C# Job Trends in the South West

C#
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 28 31
Rank change year-on-year -62 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing C# 83 357 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.30% 5.56% 8.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.84% 20.17% 20.60%
Number of salaries quoted 72 204 350
10th Percentile £34,000 £26,000 £36,405
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 701 1,770 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.44% 27.57% 39.50%
Number of salaries quoted 500 985 1,439
10th Percentile £29,225 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C# relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

C# job vacancy trend in the South West

C#
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in the South West over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Salary histogram for C# in the South West

C#
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Bristol -22 29 £57,500 +27.78% 48
Devon -22 15 £39,125 -28.86% 11
Gloucestershire -6 14 £70,000 +27.27% 22
Wiltshire -11 10 £39,250 -39.62% 4
Dorset -19 9 £53,750 +19.44% 8
Somerset -18 6 £45,000 -14.29% 15
C#
England

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (8.43%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.41%) CMS
3 2 (2.41%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (4.82%) Infor CloudSuite
1 4 (4.82%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.20%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 36 (43.37%) Azure
2 12 (14.46%) AWS
2 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.64%) SaaS
4 7 (8.43%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.23%) GitHub
5 6 (7.23%) Serverless
6 5 (6.02%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.82%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.61%) Boomi
8 3 (3.61%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.41%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.20%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.51%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (7.23%) MySQL
5 4 (4.82%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.82%) Power BI
5 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.20%) Big Data
8 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.20%) FileMaker
8 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.20%) OLAP
8 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Git
2 10 (12.05%) JIRA
3 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.82%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.61%) Postman
4 3 (3.61%) Selenium
4 3 (3.61%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.41%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.20%) git-flow
6 1 (1.20%) JUnit
6 1 (1.20%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.20%) NUnit
6 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 17 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.43%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Law
5 3 (3.61%) Finance
6 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Back Office
7 1 (1.20%) Electronics
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (65.06%) Developer
2 20 (24.10%) Software Developer
3 18 (21.69%) .NET Developer
4 13 (15.66%) C# Developer
4 13 (15.66%) Senior
5 10 (12.05%) Senior Developer
6 9 (10.84%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (7.23%) C# Software Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Mathematician
8 5 (6.02%) .NET Software Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Software Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Software Support Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (65.06%) .NET
2 20 (24.10%) .NET Core
3 12 (14.46%) React
4 11 (13.25%) .NET Framework
5 10 (12.05%) RESTful
6 9 (10.84%) ASP.NET
6 9 (10.84%) HTML
6 9 (10.84%) Web Services
7 8 (9.64%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.64%) CSS
7 8 (9.64%) Entity Framework
7 8 (9.64%) WPF
8 7 (8.43%) REST
9 6 (7.23%) Blazor
10 4 (4.82%) HTML5
10 4 (4.82%) Node.js
10 4 (4.82%) Vue
11 3 (3.61%) Middleware
11 3 (3.61%) Razor View Engine
11 3 (3.61%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.41%) IoT
2 2 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.20%) Life Science
3 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.20%) NHS
3 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.20%) PKI
3 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Android
2 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.92%) Agile
2 22 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (21.69%) DevOps
4 15 (18.07%) CI/CD
5 13 (15.66%) Software Engineering
6 12 (14.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (13.25%) Mentoring
8 10 (12.05%) Test Automation
9 8 (9.64%) Clean Code
9 8 (9.64%) Containerisation
9 8 (9.64%) Microservices
9 8 (9.64%) Migration
9 8 (9.64%) Project Management
10 7 (8.43%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.43%) Mathematics
10 7 (8.43%) MVC
11 6 (7.23%) ERP
11 6 (7.23%) Mathematical Modelling
12 5 (6.02%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.37%) SQL
2 21 (25.30%) JavaScript
3 10 (12.05%) TypeScript
4 9 (10.84%) Python
5 6 (7.23%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.82%) Java
6 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.61%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.41%) XAML
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) Bicep
9 1 (1.20%) C
9 1 (1.20%) C++
9 1 (1.20%) Dart
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.82%) MCP
3 4 (4.82%) MCSE
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) ISEB
5 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.41%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
2 1 (1.20%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (10.84%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (31.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.82%) Infor
3 3 (3.61%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.41%) Syncfusion
4 2 (2.41%) Telerik
5 1 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.20%) Xamarin