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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 46 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 -12
Contract jobs citing C# 105 90 142
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.53% 5.00% 6.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.63% 13.22% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 67 101
10th Percentile £420 £402 £400
25th Percentile £510 £424 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £725
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 672 681 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.98% 37.83% 35.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 472 509
10th Percentile £400 £393 £400
25th Percentile £459 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.27% -1.33%
75th Percentile £668 £690 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £577 £575
% change year-on-year -4.60% +0.26% -4.17%
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 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% +2.94% -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 27 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 27 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 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (0.95%) Apache
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.95%) CMS
2 1 (0.95%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.95%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (36.19%) Azure
2 18 (17.14%) AWS
3 17 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (15.24%) Power Platform
5 15 (14.29%) Serverless
6 14 (13.33%) GitHub
7 9 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (8.57%) Power Automate
8 8 (7.62%) Azure Functions
8 8 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.62%) PowerApps
9 7 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.76%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.76%) SaaS
12 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) Internet
1 2 (1.90%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.90%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.81%) Power BI
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.90%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.90%) Redis
6 2 (1.90%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.95%) Big Data
7 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.95%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.95%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (11.43%) Git
2 8 (7.62%) GitLab
2 8 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.67%) Visual Studio
4 6 (5.71%) JIRA
5 5 (4.76%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.81%) Postman
7 3 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.86%) JUnit
7 3 (2.86%) Mockito
7 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.90%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.90%) Selenium
9 1 (0.95%) Appium
9 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.95%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (32.38%) Finance
2 33 (31.43%) Banking
3 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 23 (21.90%) Front Office
5 20 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (11.43%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.81%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.81%) Marketing
7 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.95%) Back Office
9 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (68.57%) Developer
2 27 (25.71%) C# Developer
2 27 (25.71%) Senior
3 22 (20.95%) Senior Developer
4 9 (8.57%) Software Developer
5 8 (7.62%) C# Developer - Commodities
5 8 (7.62%) UI Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Backend Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 7 (6.67%) React Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Senior React Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Senior UI Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Front Office Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Junior
8 5 (4.76%) Lead
9 4 (3.81%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (49.52%) .NET
2 16 (15.24%) React
3 12 (11.43%) .NET Framework
3 12 (11.43%) REST
3 12 (11.43%) Terraform
4 9 (8.57%) Redux
5 8 (7.62%) Web Services
6 7 (6.67%) .NET Core
6 7 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.67%) SOAP
7 6 (5.71%) Kafka
7 6 (5.71%) XML
8 5 (4.76%) RESTful
9 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (3.81%) HTML
9 4 (3.81%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (3.81%) Spring
9 4 (3.81%) Spring Boot
10 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.48%) Derivative
4 9 (8.57%) Fixed Income
4 9 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (7.62%) Equities
6 6 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.86%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.90%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.52%) Windows
2 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.81%) Linux
3 4 (3.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.19%) CI/CD
2 31 (29.52%) DevOps
3 28 (26.67%) Agile
4 22 (20.95%) Software Engineering
5 16 (15.24%) AI
5 16 (15.24%) Test Automation
6 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 13 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (12.38%) Microservices
8 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (10.48%) SDLC
10 10 (9.52%) Low Latency
10 10 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (9.52%) Scrum
11 9 (8.57%) Electronic Trading
11 9 (8.57%) Risk Management
12 8 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.62%) Software Testing
12 8 (7.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.00%) SQL
2 28 (26.67%) Python
3 27 (25.71%) TypeScript
4 24 (22.86%) JavaScript
5 18 (17.14%) Java
6 11 (10.48%) PL/SQL
7 7 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.71%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.76%) C++
10 3 (2.86%) Bicep
11 2 (1.90%) C
11 2 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.90%) Korn
11 2 (1.90%) ProC
12 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.95%) R
12 1 (0.95%) VBA
12 1 (0.95%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.38%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.62%) Docker
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.95%) Ansible
2 1 (0.95%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) Oracle
3 5 (4.76%) Citrix
4 4 (3.81%) Databricks
4 4 (3.81%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.90%) Foundry
5 2 (1.90%) IBM
5 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Adyen
6 1 (0.95%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.95%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.95%) Google
6 1 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.95%) SAP