C# Contracts in Wales

C#
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 30 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -24
Contract jobs citing C# 12 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.97% 3.43% 3.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.90% 13.21% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 20
10th Percentile £291 £325 £298
25th Percentile £307 £353 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £394 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% -14.86% -15.91%
75th Percentile £528 £463 £503
90th Percentile £609 £500 £593
UK median daily rate £508 £568 £575
% change year-on-year -10.57% -1.30% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +13.04%

All Programming Languages
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 71 106 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 23.51% 25.98% 20.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 75 91
10th Percentile £264 £357 £313
25th Percentile £328 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £485 £545 £634
90th Percentile £565 £570 £663
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £24.88 £15.63 £17.38
25th Percentile £27.69 £19.04 £17.99
Median hourly rate £37.13 £20.24 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +83.47% +3.82% -2.11%
75th Percentile £45.00 £21.29 £22.99
90th Percentile - £32.75 £24.80
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.62%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Wales

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Wales

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Wales over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Wales

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Wales

C#
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
South Wales +5 11 £353 -10.33% 282
C#
UK

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 3 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.33%) Appium
3 1 (8.33%) NUnit
3 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) CSS
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (16.67%) Blazor
4 2 (16.67%) GWT
5 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) NHS
2 3 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) CRM
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Coaching
4 3 (25.00%) Data Security
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Open Source
4 3 (25.00%) Product Management
4 3 (25.00%) Product Requirements
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
5 2 (16.67%) MVC
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) ISEB
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Google