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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 48 52
Rank change year-on-year -67 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing C# 46 166 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.39% 3.50% 3.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.94% 13.51% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 78 153
10th Percentile £339 £339 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +4.68%
75th Percentile £488 £515 £575
90th Percentile £538 £579 £593
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - - £26.24
25th Percentile - - £36.16
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - -48.83% -26.86%
75th Percentile - £26.60 £52.50
90th Percentile - £37.08 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

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 932 1,229 1,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.11% 25.90% 28.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 856 1,143
10th Percentile £350 £323 £356
25th Percentile £400 £401 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £611 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £543 £563
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.64% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 54 26
10th Percentile £31.73 £37.57 £28.55
25th Percentile £55.88 £42.41 £37.80
Median hourly rate £74.50 £47.75 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.02% -0.52% +10.12%
75th Percentile £88.06 £68.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £95.36 £73.90 £68.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +20.77%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -51 28 £413 -13.16% 312
Yorkshire -14 17 £475 - 113
North East -21 1 £370 -10.84% 80
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 (4.35%) CMS
1 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.35%) SharePoint Server
1 2 (4.35%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.17%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (6.52%) Magento
2 3 (6.52%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 29 (63.04%) Azure
2 5 (10.87%) AWS
2 5 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.70%) Power Automate
3 4 (8.70%) PowerApps
4 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub
4 3 (6.52%) SaaS
4 3 (6.52%) Serverless
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.35%) ShareGate
6 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.17%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.17%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.52%) Power BI
4 2 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (4.35%) GIS
4 2 (4.35%) ObjectStore
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Postman
3 2 (4.35%) Selenium
4 1 (2.17%) Appium
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.17%) git-flow
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) JMeter
4 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) French Language
4 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.17%) Retail
4 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) .NET Developer
3 10 (21.74%) C# Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Software Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Senior
6 6 (13.04%) Architect
6 6 (13.04%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (8.70%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.52%) .NET Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Consultant
8 3 (6.52%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior C# Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (4.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (78.26%) .NET
2 12 (26.09%) .NET Core
3 8 (17.39%) .NET Framework
4 7 (15.22%) CSS
4 7 (15.22%) HTML
4 7 (15.22%) React
5 6 (13.04%) AngularJS
6 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
6 5 (10.87%) RESTful
7 2 (4.35%) ARM Templates
7 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (4.35%) Blazor
7 2 (4.35%) GeoJSON
7 2 (4.35%) Google Maps API
7 2 (4.35%) Leaflet
7 2 (4.35%) MapLibre
7 2 (4.35%) Node.js
7 2 (4.35%) Playwright
7 2 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) NHS
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 13 (28.26%) DevOps
3 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (23.91%) Software Engineering
4 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (15.22%) Microservices
7 6 (13.04%) Clean Code
7 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.04%) Front End Development
8 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
9 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (8.70%) CRM
9 4 (8.70%) E-Commerce
9 4 (8.70%) Web Development
10 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (6.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 3 (6.52%) MVC
10 3 (6.52%) Scrum
10 3 (6.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) SQL
2 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.52%) PHP
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Python
6 1 (2.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.17%) GDPR
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Mapbox
3 2 (4.35%) Nintex
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.17%) VMware