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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -45 -8 +45
Permanent jobs citing C# 150 223 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.76% 7.05% 7.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.64% 28.52% 28.42%
Number of salaries quoted 145 171 485
10th Percentile £45,500 £37,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,250 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 959 782 1,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.27% 24.73% 25.34%
Number of salaries quoted 721 592 1,631
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -35 50 £55,000 -4.35% 12
Coventry -6 24 £70,000 +47.37% 6
Warwickshire -28 22 £65,000 +8.33% 6
Staffordshire -28 13 £67,500 +25.73% 2
Worcestershire -17 10 £62,500 +13.64% 5
Solihull +8 8 £65,000 +18.18%
Shropshire -26 5 £52,500 -12.50% 2
Wolverhampton -27 5 £70,000 +24.44%
Dudley - 2 £55,000 - 2
Walsall -1 1 £59,000 -1.67%
Herefordshire -19 1 £40,000 -33.33% 1
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 2 (1.33%) CMS
1 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.67%) Appian
2 1 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.33%) Azure
2 14 (9.33%) SaaS
3 12 (8.00%) GitHub
4 11 (7.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.33%) Figma
6 7 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.00%) AWS
8 5 (3.33%) Azure Functions
8 5 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.33%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.33%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.33%) Serverless
9 4 (2.67%) BrowserStack
10 3 (2.00%) Azure AI
10 3 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.33%) Google Play
12 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.33%) Internet
2 2 (1.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.67%) Power BI
4 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.67%) Metadata
5 1 (0.67%) MySQL
5 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.67%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 10 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (3.33%) Gatling
3 4 (2.67%) Zephyr
4 3 (2.00%) Git
5 2 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.67%) GitLab
6 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.67%) JMeter
6 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.67%) Postman
6 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.67%) Selenium
6 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (9.33%) Finance
2 11 (7.33%) Manufacturing
3 10 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.67%) Advertising
5 6 (4.00%) Retail
6 5 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.33%) Automotive
7 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.67%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.00%) Games
8 3 (2.00%) Law
9 2 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 102 (68.00%) Developer
2 40 (26.67%) Software Developer
3 30 (20.00%) Senior
4 26 (17.33%) Senior Developer
5 23 (15.33%) .NET Developer
5 23 (15.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (15.33%) Lead
6 22 (14.67%) C# Developer
7 19 (12.67%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Lead Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Senior Software Developer
10 9 (6.00%) Angular Developer
10 9 (6.00%) C# Software Developer
11 8 (5.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Lead Software Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (4.00%) Algorithm Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) Designer
13 6 (4.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (58.00%) .NET
2 30 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 27 (18.00%) Blazor
4 22 (14.67%) AngularJS
5 21 (14.00%) ASP.NET
6 20 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 19 (12.67%) Node.js
8 16 (10.67%) .NET Framework
8 16 (10.67%) React
9 11 (7.33%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (5.33%) Entity Framework
10 8 (5.33%) Material Design
10 8 (5.33%) WebAssembly
11 7 (4.67%) CSS
12 6 (4.00%) RESTful
13 5 (3.33%) HTML
13 5 (3.33%) Playwright
14 4 (2.67%) Kafka
14 4 (2.67%) Vue
15 3 (2.00%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 10 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.33%) Robotics
4 5 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.00%) AS400
6 3 (2.00%) iSeries
6 3 (2.00%) Photography
7 2 (1.33%) iPhone
7 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.67%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.67%) EPoS
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.67%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Linux
1 3 (2.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.33%) Android
3 1 (0.67%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (37.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 38 (25.33%) Software Engineering
3 37 (24.67%) Agile
4 25 (16.67%) DevOps
5 22 (14.67%) AI
6 17 (11.33%) CI/CD
7 15 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 14 (9.33%) API Development
9 12 (8.00%) CRM
9 12 (8.00%) SDLC
10 11 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (7.33%) User Experience
11 10 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (6.67%) Data Integration
11 10 (6.67%) Front End Development
12 9 (6.00%) Microservices
12 9 (6.00%) MVC
12 9 (6.00%) User Stories
13 8 (5.33%) Test Automation
13 8 (5.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.67%) JavaScript
1 34 (22.67%) SQL
2 29 (19.33%) TypeScript
3 14 (9.33%) Java
4 10 (6.67%) C++
5 8 (5.33%) Python
6 5 (3.33%) C
7 3 (2.00%) PHP
7 3 (2.00%) RPG
7 3 (2.00%) RPG IV
7 3 (2.00%) RPG/400
8 2 (1.33%) Go
9 1 (0.67%) Bicep
9 1 (0.67%) Delphi
9 1 (0.67%) JCL
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (2.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (2.00%) Degree
1 3 (2.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (2.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.33%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.33%) QA
3 10 (6.67%) WCAG
4 5 (3.33%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.00%) Docker
2 3 (2.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.67%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 24 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.33%) Allen-Bradley
2 5 (3.33%) Siemens
3 3 (2.00%) IBM
4 2 (1.33%) Facebook
4 2 (1.33%) Google
5 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.67%) Databricks
5 1 (0.67%) Perforce
5 1 (0.67%) Splunk
5 1 (0.67%) Veracode
5 1 (0.67%) YouTube