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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 58 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing C# 10 6 22
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.10% 0.99% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.21% 3.95% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 14
10th Percentile - £287 £463
25th Percentile £400 £305 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £564
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -29.11% +2.59%
75th Percentile - £515 £572
90th Percentile £558 £671 £574
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -12.82% -4.88% +10.81%

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 161 152 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.63% 25.12% 25.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 101 120
10th Percentile £375 £300 £313
25th Percentile £420 £402 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -2.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £609 £538 £625
90th Percentile £725 £633 £689
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £55.50
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -37.39% +194.87%
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - £59.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £51.75 £50.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +3.50% -11.11% +204.05%

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 18 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (10.00%) Figma
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) Blazor
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) Sass
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Blog
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
5 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) Observability
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft