C# Contracts in the West Midlands

C#
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 69 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 -19 +22
Contract jobs citing C# 34 46 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.22% 2.23% 3.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.72% 10.57% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 47
10th Percentile £315 £310 £343
25th Percentile £413 £397 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £519 £593 £563
90th Percentile £635 £611 £665
England median daily rate £525 £570 £590
% change year-on-year -7.89% -3.39% +4.42%

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 390 435 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.49% 21.09% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 308 370
10th Percentile £276 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £350 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £521 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.61% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 8
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £33.91 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C# in the West Midlands

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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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in the West Midlands

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 4 July 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 +4 13 £467 -6.70% 74
Warwickshire -2 12 £450 -25.86% 26
Coventry -3 2 £454 +25.17% 28
Solihull - 2 £575 - 4
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 3 (8.82%) IIS
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (20.59%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.71%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (14.71%) PowerApps
4 4 (11.76%) Azure API Management
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Functions
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.88%) AWS
6 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
4 2 (5.88%) Tableau
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Power Query
5 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Plastic SCM
3 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.88%) JMeter
3 2 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (2.94%) Appium
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Games
3 3 (8.82%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Games Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Integration Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) PHP Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Power Apps Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (70.59%) .NET
2 8 (23.53%) HTML
3 5 (14.71%) CSS
3 5 (14.71%) Web Services
4 3 (8.82%) Apache Axis
4 3 (8.82%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (8.82%) Middleware
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
4 3 (8.82%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (5.88%) React
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) CCTV
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) IoT
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) NHS
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
1 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
1 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) DevOps
1 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 11 (32.35%) Agile
4 6 (17.65%) CRM
4 6 (17.65%) Design Patterns
4 6 (17.65%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) Microservices
4 6 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (14.71%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.76%) API Management
6 4 (11.76%) Data Integration
6 4 (11.76%) Migration
6 4 (11.76%) Scrum
6 4 (11.76%) User Experience
7 3 (8.82%) Log Analytics
7 3 (8.82%) Software Architecture
7 3 (8.82%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.82%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.76%) Java
5 3 (8.82%) Python
5 3 (8.82%) Ruby
5 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.88%) PHP
6 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) CISSP
3 3 (8.82%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Databricks
2 1 (2.94%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle