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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 17 11
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 +30
Contract jobs citing C# 13 35 61
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.55% 7.64% 9.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.70% 21.08% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile - £465 £478
25th Percentile - £468 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% +16.22%
75th Percentile - £616 £613
90th Percentile - £647 £663
East of England median daily rate £525 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 24 39
10th Percentile - - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £61.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 194 166 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 23.15% 36.24% 22.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 74 51
10th Percentile £350 £454 £325
25th Percentile £450 £484 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +33.33% -21.43%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £528
90th Percentile £685 £630 £625
East of England median daily rate £505 £503 £425
% change year-on-year +0.50% +18.24% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 57 60
10th Percentile £62.00 £43.50 £60.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile - £73.75 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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#
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#
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 30 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
Stevenage -22 8 - - 2
Welwyn Garden City - 3 - -
Watford - 2 £550 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
2 1 (7.69%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Eclipse
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Military
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) C# Software Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) C++ Software Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) C# Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 3 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
2 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (23.08%) Blazor
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Twin
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
4 2 (15.38%) Synthetic Environment
4 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) CRUD
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) ERP
5 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Validation
5 1 (7.69%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C++
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft