C# Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C# Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 389 212
Rank change year-on-year -50 -177 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 242 148 635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.43% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.48% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 220 136 520
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 80,368 30,802 50,337
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 89.49% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55,577 17,131 28,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'C# Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

C# Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Salary histogram for C# Developer in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England -8 90 £82,500 +37.50% 14
South East -9 82 £51,500 -10.43% 15
North West -3 41 £75,000 +25.00% 12
East of England -23 34 £55,000 -4.35% 9
North East -44 32 £100,000 +81.82% 2
Midlands -65 31 £53,750 -12.96% 7
Yorkshire -26 17 £50,000 -20.00%
West Midlands -55 16 £70,000 +8.95% 7
East Midlands -37 15 £25,000 -55.36%
South West -84 5 £42,500 -16.26% 3
C# Developer
UK

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 September 2026, C# Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 242 (100.00%) C#
2 147 (60.74%) .NET
3 77 (31.82%) Azure
4 60 (24.79%) Software Engineering
5 52 (21.49%) SQL
6 49 (20.25%) CSS
7 48 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 48 (19.83%) SQL Server
8 46 (19.01%) Agile
9 45 (18.60%) .NET Core
10 43 (17.77%) HTML
11 38 (15.70%) ASP.NET
12 35 (14.46%) Fintech
13 34 (14.05%) AWS
13 34 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (12.40%) Computer Science
14 30 (12.40%) JavaScript
15 28 (11.57%) SDLC
16 27 (11.16%) Degree
16 27 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (10.33%) .NET Framework
17 25 (10.33%) CI/CD
17 25 (10.33%) MySQL
18 23 (9.50%) SaaS
19 22 (9.09%) Microservices
20 21 (8.68%) API Development
20 21 (8.68%) Clean Code
20 21 (8.68%) Code Quality
20 21 (8.68%) MVC
20 21 (8.68%) PHP

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (2.89%) IIS
2 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 77 (31.82%) Azure
2 34 (14.05%) AWS
3 23 (9.50%) SaaS
4 14 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.89%) Serverless
6 5 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.24%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.24%) GitHub
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.41%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.41%) GCP
10 1 (0.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.41%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.41%) FTP
2 1 (0.41%) HTTP
2 1 (0.41%) RTP
2 1 (0.41%) RTSP
2 1 (0.41%) SCTP
2 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.41%) SS7
2 1 (0.41%) VoIP
2 1 (0.41%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (19.83%) SQL Server
2 25 (10.33%) MySQL
3 19 (7.85%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.07%) SQLite
6 3 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.85%) Git
2 6 (2.48%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.07%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.65%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) git-flow
7 1 (0.41%) JIRA
7 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (13.64%) Finance
2 20 (8.26%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.20%) Banking
5 8 (3.31%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.89%) Law
7 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.07%) Electronics
8 5 (2.07%) Games
9 4 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (60.74%) .NET
2 49 (20.25%) CSS
3 45 (18.60%) .NET Core
4 43 (17.77%) HTML
5 38 (15.70%) ASP.NET
6 25 (10.33%) .NET Framework
7 20 (8.26%) Vue
8 19 (7.85%) jQuery
9 18 (7.44%) Entity Framework
10 15 (6.20%) ASP.NET Core
10 15 (6.20%) REST
11 14 (5.79%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
12 11 (4.55%) React
13 9 (3.72%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.31%) RESTful
14 8 (3.31%) WPF
15 5 (2.07%) Blazor
15 5 (2.07%) JSON
15 5 (2.07%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.89%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.48%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.65%) Life Science
7 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.24%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.24%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.83%) IoT
8 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.41%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.41%) CUDA
9 1 (0.41%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (24.79%) Software Engineering
2 48 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 46 (19.01%) Agile
4 35 (14.46%) Fintech
5 34 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (12.40%) Computer Science
7 28 (11.57%) SDLC
8 27 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (10.33%) CI/CD
10 22 (9.09%) Microservices
11 21 (8.68%) API Development
11 21 (8.68%) Clean Code
11 21 (8.68%) Code Quality
11 21 (8.68%) MVC
12 19 (7.85%) Mentoring
12 19 (7.85%) OOP
13 18 (7.44%) DevOps
14 17 (7.02%) OO
15 15 (6.20%) CQRS
15 15 (6.20%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 242 (100.00%) C#
2 52 (21.49%) SQL
3 30 (12.40%) JavaScript
4 21 (8.68%) PHP
5 14 (5.79%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.13%) C++
7 7 (2.89%) Java
8 4 (1.65%) Python
8 4 (1.65%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 27 (11.16%) Degree
2 15 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.31%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.31%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.96%) QA
2 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (4.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.65%) Oracle
3 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.24%) Splunk
4 2 (0.83%) DevExpress
4 2 (0.83%) Telerik