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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 71 59
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 -5
Contract jobs citing C# 97 147 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.28% 2.62% 3.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.25% 11.64% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 117 143
10th Percentile £325 £378 £382
25th Percentile £404 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +6.87%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £633
90th Percentile £525 £624 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 4
10th Percentile - - £24.85
25th Percentile £30.25 £46.25 £42.63
Median hourly rate £31.50 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.52% +7.10% +57.14%
75th Percentile £32.75 £73.44 £64.38
90th Percentile - £80.75 £76.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

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 1,263 1,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.75% 22.50% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 868 1,041
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £660 £675 £694
England median daily rate £525 £543 £565
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.98% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 80 85
10th Percentile £38.83 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £69.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.62 £77.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +19.05%

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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 31 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 31 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
Hampshire +43 40 £475 +13.43% 84
Thames Valley +5 36 £450 -18.18% 138
Berkshire -1 26 £500 -17.36% 70
Surrey +17 14 £450 -25.77% 47
Buckinghamshire +8 8 £325 -27.78% 29
East Sussex -7 4 £344 -9.54% 21
Oxfordshire +3 2 £195 -64.55% 51
Kent -1 2 £475 +46.15% 28
West Sussex +5 1 £328 -40.36% 15
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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 16 (16.49%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.06%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (1.03%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.03%) IIS
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.24%) Azure
2 20 (20.62%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (19.59%) AWS
4 9 (9.28%) SaaS
5 8 (8.25%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.22%) Azure AKS
7 6 (6.19%) Serverless
8 5 (5.15%) Azure API Management
8 5 (5.15%) Azure Storage
8 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.15%) GCP
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Event Grid
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.12%) PaaS
9 4 (4.12%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) NFC
1 2 (2.06%) PPP
2 1 (1.03%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.03%) 4G
2 1 (1.03%) 5G
2 1 (1.03%) DHCP
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
2 1 (1.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) Internet
2 1 (1.03%) LTE
2 1 (1.03%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.25%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.09%) Power BI
5 2 (2.06%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.06%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.03%) Parquet
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (19.59%) JIRA
2 17 (17.53%) Visual Studio
3 14 (14.43%) Git
4 8 (8.25%) MSI
5 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.09%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.06%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.06%) JMeter
7 2 (2.06%) Moq
7 2 (2.06%) Postman
7 2 (2.06%) QARun
7 2 (2.06%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.06%) Valgrind
7 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.06%) WinRunner
8 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.03%) NUnit
8 1 (1.03%) Selenium
8 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.53%) Finance
3 11 (11.34%) Manufacturing
4 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.06%) Retail
6 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.03%) Games
6 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (47.42%) Developer
2 16 (16.49%) .NET Developer
3 14 (14.43%) Delphi Developer
4 9 (9.28%) Senior
4 9 (9.28%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Architect
5 6 (6.19%) C# Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Configuration Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) SCCM Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Systems Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (46.39%) .NET
2 17 (17.53%) .NET Core
3 15 (15.46%) CSS
3 15 (15.46%) HTML
4 11 (11.34%) .NET Framework
4 11 (11.34%) React
5 9 (9.28%) AngularJS
5 9 (9.28%) REST
6 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (7.22%) JSON
7 6 (6.19%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.15%) ARM Templates
8 5 (5.15%) Middleware
8 5 (5.15%) RESTful
9 4 (4.12%) ADO
9 4 (4.12%) Blazor
9 4 (4.12%) RAML
9 4 (4.12%) WCF
9 4 (4.12%) Web Services
9 4 (4.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.12%) Private Cloud
2 3 (3.09%) Wiki
3 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.06%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.06%) Smartcard
3 2 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.03%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.03%) FPGA
4 1 (1.03%) NHS
4 1 (1.03%) PKI
4 1 (1.03%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.99%) Windows
2 10 (10.31%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.22%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.09%) Linux
4 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.99%) DevOps
2 31 (31.96%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (29.90%) Agile
4 27 (27.84%) CI/CD
5 21 (21.65%) Test Automation
6 20 (20.62%) Software Engineering
7 15 (15.46%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (14.43%) Functional Testing
9 13 (13.40%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (11.34%) Design Patterns
10 11 (11.34%) OO
11 10 (10.31%) API Development
11 10 (10.31%) Migration
12 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (8.25%) Change Management
13 8 (8.25%) Data Analysis
13 8 (8.25%) Security Patching
13 8 (8.25%) SOLID
14 7 (7.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (53.61%) SQL
2 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
3 26 (26.80%) PowerShell
4 23 (23.71%) Python
5 15 (15.46%) PL/SQL
6 14 (14.43%) Delphi
7 13 (13.40%) Java
8 11 (11.34%) VB
9 6 (6.19%) Bash
9 6 (6.19%) Bicep
9 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.09%) C++
11 2 (2.06%) C
11 2 (2.06%) Ruby
12 1 (1.03%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.03%) PHP
12 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (17.53%) SC Cleared
1 17 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.12%) Degree
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.06%) CISSP
4 2 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) OCP
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.06%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.22%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.31%) Terraform
3 9 (9.28%) SCCM
4 4 (4.12%) Ansible
4 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.09%) Grafana
5 3 (3.09%) WMI
6 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.03%) SCOM
7 1 (1.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (42.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.56%) Oracle
3 4 (4.12%) MuleSoft
3 4 (4.12%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.09%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) Databricks
6 1 (1.03%) Intel
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) Siemens
6 1 (1.03%) Snow