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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 31 20
Rank change year-on-year -34 -11 +28
Permanent jobs citing C# 136 262 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.54% 6.38% 7.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.24% 24.10% 25.73%
Number of salaries quoted 116 162 294
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,563 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 707 1,087 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.23% 26.46% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 570 551 1,102
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,438 £68,750 £64,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -14 57 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Warwickshire -16 18 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Shropshire -10 12 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Solihull 0 10 £75,000 +42.86% 1
Coventry -8 10 £45,000 -5.26% 7
Staffordshire -23 10 £57,500 +21.05% 4
Wolverhampton -11 4 - - 3
Herefordshire -14 1 £40,000 -42.86% 4
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 (4.41%) IIS
2 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.47%) CMS
3 2 (1.47%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.47%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (15.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.47%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 62 (45.59%) Azure
2 28 (20.59%) Dynamics 365
3 27 (19.85%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (19.85%) Power Platform
4 26 (19.12%) SaaS
5 20 (14.71%) PowerApps
6 18 (13.24%) Power Automate
7 11 (8.09%) AWS
8 10 (7.35%) Serverless
9 8 (5.88%) GitHub
10 7 (5.15%) Figma
10 7 (5.15%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (3.68%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.47%) AWS KMS
12 2 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) DNS
1 2 (1.47%) FTP
1 2 (1.47%) HTTP
1 2 (1.47%) Intranet
1 2 (1.47%) SMTP
1 2 (1.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.06%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (5.15%) Power BI
5 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.47%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.47%) Metadata
6 2 (1.47%) MS Access
7 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.68%) Selenium
3 4 (2.94%) Git
4 3 (2.21%) MSTest
4 3 (2.21%) NUnit
5 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.47%) Subversion
5 2 (1.47%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.74%) JIRA
6 1 (0.74%) Moq
6 1 (0.74%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 40 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.29%) Finance
3 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.35%) Retail
5 8 (5.88%) Law
6 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.21%) Marketing
8 2 (1.47%) Legal
8 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Automotive
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 88 (64.71%) Developer
2 25 (18.38%) Senior
3 23 (16.91%) Lead
4 20 (14.71%) Software Developer
5 19 (13.97%) C# Developer
6 17 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 15 (11.03%) Senior Developer
8 14 (10.29%) Lead Developer
9 13 (9.56%) .NET Developer
10 9 (6.62%) CRM Developer
10 9 (6.62%) Dynamics CRM Developer
10 9 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (4.41%) Applications Developer
12 6 (4.41%) Lead C# Developer
12 6 (4.41%) QA Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) Support Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) Technical Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) Technical Support
12 6 (4.41%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (69.12%) .NET
2 25 (18.38%) AngularJS
3 24 (17.65%) React
4 18 (13.24%) .NET Framework
5 16 (11.76%) REST
6 13 (9.56%) Razor View Engine
7 11 (8.09%) .NET Core
7 11 (8.09%) Blazor
8 10 (7.35%) JSON
9 7 (5.15%) Material Design
9 7 (5.15%) WebAssembly
10 6 (4.41%) ASP.NET
10 6 (4.41%) Entity Framework
10 6 (4.41%) HTML
10 6 (4.41%) Node.js
11 5 (3.68%) CSS
12 4 (2.94%) ARM Templates
12 4 (2.94%) WPF
12 4 (2.94%) YAML
13 3 (2.21%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 13 (9.56%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.35%) Operational Technology
4 7 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.47%) IoT
7 2 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) CMDB
8 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.94%) Windows
2 2 (1.47%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.09%) Agile
2 39 (28.68%) DevOps
3 38 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (25.00%) CRM
5 27 (19.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (19.12%) CI/CD
6 26 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (18.38%) Software Engineering
8 20 (14.71%) Mentoring
9 16 (11.76%) TDD
9 16 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (9.56%) API Integration
10 13 (9.56%) Customer Experience
10 13 (9.56%) Front End Development
10 13 (9.56%) Migration
11 12 (8.82%) Coaching
11 12 (8.82%) Customer Service
11 12 (8.82%) Data Integration
11 12 (8.82%) SDLC
12 11 (8.09%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (31.62%) SQL
2 41 (30.15%) JavaScript
3 19 (13.97%) TypeScript
4 15 (11.03%) Java
4 15 (11.03%) Python
5 14 (10.29%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.62%) PHP
7 5 (3.68%) Bicep
8 4 (2.94%) Scala
9 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.47%) Delphi
10 2 (1.47%) Go
10 2 (1.47%) Groovy
10 2 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.47%) Perl
10 2 (1.47%) Ruby
10 2 (1.47%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.47%) XAML
11 1 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (6.62%) Degree
2 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.41%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.21%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.71%) QA
2 10 (7.35%) Accessibility
3 9 (6.62%) WCAG
4 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Terraform
2 2 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.47%) Nagios
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (1.47%) Databricks
3 2 (1.47%) Infor
3 2 (1.47%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.74%) Atlassian