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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 71 47
Rank change year-on-year -56 -24 +33
Contract jobs citing C# 15 40 70
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.66% 2.38% 3.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.64% 9.78% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 46
10th Percentile £406 £408 £259
25th Percentile £413 £444 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £562 £455
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% +23.52% -4.21%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £575
90th Percentile £625 £592 £688
England median daily rate £508 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.73% -8.33% -

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 568 409 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.84% 24.37% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 240 276
10th Percentile £358 £352 £288
25th Percentile £448 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +8.40% -12.14%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £633 £700 £688
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £40.20 £16.98 £17.43
25th Percentile £46.50 £17.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%
75th Percentile £56.88 £33.44 £19.25
90th Percentile £69.25 £53.25 £25.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 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
Birmingham -24 8 £425 -24.31% 16
Solihull - 5 £588 - 1
Staffordshire 0 1 £463 +2.78% 16
Coventry -16 1 £480 -16.52% 11
Shropshire -43 1 - - 13
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:

Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 6 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 5 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 5 (33.33%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) Azure API Management
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Functions
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (6.67%) CRM Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) LINQ
4 1 (6.67%) Playwright
4 1 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) API Management
3 5 (33.33%) CRM
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Log Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) Kanban
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) MVC
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Xamarin