C# Contracts in the South East

C#
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 62 72 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 -18 0
Contract jobs citing C# 102 151 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.39% 2.72% 3.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.88% 12.53% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 122 174
10th Percentile £325 £376 £397
25th Percentile £400 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £519 £608 £650
90th Percentile £593 £625 £764
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 5
10th Percentile - - £23.80
25th Percentile £30.25 £46.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.52% +7.10% +50.68%
75th Percentile £32.75 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - £76.00 £74.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.50%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the South East.

Daily rate trend for C# in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the South East 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
Thames Valley +18 46 £500 -9.09% 123
Berkshire +11 37 £500 -14.89% 60
Hampshire +26 29 £425 +3.03% 68
Surrey +13 16 £444 -26.04% 66
Buckinghamshire +8 7 £325 -27.78% 40
East Sussex -5 7 £413 +8.55% 31
Kent +6 3 £475 +46.15% 24
Oxfordshire - 2 £195 - 38
West Sussex +2 1 £328 -40.36% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (17.65%) Confluence
2 4 (3.92%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.94%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.96%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.96%) CMS
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.98%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (13.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (45.10%) Azure
2 28 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (17.65%) AWS
4 13 (12.75%) SaaS
5 7 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (6.86%) Serverless
6 6 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 6 (5.88%) GCP
7 5 (4.90%) Azure API Management
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Storage
7 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.92%) PaaS
8 4 (3.92%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) LTE
2 3 (2.94%) NAS
3 1 (0.98%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.98%) 4G
3 1 (0.98%) 5G
3 1 (0.98%) DHCP
3 1 (0.98%) DNS
3 1 (0.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.98%) Internet
3 1 (0.98%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.75%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.94%) Power BI
5 2 (1.96%) DocumentDB
5 2 (1.96%) MySQL
5 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.98%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.98%) Big Data
6 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.98%) HBase
6 1 (0.98%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.98%) Impala
6 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.98%) Parquet
6 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (23.53%) JIRA
2 22 (21.57%) Git
3 19 (18.63%) Visual Studio
4 6 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.90%) SpecFlow
6 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.94%) JMeter
7 3 (2.94%) Selenium
8 2 (1.96%) Moq
8 2 (1.96%) NUnit
8 2 (1.96%) Postman
8 2 (1.96%) QARun
8 2 (1.96%) WinRunner
9 1 (0.98%) Mocha
9 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Finance
3 10 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.80%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.96%) Retail
6 1 (0.98%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.98%) Games
6 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (57.84%) Developer
2 19 (18.63%) .NET Developer
3 16 (15.69%) Delphi Developer
4 12 (11.76%) Senior
5 10 (9.80%) C# Developer
6 9 (8.82%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Architect
7 7 (6.86%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (3.92%) Software Developer
10 3 (2.94%) Applications Architect
10 3 (2.94%) Azure Architect
10 3 (2.94%) C# Software Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) QA Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Security Architect
10 3 (2.94%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (49.02%) .NET
2 21 (20.59%) CSS
2 21 (20.59%) HTML
3 19 (18.63%) .NET Core
4 11 (10.78%) AngularJS
5 9 (8.82%) .NET Framework
5 9 (8.82%) ASP.NET
5 9 (8.82%) React
6 8 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (6.86%) REST
7 7 (6.86%) RESTful
8 6 (5.88%) ARM Templates
9 5 (4.90%) Entity Framework
9 5 (4.90%) JSON
9 5 (4.90%) Vue
9 5 (4.90%) XML
10 4 (3.92%) Bootstrap
10 4 (3.92%) RAML
10 4 (3.92%) WCF
10 4 (3.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.94%) Wiki
3 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.96%) N-Tier
3 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (0.98%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.98%) FPGA
4 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.98%) NHS
4 1 (0.98%) PKI
4 1 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.98%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.47%) Windows
2 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.96%) Linux
5 1 (0.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (42.16%) Agile
1 43 (42.16%) DevOps
2 36 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 26 (25.49%) Test Automation
5 22 (21.57%) Software Engineering
6 18 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (15.69%) Functional Testing
8 14 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (12.75%) Unit Testing
10 12 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (10.78%) Scrum
12 10 (9.80%) API Development
12 10 (9.80%) Design Patterns
12 10 (9.80%) Software Testing
12 10 (9.80%) User Experience
13 9 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (8.82%) Integration Testing
13 9 (8.82%) OO
14 8 (7.84%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 54 (52.94%) SQL
2 33 (32.35%) JavaScript
3 28 (27.45%) Python
4 17 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 16 (15.69%) Delphi
6 14 (13.73%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.82%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.86%) Java
9 5 (4.90%) Bash
9 5 (4.90%) Bicep
10 3 (2.94%) VB
11 2 (1.96%) C
11 2 (1.96%) Ruby
12 1 (0.98%) C++
12 1 (0.98%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.98%) Perl
12 1 (0.98%) PHP
12 1 (0.98%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.98%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) Degree
4 5 (4.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.96%) CISSP
5 2 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.96%) OCP
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.96%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Docker
2 7 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.80%) Terraform
3 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.94%) WMI
4 2 (1.96%) Grafana
4 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.98%) Ansible
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.98%) Puppet
5 1 (0.98%) SCCM
5 1 (0.98%) SCOM
5 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.61%) Oracle
3 9 (8.82%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.92%) Google
4 4 (3.92%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.94%) Databricks
6 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.96%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.98%) Intel
7 1 (0.98%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.98%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.98%) Siemens
7 1 (0.98%) Snow
7 1 (0.98%) StreamSets