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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -42 -3 -13
Contract jobs citing C# 64 109 156
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.06% 6.18% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.11% 15.57% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 69 105
10th Percentile £325 £410 £430
25th Percentile £420 £520 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £694 £738 £750
90th Percentile £808 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -6.25%

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 633 700 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.24% 39.66% 32.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 458 544
10th Percentile £350 £412 £408
25th Percentile £431 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £29.70 - £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -16.52%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -16.52%

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 20 March 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%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.56%) WordPress
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 11 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (15.63%) GitHub
4 7 (10.94%) AWS
5 6 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.81%) Serverless
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.56%) Apigee
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.69%) Redis
3 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
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 8 (12.50%) Postman
2 7 (10.94%) Git
3 6 (9.38%) Cucumber
3 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.38%) JIRA
4 5 (7.81%) Selenium
5 4 (6.25%) GitLab
6 3 (4.69%) JUnit
6 3 (4.69%) Mockito
6 3 (4.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.13%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.56%) MSTest
8 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.56%) TestRail
8 1 (1.56%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (46.88%) Finance
2 14 (21.88%) Banking
3 12 (18.75%) Front Office
4 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
6 6 (9.38%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.69%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.13%) Back Office
9 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (56.25%) Developer
2 11 (17.19%) C# Developer
3 9 (14.06%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Quantitative Developer
6 4 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Backend Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 2 (3.13%) C# Quant Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (37.50%) .NET
2 8 (12.50%) Playwright
3 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.81%) HTML
4 5 (7.81%) Kafka
5 4 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 4 (6.25%) React
5 4 (6.25%) REST
5 4 (6.25%) SOAP
5 4 (6.25%) YAML
6 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.69%) Gherkin
6 3 (4.69%) JSON
6 3 (4.69%) Spring
6 3 (4.69%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.69%) WireMock
6 3 (4.69%) WPF
6 3 (4.69%) XML
7 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (3.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (6.25%) Derivative
3 2 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.56%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.56%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Life Science
4 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.56%) Robotics
4 1 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Agile
2 19 (29.69%) CI/CD
2 19 (29.69%) DevOps
3 15 (23.44%) Test Automation
4 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.63%) AI
6 9 (14.06%) Software Engineering
7 8 (12.50%) Scrum
8 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (9.38%) API Testing
9 6 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.38%) Event-Driven
9 6 (9.38%) Software Testing
9 6 (9.38%) Validation
10 5 (7.81%) Analytics
10 5 (7.81%) Clean Code
10 5 (7.81%) ETL
10 5 (7.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (7.81%) Kanban
10 5 (7.81%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.25%) SQL
2 14 (21.88%) Java
2 14 (21.88%) Python
3 11 (17.19%) TypeScript
4 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.38%) C++
6 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.13%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) Go
8 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
1 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) EMIR
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Istio
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) UiPath
5 1 (1.56%) Citrix
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.56%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) Workday