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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 33 26
Rank change year-on-year -22 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 219 177 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.43% 5.45% 6.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.70% 24.38% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 201 143 261
10th Percentile £46,217 £40,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £63,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,500 £70,000
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 1,058 726 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.72% 22.37% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 744 575 855
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 21 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 21 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 -23 71 £57,500 -6.50% 33
Coventry +3 36 £70,000 +40.00% 6
Worcestershire +4 27 £65,000 +52.94% 8
Dudley - 23 £55,000 - 4
Warwickshire -27 18 £65,000 +8.33% 18
Staffordshire -10 15 £67,500 +25.73% 4
Solihull +11 12 £65,000 -5.45% 7
Wolverhampton - 11 £70,000 - 4
Herefordshire - 3 £55,000 - 3
Shropshire -35 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 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.46%) Appian
2 1 (0.46%) CMS
2 1 (0.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) IIS
2 1 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 8 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 113 (51.60%) Azure
2 38 (17.35%) Power Automate
2 38 (17.35%) Power Platform
3 28 (12.79%) PowerApps
4 25 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (9.13%) Serverless
7 18 (8.22%) Azure Functions
8 16 (7.31%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (6.39%) AWS
9 14 (6.39%) Azure AI
9 14 (6.39%) GitHub
10 11 (5.02%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.65%) SaaS
13 6 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.83%) BrowserStack
14 4 (1.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) Internet
2 5 (2.28%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.37%) Firewall
3 3 (1.37%) HTTP
3 3 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.26%) SQL Server
2 36 (16.44%) MongoDB
3 35 (15.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (10.05%) Power BI
5 14 (6.39%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (4.57%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.91%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.46%) MySQL
8 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (7.31%) Git
2 4 (1.83%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.83%) Gatling
2 4 (1.83%) Zephyr
3 3 (1.37%) JIRA
4 2 (0.91%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.46%) NUnit
5 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (12.79%) Finance
2 26 (11.87%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.85%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.85%) Retail
4 14 (6.39%) Advertising
5 13 (5.94%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.74%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.74%) Automotive
9 4 (1.83%) Marketing
9 4 (1.83%) 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 (0.46%) Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (69.41%) Developer
2 46 (21.00%) Senior
3 45 (20.55%) Software Developer
4 42 (19.18%) .NET Developer
5 35 (15.98%) Senior Developer
6 31 (14.16%) Lead
7 29 (13.24%) Software Engineer
8 25 (11.42%) Lead Developer
9 18 (8.22%) C# Developer
10 17 (7.76%) Lead Software Developer
11 13 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (5.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 11 (5.02%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 11 (5.02%) Power Platform Developer
14 10 (4.57%) Senior Software Developer
15 9 (4.11%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (4.11%) Senior C# Developer
16 8 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 8 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (63.47%) .NET
2 59 (26.94%) .NET Core
3 45 (20.55%) ASP.NET
4 42 (19.18%) ASP.NET Core
5 32 (14.61%) Blazor
6 24 (10.96%) ASP.NET Web API
7 22 (10.05%) Entity Framework
7 22 (10.05%) Node.js
7 22 (10.05%) React
8 21 (9.59%) AngularJS
9 17 (7.76%) REST
10 15 (6.85%) .NET Framework
10 15 (6.85%) Vue
11 14 (6.39%) CSS
11 14 (6.39%) RESTful
12 13 (5.94%) HTML
13 11 (5.02%) LINQ
14 8 (3.65%) JSON
14 8 (3.65%) XML
14 8 (3.65%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.59%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.02%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.11%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.65%) Taxonomies
7 6 (2.74%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.74%) Robotics
8 5 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.83%) AS400
9 4 (1.83%) iSeries
9 4 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.37%) IoT
10 3 (1.37%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) iPhone
11 2 (0.91%) Online Gambling
11 2 (0.91%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.83%) Android
2 3 (1.37%) Linux
2 3 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.90%) Agile
2 71 (32.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (20.09%) Software Engineering
4 43 (19.63%) DevOps
5 42 (19.18%) CI/CD
6 31 (14.16%) SDLC
7 29 (13.24%) Mentoring
8 27 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (11.87%) AI
9 26 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (11.42%) Microservices
11 24 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (10.05%) Roadmaps
13 18 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (7.31%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (6.85%) E-Commerce
16 14 (6.39%) TDD
17 12 (5.48%) BDD
17 12 (5.48%) CRM
17 12 (5.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (31.96%) SQL
2 54 (24.66%) JavaScript
3 32 (14.61%) TypeScript
4 19 (8.68%) Java
5 12 (5.48%) Python
6 9 (4.11%) C++
7 6 (2.74%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.28%) C
8 5 (2.28%) Go
9 4 (1.83%) PHP
9 4 (1.83%) RPG
9 4 (1.83%) RPG IV
9 4 (1.83%) RPG/400
10 2 (0.91%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.46%) Delphi
11 1 (0.46%) Pascal
11 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (4.57%) Azure Certification
2 10 (4.57%) Degree
3 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.37%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.48%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.11%) GDPR
3 8 (3.65%) WCAG
4 7 (3.20%) QA
5 5 (2.28%) IEC 61131
6 3 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) PSD2
System Software
1 15 (6.85%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.91%) Bosun
2 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (37.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.11%) Facebook
3 8 (3.65%) Foundry
4 5 (2.28%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (2.28%) Siemens
4 5 (2.28%) YouTube
5 4 (1.83%) IBM
6 3 (1.37%) Google
7 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.46%) Databricks
8 1 (0.46%) Perforce
8 1 (0.46%) SYSPRO