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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 34 25
Rank change year-on-year -39 -9 +9
Permanent jobs citing C# 141 276 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.75% 6.12% 7.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.38% 24.58% 22.44%
Number of salaries quoted 117 179 218
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £72,700 £72,500 £76,250
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 692 1,123 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.51% 24.92% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 561 588 905
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,163 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,763 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -7 64 £61,500 +11.82% 16
Warwickshire -11 21 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Shropshire -11 12 £47,500 +2.70% 3
Staffordshire -18 12 £60,000 +26.32% 8
Solihull -1 10 £75,000 +50.00% 1
Coventry -10 6 £52,500 +10.53% 4
Wolverhampton -5 4 - - 3
Herefordshire -13 1 £40,000 -42.86% 3
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 (4.26%) IIS
2 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.42%) CMS
3 2 (1.42%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.42%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (14.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.42%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 70 (49.65%) Azure
2 31 (21.99%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (21.28%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (20.57%) Power Platform
5 27 (19.15%) SaaS
6 21 (14.89%) PowerApps
7 20 (14.18%) Power Automate
8 14 (9.93%) AWS
9 12 (8.51%) Serverless
10 7 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (4.26%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.55%) GitHub
13 3 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.13%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.13%) Figma
13 3 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) DNS
1 2 (1.42%) FTP
1 2 (1.42%) HTTP
1 2 (1.42%) Intranet
1 2 (1.42%) SMTP
1 2 (1.42%) SSH
2 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (26.95%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.93%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (4.96%) Power BI
5 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.13%) Metadata
5 3 (2.13%) MySQL
5 3 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.42%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.42%) MS Access
7 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (5.67%) Selenium
2 6 (4.26%) Git
2 6 (4.26%) NUnit
3 5 (3.55%) MSTest
4 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.13%) JIRA
4 3 (2.13%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.42%) Moq
5 2 (1.42%) NSubstitute
5 2 (1.42%) Subversion
5 2 (1.42%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.71%) Postman
General
1 43 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.06%) Public Sector
3 15 (10.64%) Finance
4 10 (7.09%) Retail
5 8 (5.67%) Law
6 4 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.13%) Marketing
8 2 (1.42%) Automotive
8 2 (1.42%) Legal
8 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Back Office
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 88 (62.41%) Developer
2 32 (22.70%) Senior
3 26 (18.44%) Lead
4 21 (14.89%) C# Developer
5 18 (12.77%) Senior Developer
6 17 (12.06%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 16 (11.35%) Software Developer
8 15 (10.64%) Lead Developer
9 10 (7.09%) .NET Developer
10 9 (6.38%) CRM Developer
10 9 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM Developer
11 8 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) QA Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) QA Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) QA Leader
12 7 (4.96%) Senior .NET Developer
13 6 (4.26%) Senior C# Developer
13 6 (4.26%) Technical Engineer
13 6 (4.26%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (66.67%) .NET
2 25 (17.73%) AngularJS
2 25 (17.73%) React
3 22 (15.60%) .NET Framework
4 16 (11.35%) REST
5 13 (9.22%) Razor View Engine
6 11 (7.80%) Blazor
7 10 (7.09%) Entity Framework
7 10 (7.09%) JSON
8 9 (6.38%) HTML
9 8 (5.67%) .NET Core
9 8 (5.67%) ASP.NET
9 8 (5.67%) CSS
10 6 (4.26%) Node.js
11 5 (3.55%) ARM Templates
11 5 (3.55%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.55%) WPF
12 4 (2.84%) RESTful
12 4 (2.84%) YAML
13 3 (2.13%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.77%) Product Ownership
2 14 (9.93%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.09%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.09%) Operational Technology
4 8 (5.67%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.42%) IoT
7 2 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.71%) Animation
8 1 (0.71%) AS400
8 1 (0.71%) CMDB
8 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.71%) NHS
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.84%) Windows
2 2 (1.42%) Linux
2 2 (1.42%) VMS
3 1 (0.71%) Android
3 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.62%) Agile
1 46 (32.62%) DevOps
2 40 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (21.28%) CI/CD
3 30 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (21.28%) CRM
4 27 (19.15%) Software Engineering
5 24 (17.02%) Mentoring
6 21 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (12.06%) TDD
8 16 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (9.93%) Coaching
9 14 (9.93%) Test Automation
10 13 (9.22%) API Integration
10 13 (9.22%) Customer Experience
10 13 (9.22%) Migration
10 13 (9.22%) SDLC
11 12 (8.51%) Client Onboarding
11 12 (8.51%) Customer Service
12 11 (7.80%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.21%) SQL
2 38 (26.95%) JavaScript
3 20 (14.18%) TypeScript
4 17 (12.06%) Java
4 17 (12.06%) Python
5 15 (10.64%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.09%) PHP
7 7 (4.96%) Bicep
8 5 (3.55%) Scala
8 5 (3.55%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.13%) C++
9 3 (2.13%) XAML
10 2 (1.42%) Delphi
10 2 (1.42%) Go
10 2 (1.42%) Groovy
10 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.42%) Perl
10 2 (1.42%) Ruby
10 2 (1.42%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (9.93%) Degree
2 10 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.96%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.42%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.31%) QA
2 5 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.84%) WCAG
4 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.13%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) COBIT
5 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Terraform
2 2 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.42%) Nagios
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 39 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.38%) Oracle
3 3 (2.13%) Databricks
4 2 (1.42%) Infor
4 2 (1.42%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.71%) Blue Prism