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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 87 77
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 -34
Contract jobs citing C# 42 29 34
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.22% 1.68% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.69% 6.58% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 21
10th Percentile - £296 £306
25th Percentile £306 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £438 £519 £575
90th Percentile £530 £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 738 441 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.35% 25.51% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 271 273
10th Percentile £363 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £546 £538 £575
90th Percentile £630 £621 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 10
10th Percentile £21.25 £28.18 £33.57
25th Percentile £25.00 £33.91 £36.25
Median hourly rate £56.00 £50.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.71% +98.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £60.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 22 August 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 22 August 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 20 £425 -6.34% 6
Herefordshire - 7 £425 - 2
Birmingham -21 6 £400 +29.03% 25
Shropshire -44 3 £688 - 1
Warwickshire -21 2 £538 +19.44% 3
Worcestershire - 2 £425 - 7
Staffordshire - 1 £463 - 3
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 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (71.43%) Azure
2 23 (54.76%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (42.86%) Dynamics 365
3 18 (42.86%) Power Automate
4 16 (38.10%) Power Platform
5 12 (28.57%) PowerApps
6 7 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 7 (16.67%) Serverless
7 5 (11.90%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.76%) AWS
8 2 (4.76%) GitHub
9 1 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.38%) GCP
9 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.38%) Google Gemini
9 1 (2.38%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.52%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Selenium
1 9 (21.43%) WebDriver
2 7 (16.67%) Postman
3 6 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 6 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 17 (40.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (21.43%) Finance
6 4 (9.52%) Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Legal
8 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Front Office
8 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Developer
1 18 (42.86%) Senior
2 11 (26.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 10 (23.81%) Lead
4 8 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Lead Test Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Test Analyst
5 6 (14.29%) Test Leader
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Administrator
7 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) .NET
2 12 (28.57%) JSON
3 6 (14.29%) Gherkin
4 5 (11.90%) .NET Core
4 5 (11.90%) REST
5 4 (9.52%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (7.14%) CSS
6 3 (7.14%) HTML
6 3 (7.14%) React
6 3 (7.14%) RESTful
6 3 (7.14%) Terraform
7 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.76%) Playwright
8 1 (2.38%) ADO
8 1 (2.38%) CSS3
8 1 (2.38%) Kafka
8 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Product Ownership
2 6 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.14%) Blog
3 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Equities
5 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) DevOps
2 28 (66.67%) Agile
3 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 26 (61.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 18 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (40.48%) SFIA
7 14 (33.33%) Mentoring
8 13 (30.95%) Sprint Planning
9 12 (28.57%) Scrum
9 12 (28.57%) Test Automation
10 11 (26.19%) Backlog Refinement
10 11 (26.19%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (26.19%) Programme Delivery
10 11 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (26.19%) Ticket Management
10 11 (26.19%) User Stories
11 10 (23.81%) AI
11 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) JavaScript
2 6 (14.29%) Java
3 5 (11.90%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) SQL
4 1 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) C++
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
4 8 (19.05%) ISTQB
5 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (7.14%) Degree
6 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (40.48%) Accessibility
2 12 (28.57%) QA
3 6 (14.29%) GDPR
3 6 (14.29%) WCAG
4 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.38%) HL7
4 1 (2.38%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.38%) NIST
4 1 (2.38%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.38%) Perforce