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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 30 25
Rank change year-on-year -52 -5 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 104 262 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.06% 6.01% 8.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.59% 18.66% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 86 144 339
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,625 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -2.34%

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 765 1,404 1,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.15% 32.18% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 569 773 1,422
10th Percentile £30,633 £35,000 £35,784
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -13 44 £60,000 - 52
Devon -9 17 £40,000 -36.00% 39
Gloucestershire -4 11 £75,000 +50.00% 58
Dorset -20 11 £50,000 +11.11% 23
Somerset -23 11 £45,000 -18.18% 37
Wiltshire -24 10 £43,953 -23.56% 20
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 (2.88%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (2.88%) CMS
1 3 (2.88%) Confluence
1 3 (2.88%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.96%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.88%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (2.88%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.96%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.96%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.96%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.08%) Azure
2 18 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (10.58%) AWS
4 9 (8.65%) SaaS
5 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.73%) Azure AKS
6 7 (6.73%) GitHub
7 6 (5.77%) Serverless
8 5 (4.81%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.88%) Boomi
10 3 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.92%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.92%) GCP
11 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.92%) Pulumi
12 1 (0.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 1 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.73%) MySQL
2 7 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.88%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.88%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.92%) OLAP
5 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.96%) Big Data
6 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 7 (6.73%) Cypress.io
2 7 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.77%) Git
4 5 (4.81%) JIRA
4 5 (4.81%) Selenium
5 4 (3.85%) Postman
5 4 (3.85%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.88%) Balsamiq
7 2 (1.92%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.92%) GitLab
7 2 (1.92%) JUnit
7 2 (1.92%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.92%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.92%) TestNG
8 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.96%) LabVIEW
General
1 17 (16.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.65%) Manufacturing
3 5 (4.81%) Finance
4 4 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.85%) Military
4 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.96%) Back Office
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Electronics
7 1 (0.96%) Law
7 1 (0.96%) Marketing
7 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (51.92%) Developer
2 20 (19.23%) Software Developer
3 19 (18.27%) Senior
4 16 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 15 (14.42%) .NET Developer
6 12 (11.54%) C# Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Tester
9 7 (6.73%) C# Software Developer
9 7 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (6.73%) Mathematician
10 6 (5.77%) .NET Software Developer
10 6 (5.77%) .NET Software Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Automation Tester
10 6 (5.77%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (4.81%) Desktop Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Support Specialist
12 4 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (47.12%) .NET
2 19 (18.27%) .NET Core
3 13 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 13 (12.50%) CSS
3 13 (12.50%) HTML
4 10 (9.62%) Entity Framework
4 10 (9.62%) Playwright
4 10 (9.62%) RESTful
5 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET
5 9 (8.65%) WPF
6 8 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 7 (6.73%) REST
8 6 (5.77%) Web Services
9 5 (4.81%) Blazor
9 5 (4.81%) React
10 4 (3.85%) Autofac
11 3 (2.88%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (2.88%) HTML5
11 3 (2.88%) Middleware
12 2 (1.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.96%) Life Science
5 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.96%) NHS
5 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.73%) Agile
1 33 (31.73%) Software Engineering
2 27 (25.96%) CI/CD
2 27 (25.96%) DevOps
2 27 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (17.31%) Test Automation
4 17 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (13.46%) Computer Science
5 14 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (10.58%) Migration
6 11 (10.58%) MVC
7 10 (9.62%) Containerisation
7 10 (9.62%) Mentoring
8 9 (8.65%) API Testing
9 8 (7.69%) Mathematics
10 7 (6.73%) CRM
10 7 (6.73%) ETL
10 7 (6.73%) Manual Testing
10 7 (6.73%) Mathematical Modelling
10 7 (6.73%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 34 (32.69%) JavaScript
2 32 (30.77%) SQL
3 19 (18.27%) Python
4 15 (14.42%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.73%) Java
6 6 (5.77%) Bash
7 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.88%) Go
8 3 (2.88%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.88%) VBScript
9 2 (1.92%) C++
9 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.92%) XAML
10 1 (0.96%) Bicep
10 1 (0.96%) C
10 1 (0.96%) PHP
10 1 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (16.35%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.81%) CREST Certified
5 5 (4.81%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.88%) CITP
8 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.62%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.92%) Nmap
Vendors
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.88%) Infor
2 3 (2.88%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.92%) Oracle
3 2 (1.92%) Splunk
3 2 (1.92%) Syncfusion
3 2 (1.92%) Telerik
4 1 (0.96%) Palantir
4 1 (0.96%) SAP