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 £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 392 198
Rank change year-on-year -27 -194 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 262 153 685
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.45% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.50% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 239 140 581
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.80%

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 78,697 30,688 52,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 89.33% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54,596 17,458 30,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,572
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 £65,000 £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 17 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 17 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 98 £75,000 +22.45% 17
South East -4 85 £51,500 -6.36% 26
North West +6 46 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East of England -17 39 £55,000 -4.35% 5
Midlands -44 36 £55,000 -6.38% 10
North East -44 32 £100,000 +11.11% 6
Yorkshire -28 20 £50,000 -16.67%
West Midlands -41 19 £70,000 +15.70% 6
East Midlands -37 17 £25,000 -55.36% 4
South West -84 4 £42,500 -15.00% 1
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 262 (100.00%) C#
2 154 (58.78%) .NET
3 88 (33.59%) Azure
4 64 (24.43%) Software Engineering
4 64 (24.43%) SQL
5 61 (23.28%) CSS
6 58 (22.14%) SQL Server
7 55 (20.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 53 (20.23%) Agile
9 48 (18.32%) HTML
10 46 (17.56%) AWS
11 45 (17.18%) .NET Core
12 38 (14.50%) Computer Science
12 38 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (14.12%) ASP.NET
14 35 (13.36%) Degree
15 34 (12.98%) Fintech
16 33 (12.60%) SDLC
17 32 (12.21%) JavaScript
18 30 (11.45%) MVC
18 30 (11.45%) PHP
19 29 (11.07%) Microservices
20 28 (10.69%) Clean Code
20 28 (10.69%) SaaS
21 26 (9.92%) Mentoring
21 26 (9.92%) OOP
22 25 (9.54%) .NET Framework
22 25 (9.54%) CI/CD
22 25 (9.54%) jQuery
22 25 (9.54%) Problem-Solving

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 6 (2.29%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (33.59%) Azure
2 46 (17.56%) AWS
3 28 (10.69%) SaaS
4 14 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.67%) Serverless
6 5 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (1.53%) GitHub
8 3 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.38%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.38%) GCP
10 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.38%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.38%) FTP
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) RTP
2 1 (0.38%) RTSP
2 1 (0.38%) SCTP
2 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.38%) SS7
2 1 (0.38%) VoIP
2 1 (0.38%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (22.14%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.16%) MySQL
3 18 (6.87%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.91%) SQLite
6 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.76%) Redis
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (6.87%) Git
2 5 (1.91%) Claude Code
2 5 (1.91%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.15%) GitLab
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.76%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.38%) git-flow
5 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (16.41%) Finance
2 25 (9.54%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.73%) Banking
5 8 (3.05%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.67%) Law
6 7 (2.67%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.91%) Electronics
8 5 (1.91%) Games
8 5 (1.91%) Retail
9 4 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (58.78%) .NET
2 61 (23.28%) CSS
3 48 (18.32%) HTML
4 45 (17.18%) .NET Core
5 37 (14.12%) ASP.NET
6 25 (9.54%) .NET Framework
6 25 (9.54%) jQuery
6 25 (9.54%) Vue
7 18 (6.87%) Entity Framework
8 15 (5.73%) ASP.NET Core
8 15 (5.73%) REST
9 13 (4.96%) ASP.NET MVC
10 12 (4.58%) React
11 11 (4.20%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.82%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (3.05%) RESTful
13 8 (3.05%) WPF
14 6 (2.29%) WinForms
15 5 (1.91%) Blazor
15 5 (1.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.82%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.67%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.53%) Life Science
6 4 (1.53%) Sports Betting
7 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.76%) IoT
9 1 (0.38%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.38%) CUDA
9 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.44%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.43%) Software Engineering
2 55 (20.99%) Full-Stack Development
3 53 (20.23%) Agile
4 38 (14.50%) Computer Science
4 38 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (12.98%) Fintech
6 33 (12.60%) SDLC
7 30 (11.45%) MVC
8 29 (11.07%) Microservices
9 28 (10.69%) Clean Code
10 26 (9.92%) Mentoring
10 26 (9.92%) OOP
11 25 (9.54%) CI/CD
11 25 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (9.16%) OO
13 20 (7.63%) API Development
13 20 (7.63%) CQRS
13 20 (7.63%) Product Vision
13 20 (7.63%) Resource Allocation
14 19 (7.25%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 262 (100.00%) C#
2 64 (24.43%) SQL
3 32 (12.21%) JavaScript
4 30 (11.45%) PHP
5 17 (6.49%) C++
6 14 (5.34%) Java
6 14 (5.34%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.20%) Python
8 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.15%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.38%) Delphi
9 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 35 (13.36%) Degree
2 23 (8.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.05%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.05%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.58%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (3.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle
3 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.15%) Splunk
4 2 (0.76%) DevExpress
4 2 (0.76%) Telerik