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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 31 34
Rank change year-on-year -38 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing C# 11 24 34
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.29% 4.61% 4.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.70% 15.89% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 17
10th Percentile £325 £408 £251
25th Percentile £386 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £562 £513
Median % change year-on-year -24.31% +9.56% -6.82%
75th Percentile £499 £573 £688
90th Percentile £533 £670 -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £562 £513
% change year-on-year -19.93% +9.66% -2.38%

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 193 151 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.57% 28.98% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 100 149
10th Percentile £325 £346 £259
25th Percentile £413 £409 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £574 £640 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £489 £450
% change year-on-year +0.20% +8.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £48.75 £40.15
25th Percentile - £50.63 £40.38
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year - +13.70% -50.38%
75th Percentile - £58.13 £56.25
90th Percentile - £59.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £50.00
% change year-on-year +186.56% -59.52% -47.37%

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 10 March 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 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (36.36%) Azure API Management
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Functions
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) MSTest
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Developer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) API Management
3 4 (36.36%) Log Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce
6 1 (9.09%) Exploratory Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Kanban
6 1 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
1 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Xamarin