C# Contracts in Dorset

C#
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 25 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing C# 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 3.48% 1.67% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.81% 6.67% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £391
25th Percentile £363 £313 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £325 £469
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -30.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £413 £338 £514
90th Percentile £458 - £532
South West median daily rate £384 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -14.72% -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - £61.25 £54.74
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £59.80
Median % change year-on-year - +4.52% +11.20%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% +0.77%

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 37 45 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 32.17% 25.00% 24.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 40
10th Percentile £325 £236 £359
25th Percentile £413 £399 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -16.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £550
90th Percentile £583 £700 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £58.25 £51.97
25th Percentile - £59.38 £55.42
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £58.57
Median % change year-on-year - +6.72% +17.71%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £60.03
90th Percentile - - £60.43
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Dorset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Dorset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Dorset

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) API Design
2 3 (75.00%) API Development
2 3 (75.00%) API Management
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Information Management
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript