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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 69 41
Rank change year-on-year -23 -28 +47
Contract jobs citing C# 28 39 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.56% 2.06% 4.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.24% 9.22% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 56
10th Percentile £381 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £434 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +7.89% +9.51%
75th Percentile £553 £567 £575
90th Percentile £625 £575 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

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 449 423 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.97% 22.35% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 268 333
10th Percentile £316 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £397 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £648 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 11
10th Percentile £30.25 £34.47 £17.50
25th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £56.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +188.46% -56.67%
75th Percentile - £59.69 £24.94
90th Percentile - £67.50 £35.08
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% +12.28%

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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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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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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
Warwickshire -3 10 £450 - 13
Birmingham -9 6 £400 -29.11% 27
Solihull - 4 £588 - 6
Coventry -3 2 £488 +34.48% 6
Shropshire -22 1 - - 16
C#
England

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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 2 (7.14%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (21.43%) PowerApps
5 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Power Automate
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (14.29%) Serverless
7 3 (10.71%) Azure API Management
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Tableau
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) Plastic SCM
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Games
4 3 (10.71%) Marketing
4 3 (10.71%) Retail
5 2 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Games Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Applications Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (71.43%) .NET
2 9 (32.14%) HTML
3 5 (17.86%) Web Services
4 4 (14.29%) CSS
4 4 (14.29%) RESTful
5 3 (10.71%) Apache Axis
5 3 (10.71%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
6 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (7.14%) Entity Framework
6 2 (7.14%) Middleware
6 2 (7.14%) React
7 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
7 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (3.57%) Node.js
7 1 (3.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) IoT
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) CCTV
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
1 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
1 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (50.00%) DevOps
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 6 (21.43%) CRM
5 6 (21.43%) Design Patterns
5 6 (21.43%) ITIL
5 6 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (17.86%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
7 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 4 (14.29%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) User Experience
8 3 (10.71%) Analytics
8 3 (10.71%) API Design
8 3 (10.71%) Data Integration
8 3 (10.71%) SOA
8 3 (10.71%) Software Architecture
8 3 (10.71%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (42.86%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) Ruby
5 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) CISSP
3 3 (10.71%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Xamarin