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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 40 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 -11 0
Contract jobs citing C# 22 15 35
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.99% 2.69% 4.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.91% 10.27% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 22
10th Percentile £373 £367 £276
25th Percentile £400 £464 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £495 £430
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% +15.12% +13.16%
75th Percentile £594 £517 £522
90th Percentile £600 £531 £549
England median daily rate £525 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% -2.54%

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 222 146 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 20.05% 26.16% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 119 142
10th Percentile £363 £281 £288
25th Percentile £402 £353 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £545 £606
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £17.02 £14.50 £15.66
25th Percentile £21.68 £16.88 £22.12
Median hourly rate £42.71 £18.60 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.61% -25.60% -34.62%
75th Percentile £79.94 £20.38 £31.00
90th Percentile £84.25 £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#

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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 11 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 11 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 - 11 £575 - 10
Nottinghamshire -24 5 £600 +20.00% 18
Leicestershire -6 3 £405 +6.58% 10
Derbyshire -10 3 £445 - 9
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 (13.64%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
3 8 (36.36%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.64%) Metabase
4 3 (13.64%) Parquet
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.55%) Chocolatey
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 13 (59.09%) Software Developer
3 10 (45.45%) .NET Developer
4 9 (40.91%) .NET Software Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Architect
5 5 (22.73%) Senior
5 5 (22.73%) Senior Architect
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Rust Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) .NET
2 5 (22.73%) RESTful
3 3 (13.64%) Kafka
3 3 (13.64%) Plotly
3 3 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (13.64%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) Blazor
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) Microservices
3 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (50.00%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
7 2 (9.09%) Code Quality
7 2 (9.09%) Front End Development
7 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (9.09%) OO
7 2 (9.09%) OOP
8 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (4.55%) Customer Experience
8 1 (4.55%) Event-Driven
8 1 (4.55%) Service Catalogue
8 1 (4.55%) Software Assurance
8 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Rust
4 3 (13.64%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow