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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing C# 6 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.44% 2.37% 2.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.91% 9.26% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £353 £163 £187
25th Percentile £425 £167 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £210 £217
Median % change year-on-year +126.31% -3.28% -49.68%
75th Percentile £613 £363 -
90th Percentile £695 £475 -
South Wales median daily rate £575 £210 £217
% change year-on-year +173.96% -3.28% -51.78%

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 55 54 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 22.36% 25.59% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 64
10th Percentile £333 £164 £197
25th Percentile £400 £231 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +14.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £538
90th Percentile £608 £565 £619
South Wales median daily rate £475 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -20.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.25
25th Percentile - £51.25 £28.75
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - +40.00% +108.33%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £46.25
90th Percentile - - £50.75
South Wales median hourly rate £31.25 £20.24 £52.50
% change year-on-year +54.44% -61.46% +176.97%

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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 22 December 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) MSTest
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) Flutter
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Blazor
4 1 (16.67%) GWT
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Product Management
2 2 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks