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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 38 43
Rank change year-on-year -33 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing C# 6 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.65% 2.72% 2.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.66% 11.86% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 7
10th Percentile £325 £275 £305
25th Percentile £347 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% -3.40% -1.23%
75th Percentile £480 £575 £606
90th Percentile £534 £650 £715
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £479 £525
% change year-on-year -6.05% -8.76% +5.00%

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 164 118 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.81% 22.91% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 78 142
10th Percentile £325 £346 £234
25th Percentile £412 £425 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +21.95% -20.00%
75th Percentile £571 £634 £575
90th Percentile £619 £700 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.41% +2.78% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - £47.50 £40.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +64.74%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £61.32 £31.05 £57.50
% change year-on-year +97.51% -46.01% +96.13%

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 21 May 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) MSTest
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) API Management
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
2 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft