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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 39 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing C# 22 15 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.47% 2.56% 3.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.96% 9.87% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 22
10th Percentile £412 £343 £314
25th Percentile £506 £360 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 £422
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +4.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £620 £510 £475
90th Percentile £625 £545 £566
England median daily rate £501 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.00% -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 184 152 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 20.63% 25.94% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 110 123
10th Percentile £359 £312 £315
25th Percentile £393 £356 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £523 £500 £550
90th Percentile £612 £526 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.75 £19.16
25th Percentile £18.84 £15.00 £24.29
Median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -66.58% +52.16%
75th Percentile £36.72 £21.04 £54.00
90th Percentile £56.69 £22.67 £54.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.47%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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
Leicestershire -3 9 £600 +62.16% 42
Nottinghamshire -12 6 £513 +2.50% 58
Derbyshire +5 5 £519 +29.69% 73
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 (31.82%) CMS
2 5 (22.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (22.73%) Headless CMS
2 5 (22.73%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (22.73%) Umbraco
3 1 (4.55%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Kontent
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Contentful
4 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) ChatGPT
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JMeter
2 1 (4.55%) Postman
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) C# Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (31.82%) CMS Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Senior
5 5 (22.73%) .NET Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 5 (22.73%) React Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Senior Developer
6 3 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Design Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Digital Design Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Oracle Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) QA Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (86.36%) .NET
2 8 (36.36%) ASP.NET
2 8 (36.36%) CSS
2 8 (36.36%) HTML
3 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
3 7 (31.82%) AngularJS
3 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET MVC
3 7 (31.82%) React
3 7 (31.82%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.09%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Mobile App
2 5 (22.73%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) AI
2 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) Migration
3 7 (31.82%) MVC
3 7 (31.82%) User Experience
4 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) API Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
6 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (13.64%) Software Architecture
7 2 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
7 2 (9.09%) Data Science
7 2 (9.09%) Database Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Design Patterns
7 2 (9.09%) LLM
7 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 7 (31.82%) PHP
4 6 (27.27%) PL/SQL
5 3 (13.64%) C++
5 3 (13.64%) Python
6 2 (9.09%) C
7 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) Adobe
3 5 (22.73%) Sitecore
4 2 (9.09%) Siemens
5 1 (4.55%) Xamarin