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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -25 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing C# 75 123 187
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.07% 5.98% 7.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.36% 16.85% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 80 135
10th Percentile £329 £400 £455
25th Percentile £436 £522 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £697 £694 £788
90th Percentile £808 £825 £833
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -8.00% -7.41% +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 607 730 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.97% 35.51% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 464 611
10th Percentile £356 £406 £400
25th Percentile £434 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £775 £792 £831
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £598
% change year-on-year -5.17% -2.93% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £26.00 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £55.63 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.30% -12.63% -17.39%

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 23 December 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 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.33%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.67%) GitHub
3 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.00%) AWS
5 3 (4.00%) Azure AI
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.00%) Serverless
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (2.67%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.33%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.33%) Redis
3 2 (2.67%) Event Store
3 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.33%) Power BI
4 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Postman
2 5 (6.67%) Selenium
3 4 (5.33%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.33%) Git
3 4 (5.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.67%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.33%) JIRA
6 1 (1.33%) MSTest
6 1 (1.33%) TestRail
6 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (52.00%) Finance
2 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.33%) Banking
4 12 (16.00%) Investment Banking
5 11 (14.67%) Front Office
6 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (9.33%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.33%) Back Office
8 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.67%) Games
9 2 (2.67%) Legal
10 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Law
10 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.33%) Marketing
10 1 (1.33%) Police
10 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (56.00%) Developer
2 12 (16.00%) Senior
3 11 (14.67%) C# Developer
4 8 (10.67%) .NET Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Lead
8 3 (4.00%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) C++ Developer
9 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (2.67%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (46.67%) .NET
2 7 (9.33%) HTML
3 6 (8.00%) Kafka
4 5 (6.67%) CSS
4 5 (6.67%) jQuery
4 5 (6.67%) XML
5 4 (5.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.00%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.00%) Blazor
6 3 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (4.00%) HTML5
6 3 (4.00%) JSON
6 3 (4.00%) LangChain
6 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (4.00%) Playwright
6 3 (4.00%) REST
7 2 (2.67%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.67%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (2.67%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Derivative
2 6 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.33%) Hedge funds
5 3 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.67%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.67%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (1.33%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.33%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.33%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.33%) Life Science
7 1 (1.33%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Unix
3 2 (2.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Agile
2 21 (28.00%) DevOps
3 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
5 14 (18.67%) Scrum
6 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 10 (13.33%) Fintech
7 10 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 9 (12.00%) Microservices
9 8 (10.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (9.33%) AI
10 7 (9.33%) Computer Science
10 7 (9.33%) SDLC
10 7 (9.33%) Validation
11 6 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (8.00%) Kanban
11 6 (8.00%) User Experience
12 5 (6.67%) Design Patterns
12 5 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.33%) SQL
2 19 (25.33%) Java
2 19 (25.33%) Python
3 11 (14.67%) C++
3 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.33%) VB.NET
5 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.67%) Go
6 2 (2.67%) PHP
7 1 (1.33%) Bicep
7 1 (1.33%) C
7 1 (1.33%) F#
7 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.33%) VBA
7 1 (1.33%) VC++
7 1 (1.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Degree
2 8 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) EMIR
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.33%) MiFID
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.33%) Grafana
3 1 (1.33%) Istio
3 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.33%) Oracle
3 4 (5.33%) Databricks
4 3 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.00%) OutSystems
4 3 (4.00%) UiPath
5 2 (2.67%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.67%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) Confluent
6 1 (1.33%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.33%) Portware
6 1 (1.33%) Workday