C# Contracts in the North West

C#
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 56 44
Rank change year-on-year -47 -12 -14
Contract jobs citing C# 25 81 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.18% 2.94% 4.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.50% 12.22% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 47 106
10th Percentile £318 £350 £363
25th Percentile £389 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £516 £500 £575
90th Percentile £549 £519 £597
England median daily rate £525 £563 £586
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.01% +3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £21.52
25th Percentile - - £31.98
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £40.30
Median % change year-on-year - -10.66% -38.01%
75th Percentile - - £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.20%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 556 663 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.34% 24.09% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 469 651
10th Percentile £319 £325 £326
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -7.32% -
75th Percentile £537 £550 £592
90th Percentile £621 £613 £675
England median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 37 21
10th Percentile £48.75 £37.59 £27.10
25th Percentile £68.13 £41.25 £37.80
Median hourly rate £74.50 £51.25 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.37% +5.67% -3.39%
75th Percentile £87.69 £72.50 £56.40
90th Percentile £91.88 £82.70 £65.75
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.69% +4.00% +17.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the North West over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Manchester -23 15 £425 -5.56% 218
Merseyside -10 4 £413 -19.12% 37
Cheshire -19 4 £395 -14.59% 18
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (8.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (12.00%) Magento
1 3 (12.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 2 (8.00%) ShareGate
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Datadog
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Intranet
2 1 (4.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.00%) GIS
2 1 (4.00%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) Ant
3 1 (4.00%) Appium
3 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) JMeter
3 1 (4.00%) JUnit
3 1 (4.00%) NUnit
3 1 (4.00%) Postman
3 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Architect
4 4 (16.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Architect
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Angular Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (84.00%) .NET
2 6 (24.00%) .NET Framework
3 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (20.00%) HTML
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (16.00%) CSS
5 3 (12.00%) Playwright
5 3 (12.00%) React
6 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (8.00%) Gherkin
6 2 (8.00%) RESTful
7 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.00%) Google Maps API
7 1 (4.00%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (4.00%) JSTL
7 1 (4.00%) Leaflet
7 1 (4.00%) Node.js
7 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) E-Commerce
5 4 (16.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) Open Source
5 4 (16.00%) Web Development
6 3 (12.00%) CRM
6 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
6 3 (12.00%) MVC
6 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (8.00%) Migration
7 2 (8.00%) Project Management
7 2 (8.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) PHP
4 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Nintex
3 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Mapbox
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Sitecore