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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 50 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -29 +5
Permanent jobs citing C# 143 123 717
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.02% 4.69% 8.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.67% 14.84% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 127 96 654
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,577 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £72,078
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%

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 1,046 829 2,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.78% 31.61% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 671 631 2,472
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £66,313
90th Percentile £79,250 £82,500 £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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -5 63 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Devon 0 32 £45,000 -28.00% 13
Somerset -24 21 £42,784 -28.69% 16
Dorset -19 10 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Gloucestershire -22 9 £63,750 +27.50% 15
Wiltshire -32 8 £62,500 +4.17% 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 3 (2.10%) NServiceBus
2 2 (1.40%) CMS
2 2 (1.40%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.70%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (35.66%) Azure
2 21 (14.69%) SaaS
3 19 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (9.79%) Azure AKS
5 11 (7.69%) AWS
6 9 (6.29%) GitHub
7 6 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.50%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.50%) Serverless
9 4 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.80%) GCP
10 3 (2.10%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.10%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.40%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.40%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 1 (0.70%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.70%) Modbus
1 1 (0.70%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.80%) MySQL
3 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.10%) Power BI
4 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.40%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.40%) OLAP
4 2 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Git
2 8 (5.59%) Cypress.io
3 5 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.50%) JIRA
3 5 (3.50%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.80%) Balsamiq
4 4 (2.80%) Postman
4 4 (2.80%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.10%) Burp Suite
5 3 (2.10%) Metasploit
5 3 (2.10%) Selenium
6 2 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.40%) GitLab
6 2 (1.40%) JUnit
6 2 (1.40%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.40%) TestNG
6 2 (1.40%) TestRail
7 1 (0.70%) MSTest
7 1 (0.70%) Vite
General
1 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.90%) Finance
3 4 (2.80%) Aerospace
3 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
3 4 (2.80%) Military
3 4 (2.80%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (2.10%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.40%) Electronics
5 2 (1.40%) Marketing
6 1 (0.70%) Advertising
6 1 (0.70%) Aviation
6 1 (0.70%) Games
6 1 (0.70%) Retail
6 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 63 (44.06%) Developer
2 43 (30.07%) Software Engineer
3 31 (21.68%) Software Developer
4 28 (19.58%) Senior
5 22 (15.38%) .NET Developer
6 21 (14.69%) .NET Software Engineer
7 13 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
7 13 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (8.39%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.69%) .NET Software Developer
9 11 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.69%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 10 (6.99%) C# Developer
11 9 (6.29%) Tester
12 6 (4.20%) Automation Tester
12 6 (4.20%) Lead
13 5 (3.50%) Automation Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Backend Developer
13 5 (3.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 5 (3.50%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (56.64%) .NET
2 34 (23.78%) .NET Core
3 28 (19.58%) ASP.NET
4 26 (18.18%) HTML
5 23 (16.08%) .NET Framework
5 23 (16.08%) CSS
5 23 (16.08%) Entity Framework
5 23 (16.08%) REST
6 18 (12.59%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.49%) Playwright
8 14 (9.79%) RESTful
9 11 (7.69%) Dapper ORM
10 10 (6.99%) React
10 10 (6.99%) WPF
11 6 (4.20%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (4.20%) Blazor
11 6 (4.20%) Vue
12 5 (3.50%) HTML5
13 4 (2.80%) CSS3
13 4 (2.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.59%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.70%) PKI
5 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.40%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (44.06%) Software Engineering
2 42 (29.37%) CI/CD
3 41 (28.67%) Agile
4 31 (21.68%) DevOps
5 24 (16.78%) Containerisation
6 23 (16.08%) Test Automation
7 21 (14.69%) Computer Science
7 21 (14.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.59%) MVC
9 15 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (9.09%) API Testing
11 12 (8.39%) Mentoring
11 12 (8.39%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (7.69%) Clean Code
13 10 (6.99%) Manual Testing
14 9 (6.29%) API Development
14 9 (6.29%) SDLC
15 8 (5.59%) API Integration
15 8 (5.59%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.17%) JavaScript
2 34 (23.78%) SQL
3 31 (21.68%) TypeScript
4 23 (16.08%) Python
5 12 (8.39%) Java
6 7 (4.90%) Bash
7 6 (4.20%) Go
8 5 (3.50%) C++
9 4 (2.80%) PHP
9 4 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.10%) VB
10 3 (2.10%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.10%) VBScript
11 1 (0.70%) C
11 1 (0.70%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (16.08%) Degree
2 21 (14.69%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.59%) ISTQB
6 6 (4.20%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.10%) CITP
9 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.99%) QA
2 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.40%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (22.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (18.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) Nmap
2 3 (2.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.10%) Oracle
3 2 (1.40%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.40%) Splunk
4 1 (0.70%) Facebook
4 1 (0.70%) Google
4 1 (0.70%) Palantir
4 1 (0.70%) SAP