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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing C# 88 118 230
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.11% 5.60% 8.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.17% 16.01% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 80 159
10th Percentile £399 £400 £460
25th Percentile £404 £512 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £624 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% -7.59% +9.76%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £783
90th Percentile £738 £825 £837
Central London median daily rate £544 £625 £663
% change year-on-year -13.00% -5.66% +7.94%

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 621 737 969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.08% 34.95% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 469 668
10th Percentile £384 £406 £400
25th Percentile £434 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £685 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £819 £832
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £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 £68.75 - £45.15
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.82% +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 6 November 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
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
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 3 (3.41%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.14%) Endur
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 38 (43.18%) Azure
2 13 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (6.82%) GitHub
4 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.41%) Azure AI
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.41%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.41%) Serverless
8 2 (2.27%) AWS
8 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.27%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
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%) Redis
3 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.27%) Event Store
4 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.27%) Power BI
4 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Postman
2 4 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (4.55%) Selenium
3 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.41%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.41%) Git
4 2 (2.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.14%) MSTest
5 1 (1.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (56.82%) Finance
2 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.32%) Banking
4 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (13.64%) Front Office
6 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.55%) Back Office
8 4 (4.55%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.55%) Legal
9 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.27%) Games
11 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.14%) Law
11 1 (1.14%) Marketing
11 1 (1.14%) Police
11 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (60.23%) Developer
2 15 (17.05%) Senior
3 12 (13.64%) .NET Developer
3 12 (13.64%) C# Developer
4 7 (7.95%) Senior Developer
5 5 (5.68%) Applications Developer
5 5 (5.68%) Senior .NET Developer
5 5 (5.68%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Analyst
6 4 (4.55%) Automation Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Lead
6 4 (4.55%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Angular Developer
7 3 (3.41%) BPM Developer
7 3 (3.41%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Software Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (61.36%) .NET
2 11 (12.50%) HTML
3 9 (10.23%) CSS
4 7 (7.95%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.95%) jQuery
4 7 (7.95%) REST
5 6 (6.82%) .NET Core
5 6 (6.82%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.55%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.55%) Kafka
6 4 (4.55%) Vue
6 4 (4.55%) XML
7 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (3.41%) Blazor
7 3 (3.41%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (3.41%) HTML5
7 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (3.41%) Node.js
7 3 (3.41%) React
7 3 (3.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Derivative
2 6 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.68%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.27%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.27%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Windows
2 4 (4.55%) Unix
3 2 (2.27%) Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.41%) Agile
2 24 (27.27%) DevOps
3 22 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (19.32%) CI/CD
5 14 (15.91%) Scrum
6 13 (14.77%) Test Automation
7 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 10 (11.36%) Microservices
9 9 (10.23%) Data Analysis
9 9 (10.23%) Event-Driven
9 9 (10.23%) Fintech
9 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (7.95%) SDLC
12 6 (6.82%) AI
12 6 (6.82%) Computer Science
12 6 (6.82%) Design Patterns
12 6 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (6.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.77%) SQL
2 19 (21.59%) JavaScript
3 18 (20.45%) Python
4 15 (17.05%) Java
5 8 (9.09%) C++
6 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.55%) VB.NET
8 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.41%) VBA
9 2 (2.27%) Bash
9 2 (2.27%) Bicep
9 2 (2.27%) C
9 2 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (2.27%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) F#
10 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.14%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) Degree
3 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.18%) 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%) Terraform
2 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
3 1 (1.14%) Istio
3 1 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Oracle
2 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.82%) Databricks
4 5 (5.68%) UiPath
5 3 (3.41%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.41%) OpenText
5 3 (3.41%) OutSystems
6 2 (2.27%) DevExpress
6 2 (2.27%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.14%) Confluent
7 1 (1.14%) Portware
7 1 (1.14%) SAP
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow