C# Contracts in the City of London

C#
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 26 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 +21
Contract jobs citing C# 109 158 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.31% 6.88% 9.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.62% 20.65% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 101 227
10th Percentile £409 £425 £458
25th Percentile £513 £513 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +10.64%

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 698 765 1,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.39% 33.30% 44.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 539 1,091
10th Percentile £413 £411 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £610
Median % change year-on-year - -5.74% +2.43%
75th Percentile £690 £693 £738
90th Percentile £776 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £600
% change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £46.30 £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.38 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -16.52% +11.65%
75th Percentile - £49.88 £58.75
90th Percentile - £50.10 £83.88
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -39.44% -16.52% +11.65%

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#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for C# in the City of London

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 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the City of London

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 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.83%) Endur
2 2 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.92%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (44.04%) Azure
2 20 (18.35%) AWS
3 19 (17.43%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.26%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (7.34%) GitHub
6 7 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (6.42%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 7 (6.42%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (6.42%) CloudFront
6 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.42%) Route 53
7 6 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.59%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.67%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.75%) Azure App Service
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) DNS
2 2 (1.83%) Firewall
2 2 (1.83%) FTP
2 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 2 (1.83%) Network Security
2 2 (1.83%) SMTP
2 2 (1.83%) SSL
2 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) Intranet
3 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.92%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (30.28%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.09%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.09%) Redis
3 7 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (6.42%) DocumentDB
4 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.92%) Big Data
7 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.92%) Power BI
7 1 (0.92%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.34%) JIRA
3 6 (5.50%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.50%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.59%) Git
5 4 (3.67%) Selenium
6 3 (2.75%) Postman
7 2 (1.83%) Ant
7 2 (1.83%) Babel
7 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.83%) webpack
8 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.92%) GitLab
8 1 (0.92%) JMeter
8 1 (0.92%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.92%) Maven
8 1 (0.92%) NUnit
8 1 (0.92%) Serena SBM
8 1 (0.92%) Subversion
8 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (37.61%) Finance
2 28 (25.69%) Banking
3 23 (21.10%) Social Skills
4 20 (18.35%) Front Office
5 7 (6.42%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.42%) Retail Banking
6 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.59%) Back Office
8 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.92%) Advertising
9 1 (0.92%) Billing
9 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.92%) Legal
9 1 (0.92%) Marketing
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (59.63%) Developer
2 32 (29.36%) C# Developer
3 16 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) .NET Developer
5 9 (8.26%) Senior
6 7 (6.42%) C++ Developer
7 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) C++/C# Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Lead
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Algorithm Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Python Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Angular Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (2.75%) SharePoint Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (56.88%) .NET
2 13 (11.93%) .NET Core
3 11 (10.09%) Kafka
3 11 (10.09%) RESTful
4 9 (8.26%) .NET Framework
4 9 (8.26%) ASP.NET
4 9 (8.26%) CSS
4 9 (8.26%) HTML
5 8 (7.34%) REST
5 8 (7.34%) WPF
6 7 (6.42%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.42%) GraphQL
6 7 (6.42%) React
7 6 (5.50%) Blazor
8 5 (4.59%) Entity Framework
8 5 (4.59%) HTML5
9 4 (3.67%) ADO
9 4 (3.67%) Node.js
9 4 (3.67%) OAuth
9 4 (3.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Derivative
2 9 (8.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (7.34%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.42%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.67%) Sports Betting
6 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.75%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.75%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) Equities
7 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.83%) TWAP
7 2 (1.83%) VWAP
8 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Linux
2 5 (4.59%) Windows
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Solaris
4 1 (0.92%) SUSE
4 1 (0.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.03%) DevOps
2 33 (30.28%) CI/CD
3 28 (25.69%) Agile
4 23 (21.10%) Software Engineering
5 19 (17.43%) Test Automation
6 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.76%) Microservices
7 15 (13.76%) TDD
7 15 (13.76%) Unit Testing
8 14 (12.84%) SOLID
9 13 (11.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (9.17%) Analytics
11 10 (9.17%) Asset Management
12 9 (8.26%) Front End Development
12 9 (8.26%) Migration
12 9 (8.26%) Multithreading
12 9 (8.26%) Scrum
13 8 (7.34%) Continuous Delivery
13 8 (7.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.85%) SQL
2 24 (22.02%) JavaScript
3 23 (21.10%) Python
4 11 (10.09%) C++
4 11 (10.09%) Java
5 10 (9.17%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.67%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.67%) Ruby
7 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.67%) VBA
8 2 (1.83%) Perl
9 1 (0.92%) Bash
9 1 (0.92%) Bicep
9 1 (0.92%) Go
9 1 (0.92%) Groovy
9 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.42%) Degree
2 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) EMIR
2 5 (4.59%) MiFID
3 3 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.83%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (12.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.92%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (15.60%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.09%) Terraform
3 3 (2.75%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) Control-M
5 1 (0.92%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.92%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
5 1 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.92%) Kibana
5 1 (0.92%) QRadar
5 1 (0.92%) Rancher
5 1 (0.92%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 16 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Oracle
3 4 (3.67%) Databricks
4 3 (2.75%) IBM
4 3 (2.75%) SAP
5 2 (1.83%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.83%) OpenLink
5 2 (1.83%) Splunk
6 1 (0.92%) BMC
6 1 (0.92%) CQG
6 1 (0.92%) EMC
6 1 (0.92%) Google
6 1 (0.92%) Informatica
6 1 (0.92%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.92%) Qualys
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.92%) Reuters
6 1 (0.92%) Serena
6 1 (0.92%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.92%) VMware