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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 35 32
Rank change year-on-year -27 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing C# 20 18 35
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.99% 3.10% 4.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.75% 12.08% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 20
10th Percentile £390 £361 £288
25th Percentile £507 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £490 £422
Median % change year-on-year +21.17% +16.11% -0.12%
75th Percentile £625 £510 £475
90th Percentile - £545 £530
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

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 186 149 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.54% 25.69% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 106 120
10th Percentile £362 £305 £288
25th Percentile £402 £352 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -1.16%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £538
90th Percentile £600 £532 £626
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.45 £13.64
25th Percentile £17.17 £14.24 £19.78
Median hourly rate £25.42 £15.56 £23.64
Median % change year-on-year +63.34% -34.17% -38.19%
75th Percentile £76.63 £16.88 £29.88
90th Percentile £84.05 £17.67 £40.08
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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#

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 24 February 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#

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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 24 February 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
Leicestershire -1 9 £600 +61.07% 7
Nottinghamshire -14 6 £558 +11.50% 19
Derbyshire -3 5 £519 +29.69% 9
C#
England

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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 7 (35.00%) CMS
2 5 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Headless CMS
2 5 (25.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (25.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (5.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
1 7 (35.00%) Kontent
2 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Contentful
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.00%) Chocolatey
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (35.00%) C# Developer
3 7 (35.00%) CMS Developer
4 6 (30.00%) Senior
5 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 5 (25.00%) React Developer
6 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Architect
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Architect
7 2 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Digital Design Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Lead
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) .NET
2 9 (45.00%) CSS
2 9 (45.00%) HTML
3 8 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 7 (35.00%) .NET Framework
4 7 (35.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (35.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (35.00%) React
4 7 (35.00%) RESTful
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.00%) Blazor
6 1 (5.00%) JSON
6 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (40.00%) AI
3 7 (35.00%) MVC
3 7 (35.00%) User Experience
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) API Development
6 3 (15.00%) API Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
7 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Mobile First
7 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Software Architecture
8 1 (5.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 1 (5.00%) Design Patterns
8 1 (5.00%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) C++
3 2 (10.00%) PHP
3 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) C
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Adobe
2 5 (25.00%) Sitecore
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Siemens