C# Contract Job Trends in the East of England

C#
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 58 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 -1
Contract jobs citing C# 65 30 80
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.92% 2.93% 4.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.08% 9.35% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 17
10th Percentile £413 £322 £288
25th Percentile £505 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £600 £541 £550
90th Percentile £655 £687 £595
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 48
10th Percentile £62.97 £63.50 £60.50
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.30 £65.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 431 321 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.39% 31.38% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 179 177
10th Percentile £340 £311 £313
25th Percentile £413 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £573
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
England median daily rate £513 £523 £540
% change year-on-year -1.91% -3.24% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 56 145
10th Percentile £56.18 £31.64 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £54.06 £58.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £74.25 £82.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £88.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

C# job vacancy trend in the East of England

C#
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing C#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the East of England

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing C#

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the East of England

C#
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Hertfordshire +1 29 £600 +22.45% 20
Bedfordshire +6 20 £588 -16.07% 5
Cambridgeshire +12 9 £450 +39.53% 22
Suffolk -10 4 £613 +44.12% 6
Essex - 3 £435 - 7
C#
England

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (13.85%) CMS
1 9 (13.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 12 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (15.38%) AWS
4 8 (12.31%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.23%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (7.69%) Serverless
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.62%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (4.62%) GitHub
8 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.08%) Azure AI
9 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.08%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 2 (3.08%) GCP
9 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) Ethernet
2 7 (10.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.62%) Modbus
3 3 (4.62%) RS-232
3 3 (4.62%) RS-422
3 3 (4.62%) RS-485
4 1 (1.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) NoSQL
1 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.23%) Metadata
3 3 (4.62%) Power BI
4 2 (3.08%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (21.54%) Visual Studio
2 8 (12.31%) Eclipse
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
3 3 (4.62%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (3.08%) MSTest
4 2 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.54%) Git
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Military
4 6 (9.23%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Publishing
5 5 (7.69%) Electronics
6 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.62%) Law
8 2 (3.08%) Finance
9 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (38.46%) Software Engineer
2 16 (24.62%) Developer
3 13 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Technical Architect
7 4 (6.15%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Perl Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Software Test Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.08%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Senior
9 2 (3.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (49.23%) .NET
2 19 (29.23%) Node.js
3 13 (20.00%) React
4 11 (16.92%) AngularJS
4 11 (16.92%) ASP.NET
5 10 (15.38%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (13.85%) REST
7 8 (12.31%) CSS
7 8 (12.31%) HTML
7 8 (12.31%) jQuery
7 8 (12.31%) Web Services
8 4 (6.15%) WPF
9 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
9 3 (4.62%) Blazor
9 3 (4.62%) JSON
9 3 (4.62%) RESTful
9 3 (4.62%) WinForms
10 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
10 2 (3.08%) Express.js
10 2 (3.08%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (9.23%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (9.23%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.69%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.08%) BYOD
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.08%) FPGA
4 2 (3.08%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.54%) IoT
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.23%) Windows
2 9 (13.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Software Engineering
2 30 (46.15%) Agile
3 27 (41.54%) CI/CD
4 26 (40.00%) DevOps
5 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (18.46%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (18.46%) Scrum
6 12 (18.46%) Unit Testing
6 12 (18.46%) Visualisation
7 11 (16.92%) Microservices
7 11 (16.92%) TDD
7 11 (16.92%) Validation
8 10 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 10 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (13.85%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (13.85%) Front End Development
9 9 (13.85%) Test Automation
9 9 (13.85%) Verification and Validation
10 8 (12.31%) Digital Twin
10 8 (12.31%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.85%) C++
2 16 (24.62%) SQL
3 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.31%) Python
5 6 (9.23%) C
5 6 (9.23%) Java
5 6 (9.23%) Perl
5 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.08%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.08%) X++
7 1 (1.54%) PHP
7 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Firmware
2 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) HP ALM
1 2 (3.08%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Sitecore
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Foundry
4 2 (3.08%) HP
4 2 (3.08%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) Siemens
5 1 (1.54%) Genesys
5 1 (1.54%) OpenText
5 1 (1.54%) Serena