C# Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

C#
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 39 27
Rank change year-on-year -28 -12 +14
Contract jobs citing C# 10 26 40
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.30% 4.02% 5.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.21% 14.29% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 25
10th Percentile £325 £399 £279
25th Percentile £363 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £562 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.54% +12.30% +2.56%
75th Percentile £438 £573 £688
90th Percentile £469 £610 -
West Midlands median daily rate £444 £565 £461
% change year-on-year -21.43% +22.44% -7.75%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 192 182 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.87% 28.13% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 113 130
10th Percentile £316 £350 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £648 £645
90th Percentile £634 £728 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.90% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £48.75 -
25th Percentile - £50.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +182.05% -
75th Percentile - £58.13 £19.75
90th Percentile - £59.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

C# job vacancy trend in Birmingham

C#
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Birmingham

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Azure API Management
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) API Management
4 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) Agile
7 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
7 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
7 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (10.00%) Kanban
7 1 (10.00%) MVC
7 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 1 (10.00%) Scrum
7 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
7 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
1 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Xamarin