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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 61 25
Rank change year-on-year +15 -36 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 257 112 690
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.15% 3.52% 6.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.05% 13.08% 23.94%
Number of salaries quoted 246 95 600
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £72,433
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 1,349 856 2,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.55% 26.89% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 930 579 2,268
10th Percentile £33,975 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,550 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 7 July 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 7 July 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
Somerset +6 73 £50,000 -28.57% 15
Bristol +6 71 £55,000 +4.76% 27
Devon +15 63 £55,000 +2.33% 20
Dorset -4 19 £48,750 +2.63% 13
Wiltshire -11 16 £58,750 +2.17% 6
Gloucestershire -24 15 £52,500 +5.00% 12
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 4 (1.56%) Confluence
1 4 (1.56%) NServiceBus
1 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 129 (50.19%) Azure
2 36 (14.01%) GitHub
3 29 (11.28%) GitHub Copilot
4 28 (10.89%) AWS
4 28 (10.89%) Power Platform
5 26 (10.12%) Azure AI
6 25 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (8.56%) SaaS
8 15 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.89%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.33%) GCP
11 5 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.95%) Google Play
12 4 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.56%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.56%) Serverless
13 3 (1.17%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.17%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.39%) Modbus
2 1 (0.39%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (20.62%) SQL Server
2 43 (16.73%) MongoDB
3 40 (15.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (4.67%) Power BI
6 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.95%) MySQL
8 4 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.17%) OLAP
9 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (7.39%) Git
2 11 (4.28%) JIRA
3 5 (1.95%) Postman
4 4 (1.56%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.56%) MSI
5 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.17%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.78%) TestRail
7 1 (0.39%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.39%) MSTest
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 33 (12.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (4.28%) Finance
4 10 (3.89%) Advertising
4 10 (3.89%) Marketing
5 8 (3.11%) Electronics
5 8 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.72%) Games
6 7 (2.72%) Local Government
7 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.17%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.17%) Military
9 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Automotive
10 1 (0.39%) Aviation
10 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (50.58%) Developer
2 69 (26.85%) Software Engineer
3 64 (24.90%) .NET Developer
4 57 (22.18%) Senior
5 43 (16.73%) Software Developer
6 32 (12.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (9.73%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.84%) Analyst
8 15 (5.84%) Architect
8 15 (5.84%) Lead
8 15 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.67%) .NET Software Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) C# Software Engineer
10 10 (3.89%) .NET Software Developer
10 10 (3.89%) Graduate
11 9 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.50%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Backend Developer
12 8 (3.11%) C++ Developer
12 8 (3.11%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (58.37%) .NET
2 82 (31.91%) .NET Core
3 67 (26.07%) ASP.NET
4 54 (21.01%) HTML
5 49 (19.07%) ASP.NET Core
5 49 (19.07%) CSS
6 41 (15.95%) WPF
7 39 (15.18%) .NET Framework
8 30 (11.67%) RESTful
9 29 (11.28%) React
9 29 (11.28%) Vue
10 28 (10.89%) AngularJS
11 27 (10.51%) Blazor
12 26 (10.12%) ML.NET
12 26 (10.12%) REST
13 20 (7.78%) Entity Framework
14 17 (6.61%) Node.js
15 12 (4.67%) MFC
16 9 (3.50%) OpenGL
16 9 (3.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.39%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.67%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.72%) NHS
5 7 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.33%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.33%) Vector Graphics
7 5 (1.95%) Digital TV
7 5 (1.95%) iPhone
8 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.78%) PKI
9 2 (0.78%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.28%) Windows
2 11 (4.28%) Android
3 9 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.72%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.33%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.78%) Linux
6 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (37.74%) Agile
2 87 (33.85%) CI/CD
3 86 (33.46%) Software Engineering
4 64 (24.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (19.84%) AI
6 43 (16.73%) Microservices
7 40 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (14.79%) DevOps
9 36 (14.01%) Machine Learning
10 35 (13.62%) Mentoring
11 31 (12.06%) Containerisation
12 26 (10.12%) Test Automation
13 23 (8.95%) Scrum
14 22 (8.56%) Computer Science
15 21 (8.17%) Software Architecture
16 17 (6.61%) API Design
16 17 (6.61%) Clean Code
16 17 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (6.61%) LLM
16 17 (6.61%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 110 (42.80%) SQL
2 67 (26.07%) JavaScript
3 35 (13.62%) Python
4 34 (13.23%) TypeScript
5 26 (10.12%) C++
6 17 (6.61%) Java
7 11 (4.28%) PHP
8 6 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.56%) Bicep
10 3 (1.17%) COBOL
10 3 (1.17%) Go
10 3 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.17%) VB
10 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.17%) VBA
11 2 (0.78%) Bash
12 1 (0.39%) C
12 1 (0.39%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (11.67%) Degree
2 20 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.56%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.39%) QA
2 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.95%) WCAG
3 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 64 (24.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (23.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.11%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 91 (35.41%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.06%) Google
3 10 (3.89%) Facebook
4 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle
5 1 (0.39%) TOWER Software