.50%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (1.25%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.25%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) Agile
2 22 (27.50%) DevOps
3 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
5 15 (18.75%) Scrum
6 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
7 11 (13.75%) Event-Driven
8 10 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 10 (12.50%) Fintech
8 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 9 (11.25%) Microservices
9 9 (11.25%) SDLC
10 7 (8.75%) AI
10 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (7.50%) Computer Science
11 6 (7.50%) Kanban
11 6 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (7.50%) User Experience
12 5 (6.25%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.25%) SQL
2 18 (22.50%) Python
3 17 (21.25%) Java
4 14 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.25%) C++
6 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.00%) VB.NET
7 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.50%) Go
8 2 (2.50%) PHP
8 2 (2.50%) VBA
9 1 (1.25%) Bicep
9 1 (1.25%) C
9 1 (1.25%) F#
9 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.25%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.25%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) EMIR
3 2 (2.50%) MiFID
4 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Terraform
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Istio
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.25%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
4 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.75%) OutSystems
4 3 (3.75%) UiPath
5 2 (2.50%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.50%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.25%) Confluent
6 1 (1.25%) OpenText
6 1 (1.25%) Portware
6 1 (1.25%) SAP