C# Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

C#
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 41 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 -3
Contract jobs citing C# 24 14 38
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.18% 2.44% 4.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.91% 9.15% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 24
10th Percentile £375 £367 £279
25th Percentile £425 £463 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% +15.29% +11.84%
75th Percentile £588 £515 £515
90th Percentile £600 £532 £546
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 220 153 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.95% 26.70% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 126 142
10th Percentile £360 £270 £276
25th Percentile £402 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £545 £600
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £16.32 £14.50 £15.66
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.88 £22.12
Median hourly rate £25.42 £18.60 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.64% -25.60% -5.59%
75th Percentile £83.25 £20.38 £31.00
90th Percentile £84.45 £21.95 £40.71
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

C# job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing C#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing C#

C#
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 13 £563 - 7
Nottinghamshire -21 5 £600 +19.40% 19
Leicestershire -6 4 £450 +18.42% 7
Derbyshire -9 2 £445 - 7
C#
England

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
3 8 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.50%) Metabase
4 3 (12.50%) Parquet
5 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Chocolatey
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 12 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 12 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 9 (37.50%) .NET Software Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Architect
4 5 (20.83%) Senior
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
6 2 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead .NET Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead C# Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Rust Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (70.83%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) Kafka
3 3 (12.50%) Plotly
3 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) Blazor
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) Microservices
3 11 (45.83%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 2 (8.33%) CRM
7 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.33%) Line Management
7 2 (8.33%) OO
7 2 (8.33%) OOP
7 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (4.17%) Customer Experience
8 1 (4.17%) Event-Driven
8 1 (4.17%) Roadmaps
8 1 (4.17%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Rust
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow