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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 41 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 -17 -7
Contract jobs citing C# 93 101 147
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.87% 5.38% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.09% 13.95% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 74 101
10th Percentile £420 £404 £400
25th Percentile £510 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £747 £754 £750
90th Percentile £936 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £625 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -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 660 724 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.47% 38.57% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 495 506
10th Percentile £364 £400 £403
25th Percentile £455 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.22% -7.80%
75th Percentile £668 £698 £710
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £26.32 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +30.39% -3.00% -37.36%

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

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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 1 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 1 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 (3.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.15%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.18%) Azure
2 15 (16.13%) AWS
2 15 (16.13%) GitHub
3 13 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (13.98%) Power Platform
4 12 (12.90%) Serverless
5 8 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.45%) Power Automate
7 6 (6.45%) PowerApps
8 5 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Internet
1 2 (2.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.53%) Oracle Database
3 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.38%) Power BI
5 4 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.30%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.15%) Redis
7 2 (2.15%) SQLPlus
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.08%) Big Data
8 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Git
2 9 (9.68%) JIRA
3 8 (8.60%) GitLab
3 8 (8.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.38%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.30%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.30%) JUnit
5 4 (4.30%) Mockito
5 4 (4.30%) Postman
5 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.08%) Selenium
7 1 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (35.48%) Banking
1 33 (35.48%) Finance
2 22 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 20 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (20.43%) Front Office
5 11 (11.83%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.23%) Legal
6 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.08%) Back Office
7 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (64.52%) Developer
2 23 (24.73%) Senior
3 22 (23.66%) C# Developer
4 19 (20.43%) Senior Developer
5 9 (9.68%) Software Developer
6 8 (8.60%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 8 (8.60%) UI Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Backend Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Front Office Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.53%) React Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Senior React Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Senior UI Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Junior
9 4 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (43.01%) .NET
2 17 (18.28%) React
3 10 (10.75%) .NET Framework
4 9 (9.68%) Redux
4 9 (9.68%) REST
5 8 (8.60%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.53%) Kafka
7 6 (6.45%) SOAP
7 6 (6.45%) Web Services
7 6 (6.45%) XML
8 5 (5.38%) .NET Core
8 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.38%) Playwright
8 5 (5.38%) RESTful
8 5 (5.38%) Spring
8 5 (5.38%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.38%) YAML
9 4 (4.30%) Gherkin
9 4 (4.30%) HTML
9 4 (4.30%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (10.75%) Derivative
3 9 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (7.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (7.53%) Equities
4 7 (7.53%) Fixed Income
5 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.15%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.15%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Windows
2 7 (7.53%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.30%) Linux
3 4 (4.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.18%) CI/CD
2 27 (29.03%) Agile
3 26 (27.96%) DevOps
4 17 (18.28%) Software Engineering
5 16 (17.20%) AI
6 14 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (15.05%) Test Automation
6 14 (15.05%) Unit Testing
7 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.75%) Low Latency
9 9 (9.68%) Electronic Trading
9 9 (9.68%) Microservices
9 9 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (8.60%) Data Modelling
10 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.60%) LLM
11 7 (7.53%) Clean Code
11 7 (7.53%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (7.53%) Event-Driven
11 7 (7.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.63%) SQL
2 24 (25.81%) TypeScript
3 21 (22.58%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.58%) Python
4 16 (17.20%) Java
5 10 (10.75%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.53%) T-SQL
7 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.38%) C++
9 2 (2.15%) Bicep
9 2 (2.15%) C
9 2 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.15%) Korn
9 2 (2.15%) ProC
10 1 (1.08%) Go
10 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.08%) R
10 1 (1.08%) VBA
10 1 (1.08%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.53%) Degree
4 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.60%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) Oracle
2 12 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.38%) Citrix
4 4 (4.30%) Databricks
4 4 (4.30%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.23%) IBM
6 2 (2.15%) VMware
7 1 (1.08%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow