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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 32 26
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 -11
Contract jobs citing C# 66 104 158
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.86% 5.92% 7.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.54% 14.73% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 67 105
10th Percentile £363 £433 £425
25th Percentile £424 £532 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £811 £750
90th Percentile £895 £838 £861
Central London median daily rate £588 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -9.62% +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 626 706 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.11% 40.18% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 466 527
10th Percentile £355 £410 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £700
90th Percentile £750 £797 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -9.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £25.14 - -
25th Percentile £31.71 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £57.91 - £50.25
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -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

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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 10 May 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 Airflow
1 1 (1.52%) CMS
1 1 (1.52%) IIS
1 1 (1.52%) Kentico
1 1 (1.52%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.52%) Orchestrade
1 1 (1.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (30.30%) Azure
2 12 (18.18%) AWS
3 11 (16.67%) GitHub
4 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.58%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.06%) Serverless
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
10 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.55%) Power BI
4 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.03%) Redis
4 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) JIRA
2 7 (10.61%) GitLab
3 6 (9.09%) Git
4 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.06%) Postman
6 3 (4.55%) JUnit
6 3 (4.55%) Mockito
7 2 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.03%) Selenium
7 2 (3.03%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.52%) TestRail
8 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (39.39%) Finance
2 16 (24.24%) Banking
3 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (18.18%) Front Office
5 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
6 5 (7.58%) Financial Institution
6 5 (7.58%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Back Office
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (62.12%) Developer
2 14 (21.21%) Senior
3 11 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.61%) Software Developer
6 6 (9.09%) Backend Developer
7 5 (7.58%) C# Developer - Commodities
7 5 (7.58%) Front Office Developer
7 5 (7.58%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Junior
9 3 (4.55%) Junior Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Junior Software Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) UI Developer
10 2 (3.03%) .NET Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.27%) .NET
2 11 (16.67%) React
3 7 (10.61%) Kafka
4 6 (9.09%) Playwright
5 5 (7.58%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.58%) REST
5 5 (7.58%) RESTful
6 4 (6.06%) .NET Framework
6 4 (6.06%) Redux
6 4 (6.06%) YAML
7 3 (4.55%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.55%) Gherkin
7 3 (4.55%) HTML
7 3 (4.55%) SOAP
7 3 (4.55%) Spring
7 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.55%) WireMock
7 3 (4.55%) WPF
7 3 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Analytical Mindset
1 7 (10.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (9.09%) Derivative
3 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.03%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.03%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.52%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Life Science
6 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.52%) NHS
6 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.52%) Robotics
6 1 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
3 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 16 (24.24%) Agile
2 16 (24.24%) DevOps
3 14 (21.21%) AI
4 13 (19.70%) Test Automation
5 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
6 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.12%) Clean Code
7 8 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (12.12%) LLM
8 7 (10.61%) Event-Driven
8 7 (10.61%) Prompt Engineering
8 7 (10.61%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 6 (9.09%) API Testing
9 6 (9.09%) Data Modelling
9 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (9.09%) Microservices
9 6 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (7.58%) ETL
10 5 (7.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) Python
1 18 (27.27%) TypeScript
2 17 (25.76%) SQL
3 12 (18.18%) Java
4 10 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.61%) C++
6 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) Go
7 1 (1.52%) R
7 1 (1.52%) X++
7 1 (1.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Grafana
3 1 (1.52%) Istio
3 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (1.52%) Citrix
4 1 (1.52%) Databricks
4 1 (1.52%) IBM
4 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.52%) VMware
4 1 (1.52%) Workday