C# Contracts in South Wales

C#
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 24 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing C# 10 10 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.10% 2.98% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.95% 10.53% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 26
10th Percentile £276 £325 £244
25th Percentile £312 £353 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £394 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.35% -29.17%
75th Percentile £538 £463 £475
90th Percentile £618 £500 £538
Wales median daily rate £375 £394 £425
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.35% -26.09%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 95 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.18% 28.27% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 76 102
10th Percentile £216 £338 £328
25th Percentile £322 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £625
90th Percentile £588 £600 £663
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.06 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £48.50 £39.56 £19.91
Wales median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
% change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in South Wales

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for C# in South Wales

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for C# in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales 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
Cardiff +6 8 £331 -22.08% 57
Newport +7 2 £563 +60.71% 35
C#
Wales

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Appium
3 1 (10.00%) NUnit
3 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) CRM Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) Blazor
3 2 (20.00%) GWT
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Coaching
3 3 (30.00%) CRM
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Open Source
3 3 (30.00%) Product Management
3 3 (30.00%) Product Requirements
3 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) ISEB
4 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft