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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 45 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 -18 -9
Contract jobs citing C# 103 94 144
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.41% 5.13% 6.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.42% 13.47% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 69 102
10th Percentile £420 £403 £401
25th Percentile £510 £424 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £734
90th Percentile £938 £826 £838
Central London median daily rate £625 £631 £600
% change year-on-year -0.99% +5.21% -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 668 698 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.60% 38.08% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 479 510
10th Percentile £400 £392 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £591
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.06% -2.99%
75th Percentile £669 £695 £709
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £22.05 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £34.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +32.34% -18.07% -10.27%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 (2.91%) IIS
2 1 (0.97%) Apache
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (6.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.94%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.97%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.95%) Azure
2 19 (18.45%) AWS
3 16 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (15.53%) GitHub
4 15 (14.56%) Power Platform
5 13 (12.62%) Serverless
6 9 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (7.77%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (7.77%) Power Automate
7 8 (7.77%) PowerApps
8 5 (4.85%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.85%) Azure AKS
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.85%) SaaS
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) Internet
1 2 (1.94%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.80%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.83%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.88%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.88%) Power BI
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.94%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.94%) Redis
6 2 (1.94%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.97%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.97%) Big Data
7 1 (0.97%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Git
2 9 (8.74%) GitLab
2 9 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.80%) JIRA
3 7 (6.80%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.85%) Postman
4 5 (4.85%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.88%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.88%) JUnit
5 4 (3.88%) Mockito
6 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.94%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.94%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.94%) Selenium
8 1 (0.97%) Appium
8 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.97%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (33.01%) Banking
1 34 (33.01%) Finance
2 26 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 22 (21.36%) Front Office
4 20 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.65%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.88%) Marketing
7 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Legal
7 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.97%) Back Office
8 1 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (66.99%) Developer
2 26 (25.24%) C# Developer
3 24 (23.30%) Senior
4 20 (19.42%) Senior Developer
5 9 (8.74%) Software Developer
6 8 (7.77%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 8 (7.77%) UI Developer
7 7 (6.80%) Backend Developer
7 7 (6.80%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.80%) React Developer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior React Developer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior UI Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Front Office Developer
9 5 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 5 (4.85%) Junior
9 5 (4.85%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (48.54%) .NET
2 17 (16.50%) React
3 12 (11.65%) .NET Framework
3 12 (11.65%) REST
4 11 (10.68%) Terraform
5 9 (8.74%) Redux
6 8 (7.77%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.77%) SOAP
6 8 (7.77%) Web Services
7 7 (6.80%) .NET Core
7 7 (6.80%) Kafka
8 6 (5.83%) RESTful
8 6 (5.83%) XML
9 5 (4.85%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.85%) HTML
9 5 (4.85%) Spring
9 5 (4.85%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (3.88%) Gherkin
10 4 (3.88%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (10.68%) Derivative
3 10 (9.71%) Cloud Native
4 9 (8.74%) Fixed Income
4 9 (8.74%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.77%) Equities
6 6 (5.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.91%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.94%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.94%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.71%) Windows
2 7 (6.80%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.88%) Linux
3 4 (3.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.92%) CI/CD
2 30 (29.13%) DevOps
3 29 (28.16%) Agile
4 21 (20.39%) Software Engineering
5 16 (15.53%) Test Automation
6 15 (14.56%) AI
6 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.56%) Unit Testing
7 13 (12.62%) Microservices
8 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (9.71%) Low Latency
9 10 (9.71%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.74%) Electronic Trading
10 9 (8.74%) SDLC
11 8 (7.77%) CRM
11 8 (7.77%) Scrum
11 8 (7.77%) Software Testing
11 8 (7.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.78%) SQL
2 28 (27.18%) TypeScript
3 25 (24.27%) JavaScript
3 25 (24.27%) Python
4 18 (17.48%) Java
5 11 (10.68%) PL/SQL
6 7 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.83%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.85%) C++
9 2 (1.94%) Bicep
9 2 (1.94%) C
9 2 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.94%) Korn
9 2 (1.94%) ProC
10 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.97%) R
10 1 (0.97%) VBA
10 1 (0.97%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (22.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.97%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.62%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (8.74%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.97%) Ansible
2 1 (0.97%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.62%) Oracle
3 5 (4.85%) Citrix
4 4 (3.88%) Databricks
4 4 (3.88%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.94%) IBM
5 2 (1.94%) VMware
6 1 (0.97%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.97%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.97%) Foundry
6 1 (0.97%) Google
6 1 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.97%) SAP