C# Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

C#
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 70 34
Rank change year-on-year -40 -36 +52
Contract jobs citing C# 18 42 101
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.94% 2.24% 4.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.71% 9.70% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 61
10th Percentile £324 £306 £275
25th Percentile £406 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £567 £600
90th Percentile £623 £573 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -2.54%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 485 433 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.39% 23.07% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 259 328
10th Percentile £345 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £384 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% +5.73% -9.31%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 10
10th Percentile £33.91 £34.25 £17.46
25th Percentile £43.00 £34.73 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +156.76% -58.89%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £19.63
90th Percentile - £70.50 £50.38
England median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

C# job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Birmingham -23 6 £400 -28.76% 25
Solihull - 4 £588 - 2
Warwickshire -3 3 - - 7
Coventry -7 2 £488 +20.00% 5
Shropshire -29 1 - - 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 2 (11.11%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
3 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 5 (27.78%) Power Automate
5 4 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (22.22%) Serverless
6 3 (16.67%) Azure API Management
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Tableau
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) .NET Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Integration Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) CRM Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (94.44%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (27.78%) Web Services
4 4 (22.22%) RESTful
5 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (11.11%) Entity Framework
6 2 (11.11%) Middleware
6 2 (11.11%) React
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.56%) CSS
7 1 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (5.56%) LINQ
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (5.56%) Node.js
7 1 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) IoT
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
1 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) CRM
5 4 (22.22%) API Management
5 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
5 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) API Design
6 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 3 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 3 (16.67%) ITIL
6 3 (16.67%) Log Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) Service Management
6 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Xamarin