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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -40 -6 -10
Contract jobs citing C# 65 105 155
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.84% 5.97% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.16% 14.83% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 69 102
10th Percentile £359 £453 £425
25th Percentile £420 £526 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £613
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +10.20% -5.77%
75th Percentile £716 £810 £784
90th Percentile £895 £838 £862
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 640 708 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.94% 40.27% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 468 533
10th Percentile £355 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £582 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +1.13% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -8.66%
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

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 30 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%) IIS
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%) 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%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
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 Monitor
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
8 1 (1.54%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) 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
3 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.08%) Redis
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
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 8 (12.31%) JIRA
2 7 (10.77%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.69%) Postman
4 4 (6.15%) GitLab
5 3 (4.62%) JUnit
5 3 (4.62%) Mockito
5 3 (4.62%) Selenium
6 2 (3.08%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.54%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.54%) TestRail
7 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (43.08%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Banking
3 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 12 (18.46%) Front Office
5 6 (9.23%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Back Office
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (63.08%) Developer
2 10 (15.38%) C# Developer
2 10 (15.38%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) Software Developer
4 6 (9.23%) Backend Developer
4 6 (9.23%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Quantitative Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Junior
7 3 (4.62%) Junior Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Junior Software Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.15%) .NET
2 7 (10.77%) React
3 6 (9.23%) Playwright
4 5 (7.69%) .NET Framework
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%) RESTful
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%) JSON
7 2 (3.08%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (10.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.15%) Derivative
4 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.08%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Life Science
6 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Robotics
6 1 (1.54%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Unix
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Agile
1 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
2 15 (23.08%) DevOps
3 14 (21.54%) AI
4 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (18.46%) Test Automation
5 10 (15.38%) 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
7 7 (10.77%) Scrum
8 6 (9.23%) Analytics
8 6 (9.23%) API Testing
8 6 (9.23%) Event-Driven
8 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (9.23%) Low Latency
9 5 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) SQL
2 15 (23.08%) Python
2 15 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 14 (21.54%) Java
4 7 (10.77%) C++
5 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.54%) Bicep
8 1 (1.54%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.54%) R
8 1 (1.54%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.54%) X++
8 1 (1.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) 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 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Istio
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle
3 2 (3.08%) SAP
4 1 (1.54%) Citrix
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.54%) UiPath
4 1 (1.54%) VMware
4 1 (1.54%) Workday