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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 30 18
Rank change year-on-year -40 -12 +33
Permanent jobs citing C# 131 269 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.36% 6.61% 7.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.30% 24.45% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 114 162 369
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,313 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £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 716 1,100 1,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.91% 27.04% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 569 551 1,371
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £64,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -20 49 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Warwickshire -18 19 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Shropshire -10 13 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Coventry -6 12 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Staffordshire -29 9 £56,250 +18.42% 4
Solihull -5 8 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Wolverhampton -11 4 - - 1
Herefordshire -12 1 £40,000 -42.86% 5
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 (4.58%) IIS
2 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.53%) CMS
3 2 (1.53%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.53%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (13.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.53%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 55 (41.98%) Azure
2 28 (21.37%) SaaS
3 23 (17.56%) Dynamics 365
4 22 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (15.27%) Power Platform
6 15 (11.45%) PowerApps
7 14 (10.69%) Power Automate
8 10 (7.63%) AWS
9 9 (6.87%) GitHub
10 8 (6.11%) Figma
10 8 (6.11%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (6.11%) Serverless
11 3 (2.29%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.53%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.76%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Intranet
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) FTP
2 1 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) SMTP
2 1 (0.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.37%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.16%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (5.34%) Power BI
5 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.53%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.53%) Metadata
6 2 (1.53%) MS Access
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.82%) Selenium
3 4 (3.05%) Git
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) MSTest
4 1 (0.76%) NUnit
4 1 (0.76%) Postman
4 1 (0.76%) Subversion
4 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Finance
3 10 (7.63%) Retail
4 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.11%) Law
6 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Automotive
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Police
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (63.36%) Developer
2 21 (16.03%) Lead
3 20 (15.27%) Software Developer
4 19 (14.50%) C# Developer
4 19 (14.50%) Senior
5 16 (12.21%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 13 (9.92%) .NET Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Lead Developer
9 7 (5.34%) C# Software Developer
9 7 (5.34%) CRM Developer
9 7 (5.34%) Dynamics CRM Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Designer
10 6 (4.58%) QA Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) QA Leader
10 6 (4.58%) Technical Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Technical Support Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (68.70%) .NET
2 26 (19.85%) AngularJS
3 24 (18.32%) React
4 15 (11.45%) .NET Framework
4 15 (11.45%) REST
5 14 (10.69%) Razor View Engine
6 12 (9.16%) Blazor
7 10 (7.63%) JSON
8 9 (6.87%) .NET Core
9 8 (6.11%) Material Design
9 8 (6.11%) WebAssembly
10 6 (4.58%) Node.js
11 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET
11 5 (3.82%) CSS
11 5 (3.82%) HTML
12 4 (3.05%) Entity Framework
12 4 (3.05%) WPF
13 3 (2.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (2.29%) jQuery
13 3 (2.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Product Ownership
2 13 (9.92%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.63%) Operational Technology
4 7 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.76%) CMDB
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.76%) IoT
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.24%) Agile
2 36 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (25.19%) DevOps
4 32 (24.43%) CRM
5 29 (22.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (19.08%) Software Engineering
7 23 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (16.03%) CI/CD
9 18 (13.74%) Mentoring
10 13 (9.92%) API Integration
10 13 (9.92%) Front End Development
11 12 (9.16%) AI
11 12 (9.16%) Coaching
11 12 (9.16%) Customer Experience
11 12 (9.16%) Data Integration
11 12 (9.16%) TDD
11 12 (9.16%) User Experience
12 11 (8.40%) Customer Engagement
12 11 (8.40%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (8.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (31.30%) SQL
2 37 (28.24%) JavaScript
3 14 (10.69%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.69%) TypeScript
4 12 (9.16%) Java
4 12 (9.16%) Python
5 9 (6.87%) PHP
6 4 (3.05%) Bicep
7 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.53%) Delphi
8 2 (1.53%) Go
8 2 (1.53%) Scala
8 2 (1.53%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.53%) XAML
9 1 (0.76%) C++
9 1 (0.76%) Groovy
9 1 (0.76%) Perl
9 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.58%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.29%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.03%) QA
2 11 (8.40%) Accessibility
3 10 (7.63%) WCAG
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.05%) Terraform
2 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.34%) Oracle
3 2 (1.53%) Databricks
3 2 (1.53%) Infor
3 2 (1.53%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.76%) Atlassian