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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 52 36
Rank change year-on-year -15 -16 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 17 22 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.25% 2.64% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.90% 10.05% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 25
10th Percentile £416 £347 £306
25th Percentile £486 £403 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +20.00% +15.65%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £510
90th Percentile £588 £576 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -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 191 219 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.99% 26.29% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 177 147
10th Percentile £300 £270 £310
25th Percentile £400 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £500
90th Percentile £595 £565 £538
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.31 -
25th Percentile £19.84 £15.01 £21.25
Median hourly rate £36.60 £16.42 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.88% -27.02% -57.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £18.09 £23.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £18.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +23 11 £550 +75.72% 5
Derbyshire -11 3 £429 -17.35% 8
Nottinghamshire -20 2 £488 -4.41% 40
Leicestershire -13 1 £550 +17.33% 12
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (23.53%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.88%) AWS IoT
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 11 (64.71%) .NET Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Azure Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Lead
3 6 (35.29%) Lead Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Software Developer
4 5 (29.41%) .NET Software Developer
4 5 (29.41%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (29.41%) C# Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Lead .NET Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Lead C# Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (23.53%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth
4 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) Terraform
5 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
5 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) HTML5
5 1 (5.88%) MassTransit
5 1 (5.88%) Middleware
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js
5 1 (5.88%) OpenID
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Digital Signage
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Tizen
1 1 (5.88%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 7 (41.18%) Microservices
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
3 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
3 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (11.76%) API Management
4 2 (11.76%) CRM
4 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
4 2 (11.76%) Line Management
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.88%) B2C
5 1 (5.88%) CAD
5 1 (5.88%) Scrum
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) Rust
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) X++
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft