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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 27 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +7
Permanent jobs citing C# 174 381 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.34% 6.29% 7.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.93% 27.23% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 139 264 261
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £69,625 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 727 1,399 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.32% 23.11% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 572 857 1,025
10th Percentile £32,125 £32,500 £33,565
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £67,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for C# 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -5 69 £60,750 +13.25% 27
Staffordshire -12 30 £53,688 +2.26% 14
Warwickshire +13 24 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Shropshire +7 11 £47,500 +15.15% 18
Coventry -8 10 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Solihull +5 9 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Worcestershire -17 4 £42,500 -5.56% 11
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.75%) IIS
1 10 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.72%) CMS
2 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.15%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (12.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.30%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (2.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 68 (39.08%) Azure
2 34 (19.54%) SaaS
3 33 (18.97%) Power Platform
4 32 (18.39%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (12.07%) PowerApps
7 20 (11.49%) Power Automate
8 18 (10.34%) AWS
9 11 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (6.32%) Serverless
10 7 (4.02%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.45%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.87%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.87%) GitHub
13 3 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) DNS
1 2 (1.15%) FTP
1 2 (1.15%) HTTP
1 2 (1.15%) SMTP
1 2 (1.15%) SSH
2 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (36.78%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (2.87%) Power BI
6 4 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (2.30%) MySQL
7 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.72%) Data Hub
7 3 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.72%) SQL CLR
8 2 (1.15%) MS Access
8 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.57%) Metadata
9 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Git
1 8 (4.60%) Visual Studio
2 7 (4.02%) Selenium
3 6 (3.45%) NUnit
4 5 (2.87%) MSTest
5 4 (2.30%) JIRA
5 4 (2.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.72%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.15%) Moq
7 2 (1.15%) NSubstitute
7 2 (1.15%) Subversion
7 2 (1.15%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.07%) Finance
3 14 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.47%) Law
5 12 (6.90%) Police
6 10 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.75%) Retail
7 7 (4.02%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.30%) Back Office
8 4 (2.30%) Marketing
8 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.15%) Automotive
10 2 (1.15%) Electronics
10 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 111 (63.79%) Developer
2 41 (23.56%) Senior
3 30 (17.24%) Senior Developer
4 24 (13.79%) C# Developer
5 22 (12.64%) .NET Developer
6 21 (12.07%) Software Developer
7 19 (10.92%) Lead
8 17 (9.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (8.05%) Lead Developer
10 12 (6.90%) Senior C# Developer
11 11 (6.32%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 10 (5.75%) Analyst
13 9 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.60%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 8 (4.60%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 8 (4.60%) Senior .NET Developer
15 7 (4.02%) Power Platform Developer
15 7 (4.02%) Senior Systems Developer
15 7 (4.02%) Support Engineer
15 7 (4.02%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (66.67%) .NET
2 25 (14.37%) .NET Framework
3 24 (13.79%) AngularJS
4 21 (12.07%) HTML
5 20 (11.49%) Entity Framework
6 19 (10.92%) Blazor
7 18 (10.34%) ASP.NET
8 17 (9.77%) React
9 14 (8.05%) REST
10 12 (6.90%) .NET Core
11 10 (5.75%) CSS
11 10 (5.75%) Razor View Engine
12 9 (5.17%) RESTful
12 9 (5.17%) Web Services
13 8 (4.60%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (4.02%) JSON
15 6 (3.45%) jQuery
15 6 (3.45%) WPF
16 5 (2.87%) ASP.NET Web API
16 5 (2.87%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.47%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.02%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.72%) Animation
6 3 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.15%) AS400
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Android
1 5 (2.87%) Windows
2 4 (2.30%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.15%) Linux
4 2 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (31.61%) DevOps
2 52 (29.89%) Agile
3 43 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (16.67%) CRM
7 28 (16.09%) Computer Science
8 25 (14.37%) CI/CD
9 24 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 22 (12.64%) Software Engineering
11 18 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
11 18 (10.34%) Migration
11 18 (10.34%) MVC
12 16 (9.20%) Impact Assessments
12 16 (9.20%) TDD
12 16 (9.20%) User Experience
13 15 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (8.05%) Clean Code
14 14 (8.05%) Customer Engagement
14 14 (8.05%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (41.38%) SQL
2 50 (28.74%) JavaScript
3 36 (20.69%) Java
4 31 (17.82%) TypeScript
5 24 (13.79%) Python
6 16 (9.20%) PHP
7 14 (8.05%) PowerShell
8 13 (7.47%) C
9 12 (6.90%) C++
10 9 (5.17%) Ruby
11 8 (4.60%) Bicep
11 8 (4.60%) T-SQL
12 7 (4.02%) Dart
12 7 (4.02%) MATLAB
12 7 (4.02%) R
12 7 (4.02%) Rust
12 7 (4.02%) VB.NET
13 4 (2.30%) Scala
13 4 (2.30%) VB
13 4 (2.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 31 (17.82%) Degree
2 23 (13.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.15%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) COBIT
3 1 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.72%) Docker
1 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (8.05%) Terraform
2 10 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.87%) Grafana
3 5 (2.87%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 60 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.32%) Oracle
3 6 (3.45%) Google
4 4 (2.30%) Infor
5 3 (1.72%) VMware
6 2 (1.15%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) Salesforce