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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 48 19
Rank change year-on-year -25 -29 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 133 161 683
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.10% 5.49% 9.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.12% 15.35% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 116 103 632
10th Percentile £38,125 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £39,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £72,500
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 942 1,049 2,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.86% 35.78% 37.07%
Number of salaries quoted 637 652 2,343
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,784 £66,375
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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -3 65 £60,000 - 31
Devon +1 32 £45,000 -28.00% 12
Somerset -38 12 £45,000 -21.74% 12
Gloucestershire +4 9 £75,000 +50.00% 16
Dorset -19 8 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Wiltshire -20 7 £65,000 -3.70% 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 3 (2.26%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (2.26%) CMS
1 3 (2.26%) NServiceBus
1 3 (2.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (37.59%) Azure
2 19 (14.29%) SaaS
3 16 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (11.28%) Azure AKS
5 10 (7.52%) AWS
6 8 (6.02%) GitHub
7 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.76%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.01%) Serverless
9 3 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.26%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.26%) Boomi
9 3 (2.26%) GCP
9 3 (2.26%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.50%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Cognitive Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (29.32%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.01%) MySQL
3 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.50%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.50%) OLAP
4 2 (1.50%) Power BI
4 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.75%) Big Data
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Cypress.io
1 8 (6.02%) Git
2 6 (4.51%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.26%) Balsamiq
4 3 (2.26%) Burp Suite
4 3 (2.26%) JIRA
4 3 (2.26%) Metasploit
4 3 (2.26%) Selenium
5 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.50%) GitLab
5 2 (1.50%) JUnit
5 2 (1.50%) Postman
5 2 (1.50%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.50%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.50%) TestNG
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) MSTest
6 1 (0.75%) NUnit
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
3 7 (5.26%) Finance
4 5 (3.76%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.01%) Military
5 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Marketing
7 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.75%) Advertising
8 1 (0.75%) Electronics
8 1 (0.75%) Games
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
8 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (43.61%) Developer
2 40 (30.08%) Software Engineer
3 29 (21.80%) Senior
4 24 (18.05%) Software Developer
5 21 (15.79%) .NET Software Engineer
6 20 (15.04%) .NET Developer
7 13 (9.77%) C# Software Engineer
7 13 (9.77%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) C# Developer
8 11 (8.27%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 9 (6.77%) .NET Software Developer
9 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.77%) Tester
10 7 (5.26%) Mathematician
11 6 (4.51%) Automation Tester
11 6 (4.51%) C# Software Developer
12 5 (3.76%) Desktop Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (51.88%) .NET
2 29 (21.80%) .NET Core
3 26 (19.55%) ASP.NET
4 23 (17.29%) CSS
4 23 (17.29%) HTML
5 21 (15.79%) .NET Framework
5 21 (15.79%) Entity Framework
5 21 (15.79%) REST
6 16 (12.03%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.77%) Playwright
8 11 (8.27%) Dapper ORM
9 9 (6.77%) RESTful
10 8 (6.02%) WPF
11 7 (5.26%) React
12 6 (4.51%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.76%) Blazor
13 5 (3.76%) HTML5
14 4 (3.01%) Autofac
14 4 (3.01%) CSS3
14 4 (3.01%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.26%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.36%) Software Engineering
2 37 (27.82%) Agile
3 35 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 26 (19.55%) DevOps
5 20 (15.04%) Containerisation
5 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.53%) Test Automation
7 17 (12.78%) MVC
8 15 (11.28%) Computer Science
8 15 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (9.02%) Mentoring
9 12 (9.02%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (8.27%) API Testing
11 10 (7.52%) Clean Code
11 10 (7.52%) Manual Testing
12 9 (6.77%) API Development
13 8 (6.02%) Test Strategy
13 8 (6.02%) Ticket Management
13 8 (6.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (33.08%) JavaScript
2 32 (24.06%) SQL
3 27 (20.30%) TypeScript
4 20 (15.04%) Python
5 10 (7.52%) Java
6 6 (4.51%) Bash
7 5 (3.76%) C++
7 5 (3.76%) Go
8 4 (3.01%) PHP
9 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.26%) VBScript
10 2 (1.50%) VB
10 2 (1.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.53%) Degree
3 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.02%) ISTQB
6 6 (4.51%) CREST Certified
7 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.26%) CITP
9 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.03%) QA
2 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (20.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (18.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.26%) Nmap
3 2 (1.50%) Terraform
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.76%) MuleSoft
3 3 (2.26%) Oracle
4 2 (1.50%) Splunk
5 1 (0.75%) Facebook
5 1 (0.75%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) Palantir
5 1 (0.75%) SAP