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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 136 137
Rank change year-on-year +27 +1 +11
Contract jobs requiring a C# Developer 6 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.20% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £361 £333 £313
25th Percentile £369 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +13.33% -29.41%
75th Percentile £424 £438 £663
90th Percentile £438 - £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +10.67%

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 1,760 2,456 3,078
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.11% 92.37% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,487 2,103
10th Percentile £225 £215 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £715
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 259 275
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.26 £18.32
25th Percentile £18.16 £40.00 £40.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.66
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured C# Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer 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 18 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
Bristol +16 5 £409 - 1
Wiltshire +13 1 £393 -
C# Developer
England

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, C# Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Marketing
3 4 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
3 4 (66.67%) SAP
3 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Electronics
3 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
3 4 (66.67%) Programme Management
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) OO
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (50.00%) OWASP
4 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (50.00%) SOLID
4 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) BDD

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Electronics
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (66.67%) Marketing
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) OpenID
3 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) OO
3 3 (50.00%) OWASP
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (50.00%) SOLID
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) MIIS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) SAP
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Google