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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 14 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing C# 38 36 43
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 7.02% 7.64% 5.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.35% 29.03% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £490 £477 £400
25th Percentile £513 £479 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £420
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +22.02% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £578 £472
90th Percentile £660 £651 £500
East of England median daily rate £500 £483 £475
% change year-on-year +3.57% +1.63% -22.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 29
10th Percentile - £62.50 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - -
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
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 170 124 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.42% 26.33% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 46 106
10th Percentile £443 £319 £400
25th Percentile £494 £349 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -15.50% -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £675
90th Percentile £685 £613 £725
East of England median daily rate £503 £420 £490
% change year-on-year +19.64% -14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 34 91
10th Percentile £52.00 £60.38 -
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £84.36
90th Percentile £76.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +11.67%

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 8 November 2025.

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#
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 8 November 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 - - 33
Hemel Hempstead +2 2 £525 - 4
Watford - 1 £675 - 15
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 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) npm
2 2 (5.26%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (44.74%) Ethernet
1 17 (44.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (68.42%) Visual Studio
2 17 (44.74%) Eclipse
3 9 (23.68%) Artifactory
3 9 (23.68%) GitLab
3 9 (23.68%) JIRA
4 6 (15.79%) Git
General
1 26 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (44.74%) Military
2 17 (44.74%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Aerospace
4 6 (15.79%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.89%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Finance
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 30 (78.95%) Software Engineer
2 20 (52.63%) C++ Software Engineer
3 17 (44.74%) C# Software Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Development Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Development Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.63%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Agile Scrum Master
8 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Scrum Master
8 1 (2.63%) Synthetic Environment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (68.42%) Node.js
2 17 (44.74%) Web Services
3 13 (34.21%) .NET
4 11 (28.95%) .NET Framework
4 11 (28.95%) AngularJS
5 10 (26.32%) CSS
5 10 (26.32%) HTML
5 10 (26.32%) Vue
6 9 (23.68%) React
6 9 (23.68%) Svelte
7 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.63%) ADO
7 1 (2.63%) Blazor
7 1 (2.63%) Bootstrap
7 1 (2.63%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.63%) jQuery
7 1 (2.63%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (2.63%) Qt
7 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Algorithms
1 9 (23.68%) Data Structures
1 9 (23.68%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (15.79%) FPGA
2 6 (15.79%) PCIe
2 6 (15.79%) State Machine
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (78.95%) Linux
2 23 (60.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) CI/CD
2 29 (76.32%) Software Engineering
3 28 (73.68%) Agile
4 26 (68.42%) TDD
5 24 (63.16%) Validation
6 22 (57.89%) Unit Testing
7 18 (47.37%) Visualisation
8 17 (44.74%) Synthetic Environment
8 17 (44.74%) Verification and Validation
9 16 (42.11%) Continuous Delivery
9 16 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (42.11%) Digital Twin
10 11 (28.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
11 10 (26.32%) Microservices
11 10 (26.32%) Software Testing
12 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
12 9 (23.68%) DevOps
12 9 (23.68%) OOP
12 9 (23.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (81.58%) C++
2 27 (71.05%) JavaScript
3 9 (23.68%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) Python
5 1 (2.63%) Ada
5 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle