C# Contracts in the Midlands

C#
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing C# 52 84 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.72% 3.05% 4.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.90% 13.59% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 52 115
10th Percentile £354 £276 £318
25th Percentile £402 £323 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +15.18% -1.73%
75th Percentile £516 £575 £500
90th Percentile £594 £611 £588
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.50%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for C# in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +1 34 £450 -14.29% 166
East Midlands -12 13 £495 +17.30% 142
C#
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.62%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.77%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) InfoPath
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (17.31%) AWS
3 9 (17.31%) Power Platform
4 8 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (13.46%) PowerApps
5 7 (13.46%) Serverless
6 5 (9.62%) AWS CodeBuild
6 5 (9.62%) Azure API Management
6 5 (9.62%) Azure Functions
6 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (9.62%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.77%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.85%) SaaS
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.92%) IaaS
9 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) Relational Database
2 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 7 (13.46%) Power BI
4 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (9.62%) MySQL
5 5 (9.62%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.85%) Tableau
7 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.92%) Power Query
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) JIRA
2 5 (9.62%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.77%) Chocolatey
3 3 (5.77%) Plastic SCM
3 3 (5.77%) Selenium
3 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.85%) JMeter
4 2 (3.85%) SpecFlow
4 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.92%) Appium
5 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.92%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (15.38%) Finance
1 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.69%) Games
5 3 (5.77%) Law
5 3 (5.77%) Retail
6 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Police
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Developer
2 11 (21.15%) Architect
3 9 (17.31%) Software Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (11.54%) C# Software Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Automation Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Games Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Applications Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (67.31%) .NET
2 12 (23.08%) HTML
3 10 (19.23%) CSS
4 8 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 8 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 7 (13.46%) Entity Framework
6 6 (11.54%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (9.62%) React
7 5 (9.62%) REST
8 4 (7.69%) .NET Core
8 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (5.77%) Apache Axis
9 3 (5.77%) Blazor
9 3 (5.77%) Middleware
9 3 (5.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 3 (5.77%) WPF
10 2 (3.85%) ADO
10 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
10 2 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) CCTV
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.92%) LIMS
3 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.92%) NHS
3 1 (1.92%) PACS
3 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
1 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
1 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Agile
2 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 15 (28.85%) DevOps
4 12 (23.08%) Microservices
4 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 10 (19.23%) Migration
6 8 (15.38%) CRM
6 8 (15.38%) ITIL
6 8 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (13.46%) Design Patterns
7 7 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (11.54%) MVC
8 6 (11.54%) Workflow
9 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.62%) Scrum
9 5 (9.62%) User Experience
10 4 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 17 (32.69%) SQL
3 12 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) Python
4 6 (11.54%) T-SQL
5 5 (9.62%) Java
5 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.77%) Ruby
7 2 (3.85%) PHP
8 1 (1.92%) Bash
8 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) CISSP
4 3 (5.77%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.62%) Docker
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Terraform
2 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.77%) Ansible
3 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.85%) Perforce
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) Siemens