C# Contracts in Cheshire

C#
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 44 27
Rank change year-on-year -19 -17 +21
Contract jobs citing C# 6 10 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.99% 2.03% 5.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.06% 9.80% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 20
10th Percentile £349 £359 £463
25th Percentile £389 £442 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £469 £569
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% -17.62% +33.88%
75th Percentile £610 £494 £589
90th Percentile £681 £515 £638
North West median daily rate £411 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -13.42% -5.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
North West median hourly rate - £36.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year - -11.31% +15.97%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 196 102 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.45% 20.69% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 89 93
10th Percentile £312 £319 £368
25th Percentile £353 £379 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% -15.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £588
90th Percentile £579 £610 £634
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £523
% change year-on-year -7.89% -9.09% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile £30.00 £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £32.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% +6.25% +73.91%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +22.17%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Cheshire

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Cheshire

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Cheshire

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Cheshire

C#
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Macclesfield +1 2 £363 -28.92%
Warrington -6 2 £400 -15.79% 3
Wilmslow - 2 £663 - 2
C#
North West

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Datadog
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Appium
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Angular Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (50.00%) Playwright
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) API Development
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) SOLID
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Informatics
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle