C# Job Trends in the Thames Valley

C#
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 100 14
Rank change year-on-year +65 -86 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 273 112 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.81% 2.84% 9.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.47% 16.40% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 241 100 335
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,625 £39,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £54,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,072 683 1,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.96% 17.30% 27.33%
Number of salaries quoted 838 395 848
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,013
Median % change year-on-year - +5.24% -4.98%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C# relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

C# job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

C#
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the Thames Valley

C#
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Oxfordshire +19 134 £60,000 -7.69% 31
Buckinghamshire +40 82 £57,000 -0.87% 10
Berkshire +24 57 £62,500 -21.88% 41
C#
South East

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.10%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.83%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 123 (45.05%) Azure
2 84 (30.77%) AWS
3 43 (15.75%) SaaS
4 39 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.69%) GitHub
6 15 (5.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (4.40%) Azure AI
7 12 (4.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (3.30%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.20%) PaaS
10 6 (2.20%) Serverless
11 5 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.83%) Internet
2 2 (0.73%) DNS
2 2 (0.73%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.32%) SQL Server
2 36 (13.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (9.89%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.30%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 7 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.56%) Metadata
7 7 (2.56%) Power BI
7 7 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (2.56%) Star Schema
8 4 (1.47%) MySQL
9 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (9.89%) Git
2 8 (2.93%) Postman
3 7 (2.56%) Yeoman
4 5 (1.83%) JIRA
5 4 (1.47%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.47%) GitLab
5 4 (1.47%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.10%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.10%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.10%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.73%) Subversion
7 2 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (18.32%) Manufacturing
2 38 (13.92%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.52%) Finance
4 19 (6.96%) Electronics
5 15 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.03%) Retail
7 9 (3.30%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.56%) Advertising
9 6 (2.20%) Automotive
9 6 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.20%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Billing
10 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 110 (40.29%) Software Engineer
2 102 (37.36%) Developer
3 79 (28.94%) C# Software Engineer
4 62 (22.71%) .NET Developer
4 62 (22.71%) Senior
5 42 (15.38%) C# Developer
6 31 (11.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (10.99%) C# .NET Developer
7 30 (10.99%) C++ Software Engineer
7 30 (10.99%) Python Engineer
7 30 (10.99%) Python Software Engineer
8 27 (9.89%) Lead
9 24 (8.79%) .NET Software Engineer
10 22 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (8.06%) AWS Software Engineer
11 18 (6.59%) Senior Developer
12 16 (5.86%) Senior C# Software Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Software Developer
13 14 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (4.40%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (56.04%) .NET
2 52 (19.05%) ASP.NET
2 52 (19.05%) React
3 40 (14.65%) .NET Core
4 39 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 29 (10.62%) Node.js
6 27 (9.89%) WPF
7 25 (9.16%) REST
8 24 (8.79%) .NET Framework
9 23 (8.42%) Blazor
9 23 (8.42%) CSS
9 23 (8.42%) HTML
10 19 (6.96%) Vue
11 17 (6.23%) Entity Framework
12 16 (5.86%) AngularJS
13 14 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (4.03%) RESTful
15 10 (3.66%) Django
16 9 (3.30%) jQuery
16 9 (3.30%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (8.06%) Distributed Computing
3 18 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.20%) NHS
8 4 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.47%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.47%) Social Network
9 3 (1.10%) Life Science
9 3 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.23%) Windows
2 8 (2.93%) Linux
3 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (48.72%) Software Engineering
2 99 (36.26%) Agile
3 67 (24.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 55 (20.15%) AI
4 55 (20.15%) CI/CD
5 48 (17.58%) DevOps
6 47 (17.22%) Mentoring
7 42 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (13.19%) Microservices
9 33 (12.09%) Test Automation
10 31 (11.36%) TDD
11 29 (10.62%) Machine Learning
11 29 (10.62%) OOP
12 28 (10.26%) Clean Code
12 28 (10.26%) Design Patterns
12 28 (10.26%) OO
13 24 (8.79%) Computer Science
13 24 (8.79%) Event-Driven
13 24 (8.79%) Scrum
14 20 (7.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.64%) SQL
2 56 (20.51%) Python
3 47 (17.22%) C++
4 43 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 40 (14.65%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.03%) T-SQL
7 10 (3.66%) Java
8 9 (3.30%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.30%) C
9 7 (2.56%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.47%) SOQL
11 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.73%) Delphi
12 2 (0.73%) Go
12 2 (0.73%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 73 (26.74%) Degree
2 52 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.30%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.30%) PhD
5 8 (2.93%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.73%) CSQA
8 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.86%) QA
2 7 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 7 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (0.73%) ISO 22301
3 2 (0.73%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (8.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (9.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 69 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.56%) Facebook
3 7 (2.56%) Informatica
3 7 (2.56%) Talend
3 7 (2.56%) YouTube
4 5 (1.83%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.47%) Sage
6 3 (1.10%) Google
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle
8 1 (0.37%) Xamarin