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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 347 175
Rank change year-on-year -6 -172 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 266 206 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.65% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.72% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 247 176 1,099
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £71,250
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 66,003 28,423 72,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 89.25% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 45,791 15,880 52,027
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £26,779
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,254 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,745 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% +8.09% -12.50%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +12 105 £65,000 +8.33% 16
South East -18 65 £55,000 +7.32% 8
North West +25 53 £75,000 +33.33% 2
Midlands -34 53 £52,500 - 1
Yorkshire -7 38 £50,000 -16.67% 8
East Midlands -3 32 £26,000 -53.78%
East of England -14 32 £25,000 -52.38% 3
West Midlands -49 21 £70,000 +47.37% 1
North East -48 14 £100,000 - 6
South West -69 7 £42,500 -11.92%
Wales - 2 £37,500 - 1
Scotland - 2 £52,500 - 2
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 266 (100.00%) C#
2 150 (56.39%) .NET
3 113 (42.48%) Azure
4 86 (32.33%) SQL
5 61 (22.93%) Agile
6 59 (22.18%) AWS
6 59 (22.18%) SQL Server
7 58 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 53 (19.92%) CSS
9 52 (19.55%) Software Engineering
10 50 (18.80%) Computer Science
11 47 (17.67%) .NET Core
12 45 (16.92%) PHP
13 42 (15.79%) SaaS
14 35 (13.16%) HTML
15 34 (12.78%) ASP.NET
15 34 (12.78%) Microservices
15 34 (12.78%) MVC
15 34 (12.78%) SDLC
16 32 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (11.65%) Vue
18 29 (10.90%) Computer Science Degree
18 29 (10.90%) Degree
19 26 (9.77%) Mentoring
20 25 (9.40%) Microsoft
20 25 (9.40%) Product Vision
20 25 (9.40%) Resource Allocation
21 24 (9.02%) CI/CD
21 24 (9.02%) CQRS
22 22 (8.27%) C++

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 3 (1.13%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Magento
1 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 113 (42.48%) Azure
2 59 (22.18%) AWS
3 42 (15.79%) SaaS
4 13 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.38%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.01%) Serverless
7 6 (2.26%) GitHub
8 5 (1.88%) Azure Functions
8 5 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.75%) GCP
11 2 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) 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
2 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.18%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.77%) MySQL
3 10 (3.76%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.63%) Power BI
5 4 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (3.38%) Git
2 4 (1.50%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.13%) GitLab
4 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.38%) git-flow
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 52 (19.55%) Finance
2 23 (8.65%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.89%) Banking
4 11 (4.14%) Retail
5 8 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.13%) Games
7 3 (1.13%) Law
8 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Advertising
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (56.39%) .NET
2 53 (19.92%) CSS
3 47 (17.67%) .NET Core
4 35 (13.16%) HTML
5 34 (12.78%) ASP.NET
6 31 (11.65%) Vue
7 20 (7.52%) jQuery
8 15 (5.64%) React
9 12 (4.51%) .NET Framework
9 12 (4.51%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.14%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (3.76%) REST
12 9 (3.38%) Blazor
13 8 (3.01%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (3.01%) RESTful
13 8 (3.01%) WinForms
14 7 (2.63%) XML
15 6 (2.26%) Entity Framework
16 5 (1.88%) JSON
17 4 (1.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.14%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.76%) Virtual Team
3 9 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.63%) Sports Betting
5 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.88%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.50%) EPoS
7 4 (1.50%) IoT
8 3 (1.13%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.75%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.75%) NHS
9 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.75%) Smart City
10 1 (0.38%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.01%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.26%) Windows
3 3 (1.13%) Android
4 2 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (22.93%) Agile
2 58 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
3 52 (19.55%) Software Engineering
4 50 (18.80%) Computer Science
5 34 (12.78%) Microservices
5 34 (12.78%) MVC
5 34 (12.78%) SDLC
6 32 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (9.77%) Mentoring
8 25 (9.40%) Product Vision
8 25 (9.40%) Resource Allocation
9 24 (9.02%) CI/CD
9 24 (9.02%) CQRS
10 20 (7.52%) Fintech
10 20 (7.52%) OOP
11 18 (6.77%) Clean Code
11 18 (6.77%) DevOps
12 17 (6.39%) API Development
13 15 (5.64%) API Integration
13 15 (5.64%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 266 (100.00%) C#
2 86 (32.33%) SQL
3 45 (16.92%) PHP
4 22 (8.27%) C++
5 19 (7.14%) Java
5 19 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.14%) Python
7 10 (3.76%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.63%) Delphi
8 7 (2.63%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.38%) Bash
9 1 (0.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 29 (10.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 29 (10.90%) Degree
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.26%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (3.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.26%) Oracle
3 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.50%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.13%) Splunk
5 1 (0.38%) WooCommerce