C# Job Trends in the Midlands

C#
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 26 13
Rank change year-on-year -34 -13 +18
Permanent jobs citing C# 258 433 516
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.30% 6.79% 9.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.75% 25.44% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 230 260 491
10th Percentile £29,000 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,291 £44,031 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,563 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,134 1,702 1,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.50% 26.67% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 923 923 1,630
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,125 £64,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C# relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

C# job vacancy trend in the Midlands

C#
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the Midlands

C#
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -33 137 £55,000 - 47
East Midlands -22 121 £52,750 -4.09% 53
C#
England

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 12 (4.65%) IIS
2 6 (2.33%) CMS
3 3 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.78%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.78%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (8.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 107 (41.47%) Azure
2 72 (27.91%) SaaS
3 40 (15.50%) AWS
4 34 (13.18%) Dynamics 365
5 33 (12.79%) Power Platform
6 32 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.75%) Power Automate
7 20 (7.75%) PowerApps
8 13 (5.04%) GitHub
9 10 (3.88%) Serverless
10 7 (2.71%) Figma
11 6 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.94%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.55%) GCP
14 3 (1.16%) npm
14 3 (1.16%) NuGet
14 3 (1.16%) SonarCloud
15 2 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.34%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (0.78%) DNS
2 2 (0.78%) FTP
2 2 (0.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.78%) Intranet
2 2 (0.78%) SMTP
2 2 (0.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (24.03%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.59%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.65%) Power BI
4 11 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (3.49%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.94%) Redis
7 3 (1.16%) MySQL
7 3 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.78%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.78%) Metadata
8 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.78%) MS Access
9 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (4.26%) Git
2 8 (3.10%) Selenium
3 6 (2.33%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.55%) MSTest
4 4 (1.55%) NUnit
5 3 (1.16%) JIRA
5 3 (1.16%) Postman
6 2 (0.78%) GitLab
6 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.78%) Subversion
6 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.39%) Moq
7 1 (0.39%) NSubstitute
General
1 94 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.60%) Retail
3 42 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.14%) Finance
5 16 (6.20%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.81%) Law
7 6 (2.33%) Games
8 5 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.16%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Automotive
12 1 (0.39%) Billing
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 142 (55.04%) Developer
2 53 (20.54%) C# Developer
3 51 (19.77%) Senior
4 37 (14.34%) 2nd Line Support
5 35 (13.57%) Software Developer
6 32 (12.40%) Lead
7 29 (11.24%) Senior Developer
8 28 (10.85%) .NET Developer
9 27 (10.47%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 21 (8.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 19 (7.36%) Software Engineer
12 17 (6.59%) C# .NET Developer
12 17 (6.59%) Senior C# Developer
13 14 (5.43%) Analyst
13 14 (5.43%) Lead Developer
14 13 (5.04%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 13 (5.04%) ERP Support
14 13 (5.04%) Software Analyst
14 13 (5.04%) Software Support Analyst
14 13 (5.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (60.08%) .NET
2 44 (17.05%) React
3 40 (15.50%) .NET Core
4 36 (13.95%) AngularJS
5 21 (8.14%) .NET Framework
5 21 (8.14%) ASP.NET
6 17 (6.59%) REST
7 16 (6.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 16 (6.20%) HTML
8 15 (5.81%) CSS
9 14 (5.43%) JSON
10 13 (5.04%) Razor View Engine
11 11 (4.26%) Blazor
12 9 (3.49%) Node.js
13 7 (2.71%) Entity Framework
13 7 (2.71%) WinForms
14 6 (2.33%) DirectX
14 6 (2.33%) OpenGL
14 6 (2.33%) WebAssembly
14 6 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.38%) Onboarding
2 23 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.88%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.33%) 3D Graphics
6 5 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.16%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.78%) CCTV
9 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.78%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.78%) SCADA
10 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.39%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.71%) Linux
1 7 (2.71%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Mac OS X
2 2 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (29.07%) CRM
3 71 (27.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (27.13%) Mentoring
5 62 (24.03%) Agile
6 54 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 53 (20.54%) DevOps
8 49 (18.99%) CI/CD
8 49 (18.99%) Customer Service
9 48 (18.60%) Root Cause Analysis
10 47 (18.22%) Logistics
11 43 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (15.89%) E-Commerce
13 40 (15.50%) Analytical Thinking
13 40 (15.50%) ERP
14 37 (14.34%) Data Privacy
15 22 (8.53%) Microservices
16 21 (8.14%) SDLC
17 20 (7.75%) MVC
17 20 (7.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 104 (40.31%) SQL
2 62 (24.03%) JavaScript
3 24 (9.30%) TypeScript
4 18 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.81%) Java
5 15 (5.81%) Python
6 10 (3.88%) PHP
6 10 (3.88%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.71%) Delphi
8 5 (1.94%) Bicep
8 5 (1.94%) C++
9 4 (1.55%) Ruby
9 4 (1.55%) Scala
10 3 (1.16%) Bash
11 2 (0.78%) C
11 2 (0.78%) Groovy
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
11 2 (0.78%) VB
11 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (5.04%) Degree
2 10 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.78%) HND
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (22.48%) QA
2 9 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.10%) WCAG
4 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (1.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.10%) Terraform
2 5 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.78%) Nagios
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 39 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.81%) Oracle
3 3 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (0.78%) Databricks
4 2 (0.78%) Infor
4 2 (0.78%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe
5 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.39%) HubSpot