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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 33 18
Rank change year-on-year -46 -15 +43
Permanent jobs citing C# 125 217 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.75% 6.46% 7.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.33% 28.11% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 115 170 474
10th Percentile £41,163 £40,000 £33,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 872 772 1,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.24% 22.97% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 678 576 1,601
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -23 42 £55,000 -4.35% 27
Warwickshire -18 24 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Coventry -10 15 £47,500 -17.39% 6
Staffordshire -26 11 £63,500 +20.95% 12
Solihull +1 7 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Shropshire -29 6 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Worcestershire -19 5 £52,500 +10.53% 5
Wolverhampton -24 5 £70,000 +24.44% 1
Walsall +4 1 £59,000 -1.67%
Herefordshire -19 1 £40,000 -33.33% 2
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 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.60%) CMS
2 2 (1.60%) NServiceBus
2 2 (1.60%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.80%) Azure
2 16 (12.80%) Dynamics 365
2 16 (12.80%) SaaS
3 12 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (8.80%) GitHub
5 10 (8.00%) Power Automate
5 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 9 (7.20%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (6.40%) Figma
8 6 (4.80%) AWS
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.20%) Serverless
11 3 (2.40%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.80%) Azure AI
13 1 (0.80%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.60%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (3.20%) Power BI
4 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.60%) Metadata
4 2 (1.60%) MySQL
4 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.80%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.20%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) Selenium
4 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.60%) Gatling
5 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.80%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.80%) GitLab
5 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.80%) JIRA
5 1 (0.80%) JMeter
5 1 (0.80%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.80%) Postman
5 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (12.80%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.60%) Finance
3 7 (5.60%) Law
4 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.40%) Games
5 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.60%) Legal
6 2 (1.60%) Marketing
6 2 (1.60%) Retail
7 1 (0.80%) Advertising
7 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (68.00%) Developer
2 31 (24.80%) Software Developer
3 25 (20.00%) Senior
4 22 (17.60%) C# Developer
4 22 (17.60%) Lead
5 20 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (15.20%) Senior Developer
7 15 (12.00%) .NET Developer
8 12 (9.60%) Lead Developer
9 10 (8.00%) C# Software Developer
9 10 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 9 (7.20%) Angular Developer
11 8 (6.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
12 7 (5.60%) Senior Software Developer
13 6 (4.80%) Designer
13 6 (4.80%) Lead C# Developer
13 6 (4.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (4.80%) UX Designer
14 5 (4.00%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (64.00%) .NET
2 19 (15.20%) AngularJS
3 16 (12.80%) Blazor
4 15 (12.00%) React
5 14 (11.20%) .NET Core
6 13 (10.40%) .NET Framework
7 12 (9.60%) Node.js
8 8 (6.40%) Material Design
8 8 (6.40%) WebAssembly
9 7 (5.60%) CSS
10 5 (4.00%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.00%) HTML
10 5 (4.00%) WPF
11 4 (3.20%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (3.20%) jQuery
11 4 (3.20%) Razor View Engine
12 3 (2.40%) Avalonia
12 3 (2.40%) OpenCV
12 3 (2.40%) Playwright
12 3 (2.40%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.40%) Photography
4 2 (1.60%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.80%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.80%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.80%) EPoS
5 1 (0.80%) IoT
5 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.80%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Kali Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.60%) Full-Stack Development
2 27 (21.60%) Agile
2 27 (21.60%) DevOps
3 26 (20.80%) Software Engineering
4 17 (13.60%) CRM
5 16 (12.80%) AI
6 12 (9.60%) CI/CD
6 12 (9.60%) User Experience
7 11 (8.80%) Data Integration
7 11 (8.80%) Front End Development
7 11 (8.80%) Mentoring
8 10 (8.00%) MVC
8 10 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (7.20%) API Development
9 9 (7.20%) Customer Engagement
9 9 (7.20%) User Stories
10 8 (6.40%) Interaction Design
10 8 (6.40%) Responsive Web Design
10 8 (6.40%) UX Design
10 8 (6.40%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.00%) SQL
2 28 (22.40%) JavaScript
3 16 (12.80%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.40%) C++
5 7 (5.60%) Java
6 6 (4.80%) Python
7 5 (4.00%) PHP
8 2 (1.60%) Bicep
8 2 (1.60%) Go
8 2 (1.60%) Scala
8 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.80%) Delphi
9 1 (0.80%) JCL
9 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (4.00%) Degree
2 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.60%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.80%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.80%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.60%) QA
2 12 (9.60%) Accessibility
3 10 (8.00%) WCAG
4 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (2.40%) Docker
1 3 (2.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.60%) Terraform
3 1 (0.80%) Ansible
3 1 (0.80%) Grafana
3 1 (0.80%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.60%) Databricks
2 2 (1.60%) Xamarin
3 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.80%) Facebook
3 1 (0.80%) Perforce
3 1 (0.80%) Splunk
3 1 (0.80%) Veracode