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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 59 64
Rank change year-on-year -74 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing C# 24 38 48
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.77% 2.76% 2.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.52% 10.61% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 28
10th Percentile £325 £402 £235
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -8.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £491 £520 £593
90th Percentile £575 £624 £611
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -2.54%
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 681 358 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.72% 26.00% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 218 312
10th Percentile £350 £235 £260
25th Percentile £412 £400 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% -13.46%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £550
90th Percentile £619 £679 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 13
10th Percentile £48.75 £16.83 £40.10
25th Percentile £56.50 £19.12 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.32 £28.18 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.59% -50.99% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £33.91 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £50.00 £69.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -22 9 £475 +5.56% 7
Birmingham -33 6 £425 -12.01% 13
Coventry -19 2 £505 +2.02% 6
Staffordshire - 2 £463 - 2
Worcestershire - 2 £425 - 4
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
Herefordshire - 1 £425 - 1
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 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) GitHub
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure API Management
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) AWS
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) IaaS
6 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) 3GPP
2 2 (8.33%) 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 3 (12.50%) Selenium
1 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) MSTest
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Software Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) .NET 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%) Azure Developer
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
7 1 (4.17%) Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Principal Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (70.83%) .NET
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Core
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
2 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET
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%) Playwright
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%) SignalR
6 2 (8.33%) WCF
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%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Agile
1 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 4 (16.67%) OOP
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) AI
6 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Data Validation
6 3 (12.50%) Data-Driven Testing
6 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.50%) Kanban
6 3 (12.50%) TDD
6 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (12.50%) User Experience
6 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) C++
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 22301
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Perforce