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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -51 +1 -13
Permanent jobs citing C# 91 419 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.60% 5.58% 7.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 21.41% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 82 270 336
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,313 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 728 1,957 1,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.83% 26.04% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 492 1,231 1,467
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £34,094
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for C# 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -24 31 £55,000 +10.00% 44
Gloucestershire -19 14 £52,500 -12.50% 24
Dorset -1 13 £46,250 -1.60% 4
Devon -21 13 £32,000 -41.82% 9
Wiltshire -9 12 £44,500 -28.80% 8
Somerset -14 8 £60,750 +16.83% 7
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.99%) Confluence
2 8 (8.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) NServiceBus
4 1 (1.10%) CMS
4 1 (1.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.40%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (4.40%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.10%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.46%) Azure
2 18 (19.78%) AWS
3 14 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 12 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.09%) Power Automate
6 8 (8.79%) SaaS
7 7 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.59%) GitHub
8 6 (6.59%) Serverless
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.30%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.20%) Pulumi
12 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.10%) Azure Stack
12 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) Internet
2 1 (1.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.79%) Power BI
5 7 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (6.59%) MySQL
7 4 (4.40%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (4.40%) FileMaker
7 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.10%) OLAP
10 1 (1.10%) Redis
10 1 (1.10%) Tableau
10 1 (1.10%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Git
2 13 (14.29%) JIRA
3 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.40%) Selenium
4 3 (3.30%) Postman
4 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.10%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.10%) git-flow
6 1 (1.10%) JUnit
6 1 (1.10%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.10%) Metasploit
6 1 (1.10%) NUnit
6 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.10%) Subversion
General
1 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Finance
4 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Law
4 5 (5.49%) Retail
5 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.10%) Back Office
6 1 (1.10%) Electronics
6 1 (1.10%) Legal
6 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.10%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (68.13%) Developer
2 20 (21.98%) .NET Developer
2 20 (21.98%) Software Developer
3 19 (20.88%) Senior
4 15 (16.48%) Senior Developer
5 14 (15.38%) C# Developer
6 10 (10.99%) Analyst
6 10 (10.99%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (10.99%) Support Analyst
7 8 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Software Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Software Support Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) C# Software Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Lead
10 4 (4.40%) .NET Software Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Analyst Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Angular Developer
10 4 (4.40%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (64.84%) .NET
2 22 (24.18%) .NET Core
3 18 (19.78%) React
4 13 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
6 11 (12.09%) HTML
7 10 (10.99%) CSS
7 10 (10.99%) RESTful
7 10 (10.99%) WPF
8 9 (9.89%) .NET Framework
9 7 (7.69%) REST
9 7 (7.69%) Web Services
10 6 (6.59%) Blazor
10 6 (6.59%) Entity Framework
10 6 (6.59%) Node.js
10 6 (6.59%) Vue
11 4 (4.40%) HTML5
12 3 (3.30%) Playwright
12 3 (3.30%) Razor View Engine
12 3 (3.30%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.40%) IoT
3 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.10%) Life Science
5 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.10%) PKI
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Android
2 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.77%) Agile
2 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (24.18%) DevOps
4 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
5 14 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 12 (13.19%) Microservices
7 12 (13.19%) Test Automation
8 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.99%) Clean Code
9 10 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (9.89%) Project Management
11 8 (8.79%) CRM
12 6 (6.59%) ERP
12 6 (6.59%) Migration
12 6 (6.59%) MVC
12 6 (6.59%) User Experience
12 6 (6.59%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.76%) SQL
2 29 (31.87%) JavaScript
3 15 (16.48%) TypeScript
4 13 (14.29%) Python
5 9 (9.89%) T-SQL
6 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.40%) Java
7 4 (4.40%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.20%) Bash
8 2 (2.20%) Julia
8 2 (2.20%) R
8 2 (2.20%) VB
8 2 (2.20%) XAML
9 1 (1.10%) Bicep
9 1 (1.10%) C
9 1 (1.10%) Dart
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
9 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Degree
2 13 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.59%) MCP
3 6 (6.59%) MCSE
3 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) CHECK Team Member
5 1 (1.10%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) ISEB
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.10%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.30%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.30%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Nmap
Vendors
1 31 (34.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Infor
3 2 (2.20%) Syncfusion
3 2 (2.20%) Telerik
4 1 (1.10%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.10%) Xamarin