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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 29 23
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing C# 12 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.38% 2.62% 5.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.64% 9.52% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile - £235 £192
25th Percentile £305 £288 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £400 £271
Median % change year-on-year -17.21% +47.60% -48.38%
75th Percentile £481 £488 £413
90th Percentile £501 £525 £448
South Wales median daily rate £331 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -17.21% -5.88% -22.73%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 53 63 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 28.19% 27.51% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 50 57
10th Percentile £287 £209 £217
25th Percentile £339 £402 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +11.11% -12.62%
75th Percentile £483 £550 £565
90th Percentile £525 £578 £643
South Wales median daily rate £405 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.21% -13.64%
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 £22.92 £20.24 £22.50
% change year-on-year +13.27% -10.07% +13.01%

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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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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 August 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 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 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.33%) Appium
3 1 (8.33%) NUnit
3 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Test Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
5 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) CRM Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Product Owner
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) .NET
2 7 (58.33%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) Blazor
3 3 (25.00%) GWT
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (16.67%) Flutter
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) NHS
2 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Test Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Coaching
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Open Source
3 4 (33.33%) Product Management
3 4 (33.33%) Product Requirements
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) CRM
5 2 (16.67%) Data Security
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (8.33%) API Design
6 1 (8.33%) API Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (8.33%) Mobile Application Development
6 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) ISEB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft