C# Contracts in the North of England

C#
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 125 48 57
Rank change year-on-year -77 +9 -29
Contract jobs citing C# 41 173 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.24% 3.63% 3.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.40% 14.26% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 84 164
10th Percentile £327 £333 £363
25th Percentile £404 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £515 £556
90th Percentile £513 £575 £588
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £27.91
25th Percentile - - £37.80
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - -48.83% -18.00%
75th Percentile - £26.60 £49.50
90th Percentile - £37.08 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.50%

All Programming Languages
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the North of England

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for C# in the North of England

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the North of England

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the North of England

C#
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West -46 25 £413 -15.38% 316
Yorkshire -25 13 £475 +11.76% 137
North East -23 3 £370 -10.84% 89
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (4.88%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (7.32%) Magento
1 3 (7.32%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 28 (68.29%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub
4 2 (4.88%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.88%) PowerApps
4 2 (4.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.44%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.88%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (4.88%) GIS
3 2 (4.88%) ObjectStore
3 2 (4.88%) Redis
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 3 (7.32%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.32%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.44%) git-flow
4 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.44%) Postman
4 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
2 3 (7.32%) French Language
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (65.85%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) .NET Developer
2 10 (24.39%) C# Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 4 (9.76%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.32%) .NET Architect
6 3 (7.32%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) .NET Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Angular Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (4.88%) GIS Developer
7 2 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (85.37%) .NET
2 10 (24.39%) .NET Core
3 8 (19.51%) .NET Framework
4 7 (17.07%) RESTful
5 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
5 6 (14.63%) React
6 5 (12.20%) CSS
6 5 (12.20%) HTML
7 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET
8 2 (4.88%) GeoJSON
8 2 (4.88%) Google Maps API
8 2 (4.88%) Keycloak
8 2 (4.88%) Leaflet
8 2 (4.88%) MapLibre
8 2 (4.88%) Node.js
8 2 (4.88%) REST
9 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (2.44%) Blazor
9 1 (2.44%) D3.js
9 1 (2.44%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.88%) NHS
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Agile
2 11 (26.83%) Microservices
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
4 9 (21.95%) DevOps
5 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
5 6 (14.63%) Front End Development
6 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
7 4 (9.76%) Design Patterns
7 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven
7 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (9.76%) Web Development
8 3 (7.32%) CRM
8 3 (7.32%) E-Commerce
8 3 (7.32%) Open Source
8 3 (7.32%) Scrum
8 3 (7.32%) SDLC
8 3 (7.32%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.32%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.95%) SQL
2 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.32%) PHP
5 2 (4.88%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) Mapbox
3 2 (4.88%) New Relic
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.44%) VMware