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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing C# 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.63% 2.06% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.69% 4.08% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £368 £373 -
25th Percentile £394 £388 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £325
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +30.77% -
75th Percentile £519 £463 £338
90th Percentile £553 £478 -
South West median daily rate £538 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.44% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.05%

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 64 49 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 34.78% 50.52% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 19
10th Percentile £350 £384 £175
25th Percentile £368 £433 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +25.00% -21.95%
75th Percentile £534 £606 £456
90th Percentile £588 £688 £523
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £74.68 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.45%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £67.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.37% +3.46%

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#
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Dorset over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Dorset

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 5 May 2026. 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 - 2 £550 - 4
Poole - 1 £350 - 2
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
2 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IAM Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk