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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 39 19
Rank change year-on-year -37 -20 +4
Permanent jobs citing C# 122 197 643
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.02% 5.90% 9.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.50% 16.64% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 106 105 591
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.75% -7.07%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £79,350 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 904 1,184 2,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.94% 35.45% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 621 648 2,189
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,993 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -3.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -6 60 £60,000 - 26
Devon -6 29 £45,000 -28.00% 16
Somerset -32 10 £45,000 -21.74% 15
Gloucestershire +7 8 £75,000 +50.00% 12
Dorset -28 8 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Wiltshire -25 7 £65,000 -3.70% 4
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 (2.46%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (2.46%) CMS
1 3 (2.46%) NServiceBus
1 3 (2.46%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (39.34%) Azure
2 17 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (13.93%) SaaS
3 16 (13.11%) Azure AKS
4 10 (8.20%) AWS
5 7 (5.74%) GitHub
6 6 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.10%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.28%) Serverless
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.46%) Boomi
9 3 (2.46%) GCP
9 3 (2.46%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.64%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.64%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.82%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.64%) CockroachDB
2 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.64%) MySQL
2 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.64%) OLAP
2 2 (1.64%) Power BI
2 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.82%) Big Data
3 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Cypress.io
2 7 (5.74%) Git
3 6 (4.92%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.10%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.46%) Balsamiq
5 3 (2.46%) Burp Suite
5 3 (2.46%) Metasploit
5 3 (2.46%) Selenium
6 2 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.64%) GitLab
6 2 (1.64%) JIRA
6 2 (1.64%) JUnit
6 2 (1.64%) Postman
6 2 (1.64%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.64%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.64%) TestNG
7 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (13.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.56%) Manufacturing
3 5 (4.10%) Aerospace
3 5 (4.10%) Finance
4 4 (3.28%) Military
4 4 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.82%) Electronics
7 1 (0.82%) Marketing
7 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (41.80%) Developer
2 38 (31.15%) Software Engineer
3 27 (22.13%) Senior
4 21 (17.21%) Software Developer
5 20 (16.39%) .NET Software Engineer
6 15 (12.30%) .NET Developer
7 13 (10.66%) C# Software Engineer
8 12 (9.84%) Senior Developer
8 12 (9.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (8.20%) C# Developer
9 10 (8.20%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (7.38%) Tester
11 8 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.74%) .NET Software Developer
12 7 (5.74%) Mathematician
13 6 (4.92%) Automation Tester
14 5 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
14 5 (4.10%) Desktop Engineer
14 5 (4.10%) QA Automation Engineer
14 5 (4.10%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (51.64%) .NET
2 26 (21.31%) .NET Core
3 20 (16.39%) .NET Framework
3 20 (16.39%) ASP.NET
3 20 (16.39%) Entity Framework
4 19 (15.57%) CSS
4 19 (15.57%) HTML
5 18 (14.75%) REST
6 14 (11.48%) AngularJS
7 12 (9.84%) Playwright
8 10 (8.20%) Dapper ORM
8 10 (8.20%) RESTful
9 8 (6.56%) WPF
10 6 (4.92%) React
11 5 (4.10%) HTML5
12 4 (3.28%) Autofac
12 4 (3.28%) Blazor
12 4 (3.28%) CSS3
12 4 (3.28%) jQuery
12 4 (3.28%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.72%) Software Engineering
2 34 (27.87%) CI/CD
3 33 (27.05%) Agile
4 27 (22.13%) DevOps
5 20 (16.39%) Containerisation
5 20 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (13.93%) Test Automation
7 16 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (13.11%) MVC
8 14 (11.48%) Computer Science
8 14 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (9.84%) Mentoring
10 11 (9.02%) API Testing
10 11 (9.02%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (8.20%) Manual Testing
12 8 (6.56%) API Development
12 8 (6.56%) Mathematics
12 8 (6.56%) Test Scripting
12 8 (6.56%) Test Strategy
12 8 (6.56%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.33%) JavaScript
2 27 (22.13%) SQL
3 24 (19.67%) TypeScript
4 18 (14.75%) Python
5 8 (6.56%) Java
6 6 (4.92%) Bash
7 5 (4.10%) C++
8 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.46%) Go
9 3 (2.46%) VBScript
10 2 (1.64%) VB
10 2 (1.64%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.93%) Degree
3 13 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.56%) ISTQB
6 6 (4.92%) CREST Certified
7 4 (3.28%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.46%) CITP
9 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.48%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (20.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (18.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.46%) Nmap
3 2 (1.64%) Terraform
4 1 (0.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.46%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.64%) Oracle
3 2 (1.64%) Splunk
4 1 (0.82%) Palantir
4 1 (0.82%) SAP
4 1 (0.82%) Syncfusion
4 1 (0.82%) Telerik