C# Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

C#
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 27 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -14
Contract jobs citing C# 8 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 3.81% 2.62% 3.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.38% 10.34% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £305 £235 £189
25th Percentile £365 £288 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £217
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +84.33% -54.32%
75th Percentile £557 £488 £327
90th Percentile £643 £525 £478
South Wales median daily rate £463 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +15.63% -15.79% -9.52%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 52 58 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 24.76% 25.33% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 43 58
10th Percentile £304 £174 £203
25th Percentile £369 £400 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +18.82% -15.00%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £575 £589
South Wales median daily rate £435 £500 £444
% change year-on-year -13.00% +12.68% -19.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - - £22.44
Median hourly rate - - £24.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.72%
75th Percentile - - £25.44
90th Percentile - - £25.78
South Wales median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £51.75
% change year-on-year +48.26% -60.90% +173.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

C# job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing C#

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Cardiff over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Cardiff

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing C#

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Product Owner
1 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) CRM Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) Flutter
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (12.50%) Blazor
4 1 (12.50%) GWT
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) API Design
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Product Management
3 2 (25.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft