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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 276 195
Rank change year-on-year -54 -81 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 277 234 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.88% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.99% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 251 197 952
10th Percentile £24,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £44,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £70,500 £71,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 58,823 23,542 63,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 88.51% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 37,566 14,607 46,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -25 87 £60,000 +20.00% 9
South East -36 72 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Midlands -39 67 £65,000 +23.81% 2
East Midlands -30 45 £65,000 +23.81%
North West -20 38 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Yorkshire -35 37 £56,250 +5.14% 2
East of England -24 32 £25,000 -44.44% 2
West Midlands -57 22 £70,000 +40.00% 2
North East -36 12 £85,000 +65.85%
South West -46 9 £45,000 -16.28%
Scotland -14 8 £60,000 +29.03%
Wales -27 2 £37,500 -21.05% 1
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 April 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.

1 277 (100.00%) C#
2 155 (55.96%) .NET
3 118 (42.60%) Azure
4 93 (33.57%) SQL
5 74 (26.71%) Agile
6 73 (26.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (23.47%) AWS
7 65 (23.47%) SQL Server
8 59 (21.30%) .NET Core
9 57 (20.58%) Software Engineering
10 50 (18.05%) Computer Science
11 49 (17.69%) PHP
12 46 (16.61%) CSS
13 43 (15.52%) MVC
14 42 (15.16%) SaaS
15 38 (13.72%) ASP.NET
16 31 (11.19%) Microservices
16 31 (11.19%) Microsoft
17 28 (10.11%) SDLC
18 27 (9.75%) Degree
18 27 (9.75%) React
19 26 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
19 26 (9.39%) JavaScript
20 25 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
21 24 (8.66%) C++
21 24 (8.66%) HTML
21 24 (8.66%) Mentoring
22 23 (8.30%) jQuery
22 23 (8.30%) OOP
23 22 (7.94%) Java

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 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (42.60%) Azure
2 65 (23.47%) AWS
3 42 (15.16%) SaaS
4 13 (4.69%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (1.08%) GitHub
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.72%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.72%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.72%) Serverless
8 2 (0.72%) Zapier
9 1 (0.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (23.47%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.86%) MySQL
3 11 (3.97%) Power BI
3 11 (3.97%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
2 5 (1.81%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) Selenium
3 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (22.38%) Finance
2 25 (9.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (3.97%) Games
3 11 (3.97%) Retail
4 10 (3.61%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.08%) Law
7 2 (0.72%) Banking
7 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.36%) Advertising
8 1 (0.36%) Electronics
8 1 (0.36%) Legal
8 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (55.96%) .NET
2 59 (21.30%) .NET Core
3 46 (16.61%) CSS
4 38 (13.72%) ASP.NET
5 27 (9.75%) React
6 24 (8.66%) HTML
7 23 (8.30%) jQuery
8 21 (7.58%) Vue
9 20 (7.22%) AngularJS
10 17 (6.14%) .NET Framework
11 14 (5.05%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (4.33%) Entity Framework
13 11 (3.97%) WinForms
14 10 (3.61%) REST
14 10 (3.61%) XML
15 8 (2.89%) Blazor
16 6 (2.17%) DirectX
16 6 (2.17%) OpenGL
17 4 (1.44%) ASP.NET Core
17 4 (1.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.69%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.25%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.53%) Sports Betting
5 6 (2.17%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.81%) EPoS
7 4 (1.44%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.44%) IoT
8 3 (1.08%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.72%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.72%) NHS
9 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.72%) Smart City
10 1 (0.36%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.36%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.97%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.81%) Android
2 5 (1.81%) Windows
3 2 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.71%) Agile
2 73 (26.35%) Full-Stack Development
3 57 (20.58%) Software Engineering
4 50 (18.05%) Computer Science
5 43 (15.52%) MVC
6 31 (11.19%) Microservices
7 28 (10.11%) SDLC
8 26 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (8.66%) Mentoring
10 23 (8.30%) OOP
11 16 (5.78%) Product Vision
11 16 (5.78%) Resource Allocation
12 15 (5.42%) CQRS
12 15 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (5.05%) Clean Code
13 14 (5.05%) Design Patterns
14 13 (4.69%) Web Development
15 12 (4.33%) CI/CD
16 11 (3.97%) Business Intelligence
17 10 (3.61%) Biometrics
Programming Languages
1 277 (100.00%) C#
2 93 (33.57%) SQL
3 49 (17.69%) PHP
4 26 (9.39%) JavaScript
5 24 (8.66%) C++
6 22 (7.94%) Java
7 16 (5.78%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.97%) Delphi
8 11 (3.97%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.89%) Python
10 3 (1.08%) C
10 3 (1.08%) COBOL
11 1 (0.36%) Bash
11 1 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 27 (9.75%) Degree
2 25 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.72%) PhD
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.72%) GDPR
2 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.61%) Oracle
3 5 (1.81%) Xamarin
4 4 (1.44%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.36%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.36%) Perforce
5 1 (0.36%) WooCommerce