C# Developer Contract Job Trends in the South West

C# Developer
England > South West

The median C# Developer daily rate in the South West is £393, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 130 141
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 +10
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 4 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.16% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.18% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £328 £290
25th Percentile £384 £359 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +13.33% -34.73%
75th Percentile £401 £438 £622
90th Percentile - - £706
England median daily rate £500 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -7.14% +7.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 1,840 2,246 3,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.15% 92.39% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 1,347 2,010
10th Percentile £221 £225 £281
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £718
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 201 314
10th Percentile £14.36 £12.79 £17.70
25th Percentile £18.22 £31.97 £40.89
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +15.06% -8.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.16% -8.39% +58.21%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'C# Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

C# Developer job vacancy trend in the South West

C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the South West

C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the South West

C# Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Bristol +4 3 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £393 -
C# Developer
England

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (75.00%) SOLID
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (75.00%) SOLID
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) SAP