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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 36 42
Rank change year-on-year -36 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing C# 7 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.75% 2.46% 2.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.09% 9.92% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 6
10th Percentile £325 £270 £419
25th Percentile £363 £335 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £467 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -13.21% -3.37%
75th Percentile £447 £599 £616
90th Percentile £526 £663 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +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 171 131 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.29% 24.76% 24.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 88 137
10th Percentile £325 £346 £259
25th Percentile £403 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £575
90th Percentile £620 £700 £653
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £463 £473
% change year-on-year +1.41% -2.12% -6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - - £40.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.74%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £59.50 £41.96 £57.50
% change year-on-year +41.82% -27.03% +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 20 June 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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) MSTest
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Blog
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
1 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Log Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
2 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft