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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 233 229
Rank change year-on-year -113 -4 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 159 478 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 1.05% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.11% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 152 368 361
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £73,125 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 33,945 42,922 28,084
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 94.10% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21,393 22,830 21,309
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,416 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -0.16% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,855 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.60% -4.17% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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
Midlands -2 45 £70,000 +40.00% 13
South East -39 40 £60,000 +20.00% 25
North of England -55 34 £55,000 +10.00% 16
East of England +22 24 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands +32 23 £68,000 +36.00% 9
East Midlands -9 22 £75,000 +46.34% 4
North East -10 16 £50,000 -
South West +17 12 £41,250 -17.50% 2
North West +5 9 £75,000 +50.00% 10
Yorkshire -38 9 £77,500 +56.57% 6
Wales -7 2 £38,250 -15.00%
Scotland -2 1 £40,000 -25.23% 1
Northern Ireland -3 1 - -
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 2025, 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.

1 159 (100.00%) C#
2 120 (75.47%) .NET
3 80 (50.31%) Azure
4 61 (38.36%) SQL
5 57 (35.85%) Agile
6 53 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (28.93%) SQL Server
8 45 (28.30%) AWS
9 42 (26.42%) JavaScript
9 42 (26.42%) Software Engineering
10 39 (24.53%) MVC
11 35 (22.01%) .NET Core
12 33 (20.75%) ASP.NET
12 33 (20.75%) CSS
13 29 (18.24%) React
14 26 (16.35%) SaaS
15 25 (15.72%) .NET Framework
15 25 (15.72%) Computer Science
16 24 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (14.47%) Degree
17 23 (14.47%) HTML
17 23 (14.47%) PHP
18 22 (13.84%) AngularJS
18 22 (13.84%) Mentoring
18 22 (13.84%) TypeScript
19 21 (13.21%) REST
20 20 (12.58%) CI/CD
20 20 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
21 19 (11.95%) MySQL
22 18 (11.32%) ASP.NET MVC

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 (4.40%) CMS
2 4 (2.52%) IIS
3 3 (1.89%) Confluence
4 2 (1.26%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.63%) Kentico
5 1 (0.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Magento
2 1 (0.63%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 80 (50.31%) Azure
2 45 (28.30%) AWS
3 26 (16.35%) SaaS
4 10 (6.29%) Power Automate
5 9 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.77%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.89%) Zapier
10 2 (1.26%) GitHub
10 2 (1.26%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.26%) Serverless
11 1 (0.63%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.63%) Figma
11 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.63%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.93%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.95%) MySQL
3 5 (3.14%) Redis
4 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.52%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.26%) MS Access
6 2 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.63%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.63%) GIS
7 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Visual Studio
2 6 (3.77%) TeamCity
3 5 (3.14%) Git
4 4 (2.52%) JIRA
5 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.63%) GitLab
6 1 (0.63%) MSTest
6 1 (0.63%) NUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Postman
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 34 (21.38%) Finance
2 32 (20.13%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.69%) Games
4 6 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.14%) Aviation
5 5 (3.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.52%) Electronics
6 4 (2.52%) Law
7 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.26%) Banking
8 2 (1.26%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Local Government
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (75.47%) .NET
2 35 (22.01%) .NET Core
3 33 (20.75%) ASP.NET
3 33 (20.75%) CSS
4 29 (18.24%) React
5 25 (15.72%) .NET Framework
6 23 (14.47%) HTML
7 22 (13.84%) AngularJS
8 21 (13.21%) REST
9 18 (11.32%) ASP.NET MVC
10 16 (10.06%) jQuery
11 14 (8.81%) Entity Framework
12 11 (6.92%) Blazor
13 9 (5.66%) WPF
14 7 (4.40%) Vue
15 6 (3.77%) ASP.NET Web API
15 6 (3.77%) DirectX
15 6 (3.77%) OpenGL
15 6 (3.77%) WinForms
16 4 (2.52%) Apache Cordova
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (8.81%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.77%) 3D Graphics
2 6 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.14%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.52%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.89%) IoT
5 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.26%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.63%) EPoS
7 1 (0.63%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.63%) Online Games
7 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.77%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.14%) Android
3 2 (1.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (35.85%) Agile
2 53 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 42 (26.42%) Software Engineering
4 39 (24.53%) MVC
5 25 (15.72%) Computer Science
6 24 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (13.84%) Mentoring
8 20 (12.58%) CI/CD
8 20 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.69%) DevOps
10 16 (10.06%) Microservices
11 15 (9.43%) OOP
11 15 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (8.81%) Coaching
12 14 (8.81%) Conflict Resolution
13 13 (8.18%) Design Patterns
14 11 (6.92%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (6.92%) TDD
15 10 (6.29%) Mathematics
16 9 (5.66%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) C#
2 61 (38.36%) SQL
3 42 (26.42%) JavaScript
4 23 (14.47%) PHP
5 22 (13.84%) TypeScript
6 16 (10.06%) Java
7 14 (8.81%) C++
8 8 (5.03%) T-SQL
8 8 (5.03%) XAML
9 3 (1.89%) C
9 3 (1.89%) COBOL
9 3 (1.89%) Delphi
10 2 (1.26%) Python
11 1 (0.63%) Bicep
11 1 (0.63%) Dart
11 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (14.47%) Degree
2 17 (10.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.89%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.63%) QA
2 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (5.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.66%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.26%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.26%) Oracle
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe
3 1 (0.63%) ESRI
3 1 (0.63%) Xamarin