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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 61 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -40 +10
Permanent jobs citing C# 191 109 717
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.50% 4.01% 7.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.26% 13.16% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 180 91 639
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,373 £46,250 £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 £64,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £66,375 £77,500 £72,433
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 1,175 828 2,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.37% 30.44% 31.09%
Number of salaries quoted 771 563 2,392
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 31 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 31 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 +6 63 £56,000 -0.44% 13
Somerset -1 51 £42,784 -34.18% 13
Devon -1 45 £55,000 +2.33% 10
Dorset -11 14 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Wiltshire -17 11 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Gloucestershire -33 7 £52,500 +6.06% 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 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.57%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.84%) Azure
2 23 (12.04%) SaaS
3 18 (9.42%) Power Platform
4 17 (8.90%) AWS
5 15 (7.85%) GitHub
6 14 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.28%) Azure AKS
8 11 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.71%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.66%) Azure AI
11 6 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.09%) GCP
12 4 (2.09%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.09%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.09%) Serverless
13 3 (1.57%) Azure Functions
14 2 (1.05%) Azure API Management
14 2 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (1.05%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Internet
2 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.52%) Modbus
2 1 (0.52%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (24.61%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.38%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.14%) Power BI
5 3 (1.57%) MySQL
5 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.05%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) OLAP
7 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.28%) Git
2 6 (3.14%) JIRA
3 5 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.62%) Postman
3 5 (2.62%) SoapUI
4 3 (1.57%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.05%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.05%) GitLab
5 2 (1.05%) JUnit
5 2 (1.05%) Metasploit
5 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.05%) TestNG
5 2 (1.05%) TestRail
6 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 29 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 7 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (3.66%) Finance
3 6 (3.14%) Electronics
4 5 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (2.09%) Local Government
6 3 (1.57%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.57%) Games
7 2 (1.05%) Advertising
7 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.05%) Marketing
7 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
7 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.52%) Aviation
8 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (48.17%) Developer
2 58 (30.37%) Software Engineer
3 49 (25.65%) Senior
4 38 (19.90%) Software Developer
5 36 (18.85%) .NET Developer
6 27 (14.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 22 (11.52%) Senior Developer
8 17 (8.90%) .NET Software Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Analyst
9 11 (5.76%) Architect
9 11 (5.76%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.24%) .NET Software Developer
10 10 (5.24%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 7 (3.66%) C# Software Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Graduate Developer
13 7 (3.66%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (54.97%) .NET
2 54 (28.27%) .NET Core
3 41 (21.47%) ASP.NET
4 30 (15.71%) .NET Framework
4 30 (15.71%) HTML
5 26 (13.61%) CSS
6 25 (13.09%) WPF
7 23 (12.04%) REST
8 22 (11.52%) Entity Framework
9 21 (10.99%) ASP.NET Core
10 20 (10.47%) React
10 20 (10.47%) RESTful
11 19 (9.95%) AngularJS
11 19 (9.95%) Vue
12 11 (5.76%) Blazor
12 11 (5.76%) Dapper ORM
13 9 (4.71%) Node.js
14 8 (4.19%) Playwright
15 7 (3.66%) ML.NET
15 7 (3.66%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.19%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.62%) Vector Graphics
6 4 (2.09%) NHS
7 3 (1.57%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.05%) Digital TV
8 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) iPhone
9 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.42%) Windows
2 6 (3.14%) Android
2 6 (3.14%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.62%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (37.70%) Software Engineering
2 64 (33.51%) Agile
3 56 (29.32%) CI/CD
4 33 (17.28%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (14.66%) Containerisation
7 24 (12.57%) DevOps
8 23 (12.04%) Computer Science
8 23 (12.04%) Mentoring
9 22 (11.52%) Microservices
10 21 (10.99%) AI
10 21 (10.99%) Test Automation
11 14 (7.33%) Clean Code
11 14 (7.33%) MVC
12 13 (6.81%) API Design
12 13 (6.81%) Machine Learning
12 13 (6.81%) Scrum
13 12 (6.28%) API Integration
13 12 (6.28%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (6.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (32.98%) SQL
2 51 (26.70%) JavaScript
3 30 (15.71%) Python
4 28 (14.66%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.90%) C++
6 14 (7.33%) Java
7 5 (2.62%) PHP
8 3 (1.57%) Bash
8 3 (1.57%) Go
8 3 (1.57%) VB
8 3 (1.57%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.57%) VBA
9 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (15.71%) Degree
2 19 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.38%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.57%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.05%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.85%) QA
2 5 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (22.51%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.05%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.57%) Terraform
3 2 (1.05%) Nmap
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.09%) Google
3 3 (1.57%) Oracle
4 2 (1.05%) Facebook
4 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.05%) Splunk
5 1 (0.52%) TOWER Software