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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -42 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 114 251 515
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.14% 6.22% 9.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.43% 18.43% 22.73%
Number of salaries quoted 97 126 469
10th Percentile £38,250 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -7.69%

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 790 1,362 2,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.84% 33.74% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 561 728 1,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,563
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.53%
75th Percentile £68,400 £71,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 January 2026.

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 January 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
Bristol -8 56 £60,000 - 35
Devon -1 21 £40,000 -36.00% 24
Somerset -28 11 £45,000 -21.74% 28
Dorset -18 10 £50,000 +11.11% 20
Wiltshire -26 9 £60,000 +4.35% 22
Gloucestershire -11 7 £75,000 +50.00% 22
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 (2.63%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (2.63%) CMS
1 3 (2.63%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.74%) Azure
2 18 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (9.65%) AWS
4 10 (8.77%) Azure AKS
4 10 (8.77%) SaaS
5 8 (7.02%) GitHub
5 8 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.14%) Serverless
7 5 (4.39%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.39%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.51%) GCP
9 3 (2.63%) Azure API Management
9 3 (2.63%) Boomi
9 3 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.63%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.75%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.75%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.51%) MySQL
2 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.63%) Power BI
4 2 (1.75%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.75%) OLAP
4 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) Visual Studio
3 7 (6.14%) Cypress.io
4 6 (5.26%) Git
5 5 (4.39%) Selenium
6 4 (3.51%) Postman
6 4 (3.51%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.63%) Balsamiq
7 3 (2.63%) Burp Suite
7 3 (2.63%) JIRA
7 3 (2.63%) Metasploit
8 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.75%) GitLab
8 2 (1.75%) JUnit
8 2 (1.75%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.75%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.75%) TestNG
General
1 18 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.89%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.26%) Finance
4 5 (4.39%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.51%) Military
5 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.75%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.88%) Electronics
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (44.74%) Developer
2 28 (24.56%) Software Engineer
3 23 (20.18%) Senior
4 18 (15.79%) Software Developer
5 15 (13.16%) .NET Developer
6 14 (12.28%) .NET Software Engineer
6 14 (12.28%) C# Developer
7 13 (11.40%) Senior Developer
8 11 (9.65%) C# Software Engineer
9 9 (7.89%) Tester
10 7 (6.14%) C# Software Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Mathematician
11 6 (5.26%) .NET Software Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Automation Tester
11 6 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Lead
11 6 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Desktop Engineer
13 4 (3.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (49.12%) .NET
2 22 (19.30%) .NET Core
3 16 (14.04%) .NET Framework
3 16 (14.04%) ASP.NET
4 15 (13.16%) Entity Framework
5 13 (11.40%) CSS
6 12 (10.53%) HTML
7 11 (9.65%) RESTful
7 11 (9.65%) WPF
8 10 (8.77%) Playwright
9 9 (7.89%) REST
10 8 (7.02%) AngularJS
11 6 (5.26%) React
12 5 (4.39%) Blazor
13 4 (3.51%) Autofac
13 4 (3.51%) CSS3
13 4 (3.51%) Dapper ORM
13 4 (3.51%) HTML5
13 4 (3.51%) Middleware
13 4 (3.51%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.88%) Life Science
5 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Linux
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.47%) Software Engineering
2 35 (30.70%) Agile
3 31 (27.19%) CI/CD
4 28 (24.56%) DevOps
5 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (14.91%) MVC
7 16 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (14.04%) Test Automation
8 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.40%) Computer Science
10 12 (10.53%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.53%) Mentoring
11 9 (7.89%) API Testing
12 8 (7.02%) Mathematics
13 7 (6.14%) Clean Code
13 7 (6.14%) CRM
13 7 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (6.14%) Manual Testing
13 7 (6.14%) Mathematical Modelling
13 7 (6.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.19%) JavaScript
2 29 (25.44%) SQL
3 20 (17.54%) Python
4 13 (11.40%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.02%) Java
6 7 (6.14%) Bash
7 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.63%) C++
8 3 (2.63%) Go
8 3 (2.63%) VBScript
9 2 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.75%) VB
9 2 (1.75%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.75%) XAML
10 1 (0.88%) Bicep
10 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.04%) Degree
3 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.26%) CREST Certified
6 5 (4.39%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.51%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.63%) CITP
9 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.39%) Terraform
3 3 (2.63%) Nmap
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.63%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.75%) Oracle
3 2 (1.75%) Splunk
3 2 (1.75%) Syncfusion
3 2 (1.75%) Telerik
4 1 (0.88%) Palantir
4 1 (0.88%) SAP