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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 24 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 +18
Contract jobs citing C# 105 151 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.90% 6.83% 9.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.64% 20.30% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 98 211
10th Percentile £435 £425 £463
25th Percentile £525 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £810 £784 £738
90th Percentile £838 £868 £825
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 717 744 1,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.30% 33.63% 43.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 530 1,041
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £468 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £692 £694 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £615
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.13% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% +2.68%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £84.00
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% +2.68%

C#
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

C#
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

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 25 April 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

C#
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 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.86%) Confluence
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.81%) Endur
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.95%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.00%) Azure
2 18 (17.14%) AWS
3 17 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.57%) GitHub
5 8 (7.62%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 6 (5.71%) CloudFront
7 6 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.71%) Route 53
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.81%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.86%) Azure App Service
10 3 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) DNS
2 2 (1.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.90%) FTP
2 2 (1.90%) HTTP
2 2 (1.90%) Network Security
2 2 (1.90%) SMTP
2 2 (1.90%) SSL
2 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.95%) Intranet
3 1 (0.95%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.95%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.48%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.62%) Redis
4 6 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (5.71%) DocumentDB
5 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.95%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.95%) Big Data
9 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.67%) Git
3 6 (5.71%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.71%) JIRA
3 6 (5.71%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.81%) Postman
4 4 (3.81%) Selenium
5 2 (1.90%) Ant
5 2 (1.90%) Babel
5 2 (1.90%) JMeter
5 2 (1.90%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.90%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.90%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.90%) webpack
6 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.95%) Maven
6 1 (0.95%) NUnit
6 1 (0.95%) Serena SBM
6 1 (0.95%) Subversion
6 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (41.90%) Finance
2 30 (28.57%) Banking
3 23 (21.90%) Front Office
4 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
5 8 (7.62%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.71%) Retail Banking
7 5 (4.76%) Back Office
7 5 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.90%) Publishing
9 1 (0.95%) Advertising
9 1 (0.95%) Billing
9 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Legal
9 1 (0.95%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (60.95%) Developer
2 32 (30.48%) C# Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Software Engineer
4 11 (10.48%) .NET Developer
5 8 (7.62%) Senior
6 6 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Architect
7 5 (4.76%) C++ Developer
7 5 (4.76%) C++/C# Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Algorithm Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Lead
8 4 (3.81%) OpenLink Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Python Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Angular Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) React Developer
9 3 (2.86%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (56.19%) .NET
2 12 (11.43%) .NET Core
3 10 (9.52%) RESTful
3 10 (9.52%) WPF
4 9 (8.57%) ASP.NET
4 9 (8.57%) REST
5 8 (7.62%) AngularJS
5 8 (7.62%) CSS
5 8 (7.62%) HTML
5 8 (7.62%) Kafka
6 6 (5.71%) .NET Framework
6 6 (5.71%) GraphQL
6 6 (5.71%) React
7 5 (4.76%) Blazor
8 4 (3.81%) HTML5
8 4 (3.81%) Node.js
8 4 (3.81%) OAuth
8 4 (3.81%) Web Services
9 3 (2.86%) Entity Framework
9 3 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (8.57%) Derivative
2 9 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.81%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.90%) Equities
6 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.90%) TWAP
6 2 (1.90%) VWAP
7 1 (0.95%) Clustering
7 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.95%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Linux
2 6 (5.71%) Windows
3 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Solaris
4 1 (0.95%) SUSE
4 1 (0.95%) Unix
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.33%) DevOps
2 33 (31.43%) CI/CD
3 24 (22.86%) Agile
4 21 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (16.19%) Test Automation
7 15 (14.29%) Microservices
8 14 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (13.33%) Unit Testing
9 10 (9.52%) SOLID
9 10 (9.52%) TDD
10 9 (8.57%) Asset Management
10 9 (8.57%) Front End Development
10 9 (8.57%) Low Latency
10 9 (8.57%) Multithreading
11 8 (7.62%) Code Quality
11 8 (7.62%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (7.62%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.67%) Python
2 25 (23.81%) SQL
3 23 (21.90%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.33%) Java
5 10 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.62%) C++
7 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.81%) Ruby
7 4 (3.81%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.81%) VBA
8 2 (1.90%) Perl
9 1 (0.95%) Bash
9 1 (0.95%) Bicep
9 1 (0.95%) Go
9 1 (0.95%) Groovy
9 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.67%) Degree
2 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) EMIR
2 5 (4.76%) MiFID
3 3 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.90%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.95%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.95%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.86%) Ansible
4 2 (1.90%) Control-M
5 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.95%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.95%) Grafana
5 1 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.95%) Kibana
5 1 (0.95%) QRadar
5 1 (0.95%) Rancher
5 1 (0.95%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.67%) Oracle
3 4 (3.81%) Databricks
3 4 (3.81%) IBM
3 4 (3.81%) OpenLink
4 3 (2.86%) SAP
5 2 (1.90%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.90%) Splunk
6 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.95%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.95%) CQG
6 1 (0.95%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.95%) EMC
6 1 (0.95%) Google
6 1 (0.95%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.95%) Qualys
6 1 (0.95%) Serena
6 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) Sybase
6 1 (0.95%) VMware