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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 53 21
Rank change year-on-year -23 -32 +6
Permanent jobs citing C# 149 125 717
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.03% 4.71% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.59% 14.65% 24.09%
Number of salaries quoted 133 99 651
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,063 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £64,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £72,433
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%

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 1,096 853 2,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.96% 32.13% 34.23%
Number of salaries quoted 679 631 2,469
10th Percentile £33,950 £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 £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,400 £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 18 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 18 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 -7 63 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Devon 0 33 £45,000 -28.00% 14
Somerset -28 24 £42,642 -28.93% 19
Wiltshire -20 10 £58,750 - 5
Dorset -20 10 £50,000 +17.65% 10
Gloucestershire -23 9 £63,750 +27.50% 9
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 (2.01%) NServiceBus
1 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.34%) CMS
2 2 (1.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.90%) Azure
2 21 (14.09%) SaaS
3 19 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (8.72%) Azure AKS
5 11 (7.38%) AWS
6 9 (6.04%) GitHub
7 7 (4.70%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.36%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.36%) Serverless
10 4 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.68%) GCP
11 3 (2.01%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.01%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.34%) Azure API Management
12 2 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.34%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.67%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.67%) Modbus
1 1 (0.67%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (28.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.68%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.68%) MySQL
2 4 (2.68%) Power BI
3 3 (2.01%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.34%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.34%) OLAP
4 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Git
2 8 (5.37%) Cypress.io
3 6 (4.03%) JIRA
4 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.36%) Postman
4 5 (3.36%) SoapUI
5 4 (2.68%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.68%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.01%) Burp Suite
6 3 (2.01%) Metasploit
6 3 (2.01%) Selenium
6 3 (2.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.34%) GitLab
7 2 (1.34%) JUnit
7 2 (1.34%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.34%) TestNG
7 2 (1.34%) TestRail
8 1 (0.67%) NUnit
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (16.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.70%) Finance
3 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.68%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.68%) Military
4 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.01%) Electronics
5 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.34%) Marketing
6 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Aviation
7 1 (0.67%) Games
7 1 (0.67%) Retail
7 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (44.30%) Developer
2 45 (30.20%) Software Engineer
3 32 (21.48%) Software Developer
4 30 (20.13%) Senior
5 22 (14.77%) .NET Developer
6 21 (14.09%) .NET Software Engineer
7 15 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (8.72%) C# Software Engineer
9 12 (8.05%) Senior Developer
10 11 (7.38%) .NET Software Developer
10 11 (7.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (7.38%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 9 (6.04%) C# Developer
11 9 (6.04%) Tester
12 7 (4.70%) Analyst
12 7 (4.70%) Graduate
12 7 (4.70%) Graduate Developer
12 7 (4.70%) Graduate Software Developer
13 6 (4.03%) Automation Tester
13 6 (4.03%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (56.38%) .NET
2 34 (22.82%) .NET Core
3 30 (20.13%) ASP.NET
4 26 (17.45%) HTML
5 24 (16.11%) .NET Framework
5 24 (16.11%) Entity Framework
6 23 (15.44%) REST
7 22 (14.77%) CSS
8 18 (12.08%) AngularJS
9 15 (10.07%) Playwright
10 14 (9.40%) RESTful
11 12 (8.05%) WPF
12 11 (7.38%) Dapper ORM
13 10 (6.71%) React
14 6 (4.03%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (4.03%) Blazor
14 6 (4.03%) Vue
15 5 (3.36%) HTML5
16 4 (2.68%) CSS3
16 4 (2.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.37%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.34%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.34%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (44.97%) Software Engineering
2 43 (28.86%) Agile
3 42 (28.19%) CI/CD
4 31 (20.81%) DevOps
5 24 (16.11%) Computer Science
5 24 (16.11%) Containerisation
6 23 (15.44%) Test Automation
7 22 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (13.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (11.41%) MVC
10 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (9.40%) API Testing
11 14 (9.40%) Mentoring
12 12 (8.05%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (7.38%) Clean Code
14 10 (6.71%) Manual Testing
14 10 (6.71%) SDLC
14 10 (6.71%) Software Testing
15 9 (6.04%) API Development
15 9 (6.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.20%) JavaScript
2 36 (24.16%) SQL
3 31 (20.81%) TypeScript
4 26 (17.45%) Python
5 15 (10.07%) Java
6 7 (4.70%) Bash
7 6 (4.03%) Go
8 5 (3.36%) C++
8 5 (3.36%) PHP
9 4 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.68%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.01%) VB
10 3 (2.01%) VBScript
11 2 (1.34%) VBA
12 1 (0.67%) C
12 1 (0.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 26 (17.45%) Degree
2 21 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 18 (12.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.72%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.37%) ISTQB
6 6 (4.03%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.01%) CITP
9 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.09%) QA
2 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (21.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (18.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.01%) Nmap
2 3 (2.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.01%) Oracle
3 2 (1.34%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.34%) Splunk
4 1 (0.67%) Facebook
4 1 (0.67%) Google
4 1 (0.67%) Palantir
4 1 (0.67%) SAP