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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 34 25
Rank change year-on-year -31 -9 -11
Contract jobs citing C# 64 102 163
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.29% 5.61% 6.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.79% 14.96% 21.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 59 117
10th Percentile £325 £400 £449
25th Percentile £412 £516 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £697 £688 £775
90th Percentile £842 £815 £838
Central London median daily rate £544 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -

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 593 682 776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.52% 37.53% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 428 563
10th Percentile £355 £409 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £651 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £789 £825
Central London median daily rate £528 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.26% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £28.30 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £31.00 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £39.50 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.73% +133.33% -8.57%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £49.88
90th Percentile £56.06 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £76.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -48.53% +59.90% -8.57%

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 February 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 1 (1.56%) Apache
1 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.56%) CMS
1 1 (1.56%) Kentico
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.56%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.63%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (12.50%) GitHub
4 6 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (7.81%) AWS
6 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.69%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.69%) Serverless
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.13%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.56%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) Redis
3 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Postman
2 5 (7.81%) Git
2 5 (7.81%) Selenium
3 4 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.25%) JIRA
3 4 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.13%) GitLab
4 2 (3.13%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.56%) JUnit
5 1 (1.56%) Mockito
5 1 (1.56%) MSTest
5 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.56%) TestRail
5 1 (1.56%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (50.00%) Finance
2 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Banking
4 13 (20.31%) Front Office
5 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (14.06%) Investment Banking
7 5 (7.81%) Financial Institution
8 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.13%) Back Office
9 2 (3.13%) Legal
10 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Law
10 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (57.81%) Developer
2 9 (14.06%) C# Developer
2 9 (14.06%) Senior
3 5 (7.81%) .NET Developer
3 5 (7.81%) Java Developer
3 5 (7.81%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 4 (6.25%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Lead
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Qualitative Analyst
6 2 (3.13%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (40.63%) .NET
2 6 (9.38%) HTML
2 6 (9.38%) XML
3 5 (7.81%) Playwright
4 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.25%) CSS
4 4 (6.25%) jQuery
5 3 (4.69%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.69%) JSON
5 3 (4.69%) Kafka
5 3 (4.69%) LangChain
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (4.69%) REST
6 2 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (3.13%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.13%) React
6 2 (3.13%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (3.13%) TensorFlow
6 2 (3.13%) XSL
6 2 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (7.81%) Derivative
3 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.25%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.69%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.56%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Life Science
6 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.56%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.56%) NHS
6 1 (1.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.38%) Agile
2 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (25.00%) DevOps
4 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.31%) Scrum
5 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
6 8 (12.50%) AI
6 8 (12.50%) Kanban
7 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven
7 7 (10.94%) SDLC
8 6 (9.38%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (9.38%) Fintech
8 6 (9.38%) Microservices
9 5 (7.81%) Low Latency
9 5 (7.81%) Mathematics
9 5 (7.81%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.81%) Validation
10 4 (6.25%) Software Testing
10 4 (6.25%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.81%) SQL
2 16 (25.00%) Python
3 15 (23.44%) Java
4 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.06%) C++
6 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.69%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.13%) Bicep
9 1 (1.56%) F#
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.56%) VBA
9 1 (1.56%) VC++
9 1 (1.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) EMIR
3 1 (1.56%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
2 1 (1.56%) Istio
2 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) Databricks
3 3 (4.69%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.13%) OutSystems
4 2 (3.13%) SAP
4 2 (3.13%) UiPath
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) Workday