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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 35 27
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing C# 65 104 151
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.92% 5.94% 6.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.16% 14.71% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 66 95
10th Percentile £331 £431 £426
25th Percentile £420 £521 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £709 £747 £781
90th Percentile £891 £831 £854
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 640 707 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.76% 40.38% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 461 524
10th Percentile £350 £413 £408
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile £635 £690 £691
90th Percentile £750 £775 £796
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -6.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £28.77 - -
25th Percentile £33.90 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.75 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £57.91 - £50.25
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.75 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +67.68% -40.06% -15.65%

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 17 April 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 (1.54%) Apache
1 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.54%) CMS
1 1 (1.54%) Kentico
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.54%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.54%) Orchestrade
1 1 (1.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.31%) Azure
2 9 (13.85%) AWS
2 9 (13.85%) GitHub
3 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.62%) Serverless
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.08%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.08%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.54%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.08%) Redis
4 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Power BI
5 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Git
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
1 7 (10.77%) Postman
2 5 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.15%) GitLab
3 4 (6.15%) Selenium
4 3 (4.62%) JUnit
4 3 (4.62%) Mockito
5 2 (3.08%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (3.08%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.54%) MSTest
6 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.54%) TestRail
6 1 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (43.08%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Banking
3 11 (16.92%) Front Office
4 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.54%) Back Office
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (58.46%) Developer
2 10 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 9 (13.85%) Senior
4 6 (9.23%) Backend Developer
4 6 (9.23%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Quantitative Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (3.08%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Junior
8 2 (3.08%) Junior Software Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) .NET
2 7 (10.77%) Playwright
3 6 (9.23%) .NET Framework
3 6 (9.23%) React
4 5 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.69%) Kafka
5 4 (6.15%) REST
5 4 (6.15%) SOAP
5 4 (6.15%) YAML
6 3 (4.62%) Gherkin
6 3 (4.62%) HTML
6 3 (4.62%) JSON
6 3 (4.62%) Spring
6 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.62%) WireMock
6 3 (4.62%) WPF
6 3 (4.62%) XML
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (3.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Analytical Mindset
1 7 (10.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.62%) Derivative
4 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.08%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.54%) IoT
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Life Science
5 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Robotics
5 1 (1.54%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Unix
3 1 (1.54%) Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Agile
1 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
2 15 (23.08%) DevOps
3 14 (21.54%) AI
3 14 (21.54%) Test Automation
4 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (16.92%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.31%) Clean Code
6 8 (12.31%) LLM
7 7 (10.77%) Prompt Engineering
7 7 (10.77%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (9.23%) Analytics
8 6 (9.23%) API Testing
8 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.23%) Event-Driven
8 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (9.23%) Low Latency
8 6 (9.23%) Scrum
9 5 (7.69%) ETL
9 5 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.23%) SQL
2 16 (24.62%) Python
3 15 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 14 (21.54%) Java
5 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.23%) C++
7 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.54%) Bicep
9 1 (1.54%) Go
9 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.54%) R
9 1 (1.54%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) Degree
3 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Istio
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle
3 2 (3.08%) Databricks
3 2 (3.08%) SAP
4 1 (1.54%) Citrix
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.54%) UiPath
4 1 (1.54%) Workday