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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 26 23
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 +9
Permanent jobs citing C# 145 350 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.86% 6.54% 7.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.74% 26.52% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 117 218 237
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,675 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,800 £72,500 £76,750
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 699 1,320 1,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.59% 24.68% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 575 691 932
10th Percentile £31,550 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.19%
75th Percentile £68,875 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -6 66 £61,500 +14.65% 19
Warwickshire +4 18 £60,250 -13.93% 10
Shropshire +4 13 £47,500 +2.70% 3
Solihull +8 12 £75,000 +50.00% 1
Staffordshire -28 10 £57,500 +12.19% 4
Coventry -8 8 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Wolverhampton +1 4 - - 1
Herefordshire -12 1 £40,000 -42.86% 3
Worcestershire -16 1 £42,500 - 2
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
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 (4.83%) IIS
2 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.07%) CMS
4 2 (1.38%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.38%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (17.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.38%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.03%) Azure
2 35 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (22.07%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (21.38%) Power Platform
5 29 (20.00%) SaaS
6 22 (15.17%) PowerApps
7 20 (13.79%) Power Automate
8 14 (9.66%) AWS
9 13 (8.97%) Serverless
10 7 (4.83%) Azure Functions
10 7 (4.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (4.83%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.76%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.76%) GitHub
13 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.07%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.38%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) DNS
1 2 (1.38%) FTP
1 2 (1.38%) HTTP
1 2 (1.38%) Intranet
1 2 (1.38%) SMTP
1 2 (1.38%) SSH
2 1 (0.69%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (28.97%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.97%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (5.52%) Power BI
5 5 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.07%) MySQL
7 2 (1.38%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.38%) Metadata
7 2 (1.38%) MS Access
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.69%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.69%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Git
2 8 (5.52%) Selenium
3 6 (4.14%) NUnit
4 5 (3.45%) MSTest
5 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.07%) JIRA
6 2 (1.38%) Moq
6 2 (1.38%) NSubstitute
6 2 (1.38%) Subversion
6 2 (1.38%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.69%) Postman
General
1 44 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.41%) Finance
3 17 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.97%) Retail
5 10 (6.90%) Law
6 5 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Marketing
7 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.07%) Legal
9 2 (1.38%) Automotive
9 2 (1.38%) Back Office
9 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Electronics
10 1 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 97 (66.90%) Developer
2 35 (24.14%) Senior
3 26 (17.93%) Lead
4 25 (17.24%) C# Developer
5 21 (14.48%) Senior Developer
6 18 (12.41%) Lead Developer
6 18 (12.41%) Software Developer
7 16 (11.03%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 14 (9.66%) .NET Developer
9 12 (8.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.21%) CRM Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Dynamics CRM Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior C# Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Applications Developer
12 7 (4.83%) C# Software Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Support Engineer
13 6 (4.14%) Lead C# Developer
13 6 (4.14%) QA Automation Engineer
13 6 (4.14%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (67.59%) .NET
2 27 (18.62%) .NET Framework
3 26 (17.93%) AngularJS
4 25 (17.24%) React
5 17 (11.72%) REST
6 15 (10.34%) Razor View Engine
7 14 (9.66%) Entity Framework
8 12 (8.28%) Blazor
8 12 (8.28%) HTML
9 11 (7.59%) ASP.NET
10 10 (6.90%) .NET Core
10 10 (6.90%) JSON
11 9 (6.21%) CSS
12 8 (5.52%) RESTful
13 7 (4.83%) WPF
14 5 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
15 4 (2.76%) ARM Templates
15 4 (2.76%) ASP.NET MVC
15 4 (2.76%) jQuery
15 4 (2.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.03%) Onboarding
1 16 (11.03%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.90%) Operational Technology
3 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.38%) Animation
6 2 (1.38%) IoT
6 2 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.69%) AS400
7 1 (0.69%) CMDB
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.69%) NHS
7 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.45%) Windows
2 3 (2.07%) Android
2 3 (2.07%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.38%) Linux
3 2 (1.38%) VMS
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.48%) Agile
1 50 (34.48%) DevOps
2 44 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (22.76%) CI/CD
4 31 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (21.38%) CRM
5 28 (19.31%) Mentoring
6 26 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (17.93%) Software Engineering
7 19 (13.10%) TDD
8 18 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (10.34%) Migration
10 14 (9.66%) Coaching
10 14 (9.66%) MVC
10 14 (9.66%) SDLC
11 13 (8.97%) API Integration
11 13 (8.97%) Customer Experience
11 13 (8.97%) Data Migration
11 13 (8.97%) Microservices
11 13 (8.97%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.17%) SQL
2 40 (27.59%) JavaScript
3 22 (15.17%) TypeScript
4 17 (11.72%) Java
4 17 (11.72%) PowerShell
5 15 (10.34%) Python
6 10 (6.90%) PHP
7 8 (5.52%) Bicep
8 6 (4.14%) T-SQL
9 5 (3.45%) Scala
10 3 (2.07%) C++
10 3 (2.07%) VB
10 3 (2.07%) XAML
11 2 (1.38%) Delphi
11 2 (1.38%) Go
11 2 (1.38%) Groovy
11 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.38%) Perl
11 2 (1.38%) Ruby
11 2 (1.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (10.34%) Degree
2 11 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.52%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.83%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.14%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.17%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.38%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) WCAG
4 1 (0.69%) COBIT
4 1 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.21%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.38%) Nagios
4 1 (0.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 43 (29.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.21%) Oracle
3 3 (2.07%) Xamarin
4 2 (1.38%) Databricks
4 2 (1.38%) Infor
5 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.69%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.69%) VMware