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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 55 53
Rank change year-on-year -72 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing C# 23 41 60
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.86% 2.89% 3.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.46% 11.33% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 38
10th Percentile £350 £408 £243
25th Percentile £405 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £562 £463
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% +21.41% -11.90%
75th Percentile £499 £573 £611
90th Percentile £550 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
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 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 664 362 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.96% 25.51% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 215 304
10th Percentile £365 £345 £260
25th Percentile £425 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £662
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 12
10th Percentile £51.95 £16.95 £17.50
25th Percentile £54.88 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +186.56% -62.34% +144.32%
75th Percentile £64.00 £28.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.10 £54.00 £71.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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

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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#

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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 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the West Midlands

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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#

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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 23 February 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
Birmingham -24 12 £425 -24.31% 19
Warwickshire -19 7 £450 - 4
Solihull -5 2 £600 +4.35% 3
Coventry -20 2 £470 -18.26% 3
Staffordshire -1 1 £463 - 9
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England

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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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Logic Apps
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Monitor
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (21.74%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) Azure API Management
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Functions
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) IaaS
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) 3GPP
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) HTTP
2 2 (8.70%) RTCP
2 2 (8.70%) RTP
2 2 (8.70%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) MSTest
1 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.70%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) QA Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
3 6 (26.09%) .NET Core
4 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
4 5 (21.74%) RESTful
4 5 (21.74%) XML
5 4 (17.39%) Entity Framework
5 4 (17.39%) React
5 4 (17.39%) XML Schema
6 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (13.04%) HTML
6 3 (13.04%) Playwright
7 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (8.70%) CSS
7 2 (8.70%) REST
7 2 (8.70%) SignalR
7 2 (8.70%) WCF
7 2 (8.70%) XSD
8 1 (4.35%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Media Streaming
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) API Management
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) Log Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) OOP
6 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) Analytics
7 3 (13.04%) Clean Code
7 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (13.04%) Kanban
7 3 (13.04%) User Experience
8 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
8 2 (8.70%) CRM
8 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.70%) Microservices
8 2 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Xamarin