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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 33 25
Rank change year-on-year -27 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing C# 66 108 179
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.50% 5.74% 7.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.15% 15.93% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 68 131
10th Percentile £325 £400 £450
25th Percentile £424 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £706 £691 £750
90th Percentile £828 £829 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +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 592 678 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.39% 36.06% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 427 603
10th Percentile £356 £413 £406
25th Percentile £425 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £790 £825
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +133.33% -4.48%
75th Percentile £38.50 - £49.88
90th Percentile £43.90 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £76.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -59.61% +59.90% -4.48%

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 24 January 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 (1.52%) Apache
1 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.52%) CMS
1 1 (1.52%) Kentico
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.52%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 26 (39.39%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.58%) GitHub
4 4 (6.06%) AWS
4 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.55%) Azure AI
5 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.55%) Serverless
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.06%) Redis
3 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.52%) Event Store
4 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.52%) Power BI
4 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Postman
2 4 (6.06%) Cucumber
2 4 (6.06%) Git
2 4 (6.06%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (6.06%) Selenium
3 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.03%) GitLab
4 2 (3.03%) JIRA
4 2 (3.03%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.52%) JUnit
5 1 (1.52%) Mockito
5 1 (1.52%) MSTest
5 1 (1.52%) TestRail
5 1 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (46.97%) Finance
2 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 15 (22.73%) Banking
4 11 (16.67%) Front Office
5 10 (15.15%) Investment Banking
6 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (7.58%) Financial Institution
8 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
9 3 (4.55%) Back Office
10 2 (3.03%) Games
10 2 (3.03%) Legal
11 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.52%) Law
11 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.52%) Police
11 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (59.09%) Developer
2 12 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 9 (13.64%) Senior
4 6 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Qualitative Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (43.94%) .NET
2 8 (12.12%) HTML
3 6 (9.09%) CSS
4 5 (7.58%) jQuery
4 5 (7.58%) Kafka
4 5 (7.58%) XML
5 4 (6.06%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.55%) HTML5
6 3 (4.55%) JSON
6 3 (4.55%) LangChain
6 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (4.55%) Playwright
7 2 (3.03%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (3.03%) PyTorch
7 2 (3.03%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (3.03%) SOAP
7 2 (3.03%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (7.58%) Derivative
2 5 (7.58%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.55%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.03%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (3.03%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.52%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Life Science
5 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.52%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.52%) Robotics
5 1 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) Agile
2 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (22.73%) DevOps
4 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.18%) Scrum
6 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.12%) Event-Driven
7 8 (12.12%) Fintech
7 8 (12.12%) Microservices
8 7 (10.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (10.61%) SDLC
8 7 (10.61%) Software Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) AI
9 6 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 6 (9.09%) Kanban
9 6 (9.09%) Mathematics
10 5 (7.58%) Low Latency
10 5 (7.58%) User Experience
10 5 (7.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.85%) SQL
2 17 (25.76%) Python
3 16 (24.24%) Java
4 12 (18.18%) C++
5 11 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.55%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.03%) PHP
9 1 (1.52%) Bicep
9 1 (1.52%) C
9 1 (1.52%) F#
9 1 (1.52%) Go
9 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.52%) VBA
9 1 (1.52%) VC++
9 1 (1.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Degree
1 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) EMIR
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Grafana
2 1 (1.52%) Istio
2 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) Oracle
3 3 (4.55%) Databricks
3 3 (4.55%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.55%) OutSystems
4 2 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (3.03%) UiPath
5 1 (1.52%) Confluent
5 1 (1.52%) Workday