C# Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

C#
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 73 43
Rank change year-on-year -52 -30 +11
Contract jobs citing C# 39 60 107
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.26% 2.39% 3.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.26% 10.24% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 73
10th Percentile £379 £355 £277
25th Percentile £416 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £611 £567 £531
90th Percentile £625 £575 £685
England median daily rate £500 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% -2.08%

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 741 586 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.97% 23.36% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 368 434
10th Percentile £357 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £391 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £688
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile £21.44 £16.78 £17.35
25th Percentile £36.00 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +133.97% +9.59% -24.51%
75th Percentile - £30.31 £54.00
90th Percentile - £50.75 £54.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

C# job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C#

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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 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C#

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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 13 December 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
East Midlands -10 23 £550 +18.28% 64
West Midlands -49 16 £480 -14.51% 71
C#
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (17.95%) CMS
2 5 (12.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (12.82%) Headless CMS
2 5 (12.82%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (12.82%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (17.95%) Kontent
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (12.82%) Contentful
4 5 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (12.82%) Power Automate
4 5 (12.82%) Serverless
5 4 (10.26%) Azure API Management
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (10.26%) GitHub
6 3 (7.69%) ChatGPT
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.56%) JMeter
3 1 (2.56%) Postman
3 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.13%) Finance
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (79.49%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (20.51%) .NET Developer
3 8 (20.51%) C# Developer
4 7 (17.95%) CMS Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Senior
5 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 5 (12.82%) React Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Lead
7 3 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Design Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (76.92%) .NET
2 12 (30.77%) HTML
3 9 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 9 (23.08%) ASP.NET
3 9 (23.08%) CSS
4 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
4 8 (20.51%) ASP.NET MVC
4 8 (20.51%) React
4 8 (20.51%) RESTful
5 5 (12.82%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (5.13%) Entity Framework
6 2 (5.13%) REST
7 1 (2.56%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (2.56%) JSON
7 1 (2.56%) LINQ
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (2.56%) Playwright
7 1 (2.56%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Mobile App
2 6 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.69%) IoT
4 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Android
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) DevOps
2 13 (33.33%) AI
2 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.08%) Agile
4 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (23.08%) MVC
5 8 (20.51%) User Experience
6 7 (17.95%) Migration
7 6 (15.38%) API Management
7 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.82%) Analytics
8 5 (12.82%) API Integration
8 5 (12.82%) Scrum
9 4 (10.26%) CRM
9 4 (10.26%) Kanban
9 4 (10.26%) Log Analytics
9 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
10 3 (7.69%) Customer Service
10 3 (7.69%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) SQL
2 18 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.95%) PHP
4 6 (15.38%) PL/SQL
5 4 (10.26%) Python
6 3 (7.69%) C++
7 2 (5.13%) C
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Ansible
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Oracle
3 5 (12.82%) Adobe
3 5 (12.82%) Sitecore
4 2 (5.13%) Siemens
4 2 (5.13%) Xamarin