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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 90 83
Rank change year-on-year -27 -7 -41
Contract jobs citing C# 47 27 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.36% 1.53% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.33% 6.05% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 18 15
10th Percentile £306 £296 £306
25th Percentile £400 £403 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £465 £519 £575
90th Percentile £511 £616 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -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 743 446 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.57% 25.24% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 275 257
10th Percentile £368 £306 £313
25th Percentile £415 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.73% -1.70%
75th Percentile £573 £543 £575
90th Percentile £656 £625 £649
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 5
10th Percentile - £30.25 £34.36
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.91 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +136.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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
Coventry -4 23 £425 -14.14% 5
Birmingham -10 8 £425 +19.72% 33
Herefordshire - 7 £425 - 1
Shropshire -42 4 £550 -
Warwickshire -18 2 £538 +19.44% 8
Worcestershire - 1 £425 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £463 - 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 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (72.34%) Azure
2 28 (59.57%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (46.81%) Dynamics 365
3 22 (46.81%) Power Automate
4 20 (42.55%) Power Platform
5 12 (25.53%) Azure Functions
5 12 (25.53%) PowerApps
5 12 (25.53%) Serverless
6 5 (10.64%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (2.13%) AWS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.13%) Figma
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.13%) Google Gemini
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Selenium
1 8 (17.02%) WebDriver
2 7 (14.89%) Postman
3 6 (12.77%) Cucumber
3 6 (12.77%) Cypress.io
4 5 (10.64%) Git
5 1 (2.13%) JIRA
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.13%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (44.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (44.68%) Public Sector
3 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Front Office
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Developer
2 21 (44.68%) Senior
3 15 (31.91%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 13 (27.66%) Lead
5 10 (21.28%) Senior Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Analyst
6 6 (12.77%) Lead Test Analyst
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Test Analyst
6 6 (12.77%) Test Analyst
6 6 (12.77%) Test Leader
7 4 (8.51%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) .NET
2 16 (34.04%) JSON
3 7 (14.89%) REST
4 6 (12.77%) .NET Core
4 6 (12.77%) Gherkin
5 5 (10.64%) XML
6 4 (8.51%) .NET Framework
6 4 (8.51%) XSLT
7 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.38%) CSS
7 3 (6.38%) Entity Framework
7 3 (6.38%) RESTful
7 3 (6.38%) Terraform
8 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (4.26%) HTML
8 2 (4.26%) Playwright
8 2 (4.26%) React
8 2 (4.26%) Sass
8 2 (4.26%) Web Services
9 1 (2.13%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Product Ownership
2 11 (23.40%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.51%) Taxonomies
4 3 (6.38%) Blog
4 3 (6.38%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.13%) Equities
6 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.13%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Windows
1 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (78.72%) DevOps
2 31 (65.96%) Agile
3 28 (59.57%) CI/CD
3 28 (59.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (48.94%) Technical Leadership
5 18 (38.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (36.17%) SFIA
7 16 (34.04%) Mentoring
8 15 (31.91%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (31.91%) Ticket Management
9 13 (27.66%) AI
9 13 (27.66%) Software Engineering
9 13 (27.66%) Sprint Planning
9 13 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (25.53%) Scrum
11 11 (23.40%) Backlog Refinement
11 11 (23.40%) CRM
11 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (23.40%) Programme Delivery
11 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) JavaScript
2 6 (12.77%) Java
2 6 (12.77%) SQL
3 5 (10.64%) Python
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) C++
4 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
3 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.89%) ISTQB
5 5 (10.64%) Degree
6 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (44.68%) Accessibility
2 12 (25.53%) QA
3 10 (21.28%) GDPR
3 10 (21.28%) WCAG
4 1 (2.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.13%) GMP
4 1 (2.13%) GxP
4 1 (2.13%) HL7
4 1 (2.13%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (2.13%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (57.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle
2 1 (2.13%) Perforce