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 £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 356 192
Rank change year-on-year -23 -164 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 267 208 889
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.61% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.68% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 249 180 828
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,875 £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 69,196 30,436 61,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.68% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,796 17,494 42,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 25 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 25 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 +30 109 £67,500 +12.50% 14
South East -19 73 £55,000 +4.76% 17
North West +10 47 £75,000 +30.43% 4
Yorkshire -4 41 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Midlands -56 41 £48,750 -7.14% 5
East of England -6 37 £55,000 -1.35% 8
East Midlands -25 22 £24,500 -53.33% 3
North East -40 21 £100,000 +11.11% 7
West Midlands -48 19 £70,000 +47.37% 2
South West -74 5 £42,500 -11.92%
Wales -53 2 £37,500 +7.14%
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 267 (100.00%) C#
2 149 (55.81%) .NET
3 107 (40.07%) Azure
4 81 (30.34%) SQL
5 62 (23.22%) Agile
6 56 (20.97%) AWS
7 55 (20.60%) Software Engineering
7 55 (20.60%) SQL Server
8 54 (20.22%) CSS
9 52 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 51 (19.10%) Computer Science
11 45 (16.85%) PHP
12 41 (15.36%) .NET Core
13 40 (14.98%) SaaS
14 36 (13.48%) HTML
15 34 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (12.73%) Microservices
16 32 (11.99%) Degree
16 32 (11.99%) MVC
16 32 (11.99%) SDLC
17 31 (11.61%) Vue
18 29 (10.86%) ASP.NET
18 29 (10.86%) Computer Science Degree
19 25 (9.36%) Microsoft
19 25 (9.36%) Product Vision
19 25 (9.36%) Resource Allocation
20 24 (8.99%) CQRS
20 24 (8.99%) Fintech
20 24 (8.99%) Mentoring
21 23 (8.61%) CI/CD

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 (1.12%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Magento
1 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 107 (40.07%) Azure
2 56 (20.97%) AWS
3 40 (14.98%) SaaS
4 11 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (2.25%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.25%) Serverless
7 5 (1.87%) GitHub
8 4 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.12%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.37%) GCP
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.12%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.37%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.37%) FTP
2 1 (0.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.37%) RTP
2 1 (0.37%) RTSP
2 1 (0.37%) SCTP
2 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.37%) SS7
2 1 (0.37%) VoIP
2 1 (0.37%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (20.60%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.87%) MySQL
3 11 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.87%) Power BI
6 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.75%) Redis
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.37%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (4.12%) Git
2 3 (1.12%) GitLab
2 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.37%) git-flow
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.37%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (20.60%) Finance
2 21 (7.87%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.24%) Banking
4 12 (4.49%) Retail
5 10 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.50%) Games
7 4 (1.50%) Law
7 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.75%) Electronics
9 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (55.81%) .NET
2 54 (20.22%) CSS
3 41 (15.36%) .NET Core
4 36 (13.48%) HTML
5 31 (11.61%) Vue
6 29 (10.86%) ASP.NET
7 20 (7.49%) jQuery
8 13 (4.87%) .NET Framework
8 13 (4.87%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.49%) React
10 10 (3.75%) Blazor
11 9 (3.37%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (3.37%) REST
12 8 (3.00%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (3.00%) WinForms
13 7 (2.62%) RESTful
14 6 (2.25%) Entity Framework
15 5 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
15 5 (1.87%) JSON
15 5 (1.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.12%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.75%) Virtual Team
3 9 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.62%) Sports Betting
5 5 (1.87%) Hedge funds
5 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.50%) EPoS
7 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.12%) Life Science
8 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.75%) IoT
8 2 (0.75%) NHS
9 1 (0.37%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.37%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.37%) Robotics
9 1 (0.37%) SCADA
9 1 (0.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.00%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.25%) Windows
3 3 (1.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.22%) Agile
2 55 (20.60%) Software Engineering
3 52 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
4 51 (19.10%) Computer Science
5 34 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (12.73%) Microservices
6 32 (11.99%) MVC
6 32 (11.99%) SDLC
7 25 (9.36%) Product Vision
7 25 (9.36%) Resource Allocation
8 24 (8.99%) CQRS
8 24 (8.99%) Fintech
8 24 (8.99%) Mentoring
9 23 (8.61%) CI/CD
9 23 (8.61%) OOP
10 21 (7.87%) Clean Code
11 19 (7.12%) API Development
12 18 (6.74%) OO
13 17 (6.37%) Web Development
14 16 (5.99%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 267 (100.00%) C#
2 81 (30.34%) SQL
3 45 (16.85%) PHP
4 22 (8.24%) C++
5 19 (7.12%) Java
5 19 (7.12%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.12%) Python
6 11 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.87%) Delphi
7 5 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Bicep
8 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 32 (11.99%) Degree
2 29 (10.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.75%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.25%) QA
2 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (3.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
2 4 (1.50%) Oracle
2 4 (1.50%) Xamarin
3 3 (1.12%) Splunk
4 1 (0.37%) WooCommerce