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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -54 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 103 302 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.17% 5.87% 8.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.53% 19.16% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 85 169 348
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,950 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £79,000 £72,500 £78,250
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 761 1,576 1,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.01% 30.64% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 565 875 1,430
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £35,748
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,875 £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 8 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 8 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 -12 42 £60,000 +24.35% 36
Devon -15 17 £40,000 -27.27% 20
Gloucestershire +2 14 £75,000 +44.23% 30
Wiltshire -17 11 £43,953 -32.38% 15
Somerset -23 11 £45,000 -18.18% 20
Dorset -24 8 £55,000 +22.22% 8
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 5 (4.85%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (2.91%) CMS
2 3 (2.91%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.97%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.88%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (3.88%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.97%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.97%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (47.57%) Azure
2 15 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.65%) AWS
4 9 (8.74%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.80%) SaaS
6 6 (5.83%) Azure AKS
6 6 (5.83%) GitHub
6 6 (5.83%) Serverless
7 5 (4.85%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.91%) Boomi
9 3 (2.91%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.94%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.97%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.97%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.80%) MySQL
2 7 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (3.88%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (3.88%) Power BI
4 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.91%) OLAP
4 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.97%) Big Data
6 1 (0.97%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.77%) JIRA
1 8 (7.77%) Visual Studio
2 7 (6.80%) Cypress.io
2 7 (6.80%) Git
3 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.85%) Selenium
4 3 (2.91%) Balsamiq
4 3 (2.91%) Postman
4 3 (2.91%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.97%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.97%) GitLab
6 1 (0.97%) JUnit
6 1 (0.97%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.97%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.97%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.97%) TestNG
General
1 17 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.74%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.83%) Finance
4 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.88%) Military
4 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.94%) Electronics
6 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.94%) Law
6 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.97%) Back Office
7 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing
7 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (52.43%) Developer
2 22 (21.36%) Software Developer
3 19 (18.45%) Senior
4 17 (16.50%) .NET Developer
5 15 (14.56%) Software Engineer
6 12 (11.65%) Senior Developer
7 11 (10.68%) C# Developer
8 9 (8.74%) C# Software Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (6.80%) C# Software Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Mathematician
9 7 (6.80%) Tester
10 6 (5.83%) .NET Software Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Automation Tester
11 5 (4.85%) Desktop Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.88%) .NET Software Engineer
12 4 (3.88%) Senior Software Developer
12 4 (3.88%) Support Specialist
12 4 (3.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (52.43%) .NET
2 21 (20.39%) .NET Core
3 14 (13.59%) HTML
4 13 (12.62%) .NET Framework
4 13 (12.62%) CSS
5 12 (11.65%) RESTful
6 10 (9.71%) Entity Framework
6 10 (9.71%) Playwright
7 9 (8.74%) WPF
8 8 (7.77%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.77%) ASP.NET
8 8 (7.77%) REST
8 8 (7.77%) Web Services
9 6 (5.83%) React
10 5 (4.85%) Blazor
11 4 (3.88%) Autofac
11 4 (3.88%) HTML5
12 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (2.91%) Middleware
13 2 (1.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) IoT
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.97%) Life Science
5 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.97%) NHS
5 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (32.04%) Software Engineering
2 32 (31.07%) Agile
3 29 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (25.24%) CI/CD
5 24 (23.30%) DevOps
6 20 (19.42%) Test Automation
7 19 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (14.56%) Computer Science
9 13 (12.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (10.68%) Mentoring
10 11 (10.68%) Migration
10 11 (10.68%) MVC
11 10 (9.71%) Containerisation
12 8 (7.77%) API Testing
12 8 (7.77%) Clean Code
12 8 (7.77%) ETL
12 8 (7.77%) Mathematics
12 8 (7.77%) Microservices
13 7 (6.80%) Manual Testing
13 7 (6.80%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.98%) SQL
2 33 (32.04%) JavaScript
3 16 (15.53%) Python
4 15 (14.56%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.83%) Java
6 5 (4.85%) Bash
6 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.91%) Go
7 3 (2.91%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.91%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.91%) VBScript
8 2 (1.94%) C++
8 2 (1.94%) PHP
8 2 (1.94%) XAML
9 1 (0.97%) Bicep
9 1 (0.97%) C
9 1 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (16.50%) Degree
2 10 (9.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.85%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.88%) CREST Certified
6 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.91%) CITP
8 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.74%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.94%) GDPR
2 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (10.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Nmap
Vendors
1 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.88%) Infor
3 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.94%) Syncfusion
4 2 (1.94%) Telerik
5 1 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle
5 1 (0.97%) Palantir
5 1 (0.97%) SAP
5 1 (0.97%) Splunk