C# Job Trends in the West Midlands

C#
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 220 175 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.46% 5.38% 6.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.85% 24.10% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 202 140 262
10th Percentile £46,221 £40,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,625 £69,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,055 726 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.79% 22.30% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 748 572 858
10th Percentile £38,525 £32,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

C# job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

C#
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

C#
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the West Midlands

C#
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -28 69 £57,500 -5.35% 24
Coventry +3 37 £70,000 +40.00% 5
Worcestershire -1 27 £65,000 +52.94% 8
Dudley - 23 £55,000 - 5
Warwickshire -20 18 £65,000 +8.33% 17
Staffordshire -8 17 £67,500 +25.73% 4
Solihull +12 12 £65,000 +36.84% 6
Wolverhampton - 11 £70,000 - 4
Herefordshire - 3 £55,000 - 3
Shropshire -31 1 £50,000 +5.26%
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 8 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.45%) Appian
2 1 (0.45%) CMS
2 1 (0.45%) IIS
2 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 9 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 114 (51.82%) Azure
2 39 (17.73%) Power Automate
2 39 (17.73%) Power Platform
3 29 (13.18%) PowerApps
4 25 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (9.55%) Serverless
6 19 (8.64%) Azure Functions
7 17 (7.73%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (6.82%) GitHub
9 14 (6.36%) AWS
9 14 (6.36%) Azure AI
10 11 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (3.64%) SaaS
12 6 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.82%) BrowserStack
13 4 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.18%) Internet
2 5 (2.27%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.36%) Firewall
3 3 (1.36%) HTTP
3 3 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 36 (16.36%) MongoDB
3 35 (15.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (10.00%) Power BI
5 14 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.09%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.91%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.45%) MySQL
8 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (7.27%) Git
2 4 (1.82%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.82%) Gatling
2 4 (1.82%) Zephyr
3 2 (0.91%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.91%) JIRA
3 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.45%) NUnit
4 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (12.73%) Finance
2 25 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.82%) Retail
5 14 (6.36%) Advertising
6 12 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.45%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.27%) Automotive
9 4 (1.82%) Marketing
9 4 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Games
10 2 (0.91%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Legal
10 2 (0.91%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (69.55%) Developer
2 46 (20.91%) Senior
2 46 (20.91%) Software Developer
3 42 (19.09%) .NET Developer
4 35 (15.91%) Senior Developer
5 31 (14.09%) Lead
6 29 (13.18%) Software Engineer
7 25 (11.36%) Lead Developer
8 18 (8.18%) C# Developer
9 17 (7.73%) Lead Software Developer
10 13 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 12 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
13 10 (4.55%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 10 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
14 9 (4.09%) C# Software Engineer
14 9 (4.09%) Senior C# Developer
15 8 (3.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (63.64%) .NET
2 59 (26.82%) .NET Core
3 45 (20.45%) ASP.NET
4 42 (19.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 32 (14.55%) Blazor
6 24 (10.91%) ASP.NET Web API
7 22 (10.00%) Entity Framework
7 22 (10.00%) Node.js
7 22 (10.00%) React
8 21 (9.55%) AngularJS
9 16 (7.27%) .NET Framework
9 16 (7.27%) REST
10 15 (6.82%) CSS
10 15 (6.82%) RESTful
10 15 (6.82%) Vue
11 14 (6.36%) HTML
12 11 (5.00%) LINQ
13 8 (3.64%) JSON
13 8 (3.64%) XML
13 8 (3.64%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.55%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.09%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.64%) Taxonomies
6 6 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.27%) Robotics
8 4 (1.82%) AS400
8 4 (1.82%) iSeries
8 4 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.91%) Online Gambling
9 2 (0.91%) Photography
9 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.82%) Android
2 3 (1.36%) Linux
2 3 (1.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.73%) Agile
2 70 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (19.55%) DevOps
3 43 (19.55%) Software Engineering
4 42 (19.09%) CI/CD
5 30 (13.64%) SDLC
6 29 (13.18%) Mentoring
7 28 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (11.82%) AI
9 25 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (10.91%) Microservices
11 22 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 17 (7.73%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (7.27%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (6.82%) E-Commerce
14 15 (6.82%) TDD
15 13 (5.91%) CRM
16 12 (5.45%) BDD
16 12 (5.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 71 (32.27%) SQL
2 56 (25.45%) JavaScript
3 32 (14.55%) TypeScript
4 19 (8.64%) Java
5 11 (5.00%) Python
6 10 (4.55%) C++
7 6 (2.73%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.27%) C
8 5 (2.27%) Go
9 4 (1.82%) PHP
9 4 (1.82%) RPG
9 4 (1.82%) RPG IV
9 4 (1.82%) RPG/400
10 2 (0.91%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.45%) Delphi
11 1 (0.45%) Pascal
11 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 10 (4.55%) Degree
3 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.09%) GDPR
3 8 (3.64%) WCAG
4 7 (3.18%) QA
5 5 (2.27%) IEC 61131
6 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (6.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.91%) Bosun
2 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 84 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.09%) Facebook
3 8 (3.64%) Foundry
4 5 (2.27%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (2.27%) Siemens
4 5 (2.27%) YouTube
5 4 (1.82%) IBM
6 3 (1.36%) Google
7 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.45%) Databricks
8 1 (0.45%) Perforce
8 1 (0.45%) SYSPRO