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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 31 24
Rank change year-on-year -41 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 111 258 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.16% 6.25% 8.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.27% 18.60% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 94 135 364
10th Percentile £37,875 £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 £63,438 £66,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £79,250
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 778 1,387 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.16% 33.58% 39.50%
Number of salaries quoted 561 751 1,527
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,249
25th Percentile £39,281 £43,575 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
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 16 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 16 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 -10 53 £60,000 - 27
Devon -7 19 £40,000 -36.00% 13
Somerset -28 11 £45,000 -21.74% 16
Dorset -20 10 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Wiltshire -25 10 £51,977 -9.61% 9
Gloucestershire -5 8 £75,000 +50.00% 11
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 (2.70%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (2.70%) CMS
1 3 (2.70%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.90%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (0.90%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.90%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (45.05%) Azure
2 17 (15.32%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (10.81%) AWS
4 9 (8.11%) Azure AKS
4 9 (8.11%) SaaS
5 8 (7.21%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.31%) GitHub
7 6 (5.41%) Serverless
8 5 (4.50%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.70%) Boomi
9 3 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.70%) GCP
9 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.70%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.80%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.90%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.31%) MySQL
3 6 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.70%) Power BI
5 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.80%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.80%) OLAP
6 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.90%) Big Data
7 1 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.21%) Visual Studio
3 7 (6.31%) Cypress.io
4 6 (5.41%) Git
5 5 (4.50%) Selenium
6 4 (3.60%) Postman
6 4 (3.60%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.70%) Balsamiq
7 3 (2.70%) Burp Suite
7 3 (2.70%) JIRA
7 3 (2.70%) Metasploit
8 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.80%) GitLab
8 2 (1.80%) JUnit
8 2 (1.80%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.80%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.80%) TestNG
General
1 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.11%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.41%) Finance
4 5 (4.50%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.60%) Military
5 4 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.90%) Electronics
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (45.95%) Developer
2 25 (22.52%) Software Engineer
3 21 (18.92%) Senior
4 19 (17.12%) Software Developer
5 14 (12.61%) C# Developer
6 13 (11.71%) .NET Developer
7 12 (10.81%) .NET Software Engineer
7 12 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.01%) C# Software Engineer
9 9 (8.11%) Tester
10 7 (6.31%) C# Software Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Mathematician
11 6 (5.41%) .NET Software Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Automation Tester
11 6 (5.41%) C# .NET Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Desktop Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Lead
12 5 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (3.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (48.65%) .NET
2 21 (18.92%) .NET Core
3 15 (13.51%) .NET Framework
4 14 (12.61%) Entity Framework
5 13 (11.71%) ASP.NET
5 13 (11.71%) CSS
6 12 (10.81%) HTML
7 11 (9.91%) WPF
8 10 (9.01%) Playwright
9 9 (8.11%) AngularJS
9 9 (8.11%) RESTful
10 8 (7.21%) REST
11 5 (4.50%) Blazor
11 5 (4.50%) React
12 4 (3.60%) Autofac
12 4 (3.60%) Middleware
13 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
13 3 (2.70%) Dapper ORM
13 3 (2.70%) Web Services
14 2 (1.80%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Life Science
6 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Linux
1 2 (1.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.94%) Software Engineering
2 34 (30.63%) Agile
3 29 (26.13%) CI/CD
4 26 (23.42%) DevOps
5 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
7 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (12.61%) MVC
9 13 (11.71%) Computer Science
9 13 (11.71%) Containerisation
10 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
11 10 (9.01%) Migration
12 9 (8.11%) API Testing
13 8 (7.21%) Mathematics
14 7 (6.31%) Clean Code
14 7 (6.31%) CRM
14 7 (6.31%) Manual Testing
14 7 (6.31%) Mathematical Modelling
14 7 (6.31%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.93%) JavaScript
2 30 (27.03%) SQL
3 20 (18.02%) Python
4 14 (12.61%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.31%) Bash
5 7 (6.31%) Java
6 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.70%) C++
7 3 (2.70%) Go
7 3 (2.70%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.70%) VBScript
8 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.80%) XAML
9 1 (0.90%) Bicep
9 1 (0.90%) PHP
9 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.41%) Degree
3 11 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.41%) CREST Certified
6 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.70%) CITP
9 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (14.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.60%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) Nmap
4 1 (0.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.70%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle
3 2 (1.80%) Splunk
3 2 (1.80%) Syncfusion
3 2 (1.80%) Telerik
4 1 (0.90%) Infor
4 1 (0.90%) Palantir
4 1 (0.90%) SAP