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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing C# 6 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.21% 4.52% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.38% 17.39% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile - £160 £366
25th Percentile £289 £165 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £305 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -28.24% -
75th Percentile £329 £322 £463
90th Percentile £354 £354 £525
South Wales median daily rate £410 £312 £394
% change year-on-year +31.41% -20.76% -7.35%

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 39 46 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.39% 25.99% 38.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 71
10th Percentile £267 £182 £356
25th Percentile £321 £287 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £482 £481 £551
90th Percentile £515 £550 £615
South Wales median daily rate £425 £403 £450
% change year-on-year +5.59% -10.56% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £52.50
75th Percentile - £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £50.00 £24.75 £21.49
% change year-on-year +102.02% +15.20% +14.19%

C#
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

C#
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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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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) API Management
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft