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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 72 68
Rank change year-on-year -61 -4 -22
Contract jobs citing C# 38 34 43
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.10% 2.13% 2.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.90% 8.44% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 26
10th Percentile £306 £315 £309
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £491 £519 £602
90th Percentile £575 £635 £611
England median daily rate £543 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +4.83% -5.91% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.50 - -
Median hourly rate £58.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 775 403 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.53% 25.25% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 250 304
10th Percentile £358 £253 £260
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £638
England median daily rate £520 £520 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.93% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 22 15
10th Percentile £46.25 £28.18 £36.36
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £47.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% -13.04% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £58.75
90th Percentile £69.77 - £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

C#
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

C#
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#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the West Midlands

C#
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#

C#
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 11 July 2026. 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
Coventry -18 10 £425 -6.34% 4
Warwickshire -16 9 £475 +5.56% 5
Herefordshire - 7 £425 - 4
Birmingham -36 6 £444 -4.88% 9
Worcestershire - 2 £425 - 9
Shropshire - 2 £875 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £463 - 2
C#
England

C#
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 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) Azure
2 14 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (23.68%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (23.68%) Power Automate
3 9 (23.68%) Power Platform
4 6 (15.79%) PowerApps
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (13.16%) GitHub
6 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Functions
7 3 (7.89%) Serverless
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.63%) AWS
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) 3GPP
2 2 (5.26%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) RTCP
2 2 (5.26%) RTP
2 2 (5.26%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.89%) Power BI
3 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Selenium
1 6 (15.79%) WebDriver
2 4 (10.53%) Postman
3 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.89%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.26%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Git
5 1 (2.63%) MSTest
5 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 8 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (18.42%) Finance
5 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.53%) Banking
7 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Front Office
8 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Developer
2 14 (36.84%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Lead
4 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) .NET Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Lead Test Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Test Leader
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (60.53%) .NET
2 8 (21.05%) ASP.NET
3 7 (18.42%) .NET Core
3 7 (18.42%) .NET Framework
4 6 (15.79%) JSON
4 6 (15.79%) React
4 6 (15.79%) REST
5 5 (13.16%) RESTful
5 5 (13.16%) XML
6 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (10.53%) CSS
6 4 (10.53%) Entity Framework
6 4 (10.53%) HTML
6 4 (10.53%) Playwright
6 4 (10.53%) XML Schema
7 3 (7.89%) Gherkin
8 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.26%) CSS3
8 2 (5.26%) HTML5
8 2 (5.26%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Blog
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Equities
4 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Agile
1 25 (65.79%) DevOps
2 23 (60.53%) CI/CD
3 15 (39.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
4 12 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (26.32%) Mentoring
6 8 (21.05%) SFIA
6 8 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.42%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (15.79%) AI
8 6 (15.79%) Fintech
8 6 (15.79%) Scrum
9 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Engineering
9 5 (13.16%) SDLC
9 5 (13.16%) Ticket Management
9 5 (13.16%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.42%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) Java
4 4 (10.53%) Python
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) QA
2 8 (21.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.89%) GDPR
3 3 (7.89%) WCAG
4 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.63%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.63%) NIST
4 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Perforce