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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 11 38
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 -16
Contract jobs citing C# 36 55 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.88% 9.05% 4.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.30% 39.29% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £490 £477 £400
25th Percentile £513 £479 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £594 £559 £675
90th Percentile £620 £599 £765
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.84% -4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 24
10th Percentile - £61.25 -
25th Percentile - £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £65.53
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 169 140 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 36.98% 23.03% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 47 105
10th Percentile £451 £325 £384
25th Percentile £495 £348 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £688
90th Percentile £635 £625 £733
East of England median daily rate £504 £420 £498
% change year-on-year +19.94% -15.58% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 54 85
10th Percentile £41.25 £60.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £68.69 - £87.50
90th Percentile £75.88 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +21.05%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for C# 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 17 September 2025. 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 -2 33 - - 15
Hemel Hempstead +4 2 £525 -6.67% 2
C#
East of England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) npm
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (47.22%) Ethernet
1 17 (47.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (72.22%) Visual Studio
2 17 (47.22%) Eclipse
3 9 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 9 (25.00%) GitLab
3 9 (25.00%) JIRA
4 6 (16.67%) Git
General
1 24 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (47.22%) Military
2 17 (47.22%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Aerospace
4 6 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (80.56%) Software Engineer
2 20 (55.56%) C++ Software Engineer
3 17 (47.22%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Development Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Agile Scrum Master
8 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Scrum Master
8 1 (2.78%) Synthetic Environment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (72.22%) Node.js
2 17 (47.22%) Web Services
3 12 (33.33%) .NET
4 11 (30.56%) .NET Framework
5 10 (27.78%) AngularJS
5 10 (27.78%) CSS
5 10 (27.78%) HTML
5 10 (27.78%) Vue
6 9 (25.00%) React
6 9 (25.00%) Svelte
7 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.78%) ADO
7 1 (2.78%) Blazor
7 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
7 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.78%) jQuery
7 1 (2.78%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (2.78%) Qt
7 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (16.67%) FPGA
2 6 (16.67%) PCIe
2 6 (16.67%) State Machine
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (83.33%) Linux
2 23 (63.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 28 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 26 (72.22%) Agile
3 26 (72.22%) TDD
4 24 (66.67%) Validation
5 22 (61.11%) Unit Testing
6 17 (47.22%) Synthetic Environment
6 17 (47.22%) Verification and Validation
6 17 (47.22%) Visualisation
7 16 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
7 16 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (44.44%) Digital Twin
8 10 (27.78%) Containerisation
8 10 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (27.78%) Microservices
8 10 (27.78%) Software Testing
9 9 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 9 (25.00%) Design Patterns
9 9 (25.00%) DevOps
9 9 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) C++
2 27 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.78%) Ada
4 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle