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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 38 33
Rank change year-on-year -21 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing C# 17 14 36
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.85% 2.55% 4.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.12% 10.53% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 21
10th Percentile £390 £342 £313
25th Percentile £505 £359 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £420 £419
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +0.24% -4.23%
75th Percentile £625 £510 £475
90th Percentile - £524 £488
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% 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 168 133 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.26% 24.23% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 92 124
10th Percentile £358 £308 £313
25th Percentile £393 £356 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £537 £488 £550
90th Percentile £625 £524 £671
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.75 £13.64
25th Percentile £18.84 £15.00 £19.78
Median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -57.58% +9.18%
75th Percentile £36.72 £21.04 £54.00
90th Percentile £56.69 £22.67 £54.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.92
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.94% -4.74%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +62.16% 16
Derbyshire +2 5 £519 +29.69% 17
Nottinghamshire -14 3 £510 +2.00% 21
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 (41.18%) CMS
2 5 (29.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (29.41%) Headless CMS
2 5 (29.41%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (29.41%) Umbraco
3 1 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Kontent
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) Contentful
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.88%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (41.18%) C# Developer
3 7 (41.18%) CMS Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (29.41%) React Developer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior
6 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
6 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
7 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (11.76%) Design Engineer
7 2 (11.76%) Digital Design Engineer
7 2 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (11.76%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 2 (11.76%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Lead
8 1 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Senior Mobile Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
2 8 (47.06%) CSS
2 8 (47.06%) HTML
3 7 (41.18%) .NET Framework
3 7 (41.18%) AngularJS
3 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC
3 7 (41.18%) React
3 7 (41.18%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.76%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) AI
2 8 (47.06%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (41.18%) MVC
3 7 (41.18%) User Experience
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) API Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) API Development
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (11.76%) Data Science
7 2 (11.76%) LLM
7 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Mobile First
7 2 (11.76%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Software Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) C++
3 3 (17.65%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) C
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
4 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Adobe
2 5 (29.41%) Sitecore
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Siemens
4 1 (5.88%) Xamarin