C# Developer Job Trends in the South East

C# Developer
England > South East

The median C# Developer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 185 164
Rank change year-on-year -44 -21 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 60 70 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.45% 1.04% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.23% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 53 61 240
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £70,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 12,578 5,697 14,439
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 84.92% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 8,387 3,607 10,848
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,108
25th Percentile £35,300 £41,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.72%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'C# Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

C# Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

C# Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the South East

C# Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Salary histogram for C# Developer in the South East

C# Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 April 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
Thames Valley -1 25 £57,500 +9.52%
Buckinghamshire -23 16 £55,000 -2.22%
Hampshire -16 15 £60,000 +11.11% 2
Surrey -26 11 £55,000 - 1
Kent -34 6 £32,500 -43.48% 3
Oxfordshire -4 5 £50,000 +2.56%
Berkshire +4 4 £67,500 +38.46%
East Sussex -35 1 £52,500 +5.00%
West Sussex - 1 £55,000 -
Isle of Wight - 1 £50,000 -
C# Developer
England

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 6 April 2026, C# Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) C#
2 41 (68.33%) .NET
3 21 (35.00%) SQL
4 20 (33.33%) Azure
5 16 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 15 (25.00%) Agile
6 15 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (23.33%) ASP.NET
8 12 (20.00%) AWS
9 11 (18.33%) .NET Core
9 11 (18.33%) MVC
10 10 (16.67%) Apple iOS
10 10 (16.67%) Biometrics
10 10 (16.67%) CSS
10 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 10 (16.67%) SaaS
10 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
10 10 (16.67%) Vue
11 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
12 8 (13.33%) Microservices
12 8 (13.33%) Web Development
13 7 (11.67%) HTML
13 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
13 7 (11.67%) MySQL
14 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
14 6 (10.00%) Degree
15 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 5 (8.33%) CQRS
15 5 (8.33%) DevOps

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) Azure
2 12 (20.00%) AWS
3 10 (16.67%) SaaS
4 3 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.33%) Zapier
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) Selenium
2 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (23.33%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.00%) Retail
3 3 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Banking
4 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Law
4 1 (1.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (68.33%) .NET
2 14 (23.33%) ASP.NET
3 11 (18.33%) .NET Core
4 10 (16.67%) CSS
4 10 (16.67%) Vue
5 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.67%) HTML
7 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (8.33%) React
8 4 (6.67%) Entity Framework
8 4 (6.67%) jQuery
8 4 (6.67%) REST
9 3 (5.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (5.00%) Blazor
10 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (3.33%) OpenAPI
10 2 (3.33%) RESTful
10 2 (3.33%) Swagger
11 1 (1.67%) CSS3
11 1 (1.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.67%) EPoS
3 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.33%) IoT
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.67%) Android
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.67%) Software Engineering
2 15 (25.00%) Agile
2 15 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (18.33%) MVC
4 10 (16.67%) Biometrics
5 8 (13.33%) Microservices
5 8 (13.33%) Web Development
6 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.33%) CQRS
7 5 (8.33%) DevOps
7 5 (8.33%) Product Vision
7 5 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
7 5 (8.33%) SDLC
8 4 (6.67%) AI
8 4 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 4 (6.67%) Design Patterns
9 3 (5.00%) API Development
9 3 (5.00%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) C#
2 21 (35.00%) SQL
3 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.33%) PHP
5 3 (5.00%) C
5 3 (5.00%) C++
5 3 (5.00%) COBOL
5 3 (5.00%) Java
5 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) PhD
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) Xamarin
3 3 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.67%) Infragistics
4 1 (1.67%) Perforce