C# Contract Job Trends in Southampton

C#
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing C# 7 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 4.29% 6.62% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.88% 50.00% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile £603 £445 -
25th Percentile £663 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% +8.44% -28.85%
75th Percentile £730 £506 £475
90th Percentile - £527 -
Hampshire median daily rate £650 £500 £413
% change year-on-year +30.00% +21.21% -28.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 - £29.00

All Programming Languages
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 32 18 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 19.63% 13.24% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 23
10th Percentile £400 £432 £305
25th Percentile £451 £463 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £715 £531 £625
90th Percentile £730 £550 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £558 £545 £540
% change year-on-year +2.39% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £37.24 - £80.00
75th Percentile £44.43 - -
90th Percentile £57.37 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £52.44 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.65% -25.09% +21.74%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

C# job vacancy trend in Southampton

C#
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing C#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Southampton over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Southampton

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing C#

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Contracts Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) WinForms Developer
3 1 (14.29%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) WinForms
2 2 (28.57%) WPF
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) B2C
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
4 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) People Management
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe