Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for C# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C# over the 6 months to 20 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

C#
England > West Midlands
6 months to
20 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 9 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 625 892 1,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.64% 15.42% 14.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.64% 33.58% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 510 804 951
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +2.41%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £54,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%

C# is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,346 2,656 3,480
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 47.43% 45.90% 43.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,953 2,325 2,735
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C# in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for C# in the West Midlands

C#
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 April 2021.

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 20 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Birmingham 0 301 £55,000 +22.22% 92
Coventry -5 51 £37,500 -16.67% 17
Worcestershire -11 51 £40,000 +6.67% 12
Staffordshire -8 50 £37,500 -6.25% 24
Warwickshire +2 44 £45,000 -9.09% 9
Solihull +8 23 £42,500 -5.56% 9
Wolverhampton -13 17 £45,000 -14.29% 7
Shropshire -1 16 £40,000 +19.40% 3
Dudley - 14 £45,500 - 2
Walsall +2 13 £43,500 -3.33% 4
Herefordshire -5 10 £35,000 -22.22% 5
Halesowen +1 2 £25,000 -44.44% 1
C#
England

For the 6 months to 20 April 2021, IT jobs citing C# also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region with a requirement for C#.

1 435 (69.60%) .NET
2 315 (50.40%) SQL
3 310 (49.60%) JavaScript
4 297 (47.52%) Agile Software Development
5 291 (46.56%) Azure
6 258 (41.28%) Microsoft
7 214 (34.24%) CSS
8 202 (32.32%) HTML
9 179 (28.64%) ASP.NET
10 174 (27.84%) SQL Server
11 173 (27.68%) AngularJS
12 170 (27.20%) DevOps
13 158 (25.28%) MVC
14 134 (21.44%) .NET Framework
15 122 (19.52%) .NET Core
16 121 (19.36%) jQuery
17 119 (19.04%) Python
18 117 (18.72%) React
19 105 (16.80%) REST
20 98 (15.68%) Software Engineering
21 95 (15.20%) Microservices
22 94 (15.04%) Java
23 90 (14.40%) Greenfield Project
24 88 (14.08%) SDLC
25 85 (13.60%) TDD
26 79 (12.64%) T-SQL
27 78 (12.48%) ASP.NET MVC
28 76 (12.16%) Entity Framework
29 75 (12.00%) Test Automation
30 68 (10.88%) Docker

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

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

Application Platforms
1 45 (7.20%) Umbraco
2 34 (5.44%) CMS
3 20 (3.20%) Confluence
4 10 (1.60%) IIS
5 7 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.48%) Sitefinity
9 2 (0.32%) Apache
10 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.48%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (1.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.64%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 291 (46.56%) Azure
2 38 (6.08%) Power Platform
3 32 (5.12%) AWS
4 29 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (4.48%) SaaS
6 23 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 22 (3.52%) PowerApps
8 20 (3.20%) GitHub
8 20 (3.20%) Power Automate
9 18 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (2.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (1.44%) npm
13 8 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.28%) GCP
14 6 (0.96%) Serverless
15 5 (0.80%) Azure Functions
15 5 (0.80%) Azure Stack
15 5 (0.80%) PaaS
16 3 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.76%) Skype
2 9 (1.44%) Firewall
3 8 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.12%) HTTP
5 4 (0.64%) DNS
5 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.32%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (27.84%) SQL Server
2 41 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 27 (4.32%) Power BI
4 22 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 14 (2.24%) MySQL
6 11 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (1.60%) Redis
8 8 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.28%) QlikView
9 7 (1.12%) Apache Hive
9 7 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.12%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.12%) SQL Server 2012
9 7 (1.12%) SQLite
10 5 (0.80%) Big Data
11 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.64%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.64%) SQL Server 2008
12 3 (0.48%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 47 (7.52%) Selenium
2 38 (6.08%) Visual Studio
3 37 (5.92%) Visual Studio Team System
4 34 (5.44%) Git (software)
5 25 (4.00%) JIRA
6 23 (3.68%) NUnit
7 18 (2.88%) Jenkins
7 18 (2.88%) JMeter
7 18 (2.88%) SpecFlow
8 17 (2.72%) MSTest
9 16 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (2.24%) Postman
11 12 (1.92%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.96%) GitLab
13 6 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.96%) SoapUI
14 5 (0.80%) gulp
14 5 (0.80%) Moq
General
1 38 (6.08%) Finance
2 22 (3.52%) Multimedia
3 21 (3.36%) Games
4 16 (2.56%) Marketing
5 13 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.76%) Back Office
6 11 (1.76%) Retail
7 6 (0.96%) Publishing
8 5 (0.80%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.80%) Banking
8 5 (0.80%) Law
9 4 (0.64%) Digital Economy
10 3 (0.48%) Local Government
10 3 (0.48%) Police
11 2 (0.32%) Legal
11 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.16%) Automotive
12 1 (0.16%) Billing
12 1 (0.16%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 433 (69.28%) Developer
2 141 (22.56%) .NET Developer
3 124 (19.84%) Software Developer
4 118 (18.88%) C# Developer
5 82 (13.12%) Full Stack Developer
6 79 (12.64%) Senior Developer
7 58 (9.28%) C# .NET Developer
8 42 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 41 (6.56%) C# Software Developer
10 37 (5.92%) Angular Developer
11 33 (5.28%) Senior .NET Developer
12 32 (5.12%) .NET Software Developer
13 27 (4.32%) Web Developer
14 25 (4.00%) Analyst
15 22 (3.52%) Trainee Developer
15 22 (3.52%) Trainee Web Developer
16 20 (3.20%) React Developer
17 19 (3.04%) SQL Developer
17 19 (3.04%) Umbraco Developer
18 18 (2.88%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (69.60%) .NET
2 214 (34.24%) CSS
3 202 (32.32%) HTML
4 179 (28.64%) ASP.NET
5 173 (27.68%) AngularJS
6 134 (21.44%) .NET Framework
7 122 (19.52%) .NET Core
8 121 (19.36%) jQuery
9 117 (18.72%) React
10 105 (16.80%) REST
11 78 (12.48%) ASP.NET MVC
12 76 (12.16%) Entity Framework
13 64 (10.24%) ASP.NET Web API
13 64 (10.24%) HTML5
14 56 (8.96%) Web Services
15 43 (6.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 42 (6.72%) CSS3
17 40 (6.40%) Ajax
18 38 (6.08%) Vue.js
19 34 (5.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (14.40%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (5.44%) Mobile App
3 19 (3.04%) User Experience
4 17 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.76%) N-Tier
7 10 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.44%) EPoS
9 8 (1.28%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.64%) AS400
10 4 (0.64%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.48%) Photography
11 3 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.48%) Wiki
12 2 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.32%) Mobile Games
12 2 (0.32%) Smart Energy
12 2 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.60%) Windows
2 20 (3.20%) Linux
3 8 (1.28%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (47.52%) Agile Software Development
2 170 (27.20%) DevOps
3 158 (25.28%) MVC
4 98 (15.68%) Software Engineering
5 95 (15.20%) Microservices
6 88 (14.08%) SDLC
7 85 (13.60%) TDD
8 75 (12.00%) Test Automation
9 67 (10.72%) Web Development
10 64 (10.24%) Scrum
11 60 (9.60%) Mentoring
12 50 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (7.68%) BDD
14 47 (7.52%) Software Testing
15 43 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (6.40%) Unit Testing
17 39 (6.24%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (5.76%) Front End Development
19 33 (5.28%) SOLID
20 28 (4.48%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 315 (50.40%) SQL
2 310 (49.60%) JavaScript
3 119 (19.04%) Python
4 94 (15.04%) Java
5 79 (12.64%) T-SQL
6 67 (10.72%) TypeScript
7 45 (7.20%) PowerShell
8 36 (5.76%) PHP
9 28 (4.48%) VB.NET
10 22 (3.52%) C++
11 18 (2.88%) Go
12 15 (2.40%) Bash Shell
13 13 (2.08%) VB
14 11 (1.76%) Perl
15 10 (1.60%) C
15 10 (1.60%) F#
16 8 (1.28%) Java 8
17 5 (0.80%) VBA
18 4 (0.64%) ES6
18 4 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (6.88%) Security Cleared
2 32 (5.12%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.96%) Degree
4 16 (2.56%) ISTQB
5 11 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (1.44%) ISEB
8 8 (1.28%) CIW
8 8 (1.28%) OCA
8 8 (1.28%) OCP
8 8 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.48%) HNC
9 3 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.16%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.84%) QA
2 15 (2.40%) SLA
3 9 (1.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 68 (10.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.32%) Firmware
2 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.20%) Terraform
3 10 (1.60%) Ansible
4 9 (1.44%) MIIS
5 8 (1.28%) Grafana
5 8 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 258 (41.28%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.12%) Oracle
3 15 (2.40%) Xamarin
4 11 (1.76%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.28%) Google
6 7 (1.12%) Databricks
7 6 (0.96%) Apple
8 5 (0.80%) Sparx
9 4 (0.64%) Talend
10 3 (0.48%) Adobe
10 3 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.48%) New Relic
10 3 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.48%) Salesforce.com
11 2 (0.32%) Aderant
12 1 (0.16%) BEA
12 1 (0.16%) IBM
12 1 (0.16%) SAP
12 1 (0.16%) Splunk