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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 42 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 -13 -9
Contract jobs citing C# 93 85 131
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.22% 4.92% 6.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.44% 13.41% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 65 95
10th Percentile £424 £402 £405
25th Percentile £513 £424 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £623
Median % change year-on-year - +0.40% -7.78%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £731
90th Percentile £938 £822 £838
Central London median daily rate £625 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% -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 644 634 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.25% 36.71% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 450 491
10th Percentile £400 £385 £400
25th Percentile £455 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.27% -2.47%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £711
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £14.63 £22.05 £51.80
25th Percentile £22.88 £26.00 £74.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -69.64% +796.00%
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% +2.94% +232.00%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 (3.23%) IIS
2 2 (2.15%) CMS
2 2 (2.15%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.15%) Orchestrade
2 2 (2.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.86%) Azure
2 17 (18.28%) Power Platform
3 16 (17.20%) AWS
3 16 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (16.13%) Serverless
5 13 (13.98%) GitHub
6 10 (10.75%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (9.68%) Azure Functions
7 9 (9.68%) Power Automate
7 9 (9.68%) PowerApps
8 8 (8.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.38%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.38%) SaaS
12 4 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (3.23%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Internet
1 2 (2.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.45%) Oracle Database
2 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.30%) Power BI
4 3 (3.23%) ClickHouse
4 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.15%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.15%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.08%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.08%) Chroma
6 1 (1.08%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.08%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.08%) Redis
6 1 (1.08%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Git
2 8 (8.60%) GitLab
2 8 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.53%) Visual Studio
4 6 (6.45%) JIRA
5 4 (4.30%) TeamCity
6 3 (3.23%) Postman
6 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.15%) JUnit
7 2 (2.15%) Mockito
7 2 (2.15%) Selenium
8 1 (1.08%) Appium
8 1 (1.08%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.08%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.08%) Newman
8 1 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 32 (34.41%) Banking
2 31 (33.33%) Finance
3 30 (32.26%) Social Skills
4 22 (23.66%) Front Office
5 14 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (12.90%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.38%) Marketing
8 4 (4.30%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.23%) Legal
9 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.08%) Back Office
10 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (66.67%) Developer
2 25 (26.88%) C# Developer
2 25 (26.88%) Senior
3 20 (21.51%) Senior Developer
4 8 (8.60%) UI Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Java Developer
5 7 (7.53%) React Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Senior C# Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Senior React Developer
5 7 (7.53%) Senior UI Developer
6 6 (6.45%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 6 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 6 (6.45%) Front Office Developer
7 5 (5.38%) .NET Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Azure Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Lead
8 4 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (58.06%) .NET
2 15 (16.13%) React
3 13 (13.98%) REST
4 11 (11.83%) .NET Framework
4 11 (11.83%) Terraform
5 9 (9.68%) Redux
6 8 (8.60%) .NET Core
6 8 (8.60%) Web Services
7 7 (7.53%) XML
8 6 (6.45%) Kafka
8 6 (6.45%) SOAP
9 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (5.38%) RESTful
10 4 (4.30%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.30%) HTML
10 4 (4.30%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (3.23%) CSS
11 3 (3.23%) JSON
11 3 (3.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (15.05%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.75%) Derivative
4 9 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (9.68%) Fixed Income
4 9 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (8.60%) Equities
6 5 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.23%) AI Agents
8 3 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.08%) IoT
10 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.75%) Windows
2 6 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.38%) Linux
4 4 (4.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) CI/CD
2 31 (33.33%) DevOps
3 28 (30.11%) Agile
4 20 (21.51%) Software Engineering
5 14 (15.05%) Microservices
5 14 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.05%) Test Automation
5 14 (15.05%) Unit Testing
6 13 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (11.83%) Scrum
7 11 (11.83%) SDLC
8 10 (10.75%) AI
8 10 (10.75%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (10.75%) Risk Management
9 9 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.68%) CRM
9 9 (9.68%) Event-Driven
9 9 (9.68%) Low Latency
10 8 (8.60%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) SQL
2 27 (29.03%) Python
3 25 (26.88%) JavaScript
4 22 (23.66%) TypeScript
5 17 (18.28%) Java
6 10 (10.75%) PL/SQL
7 8 (8.60%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.38%) C++
8 5 (5.38%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.23%) Bicep
10 2 (2.15%) C
10 2 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.15%) Korn
10 2 (2.15%) ProC
11 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.08%) VBA
11 1 (1.08%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.68%) Degree
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (13.98%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Ansible
2 1 (1.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.98%) Oracle
3 4 (4.30%) Citrix
3 4 (4.30%) Sitecore
4 3 (3.23%) Databricks
5 2 (2.15%) Adyen
5 2 (2.15%) Foundry
5 2 (2.15%) IBM
5 2 (2.15%) VMware
6 1 (1.08%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.08%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.08%) Google
6 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) UiPath