C# Contracts in Hertfordshire

C#
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -15
Contract jobs citing C# 21 62 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.56% 7.43% 5.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.44% 33.33% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile - £438 £430
25th Percentile £465 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -15.38% +52.94%
75th Percentile £544 £625 £675
90th Percentile £603 £670 £765
East of England median daily rate £490 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.16% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 51 22
10th Percentile £61.63 - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £65.68 - £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 136 186 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 35.98% 22.30% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 49 108
10th Percentile £423 £325 £363
25th Percentile £479 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £658 £650 £725
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 107 82
10th Percentile £46.82 £60.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year - -0.38% +18.64%
75th Percentile £73.75 £69.38 £76.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.12%

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#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for C# in Hertfordshire

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Hertfordshire

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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 14 - - 46
Hemel Hempstead +10 2 £525 -12.50% 14
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 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) Ethernet
1 11 (52.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (19.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Eclipse
1 12 (57.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 12 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (52.38%) Military
3 2 (9.52%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Software Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) C# Software Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Backend Developer
6 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
7 1 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Linux Developer
7 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) Senior IT Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior IT Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Software Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Software Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Node.js
1 11 (52.38%) Web Services
2 4 (19.05%) REST
3 3 (14.29%) .NET
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.76%) Blazor
5 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.76%) CSS
5 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.76%) HTML
5 1 (4.76%) jQuery
5 1 (4.76%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (4.76%) Qt
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.76%) FPGA
1 1 (4.76%) PCIe
1 1 (4.76%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Linux
2 13 (61.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) TDD
2 14 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 12 (57.14%) Digital Twin
4 12 (57.14%) Synthetic Environment
4 12 (57.14%) Unit Testing
5 11 (52.38%) Agile
5 11 (52.38%) Continuous Delivery
5 11 (52.38%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (52.38%) Validation
6 10 (47.62%) Verification and Validation
6 10 (47.62%) Visualisation
7 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
8 4 (19.05%) Multithreading
8 4 (19.05%) OO
8 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 1 (4.76%) B2C
9 1 (4.76%) Change Management
9 1 (4.76%) CRM
9 1 (4.76%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) C++
2 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Ada
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft