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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 27
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 219 174 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.49% 5.26% 6.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.08% 24.00% 27.48%
Number of salaries quoted 202 136 272
10th Percentile £46,221 £40,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £67,250
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 1,039 725 1,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.81% 21.94% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 745 568 887
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,125 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £65,302
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 12 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 12 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 -29 67 £57,500 -5.35% 18
Coventry -2 36 £70,000 +40.00% 4
Worcestershire -4 29 £65,000 +52.94% 2
Dudley - 21 £55,000 - 4
Warwickshire -18 19 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Staffordshire -8 17 £67,500 +25.73% 2
Solihull +11 11 £65,000 +36.84% 2
Wolverhampton - 11 £70,000 - 4
Herefordshire - 3 £55,000 - 1
Shropshire -33 1 £50,000 +5.26%
Walsall - 1 £59,000 -
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 6 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.46%) Appian
2 1 (0.46%) CMS
2 1 (0.46%) IIS
2 1 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 7 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 111 (50.68%) Azure
2 34 (15.53%) Power Automate
2 34 (15.53%) Power Platform
3 26 (11.87%) PowerApps
4 22 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (8.68%) Serverless
6 17 (7.76%) Azure Functions
7 15 (6.85%) GitHub
8 14 (6.39%) AWS
8 14 (6.39%) Azure AI
8 14 (6.39%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.02%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.20%) SaaS
12 5 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.83%) BrowserStack
13 4 (1.83%) GCP
14 2 (0.91%) Amazon EMR
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 39 (17.81%) SQL Server
2 36 (16.44%) MongoDB
3 35 (15.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (9.13%) Power BI
5 14 (6.39%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.11%) 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 14 (6.39%) Git
2 4 (1.83%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.83%) Gatling
2 4 (1.83%) Zephyr
3 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.91%) JIRA
3 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.46%) NUnit
4 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (11.87%) Finance
2 23 (10.50%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.31%) Retail
4 14 (6.39%) Advertising
5 13 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.48%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.28%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.28%) Automotive
10 4 (1.83%) Marketing
11 3 (1.37%) Games
11 3 (1.37%) Law
11 3 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.91%) Legal
12 2 (0.91%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.46%) Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (69.86%) Developer
2 49 (22.37%) Software Developer
3 45 (20.55%) Senior
4 42 (19.18%) .NET Developer
5 34 (15.53%) Senior Developer
6 33 (15.07%) Lead
7 29 (13.24%) Software Engineer
8 27 (12.33%) Lead Developer
9 19 (8.68%) C# Developer
9 19 (8.68%) Lead Software Developer
10 13 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.02%) Senior Software Developer
12 10 (4.57%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (4.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 10 (4.57%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 9 (4.11%) Power Platform Developer
14 8 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 8 (3.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (63.93%) .NET
2 59 (26.94%) .NET Core
3 44 (20.09%) ASP.NET
4 42 (19.18%) ASP.NET Core
5 33 (15.07%) Blazor
6 24 (10.96%) ASP.NET Web API
7 23 (10.50%) Node.js
7 23 (10.50%) React
8 22 (10.05%) Entity Framework
9 21 (9.59%) AngularJS
10 18 (8.22%) .NET Framework
11 15 (6.85%) CSS
11 15 (6.85%) REST
11 15 (6.85%) RESTful
11 15 (6.85%) Vue
12 14 (6.39%) HTML
13 11 (5.02%) LINQ
14 7 (3.20%) EDI
15 6 (2.74%) XML
15 6 (2.74%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.13%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (5.02%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.65%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.65%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.20%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.74%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.28%) Robotics
9 4 (1.83%) AS400
9 4 (1.83%) iSeries
9 4 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.37%) Photography
11 2 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) IoT
11 2 (0.91%) iPhone
11 2 (0.91%) Online Gambling
11 2 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.83%) Android
1 4 (1.83%) Windows
2 3 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (35.16%) Agile
2 70 (31.96%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (19.63%) Software Engineering
4 40 (18.26%) DevOps
5 39 (17.81%) CI/CD
6 28 (12.79%) SDLC
7 26 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (11.87%) Mentoring
8 25 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (10.96%) Microservices
10 23 (10.50%) AI
11 22 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (8.68%) Roadmaps
13 16 (7.31%) E-Commerce
14 15 (6.85%) TDD
14 15 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (6.39%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (5.48%) BDD
16 12 (5.48%) Scrum
17 11 (5.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (31.51%) SQL
2 54 (24.66%) JavaScript
3 32 (14.61%) TypeScript
4 19 (8.68%) Java
5 11 (5.02%) C++
5 11 (5.02%) Python
6 5 (2.28%) C
6 5 (2.28%) Go
6 5 (2.28%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.83%) PHP
7 4 (1.83%) RPG
7 4 (1.83%) RPG IV
7 4 (1.83%) RPG/400
8 2 (0.91%) Delphi
8 2 (0.91%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.46%) Pascal
9 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (4.11%) Degree
3 8 (3.65%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.37%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.57%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.20%) GDPR
2 7 (3.20%) QA
3 6 (2.74%) WCAG
4 5 (2.28%) IEC 61131
5 3 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.46%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (5.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (9.13%) 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 79 (36.07%) 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