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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 33 27
Rank change year-on-year -57 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 99 265 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.98% 6.02% 8.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.92% 18.65% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 81 147 330
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 766 1,421 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.30% 32.27% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 569 787 1,392
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £35,297
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,679 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 24 December 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 24 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
Bristol -18 42 £60,000 - 34
Devon -5 16 £40,000 -33.33% 16
Gloucestershire -2 11 £75,000 +50.00% 22
Somerset -25 11 £45,000 -18.18% 20
Wiltshire -24 10 £43,953 -28.24% 6
Dorset -21 9 £55,000 +22.22% 11
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 3 (3.03%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (3.03%) CMS
1 3 (3.03%) Confluence
1 3 (3.03%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.01%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.03%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (3.03%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.01%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (1.01%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.48%) Azure
2 16 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (11.11%) AWS
4 8 (8.08%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.07%) GitHub
6 6 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 6 (6.06%) SaaS
6 6 (6.06%) Serverless
7 5 (5.05%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.03%) Boomi
9 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.02%) GCP
10 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.02%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.01%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.07%) MySQL
2 7 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.03%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.03%) Power BI
5 2 (2.02%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.02%) OLAP
5 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.07%) Cypress.io
2 7 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.06%) Git
4 5 (5.05%) JIRA
4 5 (5.05%) Selenium
5 4 (4.04%) Postman
5 4 (4.04%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.03%) Balsamiq
7 2 (2.02%) Burp Suite
7 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.02%) GitLab
7 2 (2.02%) JUnit
7 2 (2.02%) Metasploit
7 2 (2.02%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.02%) TestNG
8 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.01%) LabVIEW
General
1 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.05%) Finance
4 4 (4.04%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.04%) Military
4 4 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.01%) Back Office
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Electronics
7 1 (1.01%) Law
7 1 (1.01%) Marketing
7 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (51.52%) Developer
2 21 (21.21%) Software Developer
3 18 (18.18%) Senior
4 15 (15.15%) .NET Developer
5 14 (14.14%) Software Engineer
6 11 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 11 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.08%) C# Software Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Tester
8 7 (7.07%) C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Mathematician
9 6 (6.06%) .NET Software Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Automation Tester
9 6 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (5.05%) Desktop Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.04%) .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (4.04%) Support Specialist
11 4 (4.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (47.47%) .NET
2 19 (19.19%) .NET Core
3 13 (13.13%) HTML
4 12 (12.12%) .NET Framework
4 12 (12.12%) CSS
5 10 (10.10%) Playwright
5 10 (10.10%) RESTful
6 9 (9.09%) Entity Framework
6 9 (9.09%) WPF
7 8 (8.08%) AngularJS
8 7 (7.07%) ASP.NET
9 6 (6.06%) REST
9 6 (6.06%) Web Services
10 5 (5.05%) Blazor
10 5 (5.05%) React
11 4 (4.04%) Autofac
12 3 (3.03%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (3.03%) HTML5
12 3 (3.03%) Middleware
13 2 (2.02%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Life Science
5 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.01%) NHS
5 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.32%) Software Engineering
2 31 (31.31%) Agile
3 27 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 26 (26.26%) DevOps
4 26 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 14 (14.14%) Computer Science
7 12 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 11 (11.11%) Migration
9 10 (10.10%) MVC
10 9 (9.09%) API Testing
10 9 (9.09%) Containerisation
11 8 (8.08%) Mathematics
12 7 (7.07%) CRM
12 7 (7.07%) ETL
12 7 (7.07%) Manual Testing
12 7 (7.07%) Mathematical Modelling
12 7 (7.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 31 (31.31%) SQL
3 19 (19.19%) Python
4 14 (14.14%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.07%) Java
6 6 (6.06%) Bash
7 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.03%) Go
8 3 (3.03%) VB.NET
8 3 (3.03%) VBScript
9 2 (2.02%) C++
9 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.02%) XAML
10 1 (1.01%) Bicep
10 1 (1.01%) C
10 1 (1.01%) PHP
10 1 (1.01%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (17.17%) Degree
2 10 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.05%) CREST Certified
5 5 (5.05%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.03%) CITP
8 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Terraform
3 2 (2.02%) Nmap
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.03%) Infor
2 3 (3.03%) MuleSoft
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle
3 2 (2.02%) Splunk
3 2 (2.02%) Syncfusion
3 2 (2.02%) Telerik
4 1 (1.01%) Palantir
4 1 (1.01%) SAP