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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -58 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 100 339 376
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.26% 5.76% 8.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.95% 20.11% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 83 190 349
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,900 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £72,500 £78,000
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 772 1,686 1,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.48% 28.65% 40.36%
Number of salaries quoted 569 930 1,424
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -21 40 £60,000 +33.33% 51
Devon -19 17 £40,000 -27.27% 7
Gloucestershire -2 16 £75,000 +41.95% 22
Wiltshire -15 11 £42,500 -34.62% 11
Somerset -21 9 £45,000 -14.29% 19
Dorset -33 7 £55,000 +22.22% 6
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (3.00%) CMS
2 3 (3.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.00%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.00%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (4.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.00%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (1.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (49.00%) Azure
2 16 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.00%) AWS
4 8 (8.00%) SaaS
5 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.00%) Serverless
6 6 (6.00%) Azure AKS
6 6 (6.00%) GitHub
7 5 (5.00%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.00%) Boomi
9 3 (3.00%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.00%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.00%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.00%) MySQL
4 6 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (4.00%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.00%) Power BI
6 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.00%) Big Data
7 1 (1.00%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.00%) OLAP
7 1 (1.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) Git
2 8 (8.00%) JIRA
3 6 (6.00%) Cypress.io
3 6 (6.00%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.00%) Balsamiq
5 3 (3.00%) Selenium
5 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.00%) Postman
6 2 (2.00%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.00%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.00%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.00%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (6.00%) Finance
4 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.00%) Military
4 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.00%) Electronics
6 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.00%) Law
6 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.00%) Back Office
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing
7 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (58.00%) Developer
2 24 (24.00%) Software Developer
3 19 (19.00%) .NET Developer
4 17 (17.00%) Senior
5 14 (14.00%) C# Developer
6 11 (11.00%) Software Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 9 (9.00%) C# Software Developer
9 8 (8.00%) .NET Software Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Mathematician
11 6 (6.00%) C# Software Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (5.00%) Tester
13 4 (4.00%) Automation Tester
13 4 (4.00%) Desktop Engineer
13 4 (4.00%) Lead
13 4 (4.00%) Senior Software Developer
13 4 (4.00%) Support Specialist
14 3 (3.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (57.00%) .NET
2 21 (21.00%) .NET Core
3 16 (16.00%) .NET Framework
4 15 (15.00%) HTML
5 14 (14.00%) CSS
6 13 (13.00%) RESTful
7 12 (12.00%) Entity Framework
8 11 (11.00%) AngularJS
9 9 (9.00%) React
10 8 (8.00%) REST
10 8 (8.00%) Web Services
10 8 (8.00%) WPF
11 7 (7.00%) ASP.NET
11 7 (7.00%) Blazor
11 7 (7.00%) Playwright
12 5 (5.00%) HTML5
13 4 (4.00%) Autofac
14 3 (3.00%) ASP.NET MVC
14 3 (3.00%) Middleware
14 3 (3.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.00%) Life Science
6 1 (1.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) PKI
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Android
2 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) Agile
2 28 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 25 (25.00%) DevOps
4 23 (23.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 14 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (12.00%) Computer Science
8 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.00%) Migration
10 10 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 10 (10.00%) MVC
11 9 (9.00%) Microservices
12 8 (8.00%) Clean Code
12 8 (8.00%) Mathematics
13 7 (7.00%) Mathematical Modelling
13 7 (7.00%) Project Management
13 7 (7.00%) User Experience
13 7 (7.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.00%) SQL
2 32 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (15.00%) Python
3 15 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.00%) Bash
5 5 (5.00%) Java
5 5 (5.00%) VB.NET
6 4 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.00%) Go
7 3 (3.00%) VBScript
8 2 (2.00%) C++
8 2 (2.00%) PHP
8 2 (2.00%) XAML
9 1 (1.00%) Bicep
9 1 (1.00%) C
9 1 (1.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (15.00%) Degree
2 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.00%) CREST Certified
5 4 (4.00%) ISTQB
6 3 (3.00%) CITP
7 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 23 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.00%) Infor
3 3 (3.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.00%) Syncfusion
4 2 (2.00%) Telerik
5 1 (1.00%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.00%) Palantir
5 1 (1.00%) SAP
5 1 (1.00%) Xamarin