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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 27 30
Rank change year-on-year -56 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing C# 97 340 371
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.29% 5.63% 8.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.86% 19.89% 20.51%
Number of salaries quoted 81 191 343
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,000 £36,018
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 754 1,709 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.80% 28.29% 40.29%
Number of salaries quoted 554 953 1,427
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,938 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -25 37 £58,750 +30.56% 51
Devon -20 18 £40,000 -27.27% 8
Gloucestershire +3 16 £75,000 +41.95% 22
Wiltshire -16 11 £42,500 -34.62% 7
Somerset -20 8 £45,000 -14.29% 17
Dorset -33 7 £53,750 +19.44% 8
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 6 (6.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.06%) CMS
3 2 (2.06%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.03%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.12%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (4.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.03%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (1.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.52%) Azure
2 17 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (15.46%) AWS
4 8 (8.25%) SaaS
5 7 (7.22%) GitHub
5 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.22%) Serverless
6 6 (6.19%) Azure AKS
7 5 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.12%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.09%) Boomi
9 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.06%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.03%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.03%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.22%) MySQL
3 7 (7.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.12%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.09%) Power BI
5 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.03%) Big Data
7 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.03%) OLAP
7 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Git
2 9 (9.28%) JIRA
3 6 (6.19%) Cypress.io
3 6 (6.19%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.09%) Balsamiq
5 3 (3.09%) Postman
5 3 (3.09%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.06%) Selenium
7 1 (1.03%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.03%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.03%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.03%) Subversion
General
1 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.25%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.15%) Finance
4 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.12%) Military
4 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.09%) Law
6 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.03%) Back Office
7 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Electronics
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (60.82%) Developer
2 25 (25.77%) Software Developer
3 20 (20.62%) .NET Developer
4 17 (17.53%) Senior
5 15 (15.46%) C# Developer
6 10 (10.31%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (10.31%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.28%) C# Software Developer
8 8 (8.25%) .NET Software Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Software Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Mathematician
10 5 (5.15%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Tester
11 4 (4.12%) Automation Tester
11 4 (4.12%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Lead
11 4 (4.12%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Support Specialist
12 3 (3.09%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (58.76%) .NET
2 23 (23.71%) .NET Core
3 16 (16.49%) .NET Framework
3 16 (16.49%) HTML
4 15 (15.46%) CSS
5 13 (13.40%) RESTful
6 12 (12.37%) AngularJS
6 12 (12.37%) Entity Framework
7 11 (11.34%) React
8 9 (9.28%) Web Services
9 8 (8.25%) REST
10 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET
10 7 (7.22%) Blazor
10 7 (7.22%) WPF
11 6 (6.19%) HTML5
11 6 (6.19%) Playwright
12 4 (4.12%) Autofac
12 4 (4.12%) Vue
13 3 (3.09%) ASP.NET MVC
13 3 (3.09%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.09%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.06%) IoT
5 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.03%) Life Science
6 1 (1.03%) NHS
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Android
2 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.05%) Agile
2 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (26.80%) DevOps
4 25 (25.77%) Software Engineering
5 22 (22.68%) CI/CD
6 17 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
8 12 (12.37%) Computer Science
8 12 (12.37%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.34%) Migration
10 10 (10.31%) Containerisation
10 10 (10.31%) Microservices
10 10 (10.31%) MVC
11 8 (8.25%) Clean Code
11 8 (8.25%) Mathematics
12 7 (7.22%) Mathematical Modelling
12 7 (7.22%) Project Management
12 7 (7.22%) User Experience
12 7 (7.22%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.11%) SQL
2 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
3 15 (15.46%) Python
4 14 (14.43%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.15%) Bash
6 5 (5.15%) Java
6 5 (5.15%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.15%) VB.NET
7 3 (3.09%) Go
7 3 (3.09%) VBScript
8 2 (2.06%) PHP
8 2 (2.06%) XAML
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) C
9 1 (1.03%) C++
9 1 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (15.46%) Degree
2 10 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) CREST Certified
4 4 (4.12%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.09%) CITP
5 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.03%) GDPR
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (12.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.09%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Nmap
Vendors
1 24 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Infor
3 3 (3.09%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.06%) Syncfusion
4 2 (2.06%) Telerik
5 1 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.03%) Xamarin