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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 30 24
Rank change year-on-year -52 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 107 259 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.12% 6.17% 8.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.30% 18.69% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 91 137 358
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year - +4.27% +0.48%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 748 1,386 1,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.79% 33.00% 39.51%
Number of salaries quoted 552 751 1,487
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £36,186
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,145 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -9 49 £60,000 - 34
Devon -7 18 £40,000 -36.00% 25
Somerset -18 11 £45,000 -18.18% 23
Dorset -21 10 £50,000 +11.11% 21
Wiltshire -24 10 £43,953 -23.56% 19
Gloucestershire -2 9 £75,000 +50.00% 23
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 (2.80%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (2.80%) CMS
1 3 (2.80%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.87%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.87%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.93%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.93%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (46.73%) Azure
2 18 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (10.28%) AWS
4 8 (7.48%) Azure AKS
4 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.48%) SaaS
5 6 (5.61%) GitHub
5 6 (5.61%) Serverless
6 5 (4.67%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.80%) Boomi
7 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.80%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.87%) GCP
8 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.87%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.54%) MySQL
2 7 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.80%) Power BI
5 2 (1.87%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.87%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.87%) OLAP
5 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Visual Studio
2 7 (6.54%) Cypress.io
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.67%) Git
3 5 (4.67%) Selenium
4 4 (3.74%) Postman
4 4 (3.74%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.80%) Balsamiq
5 3 (2.80%) JIRA
6 2 (1.87%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.87%) GitLab
6 2 (1.87%) JUnit
6 2 (1.87%) Metasploit
6 2 (1.87%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.87%) TestNG
7 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.41%) Manufacturing
3 5 (4.67%) Finance
4 4 (3.74%) Military
4 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.93%) Electronics
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (48.60%) Developer
2 21 (19.63%) Software Engineer
3 20 (18.69%) Senior
3 20 (18.69%) Software Developer
4 14 (13.08%) C# Developer
5 13 (12.15%) .NET Developer
6 12 (11.21%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.35%) .NET Software Engineer
8 9 (8.41%) C# Software Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Tester
10 7 (6.54%) C# Software Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Mathematician
11 6 (5.61%) .NET Software Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Automation Tester
11 6 (5.61%) C# .NET Developer
12 5 (4.67%) Desktop Engineer
13 4 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (3.74%) Support Specialist
13 4 (3.74%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (47.66%) .NET
2 19 (17.76%) .NET Core
3 14 (13.08%) .NET Framework
4 13 (12.15%) CSS
5 12 (11.21%) ASP.NET
5 12 (11.21%) Entity Framework
5 12 (11.21%) HTML
6 10 (9.35%) Playwright
6 10 (9.35%) WPF
7 9 (8.41%) RESTful
8 8 (7.48%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.48%) REST
9 5 (4.67%) Blazor
10 4 (3.74%) Autofac
10 4 (3.74%) React
10 4 (3.74%) Web Services
11 3 (2.80%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (2.80%) Middleware
12 2 (1.87%) CSS3
12 2 (1.87%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Life Science
5 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.58%) Software Engineering
2 33 (30.84%) Agile
3 27 (25.23%) CI/CD
4 25 (23.36%) DevOps
4 25 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (14.95%) Test Automation
6 15 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (12.15%) Computer Science
7 13 (12.15%) MVC
8 11 (10.28%) Containerisation
8 11 (10.28%) Migration
9 9 (8.41%) API Testing
9 9 (8.41%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.48%) Mathematics
11 7 (6.54%) CRM
11 7 (6.54%) ETL
11 7 (6.54%) Manual Testing
11 7 (6.54%) Mathematical Modelling
11 7 (6.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.91%) JavaScript
2 31 (28.97%) SQL
3 19 (17.76%) Python
4 13 (12.15%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.61%) Bash
5 6 (5.61%) Java
6 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.80%) Go
7 3 (2.80%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.80%) VBScript
8 2 (1.87%) C++
8 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.87%) XAML
9 1 (0.93%) Bicep
9 1 (0.93%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (14.95%) Degree
2 14 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.67%) CREST Certified
5 5 (4.67%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.74%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.80%) CITP
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.87%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Nmap
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.80%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.87%) Infor
3 2 (1.87%) Oracle
3 2 (1.87%) Splunk
3 2 (1.87%) Syncfusion
3 2 (1.87%) Telerik
4 1 (0.93%) Palantir
4 1 (0.93%) SAP