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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 46 34
Rank change year-on-year -20 -12 +16
Contract jobs citing C# 6 25 42
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.93% 3.48% 5.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.39% 12.56% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 25
10th Percentile £287 £385 £400
25th Percentile £305 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £562 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.76% +2.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £419 £569 £688
90th Percentile £477 £574 -
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.00% +5.26% +5.56%

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 177 199 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.48% 27.68% 22.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 120 136
10th Percentile £314 £313 £283
25th Percentile £413 £379 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +10.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £650
90th Percentile £621 £701 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £489 £469
% change year-on-year +2.25% +4.32% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.45
25th Percentile - - £27.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% -
75th Percentile - - £45.25
90th Percentile - - £50.35
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +156.76% -58.89%

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 17 October 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Web Application Development
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Xamarin