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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 44 39
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing C# 7 25 39
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.01% 3.48% 4.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.78% 12.95% 22.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 24
10th Percentile £334 £390 £330
25th Percentile £376 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £567 £506
Median % change year-on-year -28.35% +12.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £443 £573 £688
90th Percentile £486 £645 -
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £562 £460
% change year-on-year -9.17% +22.07% -3.16%

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 185 193 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.58% 26.84% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 118 137
10th Percentile £316 £321 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £540 £617 £635
90th Percentile £624 £713 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £505 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +2.02% +10.00% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +207.69% -
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £33.93 £18.50
% change year-on-year +47.36% +83.41% -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 15 November 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) API Management
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Application Security
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Xamarin