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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing C# 40 17 43
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 6.28% 4.53% 6.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.39% 15.74% 20.87%
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 30 3 31
10th Percentile £64.63 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £69.25 - -
90th Percentile £82.25 - -
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 187 108 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.36% 28.80% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 81
10th Percentile £425 £353 £363
25th Percentile £463 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +9.83% -21.36%
75th Percentile £675 £594 £588
90th Percentile £713 £675 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 33 91
10th Percentile £53.07 £61.95 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £80.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +15.94% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £88.75
90th Percentile £77.15 £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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +6 35 - - 20
Watford - 2 £675 - 7
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 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) Azure
1 2 (5.00%) npm
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
2 1 (2.50%) GCP
2 1 (2.50%) GitHub
2 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) Ethernet
1 14 (35.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Metadata
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 14 (35.00%) Eclipse
3 5 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.00%) GitLab
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.00%) Military
2 14 (35.00%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Aerospace
4 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Publishing
5 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 4 (10.00%) Law
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Finance
7 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 30 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 18 (45.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 13 (32.50%) C++ Software Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Perl Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Development Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Perl Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Development Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Agile Scrum Master
7 1 (2.50%) Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Developer
7 1 (2.50%) C++/C# Developer
7 1 (2.50%) IoT Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Scrum Master
7 1 (2.50%) Synthetic Environment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (40.00%) Node.js
2 14 (35.00%) Web Services
3 5 (12.50%) .NET
4 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.50%) React
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
6 2 (5.00%) Svelte
6 2 (5.00%) Vue
7 1 (2.50%) ADO
7 1 (2.50%) Blazor
7 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.50%) FPGA
2 5 (12.50%) PCIe
2 5 (12.50%) Reference Data
2 5 (12.50%) State Machine
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Linux
2 19 (47.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (57.50%) Visualisation
3 21 (52.50%) CI/CD
3 21 (52.50%) Validation
4 19 (47.50%) Agile
5 18 (45.00%) Unit Testing
6 16 (40.00%) Synthetic Environment
6 16 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
7 15 (37.50%) TDD
8 13 (32.50%) Continuous Delivery
8 13 (32.50%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (32.50%) Digital Twin
9 7 (17.50%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.00%) Data Architecture
10 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
10 6 (15.00%) Data Strategy
10 6 (15.00%) Metadata Management
10 6 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) C++
2 16 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (20.00%) Java
3 8 (20.00%) SQL
4 6 (15.00%) Perl
4 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.50%) Python
6 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle