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 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 277 192
Rank change year-on-year -39 -85 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 283 231 995
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.86% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.98% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 256 193 949
10th Percentile £24,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,938 £42,500 £45,000
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £69,500 £71,250
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 60,119 23,683 64,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 88.18% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 38,350 14,637 47,003
10th Percentile £29,750 £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 £77,370
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 26 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 26 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 -24 89 £62,500 +25.00% 9
South East -30 75 £55,000 +7.32% 9
Midlands -42 69 £62,500 +19.05% 3
East Midlands -32 47 £55,000 +4.76% 1
North West -14 40 £65,000 +30.00% 6
Yorkshire -33 37 £56,250 +5.14% 1
East of England -24 32 £25,000 -44.44% 4
West Midlands -57 22 £70,000 +40.00% 2
North East -42 12 £85,000 +65.85% 2
Scotland -14 8 £60,000 +29.03%
South West -44 8 £52,500 -2.33%
Wales -28 2 £37,500 -21.05%
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 283 (100.00%) C#
2 156 (55.12%) .NET
3 120 (42.40%) Azure
4 96 (33.92%) SQL
5 76 (26.86%) Agile
6 73 (25.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (22.97%) AWS
8 64 (22.61%) SQL Server
9 58 (20.49%) .NET Core
9 58 (20.49%) Software Engineering
10 52 (18.37%) Computer Science
11 51 (18.02%) PHP
12 46 (16.25%) CSS
13 43 (15.19%) SaaS
14 42 (14.84%) MVC
15 38 (13.43%) ASP.NET
16 32 (11.31%) Microservices
17 31 (10.95%) Microsoft
18 29 (10.25%) SDLC
19 27 (9.54%) Degree
20 26 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
20 26 (9.19%) React
21 25 (8.83%) Computer Science Degree
21 25 (8.83%) JavaScript
21 25 (8.83%) Mentoring
22 24 (8.48%) C++
22 24 (8.48%) HTML
23 23 (8.13%) jQuery
23 23 (8.13%) OOP
24 22 (7.77%) 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 (0.35%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 120 (42.40%) Azure
2 65 (22.97%) AWS
3 43 (15.19%) SaaS
4 13 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (1.06%) GitHub
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.71%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.71%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.71%) Serverless
8 2 (0.71%) Zapier
9 1 (0.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (22.61%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.71%) MySQL
3 11 (3.89%) Power BI
3 11 (3.89%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Git
1 5 (1.77%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.35%) Selenium
2 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (22.61%) Finance
2 25 (8.83%) Social Skills
3 11 (3.89%) Games
3 11 (3.89%) Retail
4 10 (3.53%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.06%) Banking
6 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.06%) Law
7 1 (0.35%) Advertising
7 1 (0.35%) Electronics
7 1 (0.35%) Legal
7 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (55.12%) .NET
2 58 (20.49%) .NET Core
3 46 (16.25%) CSS
4 38 (13.43%) ASP.NET
5 26 (9.19%) React
6 24 (8.48%) HTML
7 23 (8.13%) jQuery
8 22 (7.77%) Vue
9 20 (7.07%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.65%) .NET Framework
11 14 (4.95%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (3.89%) Entity Framework
12 11 (3.89%) WinForms
13 10 (3.53%) REST
13 10 (3.53%) XML
14 7 (2.47%) Blazor
15 6 (2.12%) DirectX
15 6 (2.12%) OpenGL
16 4 (1.41%) ASP.NET Core
16 4 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.59%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.18%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.47%) Sports Betting
5 6 (2.12%) 3D Graphics
6 5 (1.77%) EPoS
7 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.41%) IoT
8 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.71%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.71%) NHS
9 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.71%) Smart City
10 1 (0.35%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.89%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.77%) Android
2 5 (1.77%) Windows
3 2 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (26.86%) Agile
2 73 (25.80%) Full-Stack Development
3 58 (20.49%) Software Engineering
4 52 (18.37%) Computer Science
5 42 (14.84%) MVC
6 32 (11.31%) Microservices
7 29 (10.25%) SDLC
8 26 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (8.83%) Mentoring
10 23 (8.13%) OOP
11 17 (6.01%) Product Vision
11 17 (6.01%) Resource Allocation
12 16 (5.65%) CQRS
13 15 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (4.95%) Design Patterns
14 14 (4.95%) Web Development
15 13 (4.59%) Clean Code
16 12 (4.24%) CI/CD
17 11 (3.89%) Business Intelligence
18 10 (3.53%) Biometrics
Programming Languages
1 283 (100.00%) C#
2 96 (33.92%) SQL
3 51 (18.02%) PHP
4 25 (8.83%) JavaScript
5 24 (8.48%) C++
6 22 (7.77%) Java
7 15 (5.30%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.89%) Delphi
8 11 (3.89%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.83%) Python
10 3 (1.06%) C
10 3 (1.06%) COBOL
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 27 (9.54%) Degree
2 25 (8.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.71%) PhD
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.71%) GDPR
2 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.53%) Oracle
3 5 (1.77%) Xamarin
4 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.35%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.35%) Perforce
5 1 (0.35%) WooCommerce