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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 54 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 -32 +5
Permanent jobs citing C# 160 121 717
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.09% 4.49% 8.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.00% 14.20% 24.42%
Number of salaries quoted 148 99 646
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,100 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,373 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,750 £72,433
England median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% +12.07% -10.77%

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 1,143 852 2,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.93% 31.64% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 711 613 2,407
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -2 64 £55,000 +4.76% 26
Devon +2 35 £55,000 - 15
Somerset -14 32 £42,500 -29.17% 16
Dorset -22 12 £50,000 +8.11% 4
Wiltshire -12 11 £57,500 - 2
Gloucestershire -28 6 £52,500 +5.00% 5
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 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.88%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.25%) Azure
2 23 (14.38%) SaaS
3 15 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.50%) Azure AKS
4 12 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.88%) GitHub
6 10 (6.25%) AWS
7 6 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.50%) GCP
9 4 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.50%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.50%) Serverless
10 3 (1.88%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.88%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.25%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.25%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.25%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.63%) Modbus
1 1 (0.63%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (25.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.75%) Power BI
4 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.88%) MySQL
4 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.25%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.25%) OLAP
5 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (6.88%) Git
2 6 (3.75%) JIRA
3 5 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 5 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.13%) Postman
3 5 (3.13%) SoapUI
4 3 (1.88%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.88%) Metasploit
4 3 (1.88%) Selenium
4 3 (1.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.25%) GitLab
5 2 (1.25%) JUnit
5 2 (1.25%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.25%) TestNG
5 2 (1.25%) TestRail
5 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.63%) NUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 25 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.38%) Finance
3 6 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.13%) Electronics
5 4 (2.50%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.88%) Marketing
6 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.25%) Advertising
7 2 (1.25%) Games
7 2 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Aviation
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Local Government
8 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (46.25%) Developer
2 51 (31.88%) Software Engineer
3 35 (21.88%) Software Developer
4 33 (20.63%) Senior
5 26 (16.25%) .NET Developer
6 21 (13.13%) .NET Software Engineer
7 19 (11.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (8.75%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.50%) C# Software Engineer
10 11 (6.88%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 10 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
11 10 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Backend Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Analyst
13 7 (4.38%) C# Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Graduate
13 7 (4.38%) Graduate Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Graduate Software Developer
14 6 (3.75%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (56.88%) .NET
2 43 (26.88%) .NET Core
3 34 (21.25%) ASP.NET
4 23 (14.38%) HTML
4 23 (14.38%) REST
5 22 (13.75%) .NET Framework
5 22 (13.75%) Entity Framework
6 19 (11.88%) CSS
7 17 (10.63%) WPF
8 16 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 15 (9.38%) RESTful
10 14 (8.75%) React
11 12 (7.50%) Playwright
11 12 (7.50%) Vue
12 11 (6.88%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (6.88%) Dapper ORM
13 8 (5.00%) Blazor
14 6 (3.75%) Node.js
15 5 (3.13%) jQuery
16 3 (1.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.25%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.63%) Digital TV
6 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) NHS
6 1 (0.63%) PKI
6 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.63%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Windows
2 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.88%) Software Engineering
2 47 (29.38%) Agile
3 46 (28.75%) CI/CD
4 25 (15.63%) Containerisation
4 25 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 24 (15.00%) DevOps
6 22 (13.75%) Test Automation
7 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 15 (9.38%) MVC
10 14 (8.75%) Clean Code
11 13 (8.13%) Microservices
12 12 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (7.50%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (6.88%) AI
13 11 (6.88%) API Integration
13 11 (6.88%) API Testing
14 10 (6.25%) API Design
14 10 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 45 (28.13%) SQL
2 43 (26.88%) JavaScript
3 29 (18.13%) TypeScript
4 25 (15.63%) Python
5 14 (8.75%) Java
6 9 (5.63%) C++
7 5 (3.13%) PHP
8 4 (2.50%) Bash
9 3 (1.88%) Go
9 3 (1.88%) VB
9 3 (1.88%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.88%) VBA
10 1 (0.63%) C
10 1 (0.63%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (16.88%) Degree
2 18 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.13%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.88%) CREST Certified
5 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (22.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (20.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.88%) Nmap
2 3 (1.88%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.88%) Oracle
3 2 (1.25%) Facebook
3 2 (1.25%) Google
3 2 (1.25%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.25%) Splunk
4 1 (0.63%) Palantir
4 1 (0.63%) SAP
4 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software