C# Contracts in Manchester

C#
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 41 41
Rank change year-on-year -24 0 -29
Contract jobs citing C# 14 57 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.51% 3.76% 4.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.62% 12.67% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 37 65
10th Percentile £405 £370 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -
75th Percentile £463 £500 £540
90th Percentile £503 £538 £570
North West median daily rate £413 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -15.38% +2.63% +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £41.23 £40.59
% change year-on-year - +1.58% -4.49%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for C# in Manchester

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for C# in Manchester

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for C# in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (14.29%) GIS
2 2 (14.29%) ObjectStore
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 2 (14.29%) GIS Developer
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (14.29%) React Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Core
3 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
3 3 (21.43%) React
4 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 2 (14.29%) GeoJSON
4 2 (14.29%) Google Maps API
4 2 (14.29%) Keycloak
4 2 (14.29%) Leaflet
4 2 (14.29%) MapLibre
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (7.14%) Blazor
5 1 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Twin
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Mapbox
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle