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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 29 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 -11 -2
Contract jobs citing C# 80 139 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.57% 6.69% 8.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.31% 18.78% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 101 180
10th Percentile £399 £400 £463
25th Percentile £404 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £731 £725 £784
90th Percentile £817 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%

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 650 740 1,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.12% 35.63% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 503 786
10th Percentile £384 £408 £411
25th Percentile £455 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £593 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -2.07% +0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £737
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.37% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £40.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year +6.80% +220.00% -76.19%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for C# 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 15 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Endur
2 3 (3.75%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.25%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.25%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.25%) Maximo
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.25%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 34 (42.50%) Azure
2 12 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (7.50%) GitHub
4 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.75%) AWS
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.50%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.50%) Serverless
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) FTP
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) SMTP
2 1 (1.25%) SSL
2 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Event Store
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) Postman
3 2 (2.50%) Selenium
4 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) JMeter
4 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (60.00%) Finance
2 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.75%) Banking
4 11 (13.75%) Front Office
5 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.50%) Financial Institution
7 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Back Office
8 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Games
8 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.50%) Legal
8 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.25%) Billing
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Publishing
9 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (60.00%) Developer
2 14 (17.50%) Senior
3 12 (15.00%) .NET Developer
4 11 (13.75%) C# Developer
5 7 (8.75%) OpenLink Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Applications Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Lead
9 3 (3.75%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.75%) BPM Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.50%) .NET Applications Developer
10 2 (2.50%) .NET Architect
10 2 (2.50%) C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (65.00%) .NET
2 7 (8.75%) .NET Core
2 7 (8.75%) CSS
2 7 (8.75%) HTML
2 7 (8.75%) REST
3 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.25%) jQuery
5 4 (5.00%) Blazor
5 4 (5.00%) Kafka
5 4 (5.00%) Vue
5 4 (5.00%) WPF
6 3 (3.75%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.75%) Node.js
6 3 (3.75%) React
6 3 (3.75%) RESTful
7 2 (2.50%) HTML5
7 2 (2.50%) Reactive Extensions
7 2 (2.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.75%) Derivative
4 3 (3.75%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.75%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Windows
2 2 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) DevOps
2 21 (26.25%) Agile
3 20 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
6 12 (15.00%) Microservices
7 11 (13.75%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.50%) Data Analysis
8 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 8 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (10.00%) Scrum
10 7 (8.75%) Code Quality
10 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.75%) Event-Driven
11 6 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture
11 6 (7.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (7.50%) Fintech
11 6 (7.50%) Kanban
11 6 (7.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) SQL
2 21 (26.25%) Python
3 16 (20.00%) Java
4 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.50%) C++
6 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.75%) VBA
8 2 (2.50%) Bash
8 2 (2.50%) Bicep
8 2 (2.50%) C
8 2 (2.50%) Go
8 2 (2.50%) PHP
9 1 (1.25%) F#
9 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.25%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.25%) VC++
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) EMIR
2 2 (2.50%) MiFID
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.25%) NIST
3 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Istio
3 1 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Oracle
2 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.75%) OpenLink
4 3 (3.75%) Databricks
4 3 (3.75%) OpenText
4 3 (3.75%) UiPath
5 2 (2.50%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.50%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.25%) Confluent
6 1 (1.25%) IBM
6 1 (1.25%) Portware
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow