C# Contracts in Cardiff

C#
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 27
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -13
Contract jobs citing C# 10 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.49% 3.70% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.26% 12.33% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 6
10th Percentile £276 £365 £313
25th Percentile £305 £369 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £312 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -5.88% -19.05%
75th Percentile £388 £463 £466
90th Percentile £538 - £506
South Wales median daily rate £331 £388 £475
% change year-on-year -14.54% -18.42% -13.64%

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 43 73 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 23.63% 30.04% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 60 44
10th Percentile £259 £375 £313
25th Percentile £305 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +9.59% -8.75%
75th Percentile £483 £550 £591
90th Percentile £549 £564 £650
South Wales median daily rate £400 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -18.16% -2.25% -9.09%
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 £45.00 £20.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year +122.39% -3.62% +10.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for C# in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for C# in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Cardiff over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for C# in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Selenium
2 4 (40.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Appium
3 1 (10.00%) NUnit
3 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) CSS
2 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) Blazor
3 3 (30.00%) GWT
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
2 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Coaching
3 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Open Source
3 4 (40.00%) Product Management
3 4 (40.00%) Product Requirements
3 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (30.00%) CRM
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Data Security
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) MVC
6 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) ISEB
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft