C# Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

C#
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -4
Contract jobs citing C# 48 17 43
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 7.29% 4.43% 6.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.00% 15.60% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £533 £484 £400
25th Percentile £563 £490 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +25.00% -11.58%
75th Percentile £656 £619 £439
90th Percentile £668 £668 £475
East of England median daily rate £588 £493 £450
% change year-on-year +19.29% +9.44% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 3 31
10th Percentile £63.38 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% - -
75th Percentile £67.00 - -
90th Percentile £76.13 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.77% - -

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 200 109 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 30.40% 28.39% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 38 82
10th Percentile £425 £348 £363
25th Percentile £463 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £431
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +10.14% -21.59%
75th Percentile £675 £584 £584
90th Percentile £713 £675 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 33 89
10th Percentile £52.92 £61.95 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +15.94% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £88.75
90th Percentile £77.20 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £67.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.17% +6.15%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

C# job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

C#
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing C#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Hertfordshire

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing C#

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in Hertfordshire

C#
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Stevenage +9 43 - - 22
Watford - 2 £675 - 10
C#
East of England

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) npm
2 2 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.08%) AWS
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
3 1 (2.08%) GCP
3 1 (2.08%) GitHub
3 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.25%) Ethernet
1 15 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 15 (31.25%) Eclipse
3 9 (18.75%) Artifactory
3 9 (18.75%) GitLab
3 9 (18.75%) JIRA
4 5 (10.42%) Git
General
1 24 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Military
2 15 (31.25%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Aerospace
4 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Publishing
5 5 (10.42%) Law
5 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Finance
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 34 (70.83%) Software Engineer
2 19 (39.58%) C# Software Engineer
3 14 (29.17%) C++ Software Engineer
4 12 (25.00%) Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Perl Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Development Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Software Development Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) C# Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Perl Software Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Architect
10 1 (2.08%) Azure Developer
10 1 (2.08%) C++ Developer
10 1 (2.08%) C++/C# Developer
10 1 (2.08%) IoT Architect
10 1 (2.08%) Scrum Master
10 1 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (50.00%) Node.js
2 15 (31.25%) Web Services
3 12 (25.00%) .NET
4 11 (22.92%) AngularJS
5 10 (20.83%) React
6 9 (18.75%) .NET Framework
6 9 (18.75%) CSS
6 9 (18.75%) HTML
6 9 (18.75%) Svelte
6 9 (18.75%) Vue
7 1 (2.08%) ADO
7 1 (2.08%) Blazor
7 1 (2.08%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Algorithms
1 9 (18.75%) Data Structures
1 9 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.42%) FPGA
3 5 (10.42%) PCIe
3 5 (10.42%) Reference Data
3 5 (10.42%) State Machine
4 1 (2.08%) IoT
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (56.25%) Linux
2 20 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 29 (60.42%) CI/CD
3 27 (56.25%) Agile
4 24 (50.00%) Visualisation
5 23 (47.92%) TDD
5 23 (47.92%) Validation
6 19 (39.58%) Unit Testing
7 17 (35.42%) Synthetic Environment
7 17 (35.42%) Verification and Validation
8 14 (29.17%) Continuous Delivery
8 14 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (29.17%) Digital Twin
9 11 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (20.83%) Software Testing
11 9 (18.75%) Computer Science
11 9 (18.75%) Containerisation
11 9 (18.75%) DevOps
11 9 (18.75%) Microservices
11 9 (18.75%) OOP
11 9 (18.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) C++
2 24 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 8 (16.67%) Java
4 8 (16.67%) SQL
5 6 (12.50%) Perl
5 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.25%) Python
7 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle