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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -29 -6 -11
Contract jobs citing C# 67 107 163
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.33% 5.95% 6.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.00% 15.40% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 63 114
10th Percentile £328 £403 £450
25th Percentile £418 £516 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -2.34%
75th Percentile £676 £722 £750
90th Percentile £796 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £563 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -13.46% +8.33% -4.00%

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 609 695 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.28% 38.65% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 441 550
10th Percentile £354 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -12.73%

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 4 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 (1.49%) Apache
1 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.49%) CMS
1 1 (1.49%) Kentico
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.49%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) Azure
2 9 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (13.43%) GitHub
3 6 (8.96%) AWS
3 6 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.97%) Serverless
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.99%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.49%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.97%) Redis
3 3 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.99%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Postman
2 6 (8.96%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) Cucumber
3 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.46%) JIRA
3 5 (7.46%) Selenium
4 4 (5.97%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (4.48%) GitLab
6 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.99%) JUnit
6 2 (2.99%) Mockito
6 2 (2.99%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.49%) MSTest
7 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.49%) TestRail
7 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (46.27%) Finance
2 16 (23.88%) Banking
3 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
4 11 (16.42%) Front Office
5 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (13.43%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.99%) Back Office
8 2 (2.99%) Legal
9 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (56.72%) Developer
2 11 (16.42%) C# Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Senior
4 6 (8.96%) .NET Developer
5 4 (5.97%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.97%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Quantitative Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Software Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Test Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.79%) .NET
2 7 (10.45%) HTML
3 6 (8.96%) AngularJS
3 6 (8.96%) Playwright
4 5 (7.46%) XML
5 4 (5.97%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.97%) Kafka
5 4 (5.97%) REST
6 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.48%) CSS
6 3 (4.48%) jQuery
6 3 (4.48%) JSON
6 3 (4.48%) React
6 3 (4.48%) SOAP
6 3 (4.48%) YAML
7 2 (2.99%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.99%) Spring
7 2 (2.99%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.99%) TensorFlow
7 2 (2.99%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (7.46%) Derivative
3 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.99%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Life Science
5 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Robotics
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Unix
3 1 (1.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Agile
2 18 (26.87%) DevOps
3 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
3 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.91%) Scrum
4 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
5 9 (13.43%) AI
6 8 (11.94%) Event-Driven
7 7 (10.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (10.45%) Kanban
7 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
8 6 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (8.96%) Fintech
8 6 (8.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (8.96%) Microservices
8 6 (8.96%) SDLC
8 6 (8.96%) Validation
9 4 (5.97%) Computer Science
9 4 (5.97%) Observability
9 4 (5.97%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) SQL
2 16 (23.88%) Java
3 15 (22.39%) Python
4 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.45%) C++
5 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.48%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.49%) Bicep
9 1 (1.49%) Go
9 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.49%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) Degree
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) EMIR
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.48%) Terraform
3 1 (1.49%) Grafana
3 1 (1.49%) Istio
3 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
4 2 (2.99%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.99%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) UiPath
5 1 (1.49%) Citrix
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) Workday