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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing C# 88 133 254
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.10% 6.25% 8.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.22% 17.90% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 96 175
10th Percentile £403 £400 £463
25th Percentile £424 £500 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £756
90th Percentile £817 £825 £833
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -4.17% -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 619 743 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.90% 34.92% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 487 708
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £589 £606
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -2.85% +1.04%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £725
90th Percentile £795 £825 £831
Central London median daily rate £575 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -0.22% -3.96% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £22.05 £51.80 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.00 £74.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +273.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £39.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - £45.15
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +38.33% -42.86%

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 15 October 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 & 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 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Endur
2 3 (3.41%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (3.41%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.14%) Maximo
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.14%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.32%) Azure
2 13 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.68%) GitHub
4 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.41%) AWS
6 3 (3.41%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.41%) Serverless
7 2 (2.27%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.27%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
1 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.41%) Redis
5 2 (2.27%) Event Store
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.27%) Power BI
5 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.27%) JIRA
3 2 (2.27%) Postman
3 2 (2.27%) Selenium
4 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 51 (57.95%) Finance
2 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.32%) Banking
4 11 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.36%) Front Office
6 9 (10.23%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.41%) Back Office
8 3 (3.41%) Legal
8 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Games
10 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.14%) Law
10 1 (1.14%) Marketing
10 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (63.64%) Developer
2 16 (18.18%) Senior
3 14 (15.91%) .NET Developer
4 12 (13.64%) C# Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.95%) OpenLink Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Applications Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Angular Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Automation Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Azure Developer
9 4 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead
10 3 (3.41%) Analyst
10 3 (3.41%) BPM Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (64.77%) .NET
2 11 (12.50%) HTML
3 9 (10.23%) AngularJS
3 9 (10.23%) CSS
4 7 (7.95%) .NET Core
4 7 (7.95%) jQuery
5 6 (6.82%) REST
6 4 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.55%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.55%) Blazor
6 4 (4.55%) Kafka
6 4 (4.55%) React
6 4 (4.55%) Vue
6 4 (4.55%) WPF
7 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (3.41%) HTML5
7 3 (3.41%) Node.js
7 3 (3.41%) RESTful
7 3 (3.41%) Web Services
7 3 (3.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.82%) Derivative
3 5 (5.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.55%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.41%) Hedge funds
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.27%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.14%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.82%) DevOps
2 25 (28.41%) Agile
3 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
4 18 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.91%) Microservices
6 12 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 11 (12.50%) Scrum
8 10 (11.36%) Data Analysis
8 10 (11.36%) Test Automation
9 8 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (9.09%) Event-Driven
9 8 (9.09%) Fintech
10 7 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.95%) Design Patterns
10 7 (7.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (7.95%) Kanban
10 7 (7.95%) SDLC
11 6 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (6.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.32%) SQL
2 22 (25.00%) Python
3 19 (21.59%) Java
3 19 (21.59%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.09%) C++
5 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.41%) VB.NET
6 3 (3.41%) VBA
7 2 (2.27%) Bash
7 2 (2.27%) Bicep
7 2 (2.27%) C
7 2 (2.27%) Go
7 2 (2.27%) PHP
7 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.14%) F#
8 1 (1.14%) VC++
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) EMIR
3 2 (2.27%) MiFID
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.14%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.14%) Grafana
2 1 (1.14%) Istio
2 1 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Oracle
2 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.95%) OpenLink
4 5 (5.68%) Databricks
5 4 (4.55%) UiPath
6 3 (3.41%) OpenText
6 3 (3.41%) OutSystems
7 2 (2.27%) DevExpress
7 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.14%) Confluent
8 1 (1.14%) IBM
8 1 (1.14%) Portware
8 1 (1.14%) SAP
8 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow