C# Contract Job Trends in Dorset

C#
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Contract jobs citing C# 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 3.00% - 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.57% - 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £386
25th Percentile - - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.90%
75th Percentile - - £528
90th Percentile - - £549
South West median daily rate £488 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -5.80% -5.91% -

All Programming Languages
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 35 35 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 35.00% 37.23% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 27
10th Percentile £241 £396 £362
25th Percentile £278 £433 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -23.08% +23.81%
75th Percentile £547 £675 £675
90th Percentile £605 £688 -
South West median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £69.62
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.35%
75th Percentile - - £69.88
90th Percentile - - £70.34
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.15% -

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

C# job vacancy trend in Dorset

C#
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

C#
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Bournemouth - 1 - - 32
Poole - 1 - - 3
C#
South West

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CockroachDB
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Compact Framework
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Android Development
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Xamarin