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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 57 62
Rank change year-on-year -77 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing C# 24 38 47
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.80% 2.81% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.28% 11.28% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 29
10th Percentile £355 £403 £205
25th Percentile £413 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £494 £594 £588
90th Percentile £575 £710 £611
England median daily rate £525 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% -2.08%
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 732 337 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.38% 24.94% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 213 306
10th Percentile £350 £280 £260
25th Percentile £412 £402 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £575
90th Percentile £619 £689 £638
England median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 13
10th Percentile £43.75 £16.78 £40.10
25th Percentile £55.19 £17.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.57 £20.24 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +199.25% -64.80% +127.72%
75th Percentile £70.25 £28.32 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £28.75 £69.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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
Warwickshire -18 9 £475 +5.56% 6
Birmingham -31 9 £425 -12.01% 27
Coventry -24 2 £505 +1.00% 6
Worcestershire - 2 £425 - 5
Solihull -11 1 - - 4
Staffordshire - 1 £463 - 12
Herefordshire - 1 £425 - 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 6 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 6 (25.00%) GitHub
3 5 (20.83%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (16.67%) Serverless
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.17%) AWS
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) 3GPP
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (8.33%) RTCP
2 2 (8.33%) RTP
2 2 (8.33%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Selenium
2 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.17%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) MSTest
4 1 (4.17%) Postman
4 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Software Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Automation Test Lead
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) .NET
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Core
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
2 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET
3 5 (20.83%) Playwright
3 5 (20.83%) React
3 5 (20.83%) RESTful
3 5 (20.83%) XML
4 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (16.67%) CSS
4 4 (16.67%) Entity Framework
4 4 (16.67%) HTML
4 4 (16.67%) XML Schema
5 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (12.50%) REST
6 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.33%) CSS3
6 2 (8.33%) HTML5
6 2 (8.33%) Jest
6 2 (8.33%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Media Streaming
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) DevOps
3 12 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.67%) API Management
6 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Log Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) OOP
6 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.50%) AI
7 3 (12.50%) Analytics
7 3 (12.50%) Data Validation
7 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (12.50%) Kanban
7 3 (12.50%) Microservices
7 3 (12.50%) TDD
7 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (12.50%) User Experience
7 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft