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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -41 -9 +9
Permanent jobs citing C# 139 323 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.98% 6.48% 7.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.20% 26.03% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 113 210 232
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,784 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% +2.40% -2.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,900 £72,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 688 1,241 1,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.74% 24.89% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 559 657 931
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £41,580
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -7 65 £61,500 +12.04% 32
Warwickshire -10 17 £62,625 -10.54% 9
Shropshire -1 13 £47,500 +2.70% 35
Solihull +1 10 £75,000 +50.00%
Staffordshire -38 10 £57,500 +15.00% 14
Coventry -12 7 £52,500 +10.53% 22
Wolverhampton -7 4 - - 17
Herefordshire -10 1 £40,000 -42.86% 3
Worcestershire -26 1 £42,500 +6.25% 21
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 7 (5.04%) IIS
2 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.44%) CMS
3 2 (1.44%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.44%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (14.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 67 (48.20%) Azure
2 32 (23.02%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (20.14%) Dynamics 365
3 28 (20.14%) Power Platform
3 28 (20.14%) SaaS
4 20 (14.39%) PowerApps
5 19 (13.67%) Power Automate
6 15 (10.79%) AWS
7 12 (8.63%) Serverless
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.60%) GitHub
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.16%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.16%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.44%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.44%) DNS
1 2 (1.44%) FTP
1 2 (1.44%) HTTP
1 2 (1.44%) Intranet
1 2 (1.44%) SMTP
1 2 (1.44%) SSH
2 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (28.06%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.35%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (4.32%) Power BI
5 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.16%) MySQL
5 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.44%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.44%) Metadata
6 2 (1.44%) MS Access
7 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.72%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.72%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Selenium
2 7 (5.04%) Git
3 6 (4.32%) NUnit
4 5 (3.60%) MSTest
5 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.16%) JIRA
6 2 (1.44%) Moq
6 2 (1.44%) NSubstitute
6 2 (1.44%) Subversion
6 2 (1.44%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.44%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.72%) Postman
General
1 44 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.23%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.51%) Finance
4 11 (7.91%) Retail
5 8 (5.76%) Law
6 4 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.16%) Marketing
8 2 (1.44%) Automotive
8 2 (1.44%) Back Office
8 2 (1.44%) Legal
8 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 90 (64.75%) Developer
2 32 (23.02%) Senior
3 25 (17.99%) Lead
4 22 (15.83%) C# Developer
5 19 (13.67%) Senior Developer
6 17 (12.23%) Software Developer
7 16 (11.51%) Lead Developer
8 15 (10.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 12 (8.63%) .NET Developer
10 10 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.47%) CRM Developer
11 9 (6.47%) Dynamics CRM Developer
12 7 (5.04%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) QA Automation Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) QA Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) QA Leader
12 7 (5.04%) Senior .NET Developer
12 7 (5.04%) Senior C# Developer
13 6 (4.32%) Automation Developer
13 6 (4.32%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (65.47%) .NET
2 24 (17.27%) .NET Framework
2 24 (17.27%) AngularJS
2 24 (17.27%) React
3 16 (11.51%) REST
4 13 (9.35%) Razor View Engine
5 12 (8.63%) Blazor
5 12 (8.63%) Entity Framework
6 10 (7.19%) .NET Core
6 10 (7.19%) ASP.NET
6 10 (7.19%) HTML
6 10 (7.19%) JSON
7 8 (5.76%) CSS
8 6 (4.32%) Node.js
9 5 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (3.60%) RESTful
9 5 (3.60%) WPF
10 4 (2.88%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.88%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (2.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Product Ownership
2 15 (10.79%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.19%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.19%) Operational Technology
4 8 (5.76%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.44%) IoT
7 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.72%) Animation
8 1 (0.72%) CMDB
8 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.72%) NHS
8 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.60%) Windows
2 2 (1.44%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) VMS
3 1 (0.72%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.53%) Agile
1 48 (34.53%) DevOps
2 41 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (23.02%) CI/CD
4 31 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (20.14%) CRM
5 28 (20.14%) Software Engineering
6 26 (18.71%) Mentoring
7 24 (17.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (13.67%) TDD
9 16 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (10.07%) Coaching
10 14 (10.07%) Test Automation
11 13 (9.35%) API Integration
11 13 (9.35%) Customer Experience
11 13 (9.35%) Migration
12 12 (8.63%) Client Onboarding
12 12 (8.63%) MVC
12 12 (8.63%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (8.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (33.81%) SQL
2 37 (26.62%) JavaScript
3 20 (14.39%) TypeScript
4 18 (12.95%) Java
5 16 (11.51%) PowerShell
5 16 (11.51%) Python
6 10 (7.19%) PHP
7 7 (5.04%) Bicep
8 5 (3.60%) Scala
8 5 (3.60%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.16%) C++
9 3 (2.16%) XAML
10 2 (1.44%) Delphi
10 2 (1.44%) Go
10 2 (1.44%) Groovy
10 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.44%) Perl
10 2 (1.44%) Ruby
10 2 (1.44%) VB
10 2 (1.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (10.07%) Degree
2 10 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.76%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.04%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.32%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.44%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.55%) QA
2 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.16%) WCAG
4 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) COBIT
5 1 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.72%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.76%) Terraform
2 3 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.44%) Nagios
4 1 (0.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (27.34%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.47%) Oracle
3 2 (1.44%) Databricks
3 2 (1.44%) Infor
3 2 (1.44%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.72%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.72%) VMware